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| Lupe The Killer Pt. 1
This is part of the reason why Lupe is the best rapper in my opinion. | | 1 |  | Lupe Fiasco
Enemy of the State
Unh! I bring you murder in the first
And even as we speak we gettin further in this verse
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Murder in the first degree, murder in the first verse. he references this again at the beginning of the 2nd verse with the "187 on my second". fairly simple so far | | 2 | | Random ass band
Random ass album
Mercy, he's a mess! So immersed in his murk
He's two thirds submerged below the surface where they surf
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- Obviously talking about water. 2/3 of the earth is covered by water
- Murk is also slang for murder. Still keeping it simple. Hang on. | | 3 |  | Another Random Band
Self Titled
This is where I lay it down like a bird givin birth
So call me Lu the Giant's Goose or just, Faberge paint
Til I'm called back to the shore by the watchers of the Bay
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Besides the obvious bird wordplay (and extended water metaphor):
Lu= Sweet Lou = Lou Piniella
Goose = Goose Gossage
They were teammates on the New York Yankees. Goose was a pitcher
The Giants (baseball) also originated in New York. they moved to San Francisco. hence the line about the Bay | | 4 | | Impressed Yet?
Just Wait
I wait, till I come back like a tsunami
Never microwave like the watchers of the weight
I'm wrapped in aluminum foil, I do my dirt like Kwame
Until that same soil being pushed into my grave
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- Obviously continuing the water wordplay.
- Never microwave...Tsunami's are large waves, not micro, as in small.
- "Never microwave like the watchers of the weight"
Weight Watchers make microwavable food plans.
- "Im wrapped in aluminum foil"
You can't put aluminum foil in the microwave
- Watchers of the weight = Drug dealers
- "Never microwave" = his doesn't get hot
- Kwame was Earth, the black dude on Captain Planet. meaning, he does his dirty work with his boys. When they came together, they were unstoppable (I'll get back to this) | | 5 |  | Fanboy
So What
Until that same soil being pushed into my grave
But I'm so ahead of my time, the next day
Might strike oil while I have layed, homie I'm so crude
Texas T, haters is so screwed
But I can't feel it like a flathead in a Philips
Don't get it twisted, I'm no tool
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- Obviously referencing the "dirt" he does like Kwame.
- Texas Tea is slang for oil. also slang for sizzurp
- "screwed" starting the hardware wordplay.
Screwed also means to make a drink alcoholic. Chopped and Screwed music also originated in Houston, TX
- Twisted as in the action you do to a screw. Also means to get drunk obviously | | 6 | | Dance Central
Kinect
More cool than a pool in a blizzard
With ice cubes in it during Christmas
Meanin there's no school, i'm a misfit
Like I'm throwin a fit
Or I just can't fit it, tidbit too big
gotta hem it til it's fresh to death
Dressed to kill it, like unh
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- No school during Christmas. misfit as in a bad kid who doesn't go to school.
- Throwing a fit like a temper tantrum. fit also as in outfit
- "Or I just can't fit it" as in clothing
- Tidbit too big, meaning it's barely too big. Tidbits are also the things you put on a bit wrench (hardware wordplay again)
- Hes gotta hem his to fit. (i.e, dumb down his lyrics to cater to hip-hop heads) | | 7 |  | Snowing
Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
Unh! 187 on my second, I reckon
This is an assault with a deadly session
A soft peace and blessins to the sentence that be reppin
All across in every direction, locality, and section
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187 = Murder. Murder in the second degree, murder in the 2nd verse.
- Sentence as in the structure of speech. sentence as in a prison term
- Hes saying getting away with murder. Hes killing the track and nobody is even catching it. So uhh yea nigguz | | 8 |  | Horns Become Halos
Horns Become Halos
Give it how I live it most niggaz won't believe
Or achieve how I did it most niggaz won't receive
Till I leave and I bereave the secrets of my sickness
How I, flooded the streets like Venice
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- Aside from the ridiculous multisyllabic schemes in there, he's saying he won't get the respect he deserves until he's dead
- He's also referencing his boys who move weight on the side to help support him (how him and his boys "Do dirt like Kwame", which will come up again in the 3rd verse) | | 9 | | LG Optimus V
Virgin Mobile
Phone's in the mail
I'm Colonel Mustard with the speech
They ain't catchin me, no suspicions of stickin
No convictions on my rap sheet
I'm so committed, lay my murder game, that's sweet
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People aren't catching all the slick shit he's saying in his lyrics (getting away with murder)
also using it as a metaphor to not getting caught by the law, hence the "no suspicions" or charges "stickin" or"convictions on his rap sheet" (referencing his slick lyrics again, as well as his clean legal record) He's "committing" murder right in front of everyone but nobody's catching him, so basically shitting on you Sputnikers | | 10 | | Push Me
Touch Me
Speakeasy like Prohibition, no admission
If you ain't knockin like me to the underground bar, buryin a toast
Dodgin the raid like roach, nigga please
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- Speakeasy's were the illegal bars during prohibition. - Speakeasy also obviously meaning he spits like this easily
- You had to use a password or a special knock to get into most Speakeasy's
- Most Speakeasy's were underground, hence underground bar
- Underground bar-barian. Lupe is an underground MC and he's a savage with his bars
- Speakeasy's got raided like drug spots do today. referencing his boys once again | | 11 | | Satisfaction
So I Can Get It
Unh! I make it give up the ghost
On the trifecta, the third, I differ
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- Give up the ghost means to give up.
- Hes murdering/beating up the track into submission.
- The third as in the 3rd verse. To hit a Trifecta when betting on horse-racing means you got the first 3 places right. Meaning, he "got" (killed) all 3 verses.
- Ghost. TRIFEcta. Ghostface and Trife Da God. (remember this "Ghost" reference for later) | | 12 | | Ramone
Malone
Nigga, you ain't heard? My lecture like Lector
Letcha in on a secret, but you can't leak it
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- His "lecture" (teaching with his lyrics) is like Hannibal Lector. In the movie Hannibal, he opens up dudes skull and exposes his brain. Lupe's opening dude's minds.
- He's about to let y'all in on the secret of 1st and 15th | | 13 | | Busta Rhymes
Blackwater Park
Lupe's the killa, killa, killa, killa
Since my entrance, my niggaz had packs
They moved 'em to a trap like Winston
Far from bustas, baby nah
All my homies henchmen
I was the rhymer, my talk went through the walls like Slimer
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- Since the beginning his boys had packs (Drug bundles) First and 15th was built on drug money (word to his boy/business partner getting busted with bricks of Heroin and Cocaine)
- Trap (The drug spot)
- "Like Winston" Winston cigarette packs.
- Winston Churchhill was said to have been in a "trap" when he joined the WW2 conflict.
- Busta's = Ghostbusters
Winston was also one of the Ghostbusters. "Packs" the Ghostbusters always had those backpacks on.
"Far from bustas, baby nah, all my homies henchmen"
- His boys are far from lames (bustas). Henchmen are villains of course | | 14 | | Opeth
Cryonics
"Far from Bustas, my homies Henchmen... I was the Rhymer"
- Busta Rhymes. his bodyguard is Jimmy Henchmen.
His boys were never far away from him like Busta's bodyguard (so don't fuck with him)
"I was the rhymer, my talk went through the walls like Slimer... Or like, eating vagina "
- "Rhymer" completing the whole Busta Rhymes wordplay.
- Lupe was the rhymer. He was the frontman of the whole
drug operation. His boys did the dirty work behind the scene and used it to front his legal hip-hop operation.
- "Talk went through the walls" the cops were listening. Slimer (from Ghostbusters) could go through walls.
- Eating vagina (vaginal walls) | | 15 |  | Lil Wayne
Rebirth
Or, a stray bullet, whichever ways I put it
Crooks was hooked like crooks through neighborhoods I pushed it
Little Caesar niggaz pizzas was like book it
Delivery mean like Leroy Green
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"Crooks was hooked like crux" ...they had fiends hooked like crux (a constellation that looks like a fish-hook)
- Little Caesar obviously referencing the pies they "delivered"
"Delivery mean like Leroy Green"
- Lupe's delivery in rhyming, and his boys delivery of the drugs... Leroy Green was an actor who played in the story of Bruce Lee's biopic "The Last Dragon"...mean "punch" delivery, like Lupe's punchlines... Leroy Green is also a Hollywood writer... He's credited as a writer for what movie? Ghostbusters.
- "Little Caesar pizzas was like book it"
Book it as in police terms. (to put somebody on the books) rapper Lil Cease niggas helped put Lil Kim "on the books" when he testified against her | |
tkxxx7
02.04.11 | What's up with the artwork for 5 ? | AnotherBrick
02.04.11 | what the fuck is with every list beign about rap today? | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | because Lupe's album is about to drop in a month or so, and I got happy
idk about everyone else | qwe3
02.04.11 | lupe fiasco is overrated as shit and yeah hes pretty talented but he never lives up to his promise and hes an arrogant cunt and it shows through in his music
basically there are loads of better rappers | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | ha , like who ? have you even listened to Failure ? | qwe3
02.04.11 | better rappers than lupe? gonna list a few recent ones
ghostface killah
raekwon
big boi
mos def
lil wayne
black thought
curren$y
tyler
yeah
| tkxxx7
02.04.11 | lil wayne ? currency ? ok that's just ridiculous . idk who tyler is
they're all good (wayne being the worst of the list, i would probably say black thought is the best) but man c'mon | qwe3
02.04.11 | lil wayne and curren$y are both really good rappers, both better than lupe | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | that might just be the most ridiculous (serious) statement I've ever read on this site .
Name a single verse by either of them that's better than the one above | qwe3
02.04.11 | "that might just be the most ridiculous (serious) statement I've ever read on this site .
Name a single verse by either of them that's better than the one above"
of course someone who thinks lupe fiasco is the best rapper in the world would think that
only need to name one song: dr. carter
i mean i could think of more but thats got 3 verses so
| qwe3
02.04.11 | also "lupe is better than wayne, it's just that wayne is much more likable "
yeah i think a lot of people think waynes better because hes more likeable but i genuinely think lupe is thought of way too highly by a lot of people. | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | dr. carter ? better than lupe the killer ? ok . this convo is pretty much over . | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | not better than dr. carter tho ! | qwe3
02.04.11 | "dr. carter ? better than lupe the killer ? ok . this convo is pretty much over ."
oh sick retort bro you obviously know your shit oh boy oh BOY
pwease tell me about weal hip hop suh, pwease | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | I like his mixtape work better
qwe it clearly wasn't a retort . just me conceding that i'll never convince you . don't be so childish . | qwe3
02.04.11 | i think food and liquor is amazing too, but i think carters II and III are better
III especially | qwe3
02.04.11 | well you sort of repeated my answer with a question mark then said the convo was over so that sorta implies you were being dismissive or whatever | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | well that's because I was
unless that's considered retorting | qwe3
02.04.11 | yeah being dismissive can definitely be a retort
albeit a bad one | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | well tht's totally not the point of the topic but ok
yeah bitch i'm being dismissive take that
hoe | qwe3
02.04.11 | only took you about 3 comments from me gj | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | hell yeah thanks for your clarity i'm gonna go listen to dr. carter now
slash fuckin' thread | Wolfhorde
02.04.11 | What kind of rapping name is Lupe? (it's magnifier in German) | qwe3
02.04.11 | it's one that begins with an l and is followed by a u then a p, finished off with an e | Wolfhorde
02.04.11 | I bet his real name is Steve. | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | haha at qwe
his name is Wasalu and I guess someone nicknamed him Lupe
haha magnifier my friend speaks German so i'm totally gonna use that tomorrow
er , today | Wolfhorde
02.04.11 | Wasalu, sounds like a whale. | qwe3
02.04.11 | hahaha wolfhorde made me laugh so hard | qwe3
02.04.11 | i want food too | tkxxx7
02.04.11 | Got pizza hut and coldstone over here . nothing left to drink tho |
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