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Lupe has expressed his love in the past for European exotic cars. Just a few days before the release of DROGAS Light, he copped an SLR, appropriately enough

https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/823978582640726016

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The “state of mind” that American life puts you in can have you trigger happy, no matter if you’re a gangbanger, policeman, or regular civilian.

“United state of mind” is probably alluding to Nas' “N.Y. State of Mind.”

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The “commuted term” in this context is a metaphor for facing a problem in one’s life. There won’t be anyone to come and lessen your punishment like a prison term for good behavior, and there won’t be anyone to remind you every day that you need to fix your problem (it lingers without a sound).

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Play on words – gang life might involve shooting at someone’s “fade,” meaning either shooting at someone’s head or shooting them in a fight, comparing it to Kobe Bryant’s signature fadeaway shot.

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Vince believes that the recent wave of black empowerment has only made White America more determined to make sure black people aren’t successful. Whether it’s President Obama, black celebrities using their voice to raise awareness of race issues, or everyday African-Americans being socioeconomically mobile, these things anger the powers that be and we’re in for a challenge.

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Vince rejects the “conscious rapper” label; although he’s involved in his community and provokes further thought with his music and speech, he doesn’t think he’s some kind of revolutionary.

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Vince enjoys the frugal life of someone like Michael Jackson, surrounded by wealth and white women, the latter of which being very much a symbol in America of cheap pleasures, especially for rich black men.

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It’s fair to say that most of the most popular news topics are meaningless; global awareness has become an idle state of sharing, reblogging, and retweeting things that don’t affect you while not actually taking any action.

Ebola is a virus which had an outbreak in West Africa and only became newsworthy when the possibility of it coming to white countries popped up. The Zika epidemic of 2016 is a more recent example, with Americans being worried silly over the Rio Olympics which would eventually result in 0 cases.

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“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”

Most people are so grounded in their mindset that they will slam you no matter what you think. Being woke makes you look uncool or crazy with a society full of people too lazy to discover what’s really going on, as well as people who do know what’s going on but don’t do anything about it.

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Despite the advanced age we live in, racism and general hate (especially Islamophobia spread by fear-mongering politicians and racists) is still widespread. One would think we would move past such primitive mindsets with the state of our technologies.

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