Lupe continues to let out his frustration with mainstream music:
all the producers are so worried with what people may think of them if they make a bad beat that they are afraid to take chances and continue to make the same worn out bangers that all sound the same.

Also, Lupe is complaining about the watered-down lyrics of the radio. On the radio, you’re tracks are only considered hot if there is a hot beat, the lyrics do not matter

Lupe’s a Friend of the People, so please don’t be scared of him!

With Lupe’s enlightened “torch” rapping, he is shining light on darkness, trying to make the world a better place.

Also some pretty clever wordplay: with this being the first song on the mixtape in which he actually raps, it could be considered the introduction, with these being the first bars of the tape. Lupe referencing “torches” in the first two lines could be a reference to how the Olympics are opened with a “passing of the torch” ceremony.

Get it? This mixtape is on the Olympics' level…

Because Lupe “lost” you with his complex rhymes, St. Berdards are going to be needed to search for you.

The lost people are probably some place very cold, because Lupe’s raps are super cold, so the search team would have rum in barrels around their neck so the lost people, when found, could drink and stay warm.

The general view of Thanksgiving is actually a lie. The Pilgrims and Indians actually had a strong alliance with each other because they were both struggling- the Pilgrims couldnt survive the winter because of their lack of harvests, while the Indian population was deteriorating due to small pox. Because of this, the Indians asked to form an alliance to help each other. They helped each other out for a few years, but when the Pilgrims outnumbered the Indians, they forced them to convert to christianity and “used” them. This led to King Phillip- the leader of an indian tribe- to rebel. The Pilgrims responded by defeating the Indians and sticking King Phillip’s head on a staff in their village for 20 years to show off their power.

This song and the Friend of the People mixtape dropped on Thanksgiving 2011

These rappers like to think they’re the best, but their only real fans are themselves.

Lupe may be coming at Lil Wayne, as Wayne had a popular song on Tha Carter IV entitled “Mirror” where he claims his only true fan is the man in the mirror. He hints at it being a diss in the next line, but never mentions Wayne by name.

Einstein uses two similar metaphors here:

The first one says that his flow is so unique, if you try to steal it(bite it), you’ll fail.

The second one, reminiscent of Eminem’s “Beautiful”, says that the life he leads is so hard, if you tried to live it, you’d fail at that too.

Using a play off of his own name, Einstein references the actual Einstein’s famous equation of E=MC squared.

However, he takes it a step further, saying he’s past that level, and the C should be cubed to describe his level in rap. Pretty difficult to grasp, huh?