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He’s speaking of the rap game right now and its problems.

He feels he will be devoured aka sell out.. basically conform to how everything else is.. the same sound, etc. He’s tempted by all the girls and money that most people bend to.

He keeps going and says in this rap game people pretending to be something they’re not is normal. They pull off the persona of whatever it happens to be they are showing, but as soon as their performance/time is over, they go back to their normal self, completely different from their rap persona.

Illogic then speaks on people not truly being happy living like that.. faking their life just to make money. They can’t let their guard down because their so called “image” is all important and if it’s shot and they’re seen acting as their normal self it could hurt their sales.

He ends it with the fact most artists start off enjoying rap and that’s the reason they do it. However, once they get deep into the game it’s more like a job than something they love doing. Reasons being, the facade they have to put on to appeal to the masses, and record labels won’t give you full creative control over your music.. they force you to conform and make a certain type you aren’t happy about and are constantly rushing to meet deadlines.

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He’s unaware of the clash between his thoughts toward the baby and his girlfriend’s. He sees it as beautiful and wonderful, whereas she sees it as the opposite, pure negative. This creates the strong division between them that he’s not aware of at this time.

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More food lingo here.

He’s using food as a metaphor for something thought provoking which he started above. He says you might find a certain song/lyric that deeply moves/touches you which is why it’d be for your soul.

The pun with raw comes in because Sushi is a type of food that is normally made from raw fish. Moving raw also means trafficking, so he could be talking about his past with Chicago and the heroin trade.

Note: Lupe creates a homophone on “raw” inferring multiple meanings:

  • The sound of a lion rawr (which ties into the next line)

  • Raw can sound like roe – as in fish eggs or caviar which can also be put in sushi.

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Damien in the movie “The Omen” is Satan’s son. El is saying even if an artist is Satan himself burning in the flames of hell(extremely hot, obviously) he wouldn’t be hot. The meaning is, he could never be a good rapper basically.

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El is the best and anyone on any label that tests him will get ate up on the mic savagely like a piranha violently eating their prey. You test El and he makes you his lyrical prey.

A piranha attack:

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He’s using vivid imagery here to explain what he would do if he was taught to write. Kind of ironic that he’s taking he could paint a picture of words so vivid the words will get up and walk off the picture and show you what they say.. and here with these lines he’s relatively doing just that.

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Get a girl that you really care for. Then, actually appreciate each other and realize what it is that makes you two connect.

Also, a reference to the came “Connect Four” where you have to get four chips in a row to win the game.

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Los is on fire in the rap game, as in he’s killing every song he does now. This could be a reference to his girl “Lola Monroe”. As in she’s his perfect match and when they’re on a track together it’s a perfect match.

Also, referring to a literal fire. The girl is his match, and matches light a fire.

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A Circle and a Square are buttons you press on a PS controller.

Also, his circle (crew) pushes squares (drugs) like a PlayStation controller. In other words they push out a lot of drugs easily.

Last, you can interpret it as his crew push other square(lame) crews away.

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He fucked your girl so good she was fiending for more, in a similar fashion to a dope(drug) fiend, fiending for drugs. Basically they can’t live without it.

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