Cost more than my house did, fuck land, I’m fly today
First class if I fly, credit card ain’t mine
Don’t know how I’m gettin’ back but in luxury I arrive Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Billy Blue, Buk, Fam-Lay, Glasses Malone, Trae tha Truth & Trouble) – Chopper
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Here Lupe picks a Jaguar, which ties in with the image of unleashing the leash on a fast car in the last tine because you could also place a leash on a Jaguar (animal).
Dual meaning:
After unleashing the beast, Lupe means to rap about the high life glamorizing drug sales, hence the feeding on kilos (keys) line.
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Sanskrit is the language of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, and the language of Hinduism. It is considered by some to be a dead language.
Certain sacred dances such as the Bharata Natyam are codified in Sanskrit texts.
Old as jail, old as cells Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Ayesha Jaco) – Prisoner 1 & 2
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In jail, both the inmates and guards grow old. While the inmates will grow old and die, jails have existed for thousands of years and will likely to exist long after they are dead.
“Old as cells” is also a double entendre, in biological terms simple cell life forms have existed for millions of years predating human beings.
Twelve is slang for police. The guards aren’t cops, even if they’d like to be.
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It’s a popular opinion that new games are generally easier to complete than their older counterparts.
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“thoughts moving [in] circles”:
1) Suggests the circle of life and death linking it to (depending on your view) the last line of Tetsuo & Youth.
2) Thinking of the same ideas over and over again. This is a description of the psychological concept of fixation where a person becomes obsessed with an attachment. Through our thoughts, we can also let go of our attachments allowing us to escape the circle of Samsara.
3) We can only know of the existence of the universe because we have a mind capable of thought.
“thoughts universal”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRsNYKc-Xk
1) The Universal studios logo.
2) The thought’s universal i.e. everyone is thinking the same thing.
3) Reference to a universal mind/ universal consciousness.
The concept of a universal mind is present both in some schools of Buddhism as well as esoteric beliefs.
(visualisation of the internet)
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Simile derived from: A permission slip. A form used in schools which gives a child permission to attend things like a field trip.
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One interpretation of this line is of a women crying with joy or pleasure after wearing the mask of la petite mort (orgasm).
Another interpretation is that the killers are crying crocodile tears.
Can I make you my prey?
Cause I want you dear, ooh, I want you dear Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Nikki Jean) – Little Death
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Note the prey – dear/ deer wordplay.
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You throw trash down an incinerator chute.
Contra is a video game, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System a year after it hit arcades in 1987.
Wordplay incinerator chutes/shoots,
incinerator shoots — a flame thrower.
“manual for Contra” is also a reference to Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.