also a somersault is a nother word for flip, thus the powerful flipping the birds to the birds(poor people) doing flips for them… ;)

“Bury the hatchet like how a bird’s born”

Hatchet’s buried = cemetary full of tomahawks.

Birds born = Toucans, Pigeons, Middle fingers, Roadrunners

Pigeon doing somersaults = Flipping birds

Id also like to give a little insight by adding that another term for giving someone the middle finger is “flipping the bird” and a pigeon doing somersaults is a bird flipping. Also “giving middle fingers to the pigeons doing somersaults” could be saying flipping off someone “flipping birds” which is slang for making a profit from selling cocaine.

also, the cemetery full of tomahawks, ties back in to bury the hatchet line. of all the hatchets that have been buried.

lupe is definitely referencing the native american struggle with toucans being the top of totem poles and tomahawks also being a reference to Native culture

Wasalu also lives a double life as Lupe Fiasco, he also needs another wife, since he’s unhappy with his current (Atlantic)

Another take is that a husband is sentenced to a double life charge. The wife, never going to see her husband out from behind bars again, needs company and finds a new man to keep her company – without telling her husband. So she fakes her commitment to their marriage and leads 2 lives.

Lupe is always multi layered. So “Best laid plans, make a mess, made…” also has to do with sex on several levels.

1. Getting laid is having sex and making a mess is ejaculation.
2. Lupe thought he could sleep with the rap game (often thought as being personified as a woman) and be glorious but a mess was made with Atlantic Records.
3. And it goes all wrong and backwards when a “maid” (made) makes a mess and they are supposed to clean up messes. Plus, many rich men have slept with maids but that causes a divorce or a mess when they are caught.

This can reference not only the prison system in America but how America has forced a prison onto itself. The constant wars, collapsing of the economy, invasions, etc. have left America prisoners of their own misled plans.

This is a continuation of the showbiz theme from the previous line.

Could be a reference to Stockholm syndrome as well

came as in cum. touch as in touch his phone

maybe it’s about a girl who fucks a dude so he’ll share his hulu password with her

The fuck is a Hulu hoop?

I think it’s about the Hulu app too. Since when your consume methamphetamine, you never ever want to watch TV again. There is a bunch on lines in this track that seem to paint it as this drug. “Too many hoes in my (face),” as well they are in his meals. Hoes can represent a symbol that wastes his time or does not allow him to maintain his life due the time spent catering to these hoes. As the hoes take, they leave empty holes. Too many holes in his face could represent the behaviour of meth users to pick and dig their face. It makes sense with the meals too, meth users don’t tend to eat all the full meals they should. As the drug distracts users and they forget to eat. A lot of time dealers selling large mounts a particular escort (for personal use) will allow that escort to sell his drugs to her friends or clients (party favours). She will take a cut of course. Many times this middle man procedure is sketchy and the escorts try to rip of their clients and it takes a lot of time to try and resolve and keep up with debts and drugs owed. However many prefer it as they don’t want to ever make contact with a drug dealer to get their fix.

I beg to differ; It may very well be referring to Hulu, because that service was around when Ride wrote this, so he could very well be saying “Fuck a man who sits on his ass all day.”

Further, it could be directly a jab as people who thoughtlessly consume media, or puts just enough thought to share what they’re watching on Hulu, or, sharing to your friends what’s hip on Hulu.