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Refers to the character and movie Blade. The main character hates blood as if he succumbs to his urge to drink it, he will turn into a vampire.
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Lupe continues his lyricism on from the previous line describing the movements of the breakdancers – back flipping, performing windmills (contortionists hips) and moon walking (grease slippers).
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Lupe contrasts, Alexander Hamilton, considered one of America’s greatest statesmen with the mythical fate of Agamemnon whose death is foretold by the prophetess Cassandra but whose warnings go unheeded).
There have been many warnings about the problems facing the world, Lupe is urging us to action.
Looks cool but it's bull as cool fusers Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Elena Pinderhughes) – Cripple
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Wind turbines and saving pandas are symbols of the environmental movement.
A 250 acre solar farm was built in China in the shape of giant pandas.
Lupe is pointing out that both China and the world’s environmental problems won’t be solved by just cool photo-ops but by real immediate action.
He also takes aim at the promise of nuclear cold fusion (cool fuser) which has been described sarcastically as the fuel of the future as it is always decades away from being used at scale.
Continuing the Bloods and Crips theme, “bull” is pronounced like “bool” which some bloods say instead of cool because they like to exchange b’s for c’s.
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Breakdancers would rather perform on the streets to earn money, dancing on top of sheets of cardboard than work at a gas station like Arco.
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Lupe compares the small profit made by street drug dealers to the 10% or more non-refundable commission U.S. bail bondsmen make on each bond.
For example California based AIA Bail Bond Surety, underwrites nearly $700 million worth of bail a year, that’s at least $70 million in revenue.
The National District Attorneys Association have condemned commercial bail as a system that discriminates against the poor and places Americans’ liberty at the mercy of private businesses.
Google has written that studies show that for-profit bail bond providers make most of their revenue from communities of color and low income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable, including through opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years.
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Reference to Phoenix real estate guru Tanya Marchiol who was convicted of money laundering for drug dealers. Prosecutors accused her of criminal conduct stretching from 1997 until her imprisonment in 2015.
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Park Slope is a neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York City which was gentrified in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The World Wide Fund for Nature uses the panda as its logo and in its fundraising efforts. The WWF has been criticised for its links to big business.
The reference to the first panda is to a giant panda named Chi-Chi who was transferred from Beijing Zoo to London Zoo in 1958, three years before WWF became established. Being famous as the only panda residing in the Western world at that time, the WWF adopted the giant panda as its logo. The organisation now has annual revenues in excess of half a billion dollars.
Also, Panda Express (first; accelerated) has fortune cookies.