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He contradicts himself because Delilah and Keisha both were in movies and wielded guns with magazines.

Lupe is well-informed about a Human duality in rap music.

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Continuing the math diction, those individuals who pursue success don’t die, but instead their legacy lives and “multiplies” to others with similar aspirations.

This is referring to the late great Robin Harris, who encounters some really misunderstood kids from the slum. Their famous tag line was “We Bebe’s kids, we don’t die; we multiply. Meaning, no matter what you do to us we won’t die, or get hurt we will only get stronger.

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Lupe makes the people peering through the camera in the buckle (Big Brother, police, moles, etc) look at themselves. Lupe suggest that there should be more reform at a higher level than at a local level. In other words, he turns the belt around and gives them a figurative ass-whooping.

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Lupe is saying that he’s only considered a good rapper if there’s no meaning behind his lyrics, or the meaning is so subtle that no one can catch it.

Lupe’s also playing on the concept of being literally “sick”, i.e. his rhymes are contagious but you can’t quite “catch” them because they tend to be so complex

The line is also a response to those fans who think that anything less than a complex Lupe is not good, or not “sick”. In Lasers, Lupe has a more simple and straightforward lyrical style. That created some outrage with people accusing Lupe of dumbing it down. Lupe finds it funny that even though he has retained similar messages in his music, others still find his recent music to be inferior to his older music.

A lot of people claim he’s ‘sick’ because of his deep metaphors, etc. which aren’t understood at first i.e. when you don’t ‘catch a thing’

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