This is the moment you’ve been holding your piss for: they finally opened the doors, go buy your phone!!

With everybody having Twitter, Siri, Facebook, etc. on their phones, they just type all their problems and tell the whole world their troubles

To continue the theme of the guy waiting in line for the new product; the narrator really has to go pee, but he won’t lose his place in line to please his bladder, and he’s too scared of what people would think of him if he went right there. So he’s kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Lupe’s support of movements such as #Occupy shows that he fights the evil and corruption in the world, and will ‘till he dies.

He even titled this mixtape Friend of the People: I Fight Evil

Lupe sums up his rant on how screwed up the music business now that the radio has so much influence in one statement: it’s just entertainment.

If you don’t conform to what the radios want to play, then most label records won’t sign you and pay you. Many people say that the reason Lupe’s most recent album Lasers sounded mainstream was because Atlantic Records was threatening to cut his deal if he didn’t get radio plays

Lupe continues to let out his frustration with mainstream music:
All the producers are so worried with what people may think of them if they make a bad beat that they are afraid to take chances and continue to make the same worn out bangers that all sound the same.

Also, Lupe is complaining about the watered-down lyrics of the radio. On the radio, you’re tracks are only considered hot if there is a hot beat, the lyrics do not matter

Lupe’s a Friend of the People, so please don’t be scared of him!

A reference to the classic nursery rhyme, continuing the theme of this verse being animals. There needs to be a bigger farm if they want to keep the wolf-ish ferociousness of Lupe’s rapping away

Also, this is the first of a couple references to taking down corporations. Lupe is going to bring his wolves (#occupy, people demanding change) to Wall Street/corporate America (Old McDonalds barn)

With Lupe’s enlightened “torch” rapping, he is shining light on darkness, trying to make the world a better place.

Also some pretty clever wordplay: with this being the first song on the mixtape in which he actually raps, it could be considered the introduction, with these being the first bars of the tape. Lupe referencing “torches” in the first two lines could be a reference to how the Olympics are opened with a “passing of the torch” ceremony.

Get it? This mixtape is on the Olympics' level…