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Parked my Ferrari, now I'm back in the coup Scarface – Goin' Down
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OCAD, or Ontario Collage of Art and Design is a funky looking college school in downtown Toronto, close to where Shad grew up.
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Too bad there's too many hookers layin' in it, Danny is shameless Danny Swain (Ft. Amber Tamblyn & Gavin Castleton) – Evil
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This refers to the infamous Australian 80s news story with the famous quote “A dingo ate my baby”
“80’s baby like the dingo” = “Ate his baby like the dingo”
Saying he’s the latest person born in the 80’s to achieve fame.
Sidenote; Lupe ties this in with the previous line
Post coast to coast gotta dose of every lingo
Lupe is also displaying his knowledge of other cultures. He travels to Australia alot, he’s been more than 10 times and really likes the culture, he calls it his second home.
He came to be a spectator of the Big Day Out festival in Australia this year where Odd Future and Kanye West performed.
If I ever be reborn I keep coming back as me
Well don't forget the other five as we Lupe Fiasco – Form Follows Function
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Hungry ghosts is a Buddhist concept. It refers to spiritual hunger, one in which the acquisition based society of the U.S. is incapable of satisfying. Lu’s been rocking that bead necklace with the Buddha on it…
The hunger has dual meaning here- when referring to the less fortunate countries he’s talking about literally people starving, but the “hungry ghosts” concept refers to the fact that Americans never have enough, no matter how much we have – we’ll forever be hungry for more. The “ghost” side of things is just a reinforcement of his opinion on materialistic and excess-minded people.
Reincarnation is based on your karma
“Hungry Ghosts” could also be referring to the starving people whom received no second look, people just tend to ignore the poor and starved.
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“hungry ghost” white Americans are always hungry for material wealth and will never satisfy their need for more, they are ghosts/shadows of what a human should be they find no deeper meaning in life.
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“You’ll starve but never die” also sounds like “Your star will never die”. Connects to the American theme.