Body of Work – drug tales of his past chilly chill days.. which are now the skeletons in his closet.. “closet full of bones.. I’m tryna put em back together”.. which follows up with Prisoners 1,2

I think that the album not only refers to Lupe’s struggles with the label, but the black community’s fall from grace through slavery, and the modern manifestation in ghettos. It begins with his artistry, which is within the heavenly, divine sphere. You then have the Fall from grace, I believe that is the Purgatory stage, of imprisonment and drugs. Finally, the Winter songs act as hell, personified as the ghetto, “the ghetto is a manifestation of hate”. If the listener catches on and manually reverses the album, they can “rewrite history”, and hopefully reach nirvana through artistic expression. That is why it is “where we win”, reversing the album also reverses this cycle. That’s why Lupe defeats samsara at the end of Deliver, he has rewritten the cycle. What makes it impressive is the listener has to actively reverse the cycle, otherwise the cycle is doomed to repeat. What artistic medium involves the full participation of its player and is played by youth? Video games.

The track list is meant to be listened to backwards, a nod to Japanese Manga books, because Japanese reading/writing is right to left instead of the American style of reading/writing left to right.

Spring – Celebrations in a baby shower.
They.Resurrect.Over.New – T.R.O.N, a video game that came out during Lupe’s birth year (1982).
Adoration of the Magi – He’s just another baby at the time adored by The Game.
Madonna – Song for the only mothers raising their babies (Lupe did have a great father figure though).
Deliver – After he grew up a little, he’s starting to see the unfairness he’s been given.
Chopper – He’s starting to see the true dangers of the ghetto and the violence.
Winter – Shit gets real so he’s forced to stay inside
No Scratches – He came out unscathed and starts wondering why his people are doing this to each other.
Little Death – as the guns start killing each other, a part of the black communities dies one after another.
Prisoner 1 & 2 – Lupe’s friends go to jail (like Chilly Chill) where he’s the visitor meeting up with them.
Fall – Lupe makes it rapping and finally sees sunshine up the road ahead
Dots & Lines – Talking about his Deal with Atlantic and how much a disaster it really was.
Blur My Hands – With the death of his deal, he can move on to another world.
Mural – The final boss of the album, a lyrical slaughter that shows Lupe at his full potential with no boundaries
Summer – The future of Lupe as an independent rapper and the freedom he feels.

The album in reverse is a documentary of Lupe’s life thus far and a message for what’s to come.

@transcribers Most likely this is something that needs to be dealt with in the tate itself (which currently takes the lyric as literally “my Jeep”), specifically in regards to Lupe’s pronunciation and revising of R. Kelly, but give the use of “Magi” elsewhere in the album, it seems a better fit in the line literally.

*a magi???

I’m hearing “a magi”

R Kelly use from Chicago like Lupe as well

Isn’t it “you remind me of… a Magi??” Just phonetically different?

Chicago Spray gun Aficionado.. Could have a double meaning for all of the shooting and killing going on in Chicago.. It’s done to the level of being an expert AKA Aficionado.

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Spray gun also ties to the konomi reference, in the game contra spray gun is one of the special weapons weaponss you can get.

I interpreted it as a reference to the above line. In the previous line, he was talking about a way of exterminating insects (Chinese chalk), but in Chicago people spray guns (like an exterminator would spray his chemicals) to exterminate, or kill, each other.

Don’t forget that you can have a “cake” of drugs, when the substance is packaged. The “baker” could be cooking Crystal and selling it to finance himself while he tries his hand at being a rapper – and allusion to the criminal roots of some aspects of the business. Plus featherweight: this drug baron can hardly be a serious contender.

In addition you cannot have a skinny Baker because cakes are fattening referring to the fact that the Baker doesn’t eat his own cooking and so forth accidentally killing the king and such

This might be far-fetched, but Lupe and battle rap legend Daylyt are friends. The latter uses the phrase “quill” as his way of referring to true craftmanship in rap. Lupe had a twitter rap battle with Lupe and even brought him out on stage with him.

Continuing the theme of putting out products with no regard for the CONSUMER, Lupe possibly compares other rappers to Burger King/fast food. He is saying that their lack of thought into their product is literally killing the listeners.

Furthermore, like those who sell corporate fast food, these “artists” are selling you something that they themselves would never consume.

The “featherweight baker” is so slim because although he puts his signature on all these sweets and cakes – HE himself is not eating them. Like rappers who use their “quills” to sell you empty lifestyles that they aren’t really living.

Could this also be an illusion to the movie G.I. Jane? The actress Demi Moore, went through a lot of physically painful challenges trying to prove she was tough enough. Only to eventually admit defeat