still stuck in a lupe fiasco rut (well, i clearly don't feel that way-- i can't get enough, but i'm assuming the roomies are getting a little fed up of me playing the same thing ALL THE TIME, and not even a compilation but one artist. well, at least he has lots of others featured...)
since i saw him speak on a panel--about poetry, rock, hip-hop, and words-- at the Brooklyn Book Festival a weekend or two ago.
he was pretty great.
one story about the panel reports that Lupe "explained that before he worked with music and beats, he filled notebooks with words. "I had a plethora of words," he said. "See how many pieces I could collect."
final food for thought:
Lyrics to Intruder Alert :
(feat. Sarah Green)
She said there was no love in her heart,
Cause one day a rapist attacked her and broke that heart apart,
She said there was no way to fix it or to cover her scars,
Then one day a guy came along and probably could help her start,
He was sincere, made her believe it was safe for her to trust again,
Before long she was cool with giving hugs to him,
Knew that it was right, cause something was wrong,
The alarms in her mind didn't tell her he didn't belong,
There was no,
Intruder, [x4]
Alert [x4]
He said nobody else ever loved him,
That's why he'd get high enough to go touch the heavens above him,
Vividly remembers every pipe, every needle that stuck him,
Every alley he ever stepped in, every purse that he snuck in,
Every level of hell he's been to and the one that he's stuck in,
The one he can't escape, even though it's of his own construction,
Maybe you can relate, maybe you're one of those that just doesn't,
Maybe he doesn't care, loves to allow these demons to come in with no,
Intruder, [x4]
Alert [x4]
Famine striking his home, landing no social standing,
In the econmic pecking order of emergency relief distribution systems,
Is in disorder, he's checking water, making sure it's safe enough for his daughter,
To float across in the boat he built, hopefully strong enough to support her,
Praying border patrols don't catch her and process and deport her,
Before she reach the shore of the land of the free, where they feed you,
Treat you like equals, deceive you, stamp you and call you illegal,
and there's an,
Intruder, [x4]
Alert [x4]
find these lyrics very engaging for the linkages they make between violence on different scales, from interpersonal/domestic violence to international/state violence. will look back to syllabus from Borderlands lit class from my last semester at school, cause i know i read some stuff makin some of the same powerful connections about violence in one form--say, state or societal-- re-creating or re-appearing in another form--like interpersonal--, that we as a society have an awful habit of trying to isolate as if it weren't related... get back to you on that one. another example i always think of though is the wall that Israel has built up around Palestine, as if that kind of aggression and violence WASN'T going to just create more in the opposite direction. every action has an equal and opposite reaction, right? basic physics. we're too advanced a society at this point to not be getting this stuff that ISNT THAT COMPLICATED. love--> more love. hatred--> more hatred. bah.
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