11
Jun
2011
Another Nuanced Hip Hop Artist
Jacob Huebert posted this video on LRC. Check out the lyrics; it’s surprisingly sophisticated. (By that I mean, “I agree with this guy on a lot of issues.”)
You’d think with a name like Lupe Fiasco, this poor kid wouldn’t have amounted to anything. But he played the hand he’d been dealt.
That’s what happens when your opinion of hip hop is formed from stereotypes (and less well known hip hop is usually more sophisticated than anything mainstream).
Jon, that’s what happens when you opinion of Bob is formed from stereotypes.
His own writing? If he can quote Easy-E +1, but unfortunately I don’t know ESP (or ESPN).
Little did Jon know I had a loaded 12-gauge…
One sucka dead, Nashville Post, front page…
’cause Austro Econ Profs are always hard…
Come talkin’ that trash we’ll quote Rothbard…
Sorry, couldn’t help myself
Nice. And in retrospect, how in the heck could J.D. not have noticed a 12-gauge? I guess it was the freebasing.
No, it was your stable of hoes that took his attention.
This is really funny. I never had you pegged as an ol’ Easy E fan. Now what does “riches” always seem to rhyme with? Might be a good title for a new economics book: “Murphey duz it” “Boyz in the Keynesian ecomomic system” “A Keynsian is a b**ch” or perhaps “Straight outta Austria”. Good work Robert. I’ve just started to read Lessons for the Young
ECONOMIST after devouring the PIG to capitalism.
Since we’re continuing the pattern:
Gene, that’s what happens when your opinion of Jon’s opinion of Bob is formed from stereotypes.
Jonathan, OK, I guess re-reading my post I understand why you said that. But for what it’s worth, I can quote extensively from Eazy-E (not to mention more obvious white-boy stuff like Beastie Boys and Eminem).
From the third verse of “uncle sam goddamn” by Brother Ali:
You don’t give money to the bums
On the corner with a sign, bleeding from their gums
Talking bout, you don’t support a crackhead
What you think happens to the money from yo’ taxes
Shit the governments an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you ain’t on the front line
When the master yell crunch time you right back at it
You ain’t look at how you hustling backwards
And the end of the year add up what they subtracted
3 outta twelve months your salary
Paid for that madness, man that’s sadness
What’s left get a big ass plasma
To see where they made Dan Rather point the damn camera
Only approved questions get answered
Now stand your ass up for that national anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ
“You’d think with a name like Lupe Fiasco, this poor kid wouldn’t have amounted to anything. But he played the hand he’d been dealt.”
I hope you do realize that that is just his stage name.
Is this thing on? *taps mic*
According to his Wiki, he picked it without knowing what Fiasco means. Says he kept it as a scar..
We watch as humor sails a mile over Joseph’s head.
Such is life as an INTJ.
personality types are such bullshit yo
Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Oops, I mean “yo”.
So glad you posted this lupe fiasco video….
lupe is totally under-rated. You should check out one of his older songs (actually the whole album) called “American Terrorist”.
he also performed this song on The Colbert Report recently.
-AT