Slug (real name Sean Daley) told Pollstar Lucy Ford was originally a play on the name Lucifer and represented the female devil.
"When I wrote Lucy and when I was writing about Lucy, I thought that Lucy represented the dichotomy between me and women and my own flaws as to why I couldn’t maintain a meaningful relationship, as well as the type of women I was attracted to,” Slug said.
“In retrospect, when I look back on it, 10 years later, I’m like ‘Man, by no means were any of those women in my life really so bad that they deserved to be demonized.’ Really, I think what I was demonizing was myself and my own codependency on alcohol, drama, marijuana, sex, validation, the whole validating game. … I really don’t think any of these people were bad people. I think that more so, I was caught inside of cycles I couldn’t break, going from one codependent relationship to another to the point where it just kind of swaddled me and it’s what I decided to rap about.”
I've always connected Lucy to relationships. It makes sense to me somewhat as it meaning hip hop. I do feel most songs he is talking about relationships. Obviously women have had a huge effect on Slug's life, it's understandable that there are many songs about them and more specifically, Jacob's mother.
Maybe when he says Lucy is hip hop - he is referring to how he is Lucy - she defines his existence. He is hip hop? Just a thought. I do think that he probably uses it to reference hip hop in songs as well just like he does to drug addictions etc...
From the mouth of Sean Daley himself:
Slug (real name Sean Daley) told Pollstar Lucy Ford was originally a play on the name Lucifer and represented the female devil.
"When I wrote Lucy and when I was writing about Lucy, I thought that Lucy represented the dichotomy between me and women and my own flaws as to why I couldn’t maintain a meaningful relationship, as well as the type of women I was attracted to,” Slug said.
“In retrospect, when I look back on it, 10 years later, I’m like ‘Man, by no means were any of those women in my life really so bad that they deserved to be demonized.’ Really, I think what I was demonizing was myself and my own codependency on alcohol, drama, marijuana, sex, validation, the whole validating game. … I really don’t think any of these people were bad people. I think that more so, I was caught inside of cycles I couldn’t break, going from one codependent relationship to another to the point where it just kind of swaddled me and it’s what I decided to rap about.”
I've always connected Lucy to relationships. It makes sense to me somewhat as it meaning hip hop. I do feel most songs he is talking about relationships. Obviously women have had a huge effect on Slug's life, it's understandable that there are many songs about them and more specifically, Jacob's mother. Maybe when he says Lucy is hip hop - he is referring to how he is Lucy - she defines his existence. He is hip hop? Just a thought. I do think that he probably uses it to reference hip hop in songs as well just like he does to drug addictions etc...