The sheer ignorance of the listeners makes me feel incredibly hopeless. Lupe has such a strong message and I'm afraid that, from what I can see here, his message is being missed. Lupe was raised by a black panther in a structured home. He sees the world for what it is. He's sort of taken a step back and understands the intricacies of societies and the effects of what people do. It all intertwines with the popular saying "jedi mind tricks".
For example, he says "My master beats me" He's basically saying that the mentality of our people is the mentality of a slave. It's something that has transcended through black history, and although we're no longer slaves, we continue to have that mentality and therefore it still is and we still pretty much are. So when a whore gets beat by a pimp, she's being beaten by her master. I don't know, maybe he doesn't mean it so metaphorically, but he commonly talks about how our past experiences directly affects us today.
The sheer ignorance of the listeners makes me feel incredibly hopeless. Lupe has such a strong message and I'm afraid that, from what I can see here, his message is being missed. Lupe was raised by a black panther in a structured home. He sees the world for what it is. He's sort of taken a step back and understands the intricacies of societies and the effects of what people do. It all intertwines with the popular saying "jedi mind tricks".
For example, he says "My master beats me" He's basically saying that the mentality of our people is the mentality of a slave. It's something that has transcended through black history, and although we're no longer slaves, we continue to have that mentality and therefore it still is and we still pretty much are. So when a whore gets beat by a pimp, she's being beaten by her master. I don't know, maybe he doesn't mean it so metaphorically, but he commonly talks about how our past experiences directly affects us today.