Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way [Video]

A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class

What does Lupe mean here? Is it the allure of attaining something iconic or something we all crave? The mixed girl part threw me off

A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class

What does Lupe mean here? Is it the allure of attaining something iconic or something we all crave? The mixed girl part threw me off

been sleeping on Lupe hard, this !! got me awoke. Song is refreshing and a breah of fresh air in hip hop where heavy smoke lingers. To be honest I liked Kick/Push and slept on that. Mos Def gonna keep my eyes open on Lupe and hope for a Pete Rock & CL Smooth remix. [pic]

The visuals brought the track out more, def a pre order on that FL2.



Now that would be some !!.

Pete Rock need to make a cameo [pic]

Because the complaints are being dismissed as irrelevant issues. Then you have people who think the people complaining are annoying so they ignore it. Then you have the people who live a pretty good life so they really can't relate with the people complaining so they ignore it also. There is a lot of variables involved.

It's a small scale example. Now imagine on a larger scale people from every state putting that type of pressure on our government as a whole.

Couldn't Lupe say the same thing? You complain that Lupe complains too much but he can't force people to listen to him. He can tell people to read and research but he can't make them do it.

Are you serious? So your country is doing bad and your first thought is to leave? Are you looking for instant gratification? Tell me at which point in history did change happen instantly. I'll wait

Complaining helps identify what laws needs to be changed. Once that happens you can start trying to implement better laws.

Exactly. Now what do you do when a bad politician is put into office? Do you say anything about? Or would that be considered complaining?

Great political success that took time and effort

When people start paying attention

Your issue isn't really with Lupe himself. It's with the people.

Is it "Words I Never Said" or is it "Out of My Head"?

Cop out after cop out dude. You listed names to indicate that there were multiple people simply complaining about the state of political and social affairs in this country in order to show that Lupe wasn't the only one. Now there's supposed to be less people than Lupe because those same issues that were prevalent before are now irrelevant? Circular logic won't work here...

Sigh, How did you get that out of my response? My point was, by your logic, anybody speaking on government issues can be dismissed by saying they're just complaining.

A few already have. It's called the #OccupyMovement. How successful has that been so far? I'll wait...

The occupy movement started in November of last year. Tell me a movement that accomplished it's goal in changing the whole political platform in less than a year? I'll wait.

If people were that stupid him telling them to do so still wouldn't matter because they wouldn't be able to comprehend what he was telling them to learn in the first place.

You need something better than this sorry excuse, people are not that stupid.

You most not know a lot of people then. Affordable Care Act just got upheld today and some people said they were moving to Canada because of it. Only Canada uses provincial government healthcare systems and public health insurance. Which is similar to Affordable Care. But please continue to tell me how people are not that stupid.

How can you sit on the sidelines !!ing at the ref but stay at the game if you hate it so much? All Lupe does is cry terrorist this, tyranny that. How can he allow himself to stay a part of such a terrible entity if he can't stand it? Explain that logic to me because you've failed time and time again to prove how complaining is changing things.

[pic] How about because we are born in this country and we want to see it become a better place? I'm sorry but telling someone to leave if they don't like how things are running is dumb as !!. By this standard no political change would ever had come about.

Who said it was supposed to be instant? I see NO fruits of Lupe's labor. Show me in explicit detail how Lupe complaining on wax has contributed significantly to the changes in our social & political environment. I want sources from CNN, MSNBC, BBC, etc. - in other words well respected and credited news sources. Again, I'll wait...



At first you said there wasn't really anything you could do, now complaining is supposed to be the band-aid? [pic]

I'll ask you yet again, when is Lupe going to stop identifying and start rectifying? CLEARLY the people in Washington aren't listening and (god I'm getting tired of repeating myself) awareness in and of itself is NOT a solution.

Nobody !!ing said awareness is the end all solution. I even stated that in my first response to you. So you repeating yourself is your own damn fault.


You do all that you can to make sure the BEST of the bad is put into office. Politicians suck, but don't sit here and act like there aren't better candidates than others to put in office. The government is supposed to be homogenous but with all the childish bickering and bull!! in Washington nothing gets done. If we put immature and poor politicians in office who's fault is that? OURS.

This seems more like an issue with the people more than with Lupe.

Notice the success didn't come from complaining...

Notice how I didn't say it did. Notice how I said it took time and effort. Notice that the definition of effort is conscious exertion of power : hard work. Do you notice how I'm saying it takes more than just complaining. Maybe now that you notice it you can stop repeating yourself.

For like the 50th time awareness in and of itself is NOT a solution. Paying attention to the bull!! doesn't mean it'll stop it just means you're watching it now and allowing it to continue...

Again repeating yourself for no reason.

My issue is with Lupe and anybody else with dirty hands that try to point clean fingers...

Did you make that up yourself? Because it doesn't make much sense if you think about it. Or at least it doesn't really apply to Lupe.

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[pic] At one of you calling Lupe a revolutionary. I feel sorry for some of you actually following this dude like he's a smaller version of Malcolm X. The difference between he and Malcolm is that Malcolm DEMONSTRATED. He worked with MLK Jr. to get legislation passed in order to get REAL change. He didn't just sit on his[..] whining about things, he made sure that someway somehow the LAWS would be different. Lupe is NOT doing this and HAS NOT been this entire time...

You most not know a lot of people then. Affordable Care Act just got upheld today and some people said they were moving to Canada because of it. Only Canada uses provincial government healthcare systems and public health insurance. Which is similar to Affordable Care. But please continue to tell me how people are not that stupid.

How about because we are born in this country and we want to see it become a better place? I'm sorry but telling someone to leave if they don't like how things are running is dumb as !!. By this standard no political change would ever had come about.

Nobody !!ing said awareness is the end all solution. I even stated that in my first response to you. So you repeating yourself is your own damn fault.

Notice how I didn't say it did. Notice how I said it took time and effort. Notice that the definition of effort is conscious exertion of power : hard work. Do you notice how I'm saying it takes more than just complaining. Maybe now that you notice it you can stop repeating yourself.

Did you make that up yourself? Because it doesn't make much sense if you think about it. Or at least it doesn't really apply to Lupe.

So how exactly did Martin and Malcolm get legislation passed in the government? Did they just go right up to the government and say "Hey mister government! Can we talk to you about giving us some more freedom?" Or did they complain? If you say the occupy movement is just a group of people complaining then what was Montgomery Bus Boycott? A group of negros complaining. Albany movement? A group of negros complaining. Birmingham campaign? A group of negros complaining. March on Washington? A group of negros complaining. Mind you the civil rights movement last for 13 years before things really started to change.

Oh and P.S Malcolm X and MLK only met each other one time in their entire life and that was to hear the debate on Civil Rights Act of 1964. An Act was only created in response to the protests by blacks(You know those people that were complaining.) They never actually discussed any legislation with each other.

If your taking about him complaining about the government then pointing fingers is all you can really do. That, protesting and voting. There aren't many real solutions to begin with. [pic]


As far as !! Bad goes it seems to me his fans are split between it. Some like it, some don't. KTT trash it at first. Then I go there today and people are saying it grew on them. People on here were also saying its a good song also. There are just mixed feeling about it but I don't really think you can say "his fans" hate it.