OWS supporter Lupe Fiasco - "Words I Never Said"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22l1sf5JZD0&ob=av2e


It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should’ve said
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back
The words I never said

I can’t take back
The words I never said

(Lupe Fiasco)

I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip?
9/11, Building Seven, did they really pull it?
Uh, and a buncha other cover-ups
Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts, then, wait, here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, that’s on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the upper crust
You get it, then they move so you never keepin’ up enough
If you turn on TV, all you see’s a bunch of what the fucks
Dude is dating so-and-so, blabbering ’bout such-and-such
And that ain’t Jersey Shore, homie, that’s the news
And these the same people ‘sposedly tellin’ us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza Strip was gettin’ bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
That’s why I ain’t vote for ‘im, next one either
I’m a part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people
(Yeah)

It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should’ve said
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back
The words I never said

Now we can say it ain’t our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better, then we probably deserve it
Jihad is not holy war, where’s that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam, and you are not observant
And you are not a Muslim
Israel don’t take my side, ’cause look how far you’ve pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the kush went
Complain about the liquor store, but what you drinkin’ liquor for?
Complainin’ ’bout the gloom, but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listenin’ to ‘Pac ain’t gon’ make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts ain’t gon’ make it halt
If you don’t become an actor, you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects, take ‘em when the pain’s felt
Wash ‘em down with diet soda, killin’ off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the world will gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss a payment, they can take your home away

It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should’ve said
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said

Never said
I can’t take back the words I never said

Uh, I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion, that’s why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me I’m scared of even tellin’ you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally gettin’ free, my thoughts is finally yellin’ through

It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should’ve said
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back
The words I never said

[haikugal]

1. Thanks!

[ellisonz]

2. Lupe Fiasco is dumb and a poser.

Dumb:

By Matthew Perpetua
June 9, 2011 10:55 AM ET

Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco blasted President Obama during his appearance on CBS's What's Trending with Shira Lazar Tuesday, attacking the president's foreign policy and declaring him to be a "terrorist."

"To me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America," Fiasco said. "I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s causing the other forms of terrorism. You know the root cause of terrorists is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists."

Later in the interview, the rapper explained that he has no desire to vote in the 2012 presidential election. "I don’t get involved in politics," he said. "It’s meaningless. If I’m going to say I stand behind this person and write on a piece of paper that says, ‘Yeah, I stand for this person,’ then I have to take responsibility for everything he does cause that’s just who I am as a human being. So politicians aren’t going to do that because I don’t want you to bomb some village in the middle of nowhere."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lupe-fiasco-declares-obama-a-terrorist-20110609

Poser:

Hip-Hop
Lupe Fiasco: Hip-Hop's Greatest Whiner
By Phillip Mlynar Fri., Oct. 7 2011 at 8:47 AM
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It's time for the hallowed halls of hip-hop history to start giving Lupe Fiasco his due respect. Not, you understand, as a purveyor of conscientious rap music bursting with positive-leaning messages; nor for the Chicago-based rapper's ground-breaking work as a foremost collector of limited edition Japanese toys and selvedge denim. And not even for simply holding the envious position of being Kanye West's lesser-famed friend. Nope, Lupe is long overdue righteous recognition for his unparalleled service in establishing himself as hip-hop's greatest-ever whiner. If there is something to moan about, Lupe's already got a soundbite ready to roll.

Five years ago, Lupe dropped his debut album, Food & Liquor. It would have been better titled Licensed To Bitch. Since its release, we've had to endure a long and torturous half-decade of Lupe consistently complaining about the world around him, most times in a disingenuous manner, and every time underscored with the idea that we should all be paying much more attention to Lupe. This is punctuated by recurring threats to quit rap music (which are always reneged once he realizes no ones really cares). It's a moanful and, most times, hypocritical persona Lupe has been perfecting since his formative years.

According to Lupe's self-made mythology, as a kid he hated hip-hop. To his ears, it was loathsome music that disrespected women with wonton glee while bandying around unnecessary curse words. (Lupe grew up in a household that subscribed to National Geographic, so you know his parents frowned on cursing at the dinner table.) As he rapped on "Hurt Me Soul," from his debut: "I used to hate hip-hop, yep, because the women it degraded." And: "I had a ghetto bop boy, a Jay-Z boycott/ 'Cause he said he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti."

But then, somehow, Lupe decided that rhymes could pay. So suddenly he liked rap. And attempted to etch out a career as a rapper who recited lyrics like, "You know I don't pop-pop at the bar/But I might send pop-pops through your car." (He's talking about guns.) That's just one of many choice lyrics from the song "Pop Pop." It was an utterly unconvincing attempt at some sort of post-Ruff Ryders, club-hoppin' gangsta rap track.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/10/lupe_fiasco_hip-hops_greatest.php

Kanye West can drag his dumb ass back to some basement in middle-class Chicago for him to whine about - whack a** m***** f*****

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Hang on Lupe, Lupe hang on. Dum dum." - The McCoys

"Lupe lives in a very bad part of town
and everybody else, tries to put my Lupe down..."

[ellisonz]

4. Seriously

Listen to some Immortal Technique...at least he has flow and doesn't sound like a idiot just about every time he opens his mouth.

Have you seen this video of a real hip-hop artist speaking at Zuccotti Park at 2 a.m.: http://qik.com/video/44583274
Another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeVZyGKNa0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Vl0peys90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVL4IAKA9Lc

Immortal Technique generally supports what the President is trying to do:

http://hiphopnews.yuku.com/topic/916#.TqFYPeZye8k

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5. Wow, character assassination. Cool. nt