Sometimes I come back just to marvel at the lyricism on this song. The entire "one hands a gun the other hands a silencer" scheme was so brilliant and im sure most people didn't even catch the extent of it. Bro this guy used different hand gestures (signalling when hitchhiking, making a bird with your hands, finger nail shells come out my pistol top". Also the subtle Alfred Hitchcock reference where he goes onto say "you get that plot?". Hitchcock was a famous director and worked on “Psycohotic”and “The Birds” which is all tied into the bar. Gifted lyricism then he goes on to personify his own wrist saying "I wear a rollie so my wrist don't watch (when his ":hand" gun fires...his wrist prefers not to look, but also the double meaning in "watch" is evident). But lupe finds this ironic because this is the same wrist he "shoots" the 3 with. Shoot being the metaphor. Crop circles
@@feedthemind3626 refer to this: So what we got here? Some top ramen 🍜 to some top tier? 🥇 Some “top rhyming” to some “boxed ears”? “Top rhyming” meaning he is freestyling off the top, it is the best rhyming and is a literal box top as it covers those who dont or can’t even listen / understand To some… “Boxed ears” refers to you, the person who doesn’t understand what he is even doing here, boxing your ears by covering them makes you not able to properly hear, boxed ears are also punched swollen ears where you only hear the tinnitus ringing of the ears as the swelling also makes it hard to hear” There is usually even more and deeper meanings but this is what OP meant about the 2x & 3x (multiple) entendre at basically every single line, the metaphors also carry line to line, verse to verse to make more complex versions of 2x, 3x entendre similar to fractals
Trueeeeee! When I hear this my mind drifts to a place where his metaphors become reality and I dont wanna come back. Lupe is far to intellectual for those who like rap now and days
No rapper can mess with this dude. My opinion, I'm Forty and I grew up listening to...Chuck D, Rakim, Kane, KRS 1, Kool Moe Dee...LL, and on. Lupe is serious.
To be honest man I like them both, I think they are two sides of the same coin. Ive never seen two artist on the same wave length, views on government etc align. Its hard even comparing em because I fuck with them both BUT I do think Lupe is a better lyricist by far.Soul is like a slightly dumbed down version of Lu. I can listen to Soul's music and for the most part understand the message hes trying to convey with Lu I generally end up researching. For me listening to conscious hip hop is about learning and taking away something in the process. Not sure if that even answers the questions honestly
Goldens Beauvais my nigga!!!! Hell yeah! I still got some break downs on the lyrics! Even after all this time! That’s why I fuckin Love real hip hop! This night don’t care if you get it or not you just gotta do your homework
I'm somewhat new to SLR Series but these Metaphors man. They way Lu rap you'll catch the first one and by the time you figured what he said he done strapped the building to explode with his lyricism. Probably one of the most Viscerally Complex MC's of our time. Salute Lu 💯
Anybody catch how this dude started responding to the beginning bars at the end of the song (listen for circle references and his tears being an ocean and at the end the eyes that I see/sea with) bringing everything FULL CIRCLE on a song called SLR 3 (Round of Applause). Fuckin Insane!!
Dray Day Yeah and the finger nail gun (shells) is silent (moment for them) so the rounds don't sound (or clap back- applause) and don't forget back when the WORLD WAS FLAT...
the song is called ROUND of applause and he's talking about circles throughout a large part of the song if u pay attention. he's really a lyrical genius! def ain for the simple minded.
“I’m talking about when the fucking world was FLAT” and “silence on my arms, so my rounds don’t sound at all” The most truthful lines in the whole song
Let you debate whether it's birds tellin or Motellin' em...TWO HITCHCOCK CLASSICS about birds and a psycho murdering everything. There's SO much depth to this. YOU GOTTA GO TO HARVARD TO BE A LUPE STAN!
I have listened to the other SLR tracks, but this... Definitely bringing in the brass like lupe about to make his victory lap. That instrumental is really giving me a Blackbyrd vibes. Real Music always comes around to the peers.
"One hand's a gun the other hand's a silencer, when I cock the thumb you gotta take a hike to the" "Let you debate weather it's birds tellin or mo-tellin but fingernail shells come out my pistol top"
Id quote a line but it takes too long to quote every line. Best lyricist of all time. Its not a debate. Its not. Its just proof God exist when you hear this level of genius.
“Sail boat wouldn’t survive in the ocean of my tears ... Wash a nigga away and bring it back to the piers.. and if you ready for that you have just received the deadliest catch that you seen in years.” GODDAMNIT 😫😫😫😫😫🔥🔥🔥
It’s supposed to say “peep-hole (people) .... Circle of my peers” Lupe Fiasco said it right. This video with lyrics typed by someone else messed up though, that’s all. Still thanks for posting video
@@juice9370 Jay could but he doesn't try anymore .... Go listen to " Prelude " off Kingdom Come ... Jay dumbed down his lyrics .... If Jay kept being lyrical and pushin' his craft he could do something like this!
@@livebreatheeatfitnessco.4146 @Jimmie Jam Jay could but he doesn't try anymore .... Go listen to " Prelude " off Kingdom Come ... Jay dumbed down his lyrics .... If Jay kept being lyrical and pushin' his craft he could do something like this!
I hate that people are too dumb to understand this. This is some of the greatest shit I think I’ve ever heard and this is coming from a lupe and doom Stan. The metaphors go on for like 10 bars and during those 10 bars he packs so many different metaphors and references. Lupe is on another level and it bothers me that people don’t see it.
That’s one part of it. The other part is SIR-Spheres (it’s a medical device used in radiation therapy to treat live tumors). So, this is a double entendre! Basically Sir cool (he’s ok) but he ain’t spheres (he ain’t strong/powerful/potent). 🤯🤯🤯 crazy I know. And you won’t find this on genius ^^ lol
"Sir Cool (circle) but he ain’t *s'* fierce." He sayin, the dudes cool (like hes tough...nothin phases him) but he aint so fierce. When the last part is kinda said fast or abbreviated it sounds like spheres.
At the beginning, it should read "a pause to put a round in the palms of thieves" not "put around". "Around" makes no sense in that context. He's saying "a round" as in a bullet
Late reply but maybe ‘around’ also works, because to go around something, for example, going ‘around’ in a merry go round, is to go in a circle lol, and circles being a theme in the song. Maybe I’m doing too much idk. It doesn’t work in the context literally but phonetically it plays into the circle theme also.
@@lightskinsennin3157another late reply but when kids play the game ring around, aren't they clapping until the round is over & somebody falls? Lupe is just something else because there's so many decipherable levels and interpretations to his lyrics.
im glad to see that im not the only one that thinks lupes is one of the greatest doing this. lupe is still seems to be taking shots at kendrick though. question is who will win between them two?
I remember when this came out back in 2013 ... I heard for the first time and fell out amazed! Then the end with the whistling was priceless .... Lupe is a poet 😎😃
You don't even have to be too educated to understand the lyrics I'm sure this wouldn't even make sense to some people with a high IQ or what ever. You have to be able to think creatively in order to visualize what he's saying to understand it even though every body's understanding is different from the original thought anyway.
![Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco - Mazinger ft. PJ [Produced by SX]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7L6dIwl2c0U/mqdefault.jpg)
Sometimes I come back just to marvel at the lyricism on this song.
The entire "one hands a gun the other hands a silencer" scheme was so brilliant and im sure most people didn't even catch the extent of it.
Bro this guy used different hand gestures (signalling when hitchhiking, making a bird with your hands, finger nail shells come out my pistol top". Also the subtle Alfred Hitchcock reference where he goes onto say "you get that plot?". Hitchcock was a famous director and worked on “Psycohotic”and “The Birds” which is all tied into the bar. Gifted lyricism
then he goes on to personify his own wrist saying "I wear a rollie so my wrist don't watch (when his ":hand" gun fires...his wrist prefers not to look, but also the double meaning in "watch" is evident). But lupe finds this ironic because this is the same wrist he "shoots" the 3 with. Shoot being the metaphor.
Crop circles
Its wild as hell how so many mfs dont listen to the real rap god. BarBuryin
Fr Lupe is the goat
EVERY bar is a double or triple entendre. Its like listening to two songs at the same time. Lupe is Trill!!!
I don't know what to say about this
@@feedthemind3626 refer to this:
So what we got here? Some top ramen 🍜 to some top tier? 🥇
Some “top rhyming” to some “boxed ears”?
“Top rhyming” meaning he is freestyling off the top, it is the best rhyming and is a literal box top as it covers those who dont or can’t even listen / understand
To some…
“Boxed ears” refers to you, the person who doesn’t understand what he is even doing here, boxing your ears by covering them makes you not able to properly hear, boxed ears are also punched swollen ears where you only hear the tinnitus ringing of the ears as the swelling also makes it hard to hear”
There is usually even more and deeper meanings but this is what OP meant about the 2x & 3x (multiple) entendre at basically every single line, the metaphors also carry line to line, verse to verse to make more complex versions of 2x, 3x entendre similar to fractals
@@dxpdigital5343 thanks for the breakdown. I knew it. But I ment this comment as I'm speechless such an amazing track. 👍👍👍👍
He's the reason I rap
@Down Right Fierce RARE and the reason I stop rapping.
This song is insane. Lupe is a true poet. It is sad that most people are literally not intelligent enough to understand his lyrics.
I hate when I try to show lupe to people like they have to be ready on that intellectual level
Trueeeeee! When I hear this my mind drifts to a place where his metaphors become reality and I dont wanna come back. Lupe is far to intellectual for those who like rap now and days
Fuck yall
Or informed enough. I don't think having knowledge from before I was born is inherently connected to being dumb.
I'm not even near that intellectual level, but boy I admire Lupe's songs and the way Lupe raps for the past 5/6 years.
Discovered him a bit too late 😔
“You a calf, like the back of my leg” Lol damn. Lupe 🔥🔥
Woah 😲 the whole song is sets of entendres
This shit needs a Grammy, Oscar, and Nobel Peace prize at the same time
lol...
J Beason plus a Emmy and and the Turkey leg on thanksgiving day after the win! Sheesh lol
Hopes like when Kendrick dropped DAMN it’ll never happen cause it would’ve by now
🥶🥶🥶
Lupe so ahead of his time he disssed Royce b4 they had beef
How?
@@warispeaceignoranceisstren704 🙄🤦🏿♂️
Most advanced lyricist alive ❤
No he didn't. HE can be credited many feats, but not clairvoyance. Royce had the better bars, Lu was just more potent
@@toddrickjones9540what are you saying?
Just came back to drop off these roses. he killed this track, in a way this is premeditated murder.🔥🔥
You know it's good when everytime you listen you catch something else you missed
No rapper can mess with this dude. My opinion, I'm Forty and I grew up listening to...Chuck D, Rakim, Kane, KRS 1, Kool Moe Dee...LL, and on. Lupe is serious.
what about ab soul
+faded alexthegreat Ironically enough him and Lu and mad cool and have done a few tracks together.
Am aware of their past tracks together. Am talking about ab soul comparing to lupe based off lyricism. Do you think ab soul is thr better lyricist?
To be honest man I like them both, I think they are two sides of the same coin. Ive never seen two artist on the same wave length, views on government etc align. Its hard even comparing em because I fuck with them both BUT I do think Lupe is a better lyricist by far.Soul is like a slightly dumbed down version of Lu. I can listen to Soul's music and for the most part understand the message hes trying to convey with Lu I generally end up researching. For me listening to conscious hip hop is about learning and taking away something in the process. Not sure if that even answers the questions honestly
+Larry Sanders I tried to tell people that Lupe is the most lyrical artist of ALL TIME. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
Not only did he have a circle theme throughout the song, but he also had a water theme going too. The man is from another planet!
It is 3 themes the third is between the other two.
Slr 3 indeed.
Had the round of applause them going too
Gun theme too
Still pass through for Lupe wordplay . 🔥🙏🏿
Goldens Beauvais my nigga!!!! Hell yeah! I still got some break downs on the lyrics! Even after all this time! That’s why I fuckin Love real hip hop! This night don’t care if you get it or not you just gotta do your homework
I'm somewhat new to SLR Series but these Metaphors man. They way Lu rap you'll catch the first one and by the time you figured what he said he done strapped the building to explode with his lyricism.
Probably one of the most Viscerally Complex MC's of our time. Salute Lu 💯
Anybody catch how this dude started responding to the beginning bars at the end of the song (listen for circle references and his tears being an ocean and at the end the eyes that I see/sea with) bringing everything FULL CIRCLE on a song called SLR 3 (Round of Applause). Fuckin Insane!!
Dray Day Yeah and the finger nail gun (shells) is silent (moment for them) so the rounds don't sound (or clap back- applause) and don't forget back when the WORLD WAS FLAT...
5 years later, you deserve to know I just now caught that. Thanks!
@@bullyfoot And Rikers sits on an Island surrounded by water. 🔥
Lupe is a genius! Pure wordplay!!!
One of the best songs ever
the song is called ROUND of applause and he's talking about circles throughout a large part of the song if u pay attention. he's really a lyrical genius! def ain for the simple minded.
🔥🔥🔥
He also plays with a theme of the "sea/C) and intertwines the sea and circles.
See, that one went around you 😂 jk
@@fiftytimez just nuts!
So basically rapping circles around em...
Genius. I need a whole album that sounds like this.
Tetsuo and Youth
Did y'all catch the Bates Motel reference? Gah this dude is unbelievably clever. It's almost unfair
Its crazy to me, this is better than 99%of whats out today and its not his most clever song
I have to say this is one of the best rap song I ever heard. Done play 20 times already.
“I’m talking about when the fucking world was FLAT” and “silence on my arms, so my rounds don’t sound at all”
The most truthful lines in the whole song
Would love to hear Lupe dissing Kendrick. That would be an insane battle.
Let you debate whether it's birds tellin or Motellin' em...TWO HITCHCOCK CLASSICS about birds and a psycho murdering everything. There's SO much depth to this.
YOU GOTTA GO TO HARVARD TO BE A LUPE STAN!
bate(s) in this line is also likely a reference to Bates Motel in the film Psycho
Yea bro.
I ain't. Gone to no college n I'm a fan of Lupe
Lmao
@@latoyalatoyawilliams5356 Lupe said that in a song.
I have listened to the other SLR tracks, but this...
Definitely bringing in the brass like lupe about to make his victory lap. That instrumental is really giving me a Blackbyrd vibes.
Real Music always comes around to the peers.
"Silencer on my hand so my rounds won't sound at all
Now how that sound to y'all?
Maybe how dog whistles sound to dogs"
B-Mint1994 I SWEAR THAT SHIT WAS SOOOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Goodnight folks ⚰️😎
"One hand's a gun the other hand's a silencer, when I cock the thumb you gotta take a hike to the"
"Let you debate weather it's birds tellin or mo-tellin but fingernail shells come out my pistol top"
This why he 3 on my top 10 of all time now
Id quote a line but it takes too long to quote every line. Best lyricist of all time. Its not a debate. Its not. Its just proof God exist when you hear this level of genius.
Patrick Wallace unreal comment
Agree to disagree but he’s def up there on his A game
1:33 on…masterpiece!!! 🔥🔥🔥
If it dont make sense to you then hes doing a good job :)
“Sail boat wouldn’t survive in the ocean of my tears ...
Wash a nigga away and bring it back to the piers.. and if you ready for that you have just received the deadliest catch that you seen in years.”
GODDAMNIT 😫😫😫😫😫🔥🔥🔥
best SLR yet
It's been damn there 10 year's and this is just as 🔥 now as it was then
The beginning POST starting off throwed gotta luv lupe frfr ty fiasco
I'm so glad he linked with Soundtrack again
Its a joke how slept on lupe fiasco is he should be right there with 3 stacks imo
He better. Now what people need to do is stop.acting like big Boi ain't right there with 3 stacks
Wow whoever produces this was in a good place
Soundtrack
Wife: what are you doing
Me: homework
Wife: but youre not in school
Me: when I’m deciphering Lupes lyrics I am
Lmaooo
lupe the goat lyricist
"Why'd you so keen to go to Harvard?"
"I wanna be a Lupe stan"
😆😅😂🤣🤣
Underrated
I remember the first time hearing this I thought it was the best song I’ve ever heard. I ran it back about 29 Times lol
It’s supposed to say “peep-hole (people) .... Circle of my peers”
Lupe Fiasco said it right. This video with lyrics typed by someone else messed up though, that’s all.
Still thanks for posting video
I like how he included his love for anime in his music..tetsuo
Me too!
Earnest Young Akira!!! I wish I could find this pic somewhere lol.
I wear rowley so my wrist dnt watch man that's fire joe
Super sayin (super saiyan)
SLR 4 PLEASE?!
I can play this all day lol, the lyrics 🔥and this beat sick asf! don't sleep on Lupe!
And some ya'll legit outchea believing that Royce can body this dude ??
Peekhole... Circle of my peers. Wow
The Sound it’s supposed to say “peep-hole (people) .... Circle of my peers” wow indeed
Am I the only one who feels that this song gives off Jay-Z Vibes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Blueprint 3 instrumentation vibes
Jay can’t do this
@@livebreatheeatfitnessco.4146 Not with the way of how lupe did this HELL NOOOOOO!!!!!
@@juice9370 Jay could but he doesn't try anymore .... Go listen to " Prelude " off Kingdom Come ... Jay dumbed down his lyrics .... If Jay kept being lyrical and pushin' his craft he could do something like this!
@@livebreatheeatfitnessco.4146 @Jimmie Jam Jay could but he doesn't try anymore .... Go listen to " Prelude " off Kingdom Come ... Jay dumbed down his lyrics .... If Jay kept being lyrical and pushin' his craft he could do something like this!
I finally understand the first verse now the new mystery is the second
This is so much better than slr 2
This beat is lovely... it's lovely baby! And Lupe sounds like he never lost it, haters!!
This is Hip Hop I know and love!!!
Haha he took it back to the intricate word play... I love it!!!!
My god had to listen to this tens times before I understood. Big fan of Lupe but lord didn’t know he can do that 👌🏻👏🏻
We need a Lupe/Daylyt/Factz track. All 3 of them are incredibly clever and have tons of substance to whatever they say.
Then if u put day u gotta put Danny to 😂
1:48 my favorite part. Wordplay cadence bars everything!
I hate that people are too dumb to understand this. This is some of the greatest shit I think I’ve ever heard and this is coming from a lupe and doom Stan. The metaphors go on for like 10 bars and during those 10 bars he packs so many different metaphors and references. Lupe is on another level and it bothers me that people don’t see it.
Hes a writer, a savant, a wordsmith combined
I wish lyricism came back to the mainstream, getting tired of hearing these 3rd grade nursery rhymes :(
“Sir Cool (circle) but he ain’t fierce (spheres) 🤔🤮💯
That’s one part of it. The other part is SIR-Spheres (it’s a medical device used in radiation therapy to treat live tumors). So, this is a double entendre! Basically Sir cool (he’s ok) but he ain’t spheres (he ain’t strong/powerful/potent). 🤯🤯🤯 crazy I know. And you won’t find this on genius ^^ lol
"Sir Cool (circle) but he ain’t *s'* fierce." He sayin, the dudes cool (like hes tough...nothin phases him) but he aint so fierce. When the last part is kinda said fast or abbreviated it sounds like spheres.
LMFAO AT THE END
Lupe was the original Kendrick
lupe is the original lupe
Kendrick is what Lupe would've been if he dumbed down his lyrics!
Kung Fu Kenny ain't touching
Sensi Lu
Lyrically, Lupe clears
Lord have mercy... #Bars
Revisit the ship. Upon which niggas "see sick" (refering to himself) "sea sick" (referring to ocean sickness)
Or he could be taking about the slaves on the slaveships
"They ain't serious as the circle of my peers.." is what it should say.
That's how we pronounce it (serious) in Chicago.
He said I CC'd em, haha.. amongst the other 99% of his enlightenment.
lupe got skillz, shit was strait fire I knew it was a reason why I liked him.
this song just makes me sick...intelligent lyricism at its finest!
And I have friends saying Kendrick, Gambino, and Los are better. SMDH wait until I send this track to em'.
los, I think he's better. other than that, give em hell:)
+zaire rodgers Los is not in the same tier. Lupe is God tier along with a few legends.
Da215PhillyBull on Facebook send them Mural (lyrics breakdown) and Adoration Of Magi (lyrics breakdown) too
Lupe is better than their combined as a lyricist
I came back for Royce😂😂😂
Beast Mode!!!
"Sir Cool/Sircle but he aint spheres
Goat status
At the beginning, it should read "a pause to put a round in the palms of thieves" not "put around". "Around" makes no sense in that context. He's saying "a round" as in a bullet
And then he says "then we clap for em"
Like someone getting clapped 💀
Late reply but maybe ‘around’ also works, because to go around something, for example, going ‘around’ in a merry go round, is to go in a circle lol, and circles being a theme in the song. Maybe I’m doing too much idk. It doesn’t work in the context literally but phonetically it plays into the circle theme also.
@@lightskinsennin3157another late reply but when kids play the game ring around, aren't they clapping until the round is over & somebody falls? Lupe is just something else because there's so many decipherable levels and interpretations to his lyrics.
Insane
I can't wait!!!
Lupe always makes sense, ppl just to closed minded, or dumb.
This man is GOD !!!!!
The most self aware ending to any song of all time lmao
I wear a rollie do my wrist don't watch.... priceless Lupe
Replace " do " with " so " ......
Notice Lupe fiasco is the only rapper in history to never have a Diss song put out on him lol .... I wonder why :)
I'd say him and 3 Stacks as well. People wouldn't dare step to them
Hopsin has thrown some shots at Lu. But, we all know no one wants that smoke with Lu.
Well Royce did last year. And he regretted it after he responded
@@PortthefirstLupe would get washed by Daylyt in a battle
Best rapper alive
Not even close
im glad to see that im not the only one that thinks lupes is one of the greatest doing this. lupe is still seems to be taking shots at kendrick though. question is who will win between them two?
BARZ sheesh
all these years later...still waiting on a response from Kung Fu Kenny 🤔
Nah he rather take the Bruce Lee route $$$ instead of getting his chest hairs ripped off like chuck Norris 😅
🔥🔥🔥🔥
MC'ing At It's FINEST! 👍🏿🔥
GIDE DAMN!!
my fav part is when
The beat is fucking good
Y am I just hearing this??? o_O
Sir cool (circle) but he ain't spheres
wordplay crazy
Lupe....
You a sniper, bruh.
I fill it...
i just caught the dog whistle sound to dogs line damn . genius . genius
theres more than that, you catch the circle theme through the song
MotherF UCKERJones i know crazy
***** your an inspiration . we need more motivation .
#prisonlogic
Heavy.
Ps Much Gratitude
only 1:42 in and i'm speechless....... Gotta run it back
I remember when this came out back in 2013 ... I heard for the first time and fell out amazed! Then the end with the whistling was priceless .... Lupe is a poet 😎😃
I did the same thing... Except just now!
Baby boy 🔥
Lu different 💪
You don't even have to be too educated to understand the lyrics I'm sure this wouldn't even make sense to some people with a high IQ or what ever. You have to be able to think creatively in order to visualize what he's saying to understand it even though every body's understanding is different from the original thought anyway.
True Poetry
So is we heat seeking, a seeing heater sea seeing
Akira reference :-D
What is this sample?!!! I’ve been looking for this instrumental for yeaaaaarrrrs!