Decoded: Lupe Fiasco's Dumb It Down
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Pendulum Ink Presents Decoded. A series in which Dean of Students, Mickey Factz breaks down not only the conceptual side of a song but also the technique and stylistic approaches an emcee brings forth in their art. This first offering to the public comes from one of Mickey Factz's good friends, Lupe Fiasco and his lead single off of The Cool, Dumb It Down. Watch and learn as the entire song is broken down, line for line. Enjoy. The terminology and vocabulary used are terms that Pendulum Ink has either coined or references in their daily communicative ways. To learn about these terms, go to pendulumink.com and get your e-book today.
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A master Chef listing the ingredients of another Master Chef's Dish, this is Great !!!!
IM SHOWING EVERY CLIENT I TEACH RAP TOO! I literally said YESTERDAY to a client that i thought 'Dumb it Down' was the most intelligent rap song to EVER get ANY radio play at all
i stand by it and thanks for the content haha
BRUH I SAID THE SAME SHIT
Absolutely
connecting the 5 senses while also covering land, air, & water is 🔥🔥🔥
Ngl We need this for the culture!
The chicken is also a reference to the driving game chicken where two people drive at each other and the person who veers is the chicken
Gave him his flowers 🔥
I will never forget your diss against Royce.
"Checkin BOXES 🔥🔥🔥"
My top 5 alive ; Nas, Common, Black Thought, Lupe and Andre 3K.
Also the last verse was imagery of Lupe using the rap game as his play thing, A child playing with boats and planes in the tub, in full control of the water level and weather, while everyone's reliant on his devices lyrically and literally boats and planes and flotation devices.
Also, just tricks falling out of my sleeve is a fucking banger one-liner. The imagery and that itself is a mouthful 🔥
This is Del the Funky, i definitely enjoyed this shit, i love really breaking lyrics down. Good Job Mickey!!!!!
As a 11 year old I was amazed with this song. I love how Lu set up the first hook like the hood wanted him to dumb it down so they could have more bangers to play and what not. Only to then also show how The Man™ wants him to dumb it down because he was “shedding too much light” to the people. Love Lupe. He’s one of my favorite rappers of all time. Easily.
This is dope. Only 5 minutes in but is dope to see a legitimate respected artist giving flowers to a peer while they are still around to receive them.
Non-related, do you think All City Chess Club would ever have potential of reuniting with fewer members? The idea of the collective of too tier rappers regularly working together would be elite.
Damn!..well dissected!
Glad you're finally uploading these now been following for a while now should upload Mural but I know it's recent.. just at some point in the future
When it leaked I thought it was a B Side until I heard it on the radio I was shocked lol but loved it but Superstar ultimately dominated the airway
This was actually the song that fully converted me to a fan. At the time there were a few joints from Food & Liquor that I liked but I didnt listen to it in full when it dropped. But once I heard this I realized I should have been listening from the beginning lol. The bars in this were too crazy.
I hope you keep this up there is almost no better teacher
omg is this the actual Mickey Factz? THE "bodying Royce for breakfast" Mickey Factz?
Yeah!... Him and lup are close buddies
He been a beast before the Royse ish
@@DjVyr0 I know! I was watching those ig lives when that shit was unfolding 😂
Man I said the same thing lmfaoo I was like THE mickey factz!?
If you mean bodybag as in royce said to mickey, he isn't worried about any diss song mickey makes towards him, and he is not worth responding to then, yes.
Too cool.
Loving your Decoded series. Keep it up, sir!
Phenomenal!
Listen Mayne...... I use to rap with Mickey on AIM//
Deep Conversations made my Brain Matter Change//
Knowledge of Self... So I put down the Chain//
Notice mumble rappers acting Strange & Deranged//
The Public is Sleep & Corrupted//
The people you don't see are like Mickey D cause they Lovin It//
I could keep Goin & Flowin like Rain when it's Pourin//
But I gotta Stay Heavenly so I'm Soarin//
Lupe is my reference for supreme lyricism. Btw Mickey - Bravo 🫡.
Land, AIR, WATER - LAW
Great video facts. Lu’s song “the coolest” first two verses was a bar fest with a lot of entendres. would love to see a breakdown of that. that and mural
FYI Mickey, Locs are dark shades in reference to what Morphius was wearing
Facts pun intended
Geesh 🔥
This is wild. I was 19 when I first heard this song and it made me a huge Lupe fan. Thank you for doing this.
My favorite Lupe song
This was amazing, we def need more of this for the culture Mick! This was one of my favorite songs growing up even when I couldn't decode what Lu was sayin.. shit I'm still finding crazy bars just watching this video and I've listened to this songs thousands of times...
15:20 You didn’t explicitly say it but with the Sphinx and the Muhammad Ali fact you pointed out about Leon (Sphinx) breaking his nose, the Sphinx famously has no nose 🔥👍🏽
@@adambaray9143 my bad i figured it was obivious
One of my favorite conceptual rappers, dissecting one of my favorite conceptual rappers!? Aww man what a day mauSe!!
I could be reaching but I also think that there was a crip reference to around these seas/C"s that you might've missed but solid breakdown all around
Brilliant! Factz
Let's goooo Mickey!
Yeeeesh!
What it meant for me back in the day?? Nah this song still hypes me up till this day it was so smooth n effortless, intricate rhyming n storytelling metaphor brain busting song. This song sparked my brain to push the envelope n slow down on the psycho content lol
My only critique to this video is:
I wished you used Lupe's actual song to quote with Lupe rapping instead of you rapping it..only because he says things in certain ways that matter, that ypu didnt really convey, tried, but didnt.(not sure if youd get flagged tho)
also, remember this is youtube, actually giving us 30 seconds to quote a UGK songs list or 15 for airlines is crazy😂😂 we're all just gonna skip..save that for in person teaching. Makes more sense in a classroom.
great video, looking for more. very in depth🔥🔥
@@robbbyyy25 id get flagged. Lol
@@TheRealMickeyFactz fair
Omg I was just lisnin to this and came across your channel this is some good shit right here
Master Class 💣💥🔥
Fire!!!!
"Bloke in the trench coat and the Locs"
"Locs" Is just referring to sunglasses here.
Great
Lupe go loco🎉
Sphinx... lion in the dessert... The Sphinx has his nose missing. In reference to the Nose in the bars prior.
here you steer(cattle) thats just petty.
It would be interesting for you to decode “Part 2” of the rap (poem) that I will finish. Lol
Gratitude.
"As far as the earring to the ground is"... I thought that was a metaphor that he has his "ears to the streets"... also linking back to the 1st verse's EARTH theme
💎
This is hiphop bible
"I don't snort the white horse but toot my own horn"
"Toot" Is also slang for cocaine. Tying that line also back to the cocaine White powder Etc.
ayo
MICKEY FACTZ, IT 🫡
Eminem could NEVER!!🔥
SALUTE B1✊🏿👁✴👁
Should put the lyrics on the screen somehow
Mickey Factz > eminem❤
Average is 5'4".
Also adding:
if you want randoms to take you seriously, u cant be "pausing" your own words man😅😅 Sayin "ayo" after referencing the adam sandler movie wasnt necessary man😅 dont do that respectfully unless u trying to make this stuff funny
@@robbbyyy25 had to pause it b… i said something crazy.
@@TheRealMickeyFactz nah man🤣 youtube aint east coast😭
@@robbbyyy25 everything is east coast to some one lol