so yall just skipped over the word esoteric....
album covers is a very very very very very very specific reference....
lupe fiasco is like the riddler of the rap game....
niggaz gotta study his tracks for 24-48 hours just to get all the references......
shit like that ain't as impressive to me as legit thought provoking shit....
i can't even remember the song or artist cuz it was in a mix on shade 45... but a dude last week said something to the likes of
'people always say don't 4get me when you make it, well would you remember me if i didn't?"
of course it didn't ryhme cuz i don't remember the exact lyric, but that is my definition of a thought provoking or a deep lyric, cuz that shit is a pretty dope concept, and it don't take a whole lot to get where he coming from....
the shit lupe be dropping be on some....
"three times you look, one time i don't, we both fly away happy"
and like 3 years later niggaz see the context clues in a scene in a fucking marlon brando movie from like 1948 and nigagz be like