Throwback: Lupe sheds tears for his people :mjcry:

[Rozay Oro]

Lupe Fiasco Tearfully Remembers Late Chicago Friends

It's crazy, he found somethin that got him out the hood while a lot of people he knew are dead or locked up. Men his age, fallen to viscious cycle. I hope the dead ones are in purgatory atleast.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Initially--initially, I did. Initially, I was entertaining this. Youknowwhatlmsayin. I wasn't 't trying to change this because I didn't know how. Youknowwhatlmsaying. I don't like this. Youknowwhatlmsayin. This ain't, this ain't cool to me. Youknowwhatlmsayin. I tell my people in they face like this ain't cool. I don't like this. This ain't how it supposed to be.

Obviously had to be tough to hear the old him--the younger him--say this and ain't nothing really changed.

(Made me think of The Die too. Lupe talented as fukk man. Too ill. Mix of and all in his music.)

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Staring at the ghosts in the photos

 

[Rozay Oro]

Bump

 

[Momentum]

"In the video it's some nikkas that done died.
Looked the ghosts in the face and I cried."

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

“For me to see myself six years ago, surrounded by people that’s not even here, reppin’ the ’hood, doin’ what they do, that never left. It’s a sober thing to me,” he explained. “It’s sobering because you know your father was right, your mother was right.”- Lupe

Yup I feel the same way...

Mom and Dad warned me and taking heed to those warnings kept me alive....

And I'll pass it on to my son...

Life is way too precious

 

[SCORCH]

 

[NoHalfWay]

"Some of those kids ain't gon make it outta there"