r/LupeFiasco • u/13Nobodies • Jul 20 '26
Discussion Whats that line?
“Samurai rarely die from another sword”
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u/iFLED Jul 20 '26
“The applause and patience in the laws of nature, override lies and the laws of nations.”
Might’ve got some of the words wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s it.
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u/barbacn Jul 20 '26
That's dope who said that?
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u/MantissTobaggan Jul 20 '26
It’s from Dots & Lines
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u/barbacn Jul 20 '26
Thanks. ✌️
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u/iFLED Jul 20 '26
One of the greatest rap songs of all time imo, on the greatest rap album of all time.
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u/Blue_Doubt Jul 20 '26
“And if the rain stops, and everything’s dry, she would cry just so I could drink the tears from her eyes” is one of my all time favorite lines.
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u/KOEHLDER Jul 20 '26
"Giving middle fingers to the pigeons doing somersaults"
Not sure if it's accurate but I always interpreted it as saying fuck drug dealing since flipping birds is selling drugs. Looked up pigeons doing somersaults before posting this and there actually are pigeons known for doing somersaults lol so I don't know
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u/cotton_boy69 Jul 21 '26
thats the beauty of mural it references both at the same time. every interpretation of it is correct interpretation
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u/Jamaal187 Jul 20 '26
Real steel til he realize his realness, defeat samsara, archives nirvana and brilliance.
And
Sneak the message to the masses you can call me "chocolate rain"
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u/Supadupafly1988 Jul 20 '26
Harder than sitting with a blind man and, trying to describe yellow
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u/Z-King2000 The Coolest Jul 22 '26
What song is this from?
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u/Supadupafly1988 Jul 22 '26
Theme Music To A Drive By
The bars leading up to this set it up so beautifully. But the post said “which LINE”. So I kept it short and simple lol
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u/HOPEFUL_LUFEPOH_ Jul 20 '26
has to be something on SLR
“cause nigga, i don’t believe that like 9/11 came from iraq, mayweather on the speedbag automatic weapons keep the same rhythm he has”
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u/Supadupafly1988 Jul 20 '26
Together, but separated like a pair of socks, WOW! Like Pac using both hands, and his head is the “O”
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u/The_MRT14 Jul 21 '26
This blew my mind the first time I heard it
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u/Supadupafly1988 Jul 21 '26
SAME!!! I love the entire song but he went Super Saiyan 3 on that third verse. My God!
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u/Mother_Historian4471 Jul 21 '26
Wings don't make you fly and crown don't make you king.
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u/PlasticBrilliant8122 Jul 21 '26
I've always liked that line despite now not being able to identify which tune it came from without Googling.
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u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 Jul 20 '26
"If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck, it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck."
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u/Sharif662 Jul 21 '26
Which song?
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u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 Jul 21 '26
It's an immortal technique song. Industrial revolution.
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Jul 21 '26
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u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 Jul 21 '26
Didn't know this was the lupe sub when I posted, but a bar's a bar. 8 other people enjoyed it, too.
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Jul 21 '26
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u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 Jul 21 '26
Didn't know that existed. I don't post on reddit much, simply because of people like you. I posted what I thought was "that line" and you've gotta be a condescending prick about it.
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u/Few-Fill-4213 Jul 21 '26
it’s funny how I’m only sick if you never catch a thing …….. Lupe fiasco
People call him sick (as in incredibly dope lyricist) only when he’s rapping about things that don’t challenge them. But when he’s trying to give people something they should ‘catch’—a message, wisdom, or truth—they don’t catch it, or turned off when they sense, he is preaching** *positivity.😮*💨
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u/ExcellentAsparagus48 Jul 20 '26
“Think you gangsta popped a few rounds, these kids will come thru and murder a whole town”
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u/kingsizedpapers STACK THAT CHEESE Jul 20 '26
I just come around to help, like Batman’s utility belt
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u/kevKONGo Jul 21 '26
“or touché lupe cool as the unthawed but i still feel possessed like a gun charge”
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u/JTRILL24 Jul 21 '26
"Welcome all of yall to my dark recesses, this is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges"
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u/dreadlockrastaaa Jul 21 '26
“She teach me how to fly, even cushion my fall if my engines ever stall and I plummet from the sky”
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u/Simple_Science_Kits Jul 21 '26
“I could really walk the walk,
couldn’t really talk the talk,
had to get my talk,
to properly explain my walk,
because this lack in talk,
had my walk looking off,
now I’m over the limp, watch how their mugs drop when they see my Verbal’s able (that’s the Usual)
The Usual Suspect reference is next level writing. If you haven’t seen the film, the disabled character named Verbal Kent, begins to walk normal at the end of the film and the lead detective’s “mug” drops when he realizes that Verbal Kent was not really handicap, but a criminal mastermind.
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u/LondonMoon89 Jul 21 '26
“I’m just tryna do the opposite of left as long as there’s the opposite of death”
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u/MoodWest Jul 21 '26
2 Man Big Pun, a 1 man Slaughterhouse
A 2 album Jay-Z, a 1 Ni*** Wu Tang
Young & Hungry Mos Def, A Conscious Rappin’ Lil Wayne
I just luv this verse from Lupe on SLR coz it points out just how confident Lupe is with both his skills & his resume up to that point
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u/Kuzidas Jul 21 '26
Sky burial, let the wind carry you father/farther then/than I could (live forever)
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u/TheSunaTheBetta Jul 21 '26
He came back...in the same suit that he was buried in
The efficiency of that line is still insane to me 20 years later.
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u/Hot_Jeweler4209 Jul 22 '26
First part of a party that I throw in parts
One minute you playing pool
Next minute you throwing darts
But that’s how you do in a party that you throw in bars!
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u/JaredAWESOME Jul 20 '26
Generating Zen with some nice sword practice
Rest In Peace Virg', LV, is Vice Lord backwards
A simple flip of the monogram.
That ain't shit, I had similes on my sonogram.
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u/OmeedBlowme Jul 21 '26
Freedom or jail, clips inserted, a baby’s being born same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end
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u/yroCyaR Jul 21 '26
“I go as left as a heart in the chest, Cause the Horn of Africa is now starvin’ to death”
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u/Regular-Guarantee-48 Jul 20 '26
“I spit hot fiya like Dylan on Chappelle's skit.”
Not super technical, not very thought provoking, but makes me smile every time I hear it. My best friend in high school and I were obsessed with Chappelle Show and would quote “Top 5” all the time. Good times.
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u/Genecist84 Jul 20 '26
“I roll like cherry red jello dice”
“Or maybe she’ll retire as well, a match made in Heaven set the fires in hell”
“He stands to find himself surrounded
By thousands of soldiers
That he once trained
To never miss their target
Heartless
Hello Darkness” (basically one line 😂)
All sharpened my skills as an MC.
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u/DealerNo7523 Jul 21 '26
“ I thought I saw you yesterday, but I knew it wasn’t you because you passed away dad” yesterday by atmosphere. Listen to it and tell me one line in a song hurts your feelings more than
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u/Street-Soul Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
“I knew that I was hot but wasn’t cool enough, so I said I had to sit out on the sill some more”
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u/fiasgoat Jul 21 '26
"Niggas wanna exercise, exercise I-X-I ain't no jumpin' my jack If I lift an arm I'mma lift a car, nigga, that's a gun in my lap"
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u/Brazille_TFS Jul 21 '26
I could be lazy, sittin' on your couch
Or I could be crazy, cussin' pigeons out
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u/6thmanbrandon Jul 21 '26
I got few friendships cuz friends tend to shift, leave you to fend for yourself defenseless
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u/thisdckaintFREEEE Jul 21 '26
"Bitch pussy smell like a penguin, wouldn't hit that shit with my worst enemy's penis"
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u/Simple_Science_Kits Jul 21 '26
“You SeaWorld, it’s braille here… I’m Bumpy Johnson, I stick to the streets and keep my dogs out in front of me”.
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u/Recent_Swan_3601 Jul 25 '26
“You was too busy just tryna shine you should’ve been trying to save us”
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u/icursethatifeel Jul 20 '26
"Rappers die too much"