Attention Please:
This might be a lengthy read.
Hope you can excuse me as it's the first post of the year.
When you have those random contemplating moments triggered by insomnia and find it normal to turn to music, I do that a lot. Appreciating all genres and not being spiritual, I turned back to one of my favorite albums of time, The Cool by Lupe Fiasco. Making this post as "short" as it should be and being "religious" to my thoughts, you can continue reading if you are a "believer" to the fact music is poetry and hip-hop is music.
I was checking various annotations to one of the songs he did (well was actually singing along) and one guy, who goes by the name
WhenAllLacesIntertwine (yes, I contemplated on that alias; you can follow him at genius.com) had his ten cents commenting.
He annotates that:
"... This song is more of a metaphor of a virus and
ignorance. Ignorance spreads everywhere like wildfire and no one really
knows what goes on until it happens and even then, people don’t know
what’s up. You can’t run from ignorance and everybody is somewhat
ignorant. There is no way to escape from this reality. Some believe that
there is no ignorance in the world while others believe there is too
much of it. Some believe ignorance is bliss while others believe
ignorance is chaotic. People begin to blame each other. The poor say the
rich can cure ignorance while the rich believe the poor are the reason
for ignorance. But in the end, everyone is sure it exists. Scientists
think it’s only a state of mind while the kid believes he isn’t ignorant
but girls are. Church leaders says ignorance is sin and kills the
purity of the world while the bum believes everyone said it’s the whole
world that’s ignorant..."
...
"... The ignorance has already spread at this point. We keep
falling into a false sense of reality where everything is okay because
everyone says its okay. You aren’t truly free until you think, much like
Fredrick Douglass' case, where he believed someone is a man when they
can use their head. Society and mass media has already defined our
future and current roles in society and, due to our ignorance, we
wouldn’t be able to tell. We are told certain things but we never
question them. All we know is what to do and what not to do as opposed
to why we should or shouldn’t do these things. Everything that happens
plays a part into the build up and affect of this disease of ignorance.
And nothing is ever the way it seems. Things are seen one way unless
something enables the introduction of another thought. Scientists see
the insanity of trying to understand ignorance within him. The little
boy doesn’t know what happened to all the girls..."
End of Annotation
Well, I think I've spread his gospel and Lupe's too on
Ignorance, I pray that we shun it and continue looking for such "gospel" in music (
Good Music). You can listen to the song- just had to place the best for last,
Streets on Fire (contemplated on the title too):
P.S. Ignorance is not a Defence!!!
