Where Politics And Video Games Collide

Wow. Just wow. I am amazed at the level of ignorance and stupidity found on this page. Sucks and Lupe Fiasco do not go together. He's regarded as one of the few shining examples of good hip-hop. And he managed to change my whole view point on Rap.

Now going onto Little Weapons, I honestly can't believe most of you missed the entire point of the whole song. I mean I got it on the first listen. Lupe's part of the song(the video game reference was written by another rapper) is about child soldiers(most likely in Africa) fighting in wars. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go watch Invisible Children, a documentary about African children who are kidnapped by the government and brainwashed to become soldiers. Many of the horrors these kids have to go through include watching other children be gunned down, being beaten and killed, and having to destroy their own towns and families. That's what the first portion of the song is about.

Now we move on to the video game reference. Ok I've listened to this part multiple times and I never found it to be anti video game. For one, it is known that Lupe Fiasco is a huge video game, anime, and comic book geek(which he's reference numerous times in both his albums) so it wouldn't make any sense for him to be anti-video game. Two: The actual lyrics are not in any way saying that video games are bad. It's more of a comparison between the violence found in games and the violence found in real world.

What infuriates me the most is that many of you allow your misconceptions of rap to blind you so that you can just group all of rap as just mindless talking about killing, pimping, and gaining material. While I will agree that there are alot of rappers who do that, people like Lupe Fiasco are what is keeping hip-hop alive today. Want proof? From his first album listen to He said she said, American Terrorist, Hurt me Soul, and Daydreaming. And from his second album listen to Streets on Fire, Hello/Goodbye, Fighters, and Dumb it down. In fact just listen to the first track off of The Cool, which basically explains the whole point of the album. But no you won't do that. Why? Because it's alot easier for you ignorant assholes to just sit in your comfy chairs and just criticize rap because it's alot easier than actually looking for talented rappers. Because regardless of what you think, there's good music everywhere, you just got to search for it. I'm glad that Lupe Fiasco is here, because before I was just like you guys, ignorant and hating rap simply from what I here from the radio.