“Just for Show” is a document of a nasty break-up, the type of quarrel I’d sometimes hear outside my window on warm summer nights when I lived within walking distance of the downtown bars, with shouts of, “Get out my face!” and “You wanna threaten me?”
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
Accompanied by a breakbeat and a sample from Jimmy Durante’s version of “I’ll Be Seeing You,” Lupe Fiasco imagines that the African slave trade never happened, W.E.B. DuBois was Father of the Constitution, Bill O’Reiley reads from the Quran at Malcom X’s funeral, there was no crack epidemic, and hip hop isn’t concerned with complexion nor street cred.
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…