Hey, so as promised im gonna breakdown the characters but ima do the cool for now...
now the cool is easier because he's got a song about him titled 'the cool'.
its about a guy who was livin the street life. he gets killed by some people and is dead for 6 months. one day he regains consciousness and begins to crawl his way out of his casket. with him is a swisha, letter from his sister, he has earings and his gold chain still on, oh yea and did i mention he's wearing a suit. like fresh to death for a dead guy lol.
so anyhow, he crawls his way out of the earth and notices his right hand has decayed and is all bones. now you may wonder why is that significant. its deeper than visual description. the cool's right hand being gone means that the cool has lost its righteousness, there's no good left in him (in being the cool) basically speaking.
so he decides he wants to go bac home because he doesnt think its been very long. so he heads to a train station and begins asking for money to catch the train and people are repulsed by his appearence, mind you now that he isnt aware of what he looks like. he doesnt know he's been dead 6 months. so he pulls out the swisha and lights it and tries to smoke it but it burst into flames and he sees his reflection in the window and isnt bothered by his appearence.
So before long the train gets bac to his old hood and he was gonna find some drugs to sell. notices that nothing has changed in his hood and he even walks past the spot he got shot at. Then some lil kids walk up to him and try to sell him crack (lol funny experiences with that) and its the same ppl who killed him 6 months before but they dont recognize him and they decide to rob him cuz he cant be from their hood. so in the famous line, they the gun to his head and said you scared aint ya? (he answers bac) hustla for death, no heaven for a gangsta..
now he says that because he's accepted everything. he saw what he looks like and where ever he was when he died wasnt heaven so he has nothing to lose or gain. so he isnt worried about that situation, so thats why he said what he said. and note, that he's a hustler for death. and not life...
so the moral idea behind it that lupe is pushing is when your trying to chase the cool, which is image, like fame and things like that. youll end up like him, less than satisfied with it so you keep trying to climb til you fall off.
so there you have it, a break down of the cool.
next im gonna do the game and the streets
peace,
Fall
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