What is "Streets On Fire" off of Lupe's new CD about?

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I know you drop an allusion to Isaac Asimov on “Go Go Gadget Flow,” and “Streets of Fire” tracks an apocalyptic virus. It seems like you’ve been getting into sci-fi.

Yeah. “Streets of Fire” is pulled directly from the pages of [George Orwell's] 1984 -- more the mood of it. The second verse is talking about a disease, but there are all these questions about whether the disease is real. It’s the same rules as doublethink. Is there really a war or was it something that they created to keep the public in check? I injected those really basic structural ideas that were set up in 1984. I always love to have triple and quadruple meanings. I learned in the process [of making The Cool] how to do it on a macro level. I’ve always been able to do it with my rhymes, where a metaphor means many things, but that song represents AIDS, it represents the hysteria around coolness.

But “Streets of Fire” is really the story of The Streets, the breakdown of that particular character, that temptress. The Streets is a walking, talking temptress with dollar signs for eyes and tattoos of her dead boyfriends across her chest. She’s the age-old temptress who tempted everybody from King Tut to Al Capone. But that’s just the literal level. Figuratively, she’s the [real] streets. I represented her as a [female] because it goes back to a biblical story where Jesus asks God to show her the world, and God shows him the world in the form of a woman. She was a princess, she was beautiful. She had these long robes and jewelry. But as he got closer, he saw that she was ancient. Her eyes were sunk in, and she had a skeletal form. Her robe was tattered. Her jewelry was dull and looked fake. Don’t take everything for how it seems, you know.

One thing is that there is no such thing as absolute, not even absolute weather. It’s a false construct. But how much falseness do we chase? One thing that Nietzsche said was that we live in a world full of falseness. It’s weird to believe in the things we believe. To me, the dopest thing that [Nietzsche] ever said was we allow ourselves to be lied to every night, every time we go to sleep

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What is "Streets On Fire" off of Lupe's new CD about?

I would consider myself a pretty intelligent fan of rap, and I don't just let messages slip by me, I generally try to take a song from every angle. For some reason though, I really can't decide what this song is about, Lupe just goes right over my head. I have decided that its probably...

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This song is about the Devil primarily, and also is prophetically speaking about the future of this planet. It mentions illness related things, and may specifically be talking about AIDS in parts. However the main message behind this track has nothing to with AIDS.

"The disease is spreading in all directions" relates to the corruption of the planet.. "Her" in the song is Lucifer