My dissection of "The Instrumental" by Lupe Fiasco
My Dissection of: The Instrumental by Lupe Fiasco The opening line begins with: “& he never lies x2, He just sits and watch the people in the box, everything he sees he absorbs and adopts, he mimics and he mocks it…” Diving right in, Lupe throws us into a story about a sitting man. Emphasis on "SITTING" The protagonist is pictured as complacent watching society through "THE BOX" basically the media, our phones, our belief systems etc. Here he pokes fun at others and takes on those he presumably admires personas/personality. What Lupe is saying is that many of us get lost in watching so deeply & then when we recognize it, then we move counterproductive to our evolution and then we begin the cycle all over again. We mimic, we resent, we return. A continuous paradox where addiction and escape reside in the very same place. “H ave the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box Ain't got the combination to unlock, it That's why he watches, scare...
