Dumb down "Dumb it down" for me

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I've been playin this album front to back for 3 days and i get every song except dumb it down. I get a lot of the lines but i don't see what themeaning of him losing his senses is, like when he says 'i'm earless now hear this i'm eyeless, which means i'm peerless'. oh $##! i think ijust got that line. he's 'peerless', like he's being himself or is alone?
 
Well .... I can't breakdown the whole song but I can break down that specific line you posted





"I'm earless now hear this i'm eyeless, which means i'm peerless."

^^ The statement, "I'm eyeless, which means I'm peerless" has a double meaning. You can "peer" with your eyes, so since hedoesn't have any eyes, he is unable to see (or peer) making him peerless. Though, peerless, also means that he doesn't have anyone around him similarto him, which is probably because he doesn't have any eyes.

As I was writing this reply I thought of something else it could be. His senses could be metaphors for the hip-hop world? When he says "earless" itcould mean that doesn't relate to all the mainstream garbage being put out. "Eyeless" and "Peerless" could be his association withmembers of the hip-hop community. He's "eyeless" because he's blind to what is happening to hip-hop, and "peerless" becausehe's alone in trying to put out good, thought provoking music. There are others doing similar to Lupe, but I think him being by himself is just anexaggeration to fit with the concept of the song.

I'd like to hear others thoughts as well ....
 
Basically that whole song is double entandres...not evenline by line, throughout the whole verse. Read the lyrics and you get a better idea.

[Lupe Fiasco - Intro]
Guerrera...("Dumb it down!")
Coolest$#%@#%, what? ("Dumb it down!")
F-N-F, up! ("Dumb it down!")
...("Dumb it down!")

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse One]
I'm fearless, now hear this, I'm earless (less)
and I'm peerless (less), which means I'm eyeless
which means I'm tearless which means my iris
resides where my ears is, which means I'm blinded
But I'ma find it, I can feel it's nearness
But I'ma veer so I don't come near
Like a chicken or a deer, but I remember
I'm not a listener or a seer so my windshield smear
Here you steer, I really shouldn't be behind this
Clearly cause my blindness; the windshield is min-strel
The whole grill is roadkill, so trill and so sincere
Yeah, I'm both them there
Took both pills, when a bloke in a trench coat
and the locs in the chair had approached him here
And he clear as a ghost, so a biter of the throats in the mirror
The writer of the quotes for the ghosts
who supplier of the notes to the living
Riveting is rosy, pockets full of posies
Given to the mother of the deceased
Awaken at war, 'til I'm restin' in peace (peace...peace...peace...)

[Chorus 1 - Gemini]
You goin over *****z heads, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
They tellin' me that they'on't feel you ("Dumb it down!")
We ain't graduate from school, ***** ("Dumb it down!")
Them big words ain't cool, ***** ("Dumb it down!")
Yeah I heard "Mean and Vicious", ***** ("Dumb it down!")
Make a song for the@%@!#%#+, *****! ("Dumb it down!")
We don't care about the weather$#%@#% ("Dumb it down!")
You'll sell more records if you ("Dumb it down!")

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse Two]
And I'm mouthless, which means I'm soundless
Now as far as the hearing, I've found it
It was as far as the distance from the earring to the ground is
But the doorknockers on the ear of a stewardess in a Lear
She fine and she flyin, I feel I'm flying by 'em
cause my mind's on cloud nine and in a mine at the same time
Pimps see the wings on the underground king
Who's also Klingon, to infinity and beyond
Something really stinks, but I Sphinx like Leon
or lying/lion in the desert
I'm flying on Pegasus, you're flying on the pheasant
Writer of the white powder, picker of the fire flowers
Spit, "hot fyah" like Dylan on Chappelle's skit
Yeah, smell it on my unicorn
Don't snort the white horse, but toot my own horn - sleep

[Chorus 2: voice imitating record label executive]
You've been shedding too much light, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
You make'em wanna do right, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
They're gettin self-esteem, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
These girls are trying to be queens, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
They're trying to graduate from school, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
They're startin to think that smart is cool, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
They're trying to get up out the hood, Lu ("Dumb it down!")
I'll tell you what you should do ("Dumb it down!")

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse Three]
And I'm brainless, which means I'm headless -
like Ichabod Crane is
Or foreplay-less sex is, which makes me stainless (less)
with no neck left to hang the chain with
Which makes me necklace-less, like a necklace theft
and I ain't used my headrest yet
They said they need proof like a vestless chest
'bout the best-fed F-F jet in the nest
Who exudes confidence and, excess depth
Even Scuba Steve would find it hard to breathe
Around these leagues...my snorkel is a tuba
Lu the ruler around these seas
Westside Poseidon, Westside beside 'em
Chest high and rising, almost touching the knees
of stewardess and the pilot, lucky they make ya fly wit...
Personal floating devices, tricks falling out of my sleeves
David Blaine, make it rain...
Make a boat, I make a plane
Then, I pull the plug and I, make it drain
Until I feel like flowin and fillin it up again...
Westsiiiide

[Chorus 3: Gemini]
You puttin me to sleep, ***** ("Dumb it down!")
That's why you ain't poppin in the streets, *****! ("Dumb it down!")
You ain't winnin no awards$#%@#%! ("Dumb it down!")
Robots and skateboards, *****?! ("Dumb it down!")
GQ Man of the Year, G? ("Dumb it down!")
%+#% ain't rockin over here, B ("Dumb it down!")
Won't you talk about your cars$#%@#%? ("Dumb it down!")
What the $%*# is "Goyard" ***** ("Dumb it down!")
Make it rain for the chicks ("Dumb it down!")
Po' CHAMPAGNE on a $**@*!! ("Dumb it down!")
What the $%*# is WRONG WITH YOU?! ("Dumb it down!")
...How can I get on a song with you? ("Dumb it down!")

[Gemini - Outro]
Look B, here's my man, my two-way...
Uh...what should I...ah - here take this
That right there, $%*# if my boys'll talk about me, *****
*****, you hot to me! I like you! ("Dumb it down!")

[Lupe - sampled from 'Ignorant Freestyle" then slowed down]
Bishop G, they told me I should come down cousin
but I flatly refuse I AIN'T DUMB DOWN NUTTIN...

Im not a fan of the beat, but the song is truly amazing.
 
it made you hate lupe?

the song made me laugh, because there is nothing dumbed down at all. false advertisement.

a song that'll make your head spin.
 
I like this song
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They said they need proof like a vestless chest
'bout the best-fed F-F jet in the nest
Who exudes confidence and, excess depth
Even Scuba Steve would find it hard to breathe
Around these leagues...my snorkel is a tuba
Lu the ruler around these seas
Westside Poseidon, Westside beside 'em
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those bars are downright FILTHY.
 
I think people look for a point to what he's saying...and there isn't one. He's just showing off bascially...
 
eddiehouse5 wrote:
it made you hate lupe?

the song made me laugh, because there is nothing dumbed down at all. false advertisement.

a song that'll make your head spin.
he's not saying he's gonna dumb his work down. he saying he's gonna keep it complex. hence the complexity of this song
 
aomw guy made a post about this awhile ago
he broke down every line in the song
 
Originally Posted by JR Paperstacks

I think people look for a point to what he's saying...and there isn't one. He's just showing off bascially...

word. alot of people treat his lyrics like the Beatles. They study them and make themselves believe there is a meaning, when sometimes there really isnt ameaning, dude is just rapping.
 
yeah I figured I was lookin too much into it but i still think there's something goin on throughtout the whole song...
 
Originally Posted by sixersdukejordan

yeah I figured I was lookin too much into it but i still think there's something goin on throughtout the whole song...

the whole point of the song is metaphor. Lu goes over a lot of people's head because of his lyrics. The perception is he should dumb down his lyrics toget more people to like him. So he makes a song saying "dumb it down" when really if you listen to the song its nothing but a bunch of punchlines anddouble meanings. To make people (ie YOU) make yourself think there is something more when really it isnt. Its just a song with clever punchlines.

if your having trouble comprehending the simplicity of Dumb It Down (they tell you what the song is about in the chorus!) then i'd suggest you shouldntlisten to The Cool.
 
This is the song that made me hate Lupe.

Wait, now you hate him, because of one song? This song?.......
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it made you hate lupe?

the song made me laugh, because there is nothing dumbed down at all. false advertisement.

a song that'll make your head spin.

Lol, what? Did you listen to the whole thing?

But yeah i had to listen to this shhh like for 100 times to pick up the puns. The Cool is a very dope album, def gotta be my pick for the whole year, maybeeven the last 2 years. Very addictive music.
 
B Rad Glockma,
i can't stand people in this forum like you that try to make yourself feel better by establishing your rap knowledge superiority. but anyways i get whatthe song is saying i just thought the whole losing the senses thing had a deep meaning. i'm talking about the first verse specifically. The whole peerlessand earless thing seems to be him blocking out something that he actually does want to find but idk. It just seemed like something deeper than random metaphorsto me.
 
Its not that complicated he's talking about the injustices of WW2 and the Magna Carter duhh......... step yall history knowledge up

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i'm not getting the boat car plane metaphors either...I hear them I just can't put it together for some reason
 
The 2nd verse is so
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Gotta love the flying, Pimp C, Super Mario, Cocaine, and Dylan reference.
 
There is not point to the song. He is pretty much saying $@!* you to the mainstream and spitting some of his most complex and abstract lyrics. That's thewhole idea behind that joint.
 
Lol, what? Did you listen to the whole thing?
of course. what do you mean? he didn't dumb down anything.

if he dumbed it down, people wouldn't make these threads.
 
(BUdden)I learned from Lupe when u dumb it down/ u just make it harder to understand(Budden)

I remember dudes sayin he's sayin he is vehicles in each verse ie. a car, plane, then a boat.
I see it but for the most part I just think he's spittin to show off, but aint nuttin too simple wit Lu.
 
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