A fork of Rural Dictionary
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. The Chicago emcee's second album is somewhat of a concept album, continuing on from the story in 'The Cool', a track on his first album, Food & Liquor. A real hip-hop record that shines in the day of low quality rap music that is played ad nauseam. A few examples show the lyrical prowess of Lupe Fiasco that is contained in The Cool.
"She said That she would give me greatness Status Placement above the others My face would grace covers of the magazines of the hustlers Paper The likes of which that I have never seen Her eyes glow green with the logo of our dreams The purpose of our scene An obscene obsession with the bling She would be my queen, I could be her king Together She would make me cool And we would both rule Forever And I would never feel pain And never be without pleasure Ever Again And if the rain stops, and everythings dry She would cry Just so I could drink the tears from her eyes She'll teach me how to fly Even cushion my fall If my engines ever stall And I plummet from the sky But she would keep me high And if I ever die, she would commission monuments So her bosom to him Or maybe she'd retire as well A match made in Heaven set the fires in Hell And I'll be... (The coolest nigga wha)" - 'The Coolest' "The struggle's little recruits Cute, smile-less, heartless, violent Childhood destroyed, devoid of all childish Ways, can't write they own names Or read the words that's on they own graves Think you gangsta, popped a few rounds? The kids'll come through and murder a whole town Then sit back and smoke and watch it burn down The grave gets deeper the further we go down" - 'Little Weapon' "To infinity and beyond Something really stinks, but I Sphinx like Leon Or lying in the desert I'm flying on pegasus you're flying on the pheasant Rider of the white powder, picker of the fire flowers, spit hot fire like Dylon on Chappelle's Skit Yeah, smell it on my unicorn, snort the white horse, but toot my own horn (sleep)" - 'Dumb It Down'
Cool is the best of the best. It is timeless, a classic descriptive word that has never and will never go out of style.
Luke's leather jacket is cool. That Firebird is cool! She's so cool because she doesn't know it.
The best way to say something is neat-o, awesome, or swell. The phrase "cool" is very relaxed, never goes out of style, and people will never laugh at you for using it, very conveniant for people like me who don't care about what's "in."
Homestar is cool. The Red Sox are cool. Twinkies are cool.
To chill out, to not act a fool. Using whatever means necessary to avoid drama, confrontations.
"Dude, that guy's mad-dogging me!" "Be cool, man. He's strapped."