Lupe Fiasco "Strange Fruition"

"Strange Fruit" was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol that addressed the issues of racism, emphasizing the horrors of the lynching of African Americans. Similarly, Lupe's "Strange Fruition", is also a song that address inequality and racism that still exit today. This song of Lupe Fiasco, has been influenced by his past and childhood.

Lupe Fiasco, was borned and raise in Chicago. He grew up with a Muslim education. He was well-educated. His parents exposed him to diverse array of subjects and reading was highly encouraged in his household. He also grew up, surrounding by prostitutes and drug addicts, and some muder took place in his neighborhood. His parents divorced when he was five years old. His father was a member of the Black Panther Party, which was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization and theirs objectives was to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality. His mother was was super intellectual, left-wing, the whole kind of situation.

Lupe says: "Now I can't pledge allegiance to your flag", from a religious kind of thing, you pledge your allegiance to God and that is it. Being Muslim, and things like that, you don't pledge allegiance to no flag. And, he does not want to be a part of a country where the government acts badly towards the people.

" As long as they look good when they doin' bad" I think that he means that the youth only care for their looks, material possessions and their appearances.They are heading down a bad road.

"You forced us in the ghetto and took our dads" I think that he wants to say that because of the racism, their dads were obliged to create the BPP and then, they were always out and it is the reason why his mother divorced from his dad.

With these examples, we can see that the lyric of "Strange Fruition" is based on real facts.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupe_Fiasco#1982.E2.80.9398:_Early_life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit#