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Lupe discusses his conflicting feelings about rap; he feels torn liking a genre that glamorizes misogyny and materialism; such corrupt influences hurt “he” (Jamaican for “his”) soul. Similar thematic exploration is done on “Words I Never Said.” In an A.V. Club interview, Lupe talks about how the song was inspired by his true conflicts with the genre of hip-hop, and battling the conflict by only facing its good parts: “Early on, it was like, ‘Whatever, I don’t like hip-hop.