wasn't too sure when I first heard it, but when listening to it with the lyrics, that song is AWESOME.

Def in top 5 of the album.

Album is soooooo sick!

Yea bro i agree...how many other artist you know can compare shit to a cheeseburger... i dont know any others...



"When niggas gotta eat thats when shit gets greasy"

1 of my fav tracks 2

Gotta Eat is that totally 100% original track from lupe like Nas has Rewind.... shit is sick.

someone also posted to me that it had something to do with the cool going back to his drug dealin ways after he came back or something like that.

Yeah, he's using greasy fast food, such as a cheesburger as an overall metaphor throughout a song that talks about a drug dealer

Yeh that shit was amazing,i thought the song was about a cheeseburger,thats what reports where saying,first time i heard it i didnt get it,i could hear him talking about cheese burgers but i didnt get the point,but then i heard him talking about seeds on the burger,seeds which means his kids,then i knew he was talking about a drug dealer,thats a real creative song

"Hey, he had a whole lotta cheese,
Plus he was a mac, had a whole lotta seeds
Made a lotta niggas fat, gave a whole lotta g's
Grams, man he had a whole lotta these
And he would let you hold like a whole lotta ki's
Even if you lose some, he would give ya new ones
Twice the bread, its like he had two buns
And he had a whole lotta seeds
Even his kids had meals, for reals
Some rich small fries wrapped in paper since they was little
Ketchup, nigga"

From drug perspective:
dude was a rich drug dealer, he had G's as in Grands ($1000)
cheese = money
ki's = kilo's of that hard white, cocaine
seeds = children
most drug dealers (in the hood anyway) are single but have a bunchas baby mamas and kids, hence he was a Mac= Mack=Player
meals= mill's. millions..
paper = money
ketchup=catch up

cheeseburgers perspective:
Mac as in Big Mac from Mickey D's
seeds = sesame seeds, you know the slogan for the Big Mac "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac
ki's = kilograms of fat
lose weight, gain it back w/ the cheesburgers, steadily adding fat
a Big Mac is like 2 burgers combined, hence it's like he had 2 buns
meals = value meal on the menu
you get fries and a drink,

ketchup nigga!

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also to break down the chorus
"My man said 'life ain't easy,
when niggas gotta eat that's when sh*t get greasy'"
Streets be all like 'Feed me, feed me'
When niggas gotta eat, thats when shit gets greasy"

Grease is what adds taste to food and also what makes food less healthy
so Lupe is saying, the allure of the streets/street life/crime etc. intensifies when people get closer to poverty..

Lupe attacks the double meaning of hunger in the songs; one hunger being a physical, literal hunger and the other being hunger for money and riches (thru drug dealing in this case)

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i think this song is easy enough to understand. no breakdown required...

you'd be surprised

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yo, is it just me or is Lupe saying "Yuuuuummmm, yuuuuummmm, yum yum yum yum" in the chorus?

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Originally posted by Velveeta00:
yo, is it just me or is Lupe saying "Yuuuuummmm, yuuuuummmm, yum yum yum yum" in the chorus?

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HE IS

its not a 100% original, i believe he copied jay-z

and howd he copy Jay-Z?