Topic > An Analysis of Lupe Fiasco's "Words I Never Said"

Raps: "A friend dating so-and-so blathers about this and that – And that ain't Jersey Shore, man, that's the news – And these are the same people who were supposed to tell us the truth" (17-19), to show how ridiculous the main concerns of our press have become. Fiasco goes so far as to compare the dramatic reality show Jersey Shore to the news to point out that everything in the news now are dramatizations of the truth. Fiasco uses alliteration when he raps: "I'm part of the problem, my problem is that I'm peaceful" (23), to explain how the real problem with violence is not the violence itself but how people don't talk about violence openly because they want to be "peaceful". He tries to explain why the idea of ​​being peaceful and being silent are not the same thing and admits that he himself is responsible for it.