Kid Cudi - Mojo So Dope
[Chorus]
Oh ohhh, oh,
hey my mojo so dope b-tch
hey my mojo so dope
yep we live it, live it
yeh we on it, on it
give a f-ck about your lifestyle,
give a f-ck about a muthaf-cking lifestyle cause n-gga
we, we live this sh-t
One of my favourite songs from Man on the Moon II.
Live life, learn, then live life some more, repeat until your life is perfect.
If you didn't notice, thats a paradox, because your life can never really be 'perfect', and even if by some magical alignment in the universe, if you think your life is 'perfect' for some period of time, you will never have any way of logically reaching that conclusion.
I recently discovered the limitation of logic (For all of you that are convinced that logic and reasoning is the be all and end all of everything).
I will use the example of child repeatedly asking one word over and over again in seek of answers. Lets say the child asks, “Why?”, if you put a knife beyond his or her reach. You then explain that you did so because the knife is sharp. The child will then again ask, “Why?”, and so you then explain that the knife is sharp so that it may be used to cut food. The child will then again ask, “Why?”, and so on and so forth. This example illustrates the dilemma of applying logic, and that is that when we apply logic, we first have to set standards of proof, which are decided for by ourselves. Therefore, the answer incorporates the thinker’s perception as to what constitutes the standards of acceptable proof at each step of the process. Did I confuse you?
It basically means that you can never reach any 'true' conclusion with logic, instead you can keep setting standards of acceptable truth, and use those standards to conclude if the answer is true or false. I'll ramble about this stuff now and then.. its really interesting the more you think about it. It highlights the importance of intuition, creativity etc. (whatever you want to call it), i.e. the ability humans have to reach conclusions without using logical deductions. I think that this is the basis for the belief (or non belief) in a purpose of life (religion), because you have no way of using logic to prove or disprove religion, and at some point, you have to make an intuitive decision to believe or not believe in it. Anyways.. more on this stuff later too.
Sorry, I get sidetracked easily. Back to the song. There is a part in it that goes:
...A whole new legion of some n-ggas
aiming high pass the idea slangin
praise Allah for keeping me awake man
I lot of my n-ggas fell victim to the dope game...
Hmmm.. there is also a line that mentions Allah in one of the songs from Kanye West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Kanye West - So Appalled.
...That know the day that you play me
Will be the same day MTV play videos
That was a little joke, voila
Praises due to the most high Allah
Praises due to the most fly Prada
Baby I'm magic ta-da...
Both albums were released the same month, and highlight more or less the same issues: that we live in a time of global greed, power, social injustice, increasing immorality, and an increasing ignorance towards religion, spirituality etc. I think it's interesting that both of them would mention Allah (Arabic word for God). Anyone have any thoughts on why that is? I have to get back to some actual work haha.. so I'll expand more on this some other time.
