❡ Las tecas de Pies sin Medias ❦

“When you get to the bottom of a box of Kleenex, the Kleenex turns pink or peach to let you know that it’s the end. You got five sheets left, so whatever you need to get done. So I’ll come up with a line of: ‘Time’s running out/My Kleenex is turning peach.’ It may not be in the next rap that I write, it may not be in the next 10 raps, but it’s definitely going into the Use Me Later file. Using the metaphors — ‘Time is running out, things are gettin’ low, my napkins are turning pink’ or ‘My napkins are turning peach.’ That will be a line in a Lupe Fiasco rap soon. And that’s how it starts. That’s that quick moment of inspiration — ‘Aw, man, these napkins are turning peach, time’s running out’ — then it’s a metaphor, in a rap, on the radio.”