Don't Look Down

“Don’t look down, it’s an impossible view.”

Good Friday, Good Saturday, it’s all the Sabbath to me…  Kanye continues his promise of weekly free music and continues to bring along his famous and talented friends.  “Don’t Look Down” features Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, and Big Sean. Accompanying triumphant drums and pianos, Mos Def kicks this one off singing a hook warning listeners to not look down, before Lupe Fiasco drops a verse and releases a Phoenix into the wind.  Kanye vows to teach his daughter ballet as he contemplates a breakup and want could have been in the second verse of the crunchy and grunge soaked song.  Big Sean adds a sense of urgency to his verse (I love describing shit as urgent) as he also says goodbye.  While it’s easy to think that each artist is saying goodbye to a woman, or a lover, it can also be interpreted as saying goodbye (or deciding not to) to fears.  “Don’t Look Down” in the sense that, by looking down we will realize how crazy our ambitions are, and there is no point in doing.  As Mos Def repeats, it’s an impossible view.  To look down is to accept impossibility, and uh, that’s just not the move.

Download the track below.

 

 

Kanye West: “Don’t Look Down” featuring Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Big Sean

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