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Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:12 pm

This may just be a coincidence, but do you think that Kanye West would be making a reference to a famous anime character in his lyrics for "Touch the Sky"?

Yes, yes, yes guess who's on third?
Lupe still like Lupin the Third.
Hear life here till I'm beer on the curb
Peach fuzz buzz but beard on the verge
Hold it down like we're on the serve
Bottle-shaped body like Mrs. Butterworth's.

Lupe I'm assuming is Lupe Fiasco, the guy who's featured in this song. But anyways, I heard it while watching this new music video, and I guess my ears just caught it. But would you say too much is being read into this?

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:35 pm

*shrugs* Could be, it's not surprising.
This wouldn't the first time Japanimation has been featured in a song.
Therefore I don't think you are reading "too much" into this.
Of course I haven't heard this song but it doesn't matter.

~Miss Rei

prettysoldiersailormoon · Post by **prettysoldiersailormoon** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:41 pm

Kajino Rei wrote:This wouldn't the first time Japanimation has been featured in a song.

*points to "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies*

If he is, he is. Yay for the anime community.

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:52 pm

^I was thinking of that song when I wrote that.
Sailor Moon anyone?

~Miss Rei

Scarface · Post by **Scarface** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:24 am

Anime Jedi wrote:This may just be a coincidence, but do you think that Kanye West would be making a reference to a famous anime character in his lyrics for "Touch the Sky"?

Yes, yes, yes guess who's on third?
Lupe still like Lupin the Third.
Hear life here till I'm beer on the curb
Peach fuzz buzz but beard on the verge
Hold it down like we're on the serve
Bottle-shaped body like Mrs. Butterworth's.
Lupe I'm assuming is Lupe Fiasco, the guy who's featured in this song. But anyways, I heard it while watching this new music video, and I guess my ears just caught it. But would you say too much is being read into this?

:O

do other artists also mention stuff like that in their songs?

Yunacat · Post by **Yunacat** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:19 pm

It sounds more like a coincidence to me. I think he just needed something to help keep the rhyme going, and that happened.

I do remember hearing a rap song a LONG time ago (i didn't like it but this caught my attention), where they kept mentioning things from Gundam and stuff around that..can't remember which one it was though...

EmilLang1000 · Post by **EmilLang1000** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:36 pm

My money's on it actually being an Anime reference, and MEANT to be so. True, Arsene Lupin DID exist before the Anime, but that was Arsene Lupn I, not Arsene Lupin III - Hell, Anime's becoming more integrated into American culture by the day, and this is just the latest.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:20 pm

EmilLang1000 wrote:Hell, Anime's becoming more integrated into American culture by the day, and this is just the latest.

My vote, too. Anime is not remotely as obscure as you seem to think it is. Just about everyone I've met under age 30 either watches a little of it (thanks, CN) or knows someone who does, and over age 30, their kids or grandchildren watch it.

A lot of people think it's a little odd or niche, like watching other foreign films or art-house movies, but people, seriously, know what it is. This is not 1979 and people aren't clustered around 20th-generation VHS raws with typed-up translations.

Get with the program, please.

So anyway, "Lupin the Third" is an extremely unlikely name to turn up accidentally. References to something generic like giant robots or something, sure, but a proper, unusual name? I don't think that's coincidence. I mean, really.

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