We're gonna start the final session of #PhilosophySunday in about 20 minutes from now #PS
The topic is the painting used for the T&Y cover

Alright let's get this started the final session of #PhilosophySunday is LIVE!
You know da rules tag ya responses wit #PS or be overlooked

Before we get started I want to say thank you to everybody who has supported #PhilosophySunday over the years!

It was started to use Twitter for some a little more profound and engaging and I think we can say we've been successful!

#PhilosophySunday would not have been possible without fans and arm chair intellectuals chiming in on the topics and striking #TwitterGold!

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Hopefully you guys and gals can continue #PhilosophySunday with @wirelessphi or on your own with your own personal Twitter accounts.

Lastly I want to say sorry to all you football fans who had to make the "tough" lol decision 2 choose between #PS or those Sunday games! Lol

So let's get this started. I (as Wasalu Jaco) started painting a couple years back kinda as a hobby & then got a little more serious
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I found out that the painting became just as meaningful as my music in terms of what idea I was trying to express. Layers of meaning. #PS

Story of how one of my paintings became the cover for 1 of my albums I will save for the memoirs but the painting itself we can discuss #PS

Let's have a look at the painting and the cover #PS
The name of the painting is in Italian "Uomo Mangiato Tigre" and ROUGHLY translates as "Man Eating Tiger" #PS
So let's start there. What is your interpretation of the title "Man Eating Tiger"?
Remember to tag responses with #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco does the "man eating tiger" have any reflection of the issues with you as an artist (man) and your label Atl Rec (Tiger)? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco internal struggle #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco natures life cycle #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco I feel like the meaning behind it may deal more so with how you say it not what you're saying. #PS

Ah! Some very early #TwitterGold from @SpeightSZN
Care to explain what you mean by "how you say it"
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RT: @LupeFiasco man desires to become part of society and in turn consumes himself #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Man conquering what would be considered a dangerous animal #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco human contamination of something more vicious than it #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco man becoming more ferocious then the tiger, almost like a David Vs. Goliath also #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Reversals--wildness tamed and consumed. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco chaos #PS
RT: @LupeFiasco Man is the top but sometimes we behave like animals..although we say we are superior thus man eating(becoming) Tiger. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco because you can look at the phrase "man eating tiger" in two different ways. It's like a double entendre of a title. #PS

Ah some #TwitterGold from @jjLawson_
So it has two meanings?
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RT: @LupeFiasco man destruction against the last majestic and natural strengths of our world. #PS

RT: @SpeightSZN @LupeFiasco Like a play on words. The tiger has gotten a taste for human blood? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco the definition I see from it stems back to Tigers being pouched by man. So eating man means self preservation and survival #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco the response lines up w the islamic interpretation of the tiger representing money profits & honor which would be Atlantic #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco struggle to survive, Man eating tiger vs Man-Eating tiger #PS

Great stuff...so yes the title can be read as two ways...let's expand a little bit on that. Who is the man and who is the tiger?
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RT: @LupeFiasco The man being the normal man and the tiger being society itself #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco the man is a anyone and the tiger is society #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco that is up for you to decide... You can chose to be one or the other. Or can you be both? #PS
RT: @LupeFiasco maybe the man and the tiger are one....this could all be about self destruction if that were the case #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco it can be any David/Goliath situation. Western media against the Muslim Faith comes to mind. But it's open to a lot #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco if I follow-up what I said about red (the tiger) symbolizing carnal tones, the tiger engulfs the skull (the man) with rage #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Truly depends, everyone posses both characters. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco One in the same. #ps We're animals, like tigers, but also, there's a 'tiger'. Whats the tiger though? Lol #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco The man = people in power, keeping you, as the tiger, contained and essentially eating the life and inspiration from you #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco the man is the industry, the tiger is the artist. the industry poaches artists for their talents. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco well "the man" has always been the guy in charge, and we are all animals so you're the tiger? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco it depends on the situation; for example, man could be the Average Joe, and his tiger could be the daily grind of a 9-to-5 #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco depends on who is saying it; everyone can say they're the man/ tiger when its convenient #PS

Ah very interesting #Twittergold . The changing of identities. Adaptation or masquerading?@gvanx
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RT: @LupeFiasco The tiger is the government and the man is the "taxpayer". Nobody really knows who controls who. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco why shouldn't we be the tiger fighting internally and man could be society in a conceptualized collective perspective #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco man is the people, tiger is the current establishment in the concrete jungle #PS

Very great stuff! You guys could be tour guides at the Prado!
Let's shift to the other word in the title: "Eating."
Thoughts? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco eating what? Who's eating? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco engulfing, overwhelming, controlling #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco whats the meal #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco eating is control. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco being swallowed by its environment #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Eating could refer to a conflict between the "man" inside us and the "tiger".. civilized vs instincts

RT: @LupeFiasco captivity of negativity #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco eating could mean conquering... #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco eating can be synonymous with greed. Double burger with cheese.....#PS

RT: @LupeFiasco consumption of morality #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco I look at eating as a pleasure & I see the two entities (man or tiger) finding pleasure in getting rid of the other. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Eating could mean conquering or destroying #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco trying to be controlled #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco consuming and profiting at the expensive of the victim #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco eating as in destroying the tigers habitat #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Eating could mean the tiger is taking your life away, or your rights #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Killing/eating your inner artist. Making you discouraged to pursue and keep producing your art. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco It can be consuming sustenance, a necessity for survival, or gluttony, succumbing to desire. #PS

Fun Fact: I don't use the whole title when I talk about this painting with friends. I just call it "The Mangiato" or "The Eating"
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RT: @LupeFiasco The eating is still in process. Eternal consumption. Consumerism? #PS

Ah some professional #Twittergold from @wirelessphi
A continuum of consumption? How? Please expand for us...
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RT: @LupeFiasco Eating symbolizes survival #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco any form of consumption, be it eat, indulge, be taken over by, etc. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco "Drinking the Koolaid" Taking everything in; Gullible You are what you eat. #PS

Ah #TwitterGold from @mickystweeting
I never looked at it that way. "You are what you eat" so the tiger picks up human traits?
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RT: Eating can symbolize reward. The man (you) is being rewarded through all the challenges Atlantic (tiger) put you through. #PS @LupeFiasco

RT: @LupeFiasco In this case eating = exploitation? #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco tiger = bourgeoisie, man= proletariat, both in never-ending contest. the purple looks like a scab, the wounds from revolt #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco eating doesn't necessarily mean that the other doesn't exist anymore. Can it refer to become one? #PS

Ah! #TwitterGold from @heyhappymonday
So this painting isn't a violent scene of consumption? It's something softer?
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RT: @LupeFiasco Man consumes but is consumed by his consumption. Can't escape the cycle--always needs fiercer tigers to keep him entertained #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco it's all about perspective, we could pick up the Tigers traits. Savage, "regressive" behavior is omnipresent.. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco never ending consumption. An indulgent of some sort, probably along the lines of obsession or addiction. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco #ps "Man Eating Tiger"
Man. Eating. Tiger.
Man, eating tiger.
Man=eating tiger.
Man eating=tiger.

Great way to put it in an equation form #Twittergold from @drownsomebody82
Fun Fact: there is a lot of math used in Philosophy
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Let's move away from the title and look at the painting itself. What do u see? What is what?
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RT: @LupeFiasco a skull, most likely representing man #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco I see bars and sculls #PS

“@WWJRHRD: @LupeFiasco why the frame?”
For fanciness...lol #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco for one I can see that the red skull might symbolize violence #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco Self contained...straight lines...the skull is the only thing that deviates #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Those 2 brush strokes remind me of a tiger ripping through the man (or vice versa) #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco I see the red from the skull and the red and purple line are parallel could this be stating they connect with each other? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco colors of a tiger and a human skull #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco #PS
RT: @LupeFiasco I see fresh death which is covered in red an also a blue streak an we know only sonic is fast enough to make that streak #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco the skull is fading away. Beinf destroyed by this red shape as an all consuming rage?

Lemme help yall out a little: there is a man, a tiger, flesh, blood, bone and my two favorites..a soul & technology!
See Them now?
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There is also some brain in there...grey matter
see it?
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RT: @lupefiasco Purple=Wounds, , brown and red=blood trail, pink=loss of innocence, white=innocence,beginnings, tan=guilt...red, skull=death #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco I see the tiger being hidden away in the background, the man is trying to consume and cover the tiger but can't completely #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco The soul may be the blue stripe? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco The lines in the art in different angles convey how "eating the tiger" isn't straight forward, it's complex, difficult. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Having a soul, and ability to create technology, separates us from the animal instinct/thirst for blood. #PS

“@yellow_arigo35: @LupeFiasco where is the technology? #PS”
The Silver color field in the upper left
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RT: @LupeFiasco duality of man? The thirst for knowledge/innovation but is also consumed by his primal nature? #PS

Some #TwitterGold to take back to the KTT @oilgangebro

RT: @LupeFiasco Are all those things in the painting or in the viewer who finds them there and the artist who put them there for us to find? #PS

“@Mo_Yasini: @LupeFiasco I'm struggling to see the brain/grey matter #PS”
Bottom Far right...smallest thing used in the painting
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RT: @LupeFiasco the silver (tech) being bigger in area than the grey (brain) makes it seem like your'e saying tech will overcome us? #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco My take on the painting. #PS
RT: @LupeFiasco smallest thing used and often forgotten but most important part of the human process #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco #ps tiger is apex predator. With the brain and tech, man manages to become a danger to the highest in the food chain #ps

Wooh! Some #Twittergold from @mrbrpeters
But when man enters nature without all the technological superiority...???
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RT: @LupeFiasco I feel like you are trying to say that we are becoming over-dependant on technology therefore not using our brains that much #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco @mrbrpeters he's at the mercy of nature #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco but man is the most adaptable animal, entering the wilderness without technology does not preclude him from creating it. #PS

Great stuff...let's wrap it up...
Final Thoughts on "Uomo Mangiato Tigre" or "The Eating" as I like to call it...
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RT: @LupeFiasco It feels like epiphenomenalism, the duality between mind & body & technology's affect on it. The tiger symbolizes our instinct.

RT: @LupeFiasco man must stay focused and not let society (the tiger) alter their thoughts and break them down #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Humans are ruining them self #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco nothing is as evil as we see it to be. It's all perspective. Everything is trying to find their own place in this world. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco man and tiger in a constant battle over who is the superior predator. #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco Man is oppresses the tiger because of technology, but without it, the tiger wins out.
Man-eating tiger
Man eating tiger #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco "eating" is living life good from bad decisions (drug dealing) until tiger (police) takes your life and locks you in a cage #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco "uomo Mangiato Tigre" is life today as we know it. And we need to appreciate ourselves more then materials #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco the painting's meaning as a whole to me is a man trying to hide corruption (the tiger, tech) but there is still hope (pink) #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco lets just call it mans battle with the world and nature in his eternal bid to understand himself. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco it further adds to the bigger discussion that'll be expanded in ur LP, so like a quintuple entendre.. Art, tracklist, songs #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco we are depending more on technolgy than our brians!! #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco how bout technology being the tiger that's eating the man. We feast on it. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco a lot of things going on, but it seems to tap into a deeper lesson for man. #ps

RT: @LupeFiasco #PS Delicious. Mouthwatering colours.

RT: @LupeFiasco who you are without and with technology #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco It is sometimes necessary to be ruthless in order to avoid being consumed by this savage world.. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco its about resilience you keep going even though they try to stop you #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Human progress is like a bell curve, which will eventually bring itself down #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Be careful what boundaries you draw between yourself and the world around you. #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco no matter how advanced we become as a civilization, we will always be driven by animalistic impulses #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco Man is Trying to Live with both Tiger and Technology with our sacrificing his soul to tech and body and blood to tiger #PS

RT: @LupeFiasco before wrapping it up, can we know your interpretation of it? #ps

Sure @rimzS
For me as the guy who painted it. I see a tiger descending into the body of a man, being consumed. You see the inside of man

But I also see a tiger in the process of ripping a man to pieces. A very chaotic scene of violence. @rimzS

The meaning of this painting is constantly shifting and changing. I see death and life and a constant pursuit of these two goals. @rimzS

So let's end it here! Big shouts to Everyone who participated in the final session of #PhilosophySunday! I hope you enjoyed it!!!

Special shouts to everyone who struck #TwitterGold and the always vigilant and helpful @wirelessphi <----- follow them! #PS

The "Uomo Mangiato Tigre" will be on public display @ Soho House Chicago starting January 23rd along with some of my other paintings #PS

High quality prints of "The Mangiato" will be available shortly from WOLFstudio as well as posters and other little knick-knacks
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Tetsuo & Youth will be available 1/20/15 and if you what to grab a tshirt or hoodie of the album cover visit:
http://www.lupefiascostore.com

Thanx again...and for the final time...#PS is out!