Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa

But it can also be used as a metaphor for, for other things.

So I, I, I kind of feel like it's something that I wanted to borrow from that poe-poetic tradition, and in fact, "The Breakup," it, uh, has an alternative title in brackets, which is Shikwa, and shikwa means complaint, and, um, that's because a very famous poem by, uh, Muhammad Iqbal, he, he has a famous poem called "Shikwa" and then "Jawab-e-Shikwa," which is complaint and response to complaint.

And, um, in that, he's actually complaining to God, saying, "God, you've forsaken us as Muslims," like, you know, "We've been colonized and, and destroyed and wrecked," and like, you know, "Where are you?" You know, "You said we should...

You'd take care of us, but you're not there." And so I wanted to kind of, like, really touch on that because what I wanna do as a rapper is I don't wanna just be someone who's kind of, like, taking from this incredible African American tradition.