Too Deep To Dumb Down

I want to address some of the things that I didn't have time to during my poetry reading. I think that we did cover a lot of the main ideas and themes , but there is just so much to say about this truly incredible poem.
I think we talked some about the height imagery that is present in this song, but I am just going to go through it and list all of the times I see it:

• dumb it down
• like a chicken or a deer (?)
• going over n****s head
• we don't care about the weather (?)
• distance from the earring to the ground
• stewardess in a Lear
• she's flying
• I feel I'm flying by em
• my mind's on cloud nine
• and in a mine
• Pimps see the wings
• on the Underground King
• to infinity and beyond
• flying on Pegasus
• flying on a pheasant
• get up out the hood
• best-fed F-F jet in the nest
• who exudes. . . . excess depth
• around these leagues
• chest-high and rising
• almost touching the knees of stewardess and the pilot
• lucky they make you fly with personal floating devices
• make it rain
• you make a boat
• I make a plane
• make it drain
• filling it up again

wow. So that was a lot. I admit I was sort of loose on my interpretation of height imagery (e.g. chickens because they can fly seems kinda iffy to me), but even given that I found it astounding how many height related terms Lupe could fit into one song. Also the contradictory meanings of height language is interesting--Lupe is good because he is deep but he doesn't want to dumb it down, and at the same time he is going over peoples heads. Lyrically flying above them while staying grounded. One more way depth sort of comes into this song is in the lines "the writer of the quotes for the ghosts/who supplier of the notes to the living". Height might not be immediately evident in this, but I take it to mean that he is writing quotes (lines) for ghosts (ghost writers) who supply the notes to the living (people actually getting credit for the work). Basically Lu is saying that sure we can look one step deeper than the surface to find the ghost writers, but he is ghost writing for the ghost writers, one step deeper still.
I think that by working all of this height imagery into his song, Lupe manages to further his argument that he will not dumb down his songs. His lyrics are so intricate that he can say seemingly off-topic things ("Pimps see the wings on the Underground King/who's also Klingon, to infinity and beyond"). It is possible to find meaning in these lines, such as Pimp C being a member of the Underground Kings and having wings on his logo, but it is hard to see what this has to do with the main idea of not dumbing it down. What Lupe is doing is using intricate but off-topic lines like this to prove that he isn't going to dumb down. Lupe could never mention not dumbing it down (and he doesn't that much, because he wrote the title and hooks after the verses) and yet his crazy lyrics argue for him, and back up his implied argument with their skill and intricacy.