Yeah...
Yeah...
the cool.
Turn me up
uh-huh..
yeah..
He came back
In the same suit that he was buried in
Similar to the one his grand father was married in
Yes... he was still fresh to death
bling, two ear-rings, a chain laying on his chest
He still had it cuz they couldn't find it
And the bullets from his enemies sat like two inches behind it
smelled the Hennesy from when his niggas got reminded
and poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it, But...
He couldn't sip it fast enough
So the liquor was just filling the casket up
floating down by his feet was the letter from his sister
Second Grade hand-writing simply read "I miss ya"
Suit jacket pocket held his baby daughter's picture
Right next to it one of his man's stuck a swisher
He had a notion as he laid there soaking
Saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open
and he...
This life goes passing you by
It might go fast if you lie
You go and you live then you die...
O-oh-oh-ohh
If life goes passing you by
Don't cry
If you breaking the rules
Making your moves
Paying your dues...
Chasing the cool
Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface
Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with
He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it
and when he couldn't dirt spit... swollowed it
Working like a.. hmm.. reverse archaeologist
Except.. his buried treasure was sunshine
So when some shined through a hole that he had drove
it reflected off the gold and almost made son blind
He grabbed on to some grass, he climbed
Pulled himself up out of his own grave and looked at the time
On the watch that had stopped six months after the shots
That had got him in the box wringing Henny out his socks
Figured it was hours because he wasn't older
Used some flowers to brush the dirt up off his shoulders - so..
With a right hand that was all bones and no reason to stay
Decided to walk home
so he..
He begged for some change to get him on a train
"Damn that nigga stank", is what they complained
Tried to light the blunt but it burst into flames
Caught the reflection in the window of what he became
A long look... Wasn't shook, wasn't ashamed
Matter fact only thing on his brain was brains.. yeah
And getting back in his lane, doing his thang
First he had to find something to slang
Next stop was his block
It had the same cops
Walked right past the same spot where he was shot
Shocked that some lil' niggas tried to sell him rocks
It just felt weird being on the opposite
They figured that he wasn't from there
so they pulled out and robbed him
with the same gun they shot him with
Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?"
I present, the death, of tha cool
Well I heard like group of cows
That all your enimies wanna shoot you down
They got ak 47's and a bunch of mac 11's
Semi automatic weapons that produce ka pows
Word on the street is, they all got heatas
They gon hit you up and you ain't even gon see it
You gotta lot of money, I ain't tryna be funny
But they say where you goin, you ain't even gon need it
They see you ridin round, shinin with your fine round diamonds
Pretty green eyed lady
Been on tha sideline poutin, while you primetime poppin
Hungry niggas want a peice of your pastry
I suggest you protect your bakery
Cause they comin for your head,
And its a bounty on that chain thats hangin from your neck
They said
I don't know
What you been told in your ear, but I hear its goin down
Sombody gotta
DIE!!!
Don't know what you been told in your ear, but business goin round
Sombody gotta
DIE!!!
Hitta nigga wit tha mini mac strap, clap
Any nigga think he gettin keys down here
Any meeta, any nigga gettin money, or my honey, man heard micheal young is the reclown? here
Run up on a nigga from tha back wit a mac
Or be strapped cause a nigga finna squeeze off 10
Run up on his nigga lac ratta tat tat,
Click clack where this nigga at
I need sin
Shit is goin down if i see him
Bump a nigga out like oxy ten
And keep a couple of dollas up in tha wallet
To pay they cops so they can never box me in
DIE!!!
Thats what im thinkin
While ridin around polishin this big pistol
Imma catch him in tha wind
Pray tha gun don't jam
So until we meet again
Nigga its cool!
I don't know
What you been told in your ear, but I hear its goin down
Sombody gotta
DIE!!!
Don't know what you been told in your ear, but business goin round
Sombody gotta
DIE!!!
Man, man you can't beleive none of that. Man you need just need to, you just need to relax
Man. Trust me
Don't pay them niggas no mind
They hatin on you ain't nobody witta shotty
Planin on doin a robbery
Itchin to catch a body
Creepin in a stolen jalopy
Out there waitin on you
sittin in a stolen car, finna rob this nigga
Should i let the mini mac or tha shotgun hit him?
I been waitin all day tryna spot this nigga
I can't let him get away, im gon pop this nigga! UHHHH
Plus they don't know about the choppa in tha trunk
Tha glocks in a box and tha nine on tuck
The bullet proof glass the 40's in tha stash
You pull tha steerin wheel and it pop on up
40 caliber stashed up in tha stash box
Bullet proof windows, you couldn't break em wit a padlock
Ak in tha trunk, where tha sounds bump
Two twin glock 40's and a nine and this damn clock?
Maaaaaaan
We tryna go up in this club
Show a little love
Get a few drinks
Holla at some girls
Snatch up a pair
Leave outta there
Put some dro in tha air
And then go and get some grub
We finna go up in tha club
Show a little love
Get a few drinks
Holla at some girls
Snatch up a pair
Leave outta there
Put some dro in tha air
And then catch a few slugs
ay pull over right here, i gotta take a pee
And don't go nowhere nigga wait for me
And if some niggas do kill you in the next few minutes
Just remember my nigga its a heaven for a G.
Ay ay hold this right there.
I'll be, i'll be right back i gotta take a piss man hold on.
Fa sho. Ay man, ay don't leave i'll be right back.
Ay don't leave i'll be back.
Hurry your ass up man. Damn.
Coolest nigga what, coolest nigga what, coolest nigga what.
Hustla for life!!!
Ay man, nigga hurry your ass up. Shit.
Imma cool ass nigga man.
Fuckin three in tha mornin.
I'm tha coolest muthafucka in tha world man.
Niggas ain't fuckin with me man.
Nigga i'm high, smokin. Fly ass car.
I run these muthafuckin streets, and these niggas out here lookin for me.
Man i wish a muthafucka would...
Ay nigga hurry your ass up, nigga. Damn
Whats up now nigga?
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
Lord please have sympathy
And forgive my cool young history (Michael Young History)
As...
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
The coolest nigga, what? The coolest nigga, what?
I love the lord
But sometimes it's like that I love me more
I love the peace, and I love the war
I love the seas, and I love the shore
No love for no beach, baby that's law
But she doesn't see, therefore I spoil
I trick, I fall, run up in raw
I love her with all my heart
Every vein, every vessel, every bullet lodged
With every flower that I ever took apart
She said, that she would give me greatness, status, placement
Above the others, my face with grace covers of the magazines
Of the hustlers, paper, the likes of which
That I had never seen, her eyes glow green
With the logo of our dreams, the purpose of our scene
A obscene obsession for the bling
She would be my queen, I could be her king, together
She would make me cool, and we would both rule, forever
And I would never feel pain
And never be without pleasure, ever, again
And if the rain stops, and everything's dry
She would cry, just so I could drink the tears from her eyes
She'd teach my how to fly, even cushion my fall
If my engines ever stall, and I plummet from the sky
But she would keep me high, and if I ever die
She would commission my image on her bosom, to him
Or maybe she'd retire as well
A match made in Heaven set the fires in Hell, and I'll be
And so began our reign
The trinity, her and I can
No weather man could ever stand where her and I came
Hella hard, umbrella whatever, put plywood over Pella panes
And pray to God that the flood subside
'cause you're gonna need a sub 'til he does reply
And not one of Jared's, you think it's all arid
And everything's irie, another supply
That means another July inside my endless summer
That was just the eye of the Unger
Felix, 'cause he is the cleanest amongst the younger
Outstanding achieving up-and-comers
The ones that had dead-beat daddies, and well-to-do mamas
But not well enough to keep 'em from us
The ones that were, fighting in class, who might not pass
Rap record pressured to laugh, at a life not fast
Can you feel it?
, that's what I got asked
Do I love her?
, said I don't know
Streets got my heart, game got my soul
One time missing sunshine will never hurt your soul
Quote: To a crying dishonored baby mama
Who's the mama to a daughter that I had fathered from afar
My new lady gave me a Mercedes and a necklace
With a solid gold key, like the starter of a car
The opener of a door or two pounds of raw
You gave me a baby, but what about lately?
Then ha-ha-ha-ha-haw'ed, right up in her face, G
There's more fish in the sea, I'm on my mission to be, be
Come, these are the tales of The Cool
Guaranteed to go and make you fail from your school
And seek unholy grails like a fool
And hang with the players of the pool, fast talking on the hustle
No Heaven up above you, no Hell underneath you
And nowhere will receive thee, so
Shed no tear, when we're not here
And keep your faith, as we chase
Hello darkness, hello sunshine, hello not at all, hello all he time
Hello no where, hello oblivion, hello goodbye
Hello Darkness
All in together the weather is better than ever
I hope it never ends I hope it lasts forever
But when it does, we can all pretend that it's better than it's ever bin
Lie to ourselves like the sky to rebel
And its well and its fine and its fine if it fell
And you couldn't find the story line if you survive to retell
We are targets, Hello darkness
Hello darkness, hello sunshine, hello not at all, hello all he time
Hello no where, hello oblivion, hello goodbye
Said everything is going to be fine
Said everything is gunna be ok
Said just don't breathe the air
He just sits and waits for them to kick in the door
He once was a hero they don't love him no more
There's a blast, every time a foot hits the floor
His gift for not fighting another man's war
And if they can get their hands on the mask that he wore
On his face, they can put somebody else in his place and restore
The state, the illusion that its safe
The state, that being a slave is great
As gas fills the room and rockets destroy everything around him
He stands to find himself surround
By thousands of soldiers that his once trained to never miss their targets
Heartless, Hello Darkness
Hello darkness, hello sunshine, hello not at all, hello all he time
Hello no where, hello oblivion, hello goodbye
Hello Darkness
Please to make your acquaintance
Salutations, Kanechiwa
Hello end of the world, how are you, I do fine
Hello darkness, hello sunshine, hello not at all, hello all he time
Hello no where, hello oblivion, hello goodbye
Hey there darkness, hey there sunshine, hello not at all, hello all he time
Hello no where, hello oblivion, hello goodbye
Hello darkness, Hello sunshine
Roc-A-Fella, 1st AND!!
Jay... Lupe!
Yeah, uhh
And so it seems that I'm, sewin jeans
And, 1st and 15 is just a sewin machine
So I, cut the pattern and I, sew in seams
And, button in this hustlin then publically I'm Buddy Lee
There's no bustin them and cuffin them is like
usherin in the regime, they want me to make Prince pants
But I withstand, I ain't gotten into that
A little big in the waist, two-pocket on the back
Call them Nu-vi's, O.G.'s covered in blue dye
Give 'em the game, that's like givin chocolate to the fat
Look, how you think I got here?
That's the same game that came through where I lived as a kid
in the bad luck truck and threw boxes off the back
Made me a ripper, deliver like river
Content a little more thicker, slicker
Yeah, and they said oil and water don't mix
Now they all down at the beach washin off the fish
Was Blackbeard 'til I brought the Roc into your ships
YEAH!
It's my life, my life - everything I dooo I dooooo for you
I do it all for you - everything I say you knowwww it's the truth
I'll say it is the truth - I'll take all the pressure offff of you
Take pressure off of you; I'll take, the pressure off of you
YEAH!
Uhh, it's hella proper (proper)
Cause it sag so low you can see boxer, like a boxer's
That's the way that the Family's pants worn
Then we slide, and try and put 'em on
The stones in the pocket'll drag you down to Davy Jones locker
Beware if you wanna Roc the Knickerbocker
Other nigga from the block what, they was sellin O's
like Wheel of Fortune, of imported cocaine
just to feel important, it was +Do or Die+
They was tired of bein "Po' Pimps," now for sure
That was just a product of my common sense
I guess, I was just guessin like the consonants
Momma said beware of what the devil do
Tell 'em that your soul's not for sale like the W's
So go ahead and pirate, the highest
cannons make you leak like pirated my shhh..
It's no shhh.. it's just shhh like quiet
And big homey's out of retirement
Uhh, Young, uhh
So the pen is mightier than the sword my lord
My first picture was a line-up, now I'm on the Forbes
And I still remain the artiste through thees all
If you force my hand I'll be forced to "draw"
If the war calls for war halls
Hope you got enough space on your hall's walls
I make niggaz murals, then escape the bureau's
investigation, out in Europe on vacation
I'm back for these puppies with the pound boy
(Blaow) Here's a round boy (blaow blaow) down boy
Sound boy, you don't wanna soundclash loud noise
leave niggaz paranoid if not paralyzed
Which means you can't walk in my shoes
Too much green you can't talk in my hue
Extend the team, nigga holla at Lu'
(I know, I know but I gotta get up outta here,
You know, I gotta go pay these bills,
I got a show to do, you know?)
One time, for your mind.
Let's go to sleep in Paris,
And wake up in Tokyo.
Have a dream in New Orleans,
Fall in love in Chicago,
Mayne.
Wherever I go she goes.
I love her
And I hate to leave her lonely
Ring ring went the Iphone, it was my homie
He said, "let's hit Japan,
If we can make 'em jam,
We can make a hundred grand,
Spend it in the south of France
Nothing further." I jumped,
Grabbed my go-yard trunk,
Got ready to 'walk it out,' like Unk
In my John Lennon chucks.
That's when I heard Murder
You're killin me, you're fillin me
With sorrow, sunrise, "goobye"'s,
And "missin you tomorrow"'s.
I turn to see my dream
Love supreme queen, meanest thing on the scene, cry.
I drop my bags in a flash
That's faster one A-T on that dash-er,
To dry your tears.
And wipe the rain from my dear like dash-er,
Use the dame who's the username to all my pass-words.
The reason I get fly as Ivan Jasp-er,
I even keep your picture in my pass-purt.
(love love)
Let's go to sleep in Paris,
And wake up in Tokyo.
Have a dream in New Orleans,
Fall in love in Chicago,
Mayne.
Then we can land in the motherland,
Camelback across the desert sand.
Take a train, to Rome, or home,
Brazil, forreal.
Wherever I go she goes.
Wherever I go she goes.
So let's keep it, real,
All in't together, "free chill!"
Tell the stewardess to throw a movie, on the reel.
Heat up my kosher meal, exchange my dollar bills,
Lean back in my first-class seat, and sleep.
Don't wake me till I land, when they barely understand
What I speak, but they nod to my beats.
I tell my fans who I am and they stand and they clap
They applaud. They love me, my God.
"O'scadie sama'desta" or maybe "au revoir,"
"A spree on Saint Henry," then back to Charles de Gaul.
So I can get home and tell her everywhere that I been,
And, everything that I done, and,
Tell her that she's the one, and, um.
Let's go to sleep in Paris,
And wake up in Tokyo.
Have a dream in New Orleans,
Fall in love in Chicago,
Mayne.
Then we can land in the motherland,
Camelback across the desert sand.
Take a train, to Rome, or home,
Brazil, forreal.
Wherever I go she goes.
Wherever I go she goes.
Guess who's back in the, house,
With a bunch of souvenirs, and a smile for your mouth.
I really missed you, each and every night I kissed you
In my dreams, 'fore I went to sleep, to La-La land to count them sheep.
I swear you're lookin prettier than ever,
It's got to be a prophecy for us to stay together ever more.
For better or, less or poor, all worth the wait in buried treasure
X's on the shore.
I know my world tour's like war to you,
But Ian said, "Aloha," and Harley said, "Cheers!"
Julian said, "Bonjour!," Big O was like "Yeahhhhh!"
Amanda and Lemessie want to know when we goin there.
Edison sends his love, so does the rest of the club
Of the international play-boys and play-yas.
But I revoke my membership, all for My Tenderness,
She said, "Pursue your interests, 'cause even If
I'm ticketless, I'll be there, by your side,
In your heart and, on your mind."
So, as I taxi down another runway,
I Gotcha, who loves you 'bay?
Now bring it back, now, uh.
Let's go to sleep in Paris,
And wake up in Tokyo.
Have a dream in New Orleans,
Fall in love in Chicago,
Mayne.
Then we can land in the motherland,
Camelback across the desert sand.
Take a train, to Rome, or home,
Brazil, forreal.
Wherever I go she goes.
Wherever I go she goes.
Wherever I go she goes.
(feat. Bishop G, Nikki Jean)
[Lupe Deep Voice]
Little Terry got a gun, he got from the store,
He bought it with the money he got from his chores,
He robbed candy shop told her lay down on the floor,
Put the cookies in his bag took the pennies out the
drawer.
Little Kalil got a gun he got from the rebels,
To kill the infidels and American devils,
A bomb on his waist,
A mask on his face,
Prays five times a day,
And listens to Heavy Metal.
Little Alex got a gun he took from his dad,
That he snuck into school in his black book bag,
His black nail polish, black boots and black hair,
He's gonna blow away the bully that just pushed his
ass...
[Lupe Fiasco]
I killed another man today,
Shot him in his back as he ran away,
Then I blew up his hut with a hand grenade,
Cut his wife's throat as she put her hands to pray,
Just five more dogs then we can get a soccer ball,
That's what my commander say,
How Old?
Well I'm like ten, eleven, been fighting since I was
like six or seven,
Now I don't know much about where I'm from but I know I
strike fear everywhere I come,
Government want me dead so I wear my gun, I really want
the rocket launcher but I'm still too young,
This candy give me courage not to fear no one,
To fear no pain, and hear no tongue,
So I hear no screams and I shed no tear,
If I'm in your dreams then your end is near.
Yeah
[Chorus - Nemya Jean]
Little Weapon,
Little Weapon,
Little Weapon
We're calling you
There's a war
If the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you something small to use
Little Weapon, Little Weapon, Little Weapon
Need you now, pow
[Lupe Fiasco]
Now here comes the march of the boy brigade
A macabre Parade of the toys he made
In (?)and shades who looks half his age
About half the size of the flags they wave
And Camouflage suits made to fit youths
'cause the ones off the dead soldiers hang a little
loose
And AK-47's that they shooting into heaven
Like they're trying to kill the Jetson's
They struggle little recruits
Cute Smileless, Heartless, violent
Childhood destroyed, devoid of all childish ways,
Can't write their own names or read the words that's on
their own graves
Think you gangster popped a few rounds,
These kids will come through and murder a whole town,
Then sit back and smoke and watch it burn down,
The grave gets deeper the further we go down
[Chorus]
[Bishop G]
Imagine if I had to console,
The families of those slain,
And slayed on game consoles,
I aim I hold, right trigger to squeeze,
press up and Y one less nigga breathe,
B for the Bombs press pause for your moms,
Make the room silent, she don't approve of violent
games,
She leaves resume activity,
Start and blew hearts apart sharp wizardry,
On next part I insert code
To sweeten up the little purses murder work load
I tell him he work for
CIA with A
A operative, I operate this game all day
I hold a controller connected to the soldier
With weapons on his shoulder he's only seconds older
than me
We playful but serious, now keep that on mind
for on line experience
There's a world go a-head and stair
(treat these folks don't need permission my life's in hi-definition)
Listen with your eyes follow with your ears
(I don't need no no intermission my life's in hi-definition)
And my return, is more like a re-up
I hold a hold like a tea-cup
World in one hand, while the other hand throw a peace up
My other hand throwing We without the e up
I got like five more man I'm something like sheefa
In the fall of Rome number four Delux
See I've been around the world like the nomb
But I come from a zone where the homes are beat up
The folks unknown and the stones all meet up
Police tap my phone and ma's own on speaker
Said he's back with poems got their domes all leaked up
To get back on the thrown and become young leaders
Oprah put it on my culture now if that ain't wrong
Imus got it from the rhymers now if that ain't blown
They gave my man forty four now if that ain't long
I put it all on my shoulders now if that ain't strong
I made it out alive from the streets of the westside C-H-I
Now if that ain't home you better tell em
And in my flyness I've become the hero and the sidekick
The rider and the nigga that'll ride with
In your ear like the maker of the vivrant
Asalamalakam to the maker of the vivrant
Them other niggas I don't vibe with
Now I was bout three when the eyes went
But I could see everything that you trying to be
You can't hide it
While you coming out your throte like a heimlich
I came up out the belly like an high scip
Only my circumstance reviced it
Hijacked the road and when they shot the pilot
I'm trying to go public so I can get to private
Then send Busy to go and get the pirates
Then hit Africa and try to fix the Virus
Go back to the hood tell Huggy open the hydrents
R.I.P Stack B. I'm gonna keep you alive kid
Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful
F-N-F and S-N double O-P
Lupy it's snoopy lets go out
Tip toe through the door do it doggy style
And tell all my chicks in she I cock owe
Lupy hit the Lotto snoopy hit Delotto
Hold the mic tight they bite and might swallow
Take this chill pill will make you swallow
Recital is very homicidal
The big screen will capture you, cause it's hi-definition
Listen cooking collard greens in the kitchen
Them alphabet boys on a mission
If you ever get cash you better get it quick fast
Cause now-a-days niggas get the snitching on your bitch ass
Get it boys best believe in your toys out your game
Specially when a nigga know your real name
Blam blam with the blammer
Smile nephew your on candit camera, film at eleven
Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful
Dedicate, dedicate
This one right here, goes out
To my homie with the drink, na mean
He said, ?I write what I see
Write to make it right, don't like where I be?
I'd like to make it light the sights on TV
Quite the great life, so nice and easy
See, now you can still die from that
But it's better than not being alive from straps
Agree, a Mead notebook and a bic that click
When it's pushed in a whack ass beat
That's a track that's weak, that he got last week
'Cause everybody in the store's like that's that heat
A bass heavy medley, with a sample from the 70's
With a screwed up hook that went, 'Stack That Cheese'
Somethin', somethin', somethin', 'Stack That Cheese'
Mother, sister, cousin, 'Stack That Cheese'
He couldn't think of nothin', 'Stack That Cheese'
He turns down the beat, writer's block impedes
Cryin' from the next room, a baby in need
Of some Pampers and some food and place to sleep
That, plus a black Cadillac on D's
Is what keep 'em on track to be a great Emcee, yea
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life
Reps North side so he rocks them braids
Eleven-hundred friends on his MySpace page
Stack That Cheese got seven hundred plays
Producer made him take it down, said he had to pay
Open mic champ two weeks in a row
Ex-D Boy with a B-Boy flow
Glow like Leroy, you should see boy go
Got a daddy servin' life and a brother on the row
Best homie in the grave, tatted up while in the cage
Minute Maid, got his momma workin' like a slave
Down baby momma, who he really had to honor
'Cause she was his biggest fan, even let him use her Honda
To drive up to Dallas went to open up for amateurs
Let him keep a debit card, so he could put gas in it
Told her when he get on he gon' take her to the galleria
Buy everythin' but the mannequins, ya dig
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life
His man called said, ?Ya time might be now?
They played your freestyle over ?Wipe Me Down?
They played it two times say it might be crowned
As the best thing out the H-Town in a while
He picked up his son with a great big smile
Rapped every single word to the new born child
Then he put him down and went back to the kitchen
And put on another beat and got back to the mission of
Get his momma out the hood, put her somewhere in the woods
Keep his lady lookin' good, have her rollin' like she should
Show his homies there's a way, other than that flippin' ya
Bail his homie outta jail, put a lawyer on his case
Throw a concert for the school, show the shoulders that it's cool
Throw some candy on the Caddy, chuck the deuce and act a fool
Man it feels good when it happens like that
Two days from goin' back to sellin' crack, yes sir
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life
Hip-hop, you saved my life
Hip-hop, you saved my life
Hip-hop, you saved my life
If we can break down those walls to set you freeee
we would, cause we out heeeere...
And we miss yooooou...
If we could build a ladder that tall to come and see yoooou
we would, cause we down heeeere...
And we miss yooooou...
If we can break down those walls to set you freeee
we would, cause we out heeeere...
And we miss yooooou...
If we could build a ladder that tall to come and see yoooou
we would, cause we down heeeere...
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Let's peruse the essentials of Cool
A brief study of the things so instrumental to Lu
That make me feel flyer than lobby's of W's
A disclaimer just a rhymer, no credentials from a school
Now let's peruse the essentials of Cool
A brief study of the things so instrumental to Lu
That make me feel flyer than lobby's of W's
A disclaimer just a rhymer, no credentials from a school
In my Fall of Rome jeans, my Head Porter wallet
My Neighborhood shirt and my Eddie Cheng clock
Shit might not go to college but my street smart polished
Like the black fingernails of that punk rock logic
Do the knowledge, man you can't be punk from projects
Firm disbeliever in your punch clock promise
Was trading off my comics, I was taking them to school
One of Jay-Z boys now I'm skating in your pool
Not to be rude, I'm just hating on your rules
Like a young 50, I'm on my world tour
Good morning Singapore, I'm bringing the sun wit me
From the Robert Taylor homes to Africa's slum cities
I am American mentally with Japanese tendencies
Parisian sensibility, so stay out the vicinity of
Yea, yea them niggas over there it's just
Yea, yea now look at what I wear
Got my gold watch and my gold chain
With my fancy car and my diamond ring
With my fancy broad and she foreign
So it's no words and it's no slang
And I'm no trick and I'm no lame
It's just so slick that she's so game and it's
Yea, yea, she love it over here
It's just yea, yea, she love it over here
It's just yea, yea, she love it over here
It's just yea, yea, she love it over here
I like City candles and Maharishi sandals
And Dita sunglasses, Purple Murder surface samples
I like False T-shirts, Dover street is off the handle
Such a good designer, Junya Watanabe got damn you
I like Yohji Yamamoto and a Mackro Solo
Leather Gucci belts and Guilty Brotherhood polo's
I like Montblanch pens and Moleskine paper
I like Goyard bags and green Now or Later's
Monocle magazine and Japanese manga
Futura, noz furatus and HTM trainers
I love Street Fighter 2, I just really hate Zangeif
Only Ken and Ryu, I find it hard to beat Blanka
Keep a Wii ninja hanging and an Unkle album banging
If you negative in energy then stay out the vicinity of
Yea, yea them niggas over there it's just
Yea, yea now look at what I wear
Got my gold watch and my gold chain
With my fancy car and my diamond ring
With my ghetto broad and she so plain
Got a couple scars and one of those long names
She a fight a nigga and cusses with no shame
And her ex-man had her bagging up cocaine but she
Yea, yea she love it over here
It's just yea, yea she love it over here
It's just yea, yea she love it over here
It's just yea, yea she love it over here
But my most coveted thing is a high self-esteem
And a low tolerance for them telling me how to lean
See the most important parts are the ones that are unseen
The wings don't make you fly and the crown don't make you king
Now God don't like ugly, ain't too happy 'bout prettier
And ignorance is enemy so stay out the vicinity of
Yea, yea them niggas over there it's just
Yea, yea now look at what I wear
Got my gold watch and my gold chain
With my fancy car and my diamond ring
With my ghetto broad and she so plain
Got a couple scars and one of those long names
She a fight a nigga and cusses with no shame
And her ex-man had her bagging up cocaine but she
Yea, yea she love it over here
It's just yea, yea she love it over here
It's just yea, yea she love it over here
It's just yea, yea she love it over here and it's
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Oh give the drummer some, yea get outta here
Where my ladies at?
I said where my ladies at?
Let's find somewhere we can go crazy at
And for you baby I'll be your maniac
Hey hey hey hey
And you don't have to worry 'bout nothing
Cuz everytime I see you baby you'll be rolling with me
Oh i'll be on the sidelines rooting for my dime
Holding up my sign and it say
Go baby! (Hoo hoo)
There my lady at
I said there my lady at
That's my honey if I give her money she ain't gotta pay me back
No you ain't gotta pay me back
Hey hey hey hey
And I'll forever give you my love cuz
When I'm down you always put a smile on me
And when all of my strength's up, and I'm 'bout to give up
And I need a lift up, I hear her say
Go baby! (Hoo hoo)
She loves me, she loves me more
Amour me, she assures
She adores me
Even when it's up and down like see-saw
Surely, we can start from scratch like default
When they say you're not my baby like Maury
You can tell 'em that they're telling a story
Testify like you're telling a jury
And I'll repeat like you said it before me
We undefeated like a veteran army
And we as heavy as an elephant, aren't we?
Let's take 'em to the zoo, or better yet a safari
They want me to leave my Dame like the fella from Marcy (No!)
But we go way back like a set of Atari's
From baby fat 'til we skeletons darling
"Me" starring "You" is what it says on the marquee
So let's go give them a show, on my heart, get set, go!
Go baby! (Hoo hoo)
And you're my sure-fire, superstar, sure-shot, firecracker
extravaganza, fantastic, super-size with extra cheese
You best believe
That you're my sure-fire, superstar, sure-shot, firecracker
extravaganza, fantastic, super-size with extra cheese
Yes indeed!
Where my ladies at?
I said where my ladies at?
Let's find somewhere we can go crazy at
And for you baby I'll be your maniac
Hey hey hey hey
And you don't have to worry 'bout nothing
Cuz everytime I see you baby you'll be rolling with me
Oh i'll be on the sidelines rooting for my dime
Holding up my sign and it say
Featuring: Gemini
Carrera
(Dumb it down)
Coolest, what
(Dumb it down)
FNF up
(Dumb it down)
(Dumb it down)
I'm fearless, now hear this, I?m earless
And I?m peerless, that means I?m eyeless
Which means I?m tearless
Which means my iris resides where my ears is
Which means I?m blinded
But I?mma find it I can feel its nearness
But I?mma veer so I don't come near
Like a chicken or a deer
But I remember I?m not a listener or a seer
So my windshields smear
Here, you steer, I really shouldn?t be behind this
Clearly cause my blindness
The windshield is minstreled, the whole grill is road kill
So trill and so sincere, yea I?m both them there
Took both pills when a bloke in a trench coat
And the locs in a chair had approached him here
Made it clear as a ghost so a biter of the throats in the mirror
The writer of the quotes for the ghosts
Who supplier of the notes that they living
Riverton is rosey, pockets full of poseys
Given to the mother of the deceased awaken at war
'Till I'm resting in peace
You going over heads Lu
(Dumb it down)
They telling me that they don't feel you
(Dumb it down)
We ain?t graduate from school
(Dumb it down)
Them big words ain?t cool
(Dumb it down)
Yea I heard "mean and vicious"
(Dumb it down)
Make a song for the *****
(Dumb it down)
We don't care about the weather
(Dumb it down)
You'll sell more records if you
(Dumb it down)
And I?m mouthless which means I?m soundless
Now as far as the hearing now I found it
It was as far as the distance from an earing to the ground is
But the doorknockers on the ear of a stewardess in the Lear
She fine and she flying I feel I?m flying by 'cause my mind?s on cloud nine
And in her mind and at the same time
Pimps see the wings on the underground king
Who?s also Klingon to infinity and beyond
Something really stinks but I Spinks like Leon
Or lion in the desert, I?m flying on Pegasus, you flying on a pheasant
Rider of the white powder, picker of the fire flower
Spit hot fire like Dylan on Chappelle skit
Yea, smell it on my unicorn, don't snort the white horse
But toot my own horn
You been shedding too much light Lu
(Dumb it down)
You're makin' 'em wanna do right Lu
(Dumb it down)
They're getting self esteem Lu
(Dumb it down)
These girls are tryna be queens Lu
(Dumb it down)
They're tryna graduate from school Lu
(Dumb it down)
They're starting to think that smart is cool Lu
(Dumb it down)
They're tryna get up out the hood Lu
(Dumb it down)
I don't tell you what you should do
(Dumb it down)
And I?m brainless which means I?m headless like Ichabod Crane is
Or foreplayless sex is, which makes me saneless
With no neck left to hang a chain with
Which makes me necklace less like a necklace theft
And I ain?t use my headrest yet
They said they need proof like a vestless chest
About the best fair FF jet in the nest
Who exudes confidence and excess depth
Even scuba Steve will find it hard to breathe
Around these leagues, my snorkel is a tuba
Lu the ruler around these seas
Westside Poseidon, Westside beside him
Chest high and rising almost touching the knees
Of stewardess and the pilot, lucky they make you flowered
Personal floating devices, tricks falling out of my sleeves
David Blaine, make it rain, make a boat, I make a plane
Then I pull the plug and I make it drain
Until I feel like flowing and filling it up again
Westside
You be putting me to sleep
(Dumb it down)
That's why you ain?t poppin' in the streets
(Dumb it down)
You ain?t winning no awards
(Dumb it down)
Robots and skateboards?
(Dumb it down)
GQ man of the year G?
(Dumb it down)
Ain?t rocking over here B
(Dumb it down)
Why don't you talk about your cars?
(Dumb it down)
And what the f*** is 'go yard'?
(Dumb it down)
Make it rain for the chicks
(Dumb it down)
Pour champagne on a *****
(Dumb it down)
What the f*** is wrong with you?
(Dumb it down)
How can I get on a song with you?
(Dumb it down)
Look B, here?s my math, my 2way, uh
What's, uh, here take this, stay right there
What my boys talking about
You hot for me, I like you
Listen G they tell me I should come down cousin
They thought it was cool to burn crosses in your front lawn as they hung you from trees in
Your backyard.
They thought it was cool to leave you thirsty and strand katrina.
He thought it was cool to carry a gun in his classroom and open fire, virginia tech columbine,
Stop the violence.
They thought it was cool to tare down the projects and put up million dollar condos,
Gentrification.
They think its cool to stand on the block hiding products in their socks making quick dime bag
Dollars.
They think its cool to to ride down on you in blue and white unmarked cars, bustin you upside
Yo head.
Freeze....cause the problem is we think its cool too.
Now I ain't tryna be the greatest
I used to hate hip-hop... yup, because the women degraded
But Too $hort made me laugh, like a hypocrite I played it
A hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
Omittin the word "bitch," cursin I wouldn't say it
Me and dog couldn't relate, til a bitch I dated
Forgive my favorite word for hers and hers alike
But I learnt it from a song I heard and sorta liked
Yeah, for the icin, glamorized drug dealin was appealin
But the block club kept it from in front of our buildin
Gangsta rap-based filmings became the buildin blocks
For children with leakin ceilings catchin drippins with pots
Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written"
In the mix with my realities and feelings
Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision
I began to jot, tap the world and listen, it drop
My mom can't feed me, my boyfriend beats me
I have sex for money, the hood don't love me
The cops wanna kill me, this nonsense built me
And I got noooo place to gooo
They bomb my village, they call us killers
Took me off they welfare, can't afford they health care
My teacher won't teach me, my master beats me
And it huuurts meee soooul
I had a ghetto boy bop, a Jay-Z boycott
'Cause he said that he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti
I'm thinkin godly, God guard me from the ungodly
But by my 30th watchin of "Streets is Watchin"
I was back to givin props again and that was botherin
By this uncomfortable as a untouchable touchin you
The theme songs that niggas hustle to seem wrong but these songs was comin true
And it was all becoming cool
I found a condom on the ground that Johns would cum into and thought
What constitutes a prostitute is the pursuit of profit then they drop it
The homie in a suit pat her on the butt, then rock it
It seems I was seein the same scene adopted
Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it
They said don't knock it, mind ya business
His business isn't mine and that nigga pimpin got it
They took my daughter, we ain't got no water
I can't get hired, they cross on fire
We all got suspended, I just got sentenced
So I got noooo place to gooo
They threw down my gang sign, I ain't got no hang time
They talk about my sneakers, poisoned our leader
My father ain't seen me, turn off my TV
'Cause it huuurts meee soooul
So through the Grim Reaper sickle sharpening
Macintosh marketing
Oil field augering
Brazilian adolescent disarmament
Israeli occupation
Islamic martyrdom, precise
Yeah, laser guided targeting
Oil for food, water, and terrorist organization harborin
Sand camouflage army men
CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin
Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin
String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin
Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them
They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and
Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that
They say I'm infected, this is why I injected
I had it aborted, we got deported
My laptop got spyware, they say that I can't lie here
But I got noooo place to gooo
I can't stop eatin, my best friend's leavin
My pastor touched me, I love this country
I lost my earpiece, I hope y'all hear me
Uh, what up ya'll?
Yeah, soundtrack what's poppin' baby
Woo, ya'll ain't know
I go by the name of Lupe Fiasco
Representin' that 1st &15
Gyeah, uh
And this one right here
I dedicate this one right here
To all my homies out there grindin'
Ya know what I'm saying?
Legally and illegally
Ha ha
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout?
So, check it out, uh
First got it when he was six
Didn't know any tricks
Matter fact, first time he got on it he slipped
Landed on his hip and bust his lip
For a week he had to talk with a lisp
Like thiss
Now we can end the story right here
But shorty didn't quit, it was somethin' in the air
Yeah, he said it was somethin' so appealing
He couldn't fight the feelin'
Somethin' about it
He knew he couldn't doubt it
Couldn't understand it
Brand it, since the first kickflip he land it
Uh, labeled a misfit, abandoned
Ca-kunk, ca-kunk, ca-kunk
His neighbors couldn't stand it, so
He was banished to the park
Started in the morning wouldn't stop till after dark
Yeah, when they said it's gettin late in here
?So I'm sorry young man there's no skating here"
And so we kick push, kick push
Kick push, kick push, coast
And the way he roll
Just a rebel to the world with no place to go
And so we kick push, kick push
Kick push, kick push, coast
So come and skate with me
Just a rebel looking for a place to be
So let's kick, uh, and push, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, and coast
Uh, uh ,uh
My man got a lil older, became a better roller
Yeah, no helmet, hellbent on killin' himself
Is was what his momma said
But he was feelin' himself
Got a little more swagger in his style
Met his girlfriend, she was clappin' in the crowd
Love is what what was happening to him now, uh
He said, ?I would marry you
But I'm engaged to these aerials and varials?
?And I don't think this board is strong enough to carry two?
She said, ?Bow, I weigh 120 pounds, now
Lemme make one thing clear
I dont need to ride yours I got mine right here?
So she took him to a spot
He didn't know about
Somewhere in the apartment parking lot, she said
?I don't normally take dates in here?
Security came and said, "I'm sorry there's no skating here"
And so they kick push, kick push
Kick push, kick push, coast
And the way they roll
Just lovers in the twine with no place to go
And so they kick push, kick push
Kick push, kick push, coast
So come and skate with me
Just a rebel looking for a place to be
So let's kick, uh uh, and push, yea yea, and coast
Yea uh, swanky, yea, yea
Before he knew he had a crew
That weren't no punk
In they Spitfire shirts and SB Dunks
They would push, till they couldn't skate no more
Office building, li-b's wasn't safe no more
And it wasn't like they wasn't getting chased no more
Just the freedom was better than breathing they said
And they escape route, they used to escape out
When things got crazy they needed to break out
They'd head to any place with stairs
Any good grinds, the world was theirs, uh
And they four wheels would take them there
Till the cops came and said, "There's no skating here"
And so they kick push, kick push
Kick push, kick push, coast
And the way they roll
Just rebels without a cause with no place to go
And so they kick push, kick push
Kick push, kick push, coast
So come roll with me
Just a rebel looking for a place to be
So let's kick, uh uh, and push, yea yea, and coast
Affirmative no further furnishing is needed
I believe we are completed, dig
We all in grrement on the wall
Paper happy with the color scheme welcome to the crib
A two family habitat for humanity with a view with in the insanity
Live? my vida loca was built like bob vila villa gone
The architect that I arted wat I hearted jimmy carter from Chicago west?? side
Finish my construction now we hold we coming like contracepts
I'm conciespet that kunta get from conversation held with the Satan on my shoulder
Which lead the steps that kept me looking over the shoulder like shofers were my angels at
Painful yet Mary I ain't Jerry Garcia ma here but I'm grateful shush
Maybe just might be OK
After all
Sun don't shine
On these days
This feeling getting heavy is heaven
I am atmis at this manage the balance
Massive mass pull my back with out tipping my glasses
This was not pitiful from passes of O G s
This is so me
Ask us many mention lil homie, lil bony
But the rhymes is fat
in fact
Keep just like a Rochester customer
God bless the mothers and younger brother is a hustler
Cause she don't want sob at his waist
But he want to follow in the step
Bang his hat learn his shake
master his swagger in the bathroom
Mirror cop a Chevy steady mob in his place
Chea it's just the problem we face look his mom is in the face n promises his strait
Then he leaves the house that love built that
Hug renovate that section 8 pays for
Well lets pray for em
Let the beat play for em
Put the trouble on display for em
Cause he gotta go face the drama
With a difference face from the one that he use to face his moma
If you look close
You'll see a consist of a smile that hurts a ice grill
in a trace of trauma
little bit of his father
another criterion that's no difference from a young Liberian
who let the delirium worry him living in it the city
out of his mind
liria reconsilia
I'm cool I don't for tell best
I ain't nicest MC, I ain't cornel west
I am cornel west side chi town Rivera
Malcolm eXorcise the demons
Gangsta leaning
We traded in his cuffy for a new era
chose a 44 over a mother board
I ain't a credited institute graduate
I ain't from Nazareth
My conception wasn't immaculate
I ain't mastering no calculus
A good addition to the rap audience
I back flipped on the mattress they slept on me on
What down yo, knowing is half the battle
And fighting temptation, have an apple
Shakes the snakes, pimp the system
Nobody ever really loved loved loved loved
Me me me me me me me me...
She say she gotta do her nails and condition her hair
Find a pair of shoes and a fittin' brazier
Slick shorty describe her description it's fair
But say no other chick in this world can compare
And no other nigga got permission to stare
I say I never listen, never mention I care
When they gone I never miss em, never dis em a tear
Cause other women to fill that position is there
It's the same game just a different affair
Different dame, different name, different distance from here
She say well things gon change, now her mission is clear
Let her get off the phone and get off to homes
She knock on the door, it's business from there
Start, strippin her gear and switchin' her rear
I'm not flinchin, carties on my vision impaired
And enough ice, to condition the air
Now the boy got game and the girl got hurt
The boy got brains and the girl got worth
Cause the boy got fame do whatever he say
Now the boy get paged like every other day
[Chorus:]
(Nobody ever really loved me)
It's just the birds and the bees
The hers an the hes
The his the ma'ams the sirs and the shes
C'mon, c'mon
And u know this man (and if somebody ever loved me...)
She say she gotta get him dressed and hit him with rules
Feed 'em breakfast and send 'em to school
She say she need a rest her mind she finna lose
I tell her recline ke' and just keep cool
She sic to her area her she fixen to move
In psychical fitness her own business
Can I get a whiteness, this chick is a jewel
And she tired of the things that I'm sendin' her through
She say when I'm gon see u and don't say whenever, you
Know I won't leave u but won't wait forever and
Got my own paper and don't take ya cheddar
And no I'm not finish I won't take the check
And I say chill you my winner from the door so
Step for set and dinner and a show
She say I be wearin blue in the worst way
Don't wear your chain, just the watch I bought for your birthday
Boy on the town and older woman down cause
Boy make her laugh when older woman sad
And older woman freak and he hold her 'til she sleep
And he gotta send her flowers like every other week
[Chorus:]
(Nobody ever really loved me)
It's just the birds and the bees
The hers an the hes
The his the ma'ams the sirs and the shes
C'mon, c'mon
And u know this man (and if somebody ever loved me...)
She say she get off work at a quarter to nine
So don't be late stop ignoring the time
Unless you got something more important in mind
Like filing with them whores I'm filing for divorce
I'll see yo ass in court just send me child support she
Wanna get married and child wanna carry
My child, her smile, my ears in her belly
She even got Fias-wife typed in her cellie
She been there from the start she there from the heart
From the walk, to the bike, to the bus, to the cars
The flights and the kites the lonely lonely nights
From please leave on the lights when she was scared of the dark
And she got the pin if I ever hit the pen
I gotcha baby say I've got her crazy
Ever since that party at the rex, I locked down her hart in cardiac arrest
Now the boy got a wifey and the wifey wanna ring
Cause she wanna be his wife, but the boy had it right
That you just ain't ready, it's too early in ya life
But whatever the weather that boy will have her ever
[Chorus:]
(Nobody ever really loved me)
It's just the birds and the bees
The hers an the hes
The his the ma'ams the sirs and the shes
C'mon, c'mon
[Intro: Lupe talking]
Yeah, revenge, now what we gonna do right now, a ha ugh, is gonna try a little experiment, just a little experiment, you know what I'm saying, a little science project, you know what I'm saying, I like to call it
Switch.
You you you, yes let the words woo you
Till you woozy.
Let the lyrics subdue you,
Massage and sooth you,
Move you till conscience lose you.
Lu now rules you,
You do what Lu do and you'll do beautiful.
Switch.
I'm the meanest.
You the meanest?
I'm the meanest
And I mean this.
Now I don't mean this
To sound fiendish,
But I'm a genious.
You a genious?
And the cleanest.
Never seen this
As clean as
My cleanest.
From on top,
From underneath,
From behind
Or in between.
Switch.
I'm a hustler creeping with my hat low.
Niggas know I pack so,
What they gonna do that for?
Niggas got my back though
Like answering the back door.
Catch you I'm a slap you, leave you redder than the bat phone.
Switch.
With a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
That.
Mixed with a little bit of pimp,
And a little bit of mac
And a little bit of limp
And a whole lotta gangster lean.
I can't be seen.
I ain't the King, but a nigga is strengthening
To paint the scene
And take the thing over
Like a soldier caught in a polo gather hood like a cobra nigga thank a teen
Switch.
[Background:]
Switch nigga, this is how I got it, I switch like hydraulic cars, switch like the barge nigga. Switch.[Background]
[Interlude: Lupe talking]
Aight, now remember that, that's a, that was a part of the experiment. I had to set it up so. So don't worry I know what your thinking, I was thinking the same thing. Just, just follow me ok. Watch, ok. Come on now.
Murder niggas,
Step on my shoes I hurt a nigga.
Kill a nigga.
Fill a nigga with holes.
Call women hoes.
Hold up niggas, hold up hoes.
Break the calm, dead in they bombs.
Blow up niggas, blow up hoes.
Turn around, smack they moms.
Switch.
Heal niggas.
Educate and build niggas
And still they niggas is real
To respect women.
Treat'em like they real,
They fell nigga.
Watch the birds,
Watch Dr. Phil nigga.
Chill nigga.
Go learn a skill nigga.
Aight.
Switch.
Rims, Mercedes Benz, twenties, twenty-twos, twenty-fours, rolls, gold, platinum watches, cases of more.
Gucci, rubis, mansions, models, VIP, Ferraris, chinchillas, diamond rings, change, Range Rovers, bling bling.
Switch.
Niggas bust his trains.
Pocket full of change.
Dimes, quarters, taking orders,
Delivering pizzas
And conditionles beaters.
Hand-me-down sneakers.
Silver.
Wannabe models won't show me love
And I can't get in the club.
Switch.
[Background:]
Switch nigga, this is how I got it, I switch like hydraulic cars, switch like the barge nigga. Switch.[Background]
[Interlude: Lupe talking]
Ha, it getting good right? Yeah, aight, so check this out. Now go back to the first one, aight, run back to that one. We're going to have a little bit more fun with that one, aight. You ready? Aight. Come on.
Switch.
Hey hey hey, it's coming back to you.
Lu no longer rules you.
You can do what you do.
Back to your usual.
Switch.
It's official.
It's official.
I'm official,
As officials
Who got the stripes
And the flags
And the whistles
Switch.
Whistle and watch my niggas come
From the underground,
Just like Thriller play Bambi
And you gonna hear that thumper sound.
Switch.
They can't touch the sound
That I'm busting now.
It's like a cloud trying to touch the ground.
Tough and bound, ever since we're touching down.
Jealous niggas catch your feelings cause I'm hustling now.
What?
Switch.
They be hating.
Switch.
They be hating.
Switch.
What? What? What?
They be hating.
Don't give them stage
Switch.
What's a nigga supposed to tell them when they up in my face then?
Switch.
That you got a cousin that don't mind catching cases.
Busting niggas' heads in, slapping niggas' faces.
Switch.
And he a do it.
He a do it.
He a do it.
And I'll prove it.
Cause I didn't seen it.
You didn't seen it?
I'd a seen it.
He the meanest.
Switch.
Ho, ho, ho. Wait.
I mean it,
I thought you were the meanest,
See?
That's why this thing is finished.
Right, now.
Switch.
[Outro: Lupe talking]
Yeah, experiment done. I think that was a goody, I think that was a good experiment, I think that was nice. It's a nice little science project.
[Background:]
Switch Nigga, I got it switch like hydraulic cars, switch like the barge nigga. Switch.[Background]
Look look! Gander gander!
Its the young boy from the land of Lambda!
The Land of Lincoln , the Grand Theft Auto Chicago warn all the mics that he hardcore.
And he's thinking Rose buried to the area, spotlights,
Dancers dancers!
Pros who come in, answer answer,
His flow is like the Klu Klux versus the Panthers
Hahaaaaaaaa!
Hit the track like a heart attack
Cancer cancer, boogie man on the mic, and the band of Santas, and the easter bunny is the back up dancer.
They faintin in the stands gotta fan the fans uh.
Panties on the stage and the pampers are grandmas, cuz they love the way that I pamper the grammar.
Moonmen struttin down the ramp of the land-a.
Hes nuts with a cane Planters Planters!
Adjust my frames, tamper tamper!
I'm real, like Seinfeld, they ain't talking about nothin, George Canstanza. Louder louder, grander grander.
Cuff a friend, read it to em like Miranda. The games endangered, Pandas Pandas, send orders to the reporters tell em pan the cameras. You might get killed if you don't listen enough, well I guess I'm dead cuz I ain't listen to Puff, hahaaaaaaaaa!
[Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
[Lupe Fiasco]
I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it
Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups
Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the
uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the
up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the
uppercrust
You get it then they move you so you never keeping up
enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the f-
cks”
Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such
And that aint Jersey Shore, homie thats the news
And these the same people that supposed to be telling
us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.
[Skylar Grey - Chorus]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
Now you can say it aint our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better than we probably deserve it
Jihad is not a holy war, wheres that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam!
And you are not observant
And you are not a muslim
Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve
pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush
went
Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking
liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom
Just listening to Pac aint gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, aint gon make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects
Take em when the pains felt
Wash them down with Diet soda!
Killin off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the World
Would gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss payment
They can take your home away!
[Skylar Grey - Chorus]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said, never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 3]
I think that all the silence is worse than all the
violence
Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the
truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even
telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell
it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a
jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath,
inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is
finally yelling through
[Skylar Grey - Chorus]
It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
[Verse 1:]
When the night falls,
She had to call it a street life,
See the figure of the street lights
Wanna know what it be like when it be right... there.
Black lipstick, tattoos of the peace sign
Plus the mark of the beast sign, oh night please be kind,
Baby girl has no... fears.
Tight clothing,
Blowing cigarette smoke in slow motion
Offered a love potion, but it's frozen
Thinks the world's so insincere
Now she dancing with strangers
She don't know they name no
The city exclaimed her but she doesn't care
[Chorus: x2]
What you want want
What you want want
Come and get it get it
What you want want
What you want want want
[Verse 2:]
When the night falls
She had to call it a bright life
See the shine in the spotlights
Wanna know what that like when it be right... there.
White liar, put her name in their headlines
Taking pictures on her website
Just so weathered in the headlights
Baby girl don't you be... scared
Red carpet, on the arms of an artist
Is starlit on the star-less paparazzi target
Things being normal's just so unfair
She knows that it's dangerous, she wants to be famous
But she's not ashamed 'cause it ain't nothing there
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 3:]
When the day comes
And they looking far away from, where they came from
See the night has betrayed them, told em it would stay young
Told them they would stay young
Now they see the sun
The night's on the run right before the rise
Black mascara's running from their eyes
But big girls don't cry
You'll be alright
It'll be tonight(tonight)
They'll put back on the lights.
[Intro:]
Somethin' new
Geah, uh
Believe me like you saw me on TV
My name is Lu, somethin' new
I show you what it does (what it does)
How it is (how it is)
And what it do (what it, do)
[Verse 1:]
I saw it on TV, I was told to buy a CD
The CD told me buy a TV
The TV that I bought came with a CD that said go and buy the DVD
The DVD that I bought came with a CD
which was the DVD of the makin' of the TV, that I saw
Which told me to go and buy the CD in the first place, wait nah
I put the DVD in the TV so you can see what I saw
But wait, it's a CD so you can't see me, odd
Maybe I should just come out on DVD like CB, far
With mad special effects and maybe a CG, car
To ride around in on your TV
Bumpin' the CD that I got when I copped the TV
Which is the same TV in my car
[Chorus:]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
It’s somethin' new
What up homeboys my name is Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu
I show you what it is, what it did and it what it do
[Verse 2:]
My DVD is gonna come with a CD, too
And music I recorded through a CB
You see when I bought the TV I spent the money for the microphone and
the home recorders too
And the phone that you need for your crew (crew)
That blocks out the noise when your voice's recording you (you)
Tell 'em to be quiet 'til the voice recording through (through)
Garage band file then export to iTunes
Then burn a CD and put it in the CG car that you saw on your TV
But you ain't gotta do that at all you see
Cuz the whole CD is being broadcasted on CB, dog
Break up break up, eh hee haw
They can't do what they see me do
But I'm the dude that's easy/Eazy too
like I'm Eazy Juniorrrrrr
When the CD starts, better tune in
or you gotta watch the reruns
Homie this is food for thought
Better put it on your fork like G.E. Hooverrrrrrrr-ah
[Chorus:]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
It’s somethin' new
What up homeboys my name is Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu
I show you what it is, what it did and it what it do (do, do, do, do, do)
What up homegirls my name is Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu
I show you what it is, what it did and it what it do (do, do, do, do, do)
[Verse 3:]
Now that's two TV's that's in my car
That’s not really real man that's really a fraud
It’s from the green screen
My CD might not pump on your block
but at the truck stop man I'm really a star
So how you gonna act now?
Same music homeboys hollin' in the background (yo!)
See I had to lay the smack down
Act like a X addict
Act now gateway off to the next habitat (habitat)
Couldn’t match it now I'm laying that down like a mat now (ooh!)
And checkin’ for me, now they pat down like a Howard Gap found
I was hidin' in my shoes, with me and my two crews
We took from other things you ain't finding in the stew
That’s why's no booth and I'm rhymin' in the Lou, still buying the CD
That’s why I catch 'em rhymin' in to me while they rhymin' in they room
Now I'm off to Caloon for some rhymin' and some tea
My pinky up on my tea cup
If you play the DVD at the same time that you start the CD
you gon' see that they sync up
And if you happen to doubt, just play the CD while you watch the TV
and you gon' see that I'm doing what I'm rappin' about
[Chorus:]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
It’s somethin' new
What up homeboys my name is Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu
I show you what it is, what it did and it what it do (do, do, do, do, do)
What up homegirls my name is Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu
[Lupe Fiasco:]
I call this one Yoga... Flame
Uh, meditate
On the floor, fold your legs, resonate
Breathing speed, regulate
Clear my mind till it levitate
Dhalsim, I beat the game,
Level 8, Hella good
Never great cause God is great
So ain't no goats, ain't no gates
Fences see the rams ram, lambs let, sheep's skate
Brace yourself, teeth straight
Fix your face for Pete's sake
Birthday wordplay, piece of cake
Fold the flow with seats for eight
A row row marrow make it rain
Not with bills, I make it change
Take that cool shit, make it lame
Take that nerd shit, make it bang
Yeah, you heard us make it bang
Yeah, you heard me make it bang
Melt the change and make a ring
Take that ring and make a bracelet
Take that bracelet make a chain
Look how far my necklace hang
Connect that chain up to a crane
Pull the game up by the brains
Could not move it just with brains
So I had to use some bling
Shouts to Drizzy, shout to Wayne
Yeezy, Jeezy, Ricky, Fifty, Raekwon, Loso, Gucci Mane
I'm not going to drop my name
Sneak that message to the masses, you can call me Chocolate Rain
You might think my wallet drained
Look how far my pockets hang
That's cause I got pocket change
My net worth is basketball
They net worth is soccer games
Tell them n-ggas stop it mane
But they cannot stop it mane
So, they forced to watch it drain
They be looking so blue like water when I wash my jeans
King without the whoppers and, King without the cobbler
And King and I ain't got no drains
Bruce Lee, dishwasher
Cleaning out your pots and pans
These n-ggas ain't got no stain
Power once I hit them with the powder
Then throw em' in the shower
These n-ggas slower than some dial-up
I be on my broadband
These n-ggas still downloadin'
Lu finished, you still up on YouSendIt, uShare, zShare
How long you going to be there?
Damn...
FinallyFast.com for you fam
Information super highway
These n-ggas ain't got no lane
But you can ride my shoulder
Like they pulled you over
I sit in the driver's seat
You sit on the sofa
I am Patrick Swayze
You are Whoopi Goldberg
Cause he was a beast and the way that he controlled her
Rest in peace to Patrick
Rest in Peace to Stacks, kid
Rest in Peace to Rap, no, rest in peace to wackness
Yeah, n-gga, I whacked it
Baby boy with the glasses
Tears like a black rap Zach Galifianakis
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
When first she had on baby clothes
Then she had on young lady clothes
Mom tried to keep her out the sexy clothes
Prom night she wore dressy clothes
Prom night, took all night to get ready for
Retro now she want 80′s clothes
No colleges no scholarships so she put on some Navy clothes
Pregnant now its bigger clothes
Living in ?
Different girl when the liquor flow
Stripper name, stripper clothes
Stripper pose on stripper poles
Then take off her stripper clothes
Right in front them gigalo’s
Cocaine what she sniffin on
Burnt out, turnt out ? now she walk around in n-ggas clothes
Out the sag, out the bag
Goodwill got to give her clothes
Oh the humanity, like the ?
Richard Pryor lit on fire, she can’t tell what fit no more
And…
[Chorus x2]
Who are you now,
It’s like everyday you change
Who are you now
Your style, your clothes, your name
Who are you now
So who are you now
Who are you now
Who are you now
So you spend all your time to fit in line
To fit in the crowd and even in your mirror’s eyes
Yourself you can’t identify
And just like the Energiser rabbit
You just be spinning round
And as it intensifies, your life it de-materialises
[B.o.B - Verse]
Today’s stylings, injecting like a virus
From TV screens to your iris
You buy what you are provided with
Whatever your size is
You lay it flat then iron it
And if you fight it, its like David verse Goliath
Cause that skin you supoosed to hide it
Dress it up and deny it
Cant even go natural no more cause if do you probably wont get hired
So tell me who’s lying
If I am, I’m lying
On the ground but I’m flying
And they still tryna find me
[Chorus]
Who are you now,
It’s like everyday you change
Who are you now
Your style your clothes your name
Who are you now
So who are you now
Who are you now
Who are you now
[Talking:]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, 1-5 who's crooked than One-Time?
I say 1-5 who's more crooked than One-Time?
Yeah, yeah check is my mic on? As I twilight zone?
[Verse:]
My mindstate rewinds wakes
And fast-forwards bullets makin'a B-line for my face
Then they stop like Neo
Laugh at me throw some cash at me then fly pass me
But one ricochette off the wall to come ask me
Am I scared of him or the "nigga that blast me"
Or maybe just the hammer that goes to be a hole in an innocent bystander
My eye's a camera my ear's a microphone
My mind is Pro Tools my head is a stool
Whats recorded in my dome gets reported when I zone
My mouth is a speaker I'm anchoring the misery
There's no friends my enemy of my enemy is my enemy
Beekers and test tubes full of memories
In my labatory I create stories
Doze off then wake up surrounded by Forties
Wit glocks tucked in they labels
And they caps is baseball hats
Playin poker at a table
Cigarrets massage they shoulders in belly tops showin off they navels
A dime sack side bets, a tech is runnin' for president
Jesus pieces walk around with niggas hangin from they necks
Monoploy is playin' chess
I just picked up an obituary of a bullet proof vest
Put the headphone on my mouth speak into my ears
Yea microphone check, check, check, check, check
Check, a pair of Air Forces told me Rims've been extinct for years
Been ethnic cleansed by Jersey's tryna take over the set
And Television is on deathrow for killing BET and MTV over a dice game
And paralyizing CNN for knifing him in the neck
I hear Clear Channel's been fightin him in the rec
Who's in for givin' grape Kool-Aid laced wit STRY 9 to Mixtapes and arm robbin cassettes
Dope told me Weed was a crack fiend but Crack told me Dope was a base head
Hi-hats told police he was just a soldier he did what the Bass said
The Snare and the Kick didn't make it out alive
The Sample made it out with some money but he died in the ride
The 808 got caught wit some work (He ain't never comin' home)
So the MPC's and the MP3's is fightin over his turf
Sean Don just gave birth
But she's thinkin' bout leavin it on the doorstep of a church
Cristal can't have kids she plottin' to kidnap it that she orchestrated with a purse
But Gucci told Fendi and Fendi turned and around and told Henny
And Henny is Moets baby's father
But she tried it anyway disguised as nurse
In the newspapers it says "Hip-Hop called Rock n Roll racist"
The Six ripped the Five and the Maybach taped it
A Hundred dollar bill just signed a record deal
But blew all his money on the Braceletes
And givin' the Gold Dollar a face lift
A Button Up just drove by in a 6-4 Impalla
All the Rolex's is hatin' you see the smirks on they faces
The Havatampas is defending the Dutches they keep catchin cases
But the judge is a Swisha he just give em iBonds and community service with the Papers
so the Newport's is gettin mad at the ZigZags then out come the razors
See the Kool's is killers on the creep
Rush up on the Philly, leave his guts spillin on the street
Some Gold Grills burned down a building of some teeth
Some Sharpened Tooth Brushes is holding the trampoline cuz some children finna to leap
I just seen Rocawear rock Sean John to sleep with the same heat that Baby Phat carried
Sprint is pimpin Nextel she just gave head to a Black Berry...
I heard she go two-ways
But he was skeetin on her face as it was beepin on my waist
This is the mind of Lupe
[Lupe Fiasco]
Once upon a time not long ago
An idea, yeah, that's what I had
To take +Demon Days+ and a little Pro Tools
With my MCing ways and make them mash
Just having fun not chasing cash
Apologize now if it make you mad
Had to call G Ball, tell him warm up the mic
Put the padding on the wall, time to make some magic
Studio is nothing lavish
Matter of fact, it's just an attic
Background noise from the fan
That hitting the mic stand and the outside traffic
Still turns out fantastic
Turn my vocals up just a tad bit
Fresh from the 1st & 15th
Quarantine touching you, super cool, now that's sick
[Hook: Gorillaz]
Windmill, windmill for the land
Learn forever hand in hand
Take it all, let on your stride
It is sticking, falling down
Love forever, love is free
Let's turn forever, you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?
[Lupe Fiasco]
So sit on back and enjoy the show
Then lean on forward and enjoy some more
And then, sit back again
And keep on enjoying like you was enjoying before
Whether you enjoy the beats or enjoy the flow
As long as you enjoying it, it bring joy to Joe
And Joe is me but woe is me
If you and yours ain't enjoying the show
So, don't worry about the time it take
If you ain't got one better find a date
A beautiful inside or a dime that take
I proudly present to you +A Rhyming Ape+
My rhymes are straight
If you ain't got one better find a date
A beautiful inside or a dime that take
I proudly present to you +A Rhyming Ape+
[Lupe talking:]
You know I had to do it, man. It wouldn'ta been right if I didn't. You seen it? You seen the show last night on TV? You seen nigga's rims man? You seen the new Jordans man? You see her ass yo? Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
[Singing:]
Seein' with my ghetto eyes
I walkeded with my ghetto feet
I talkeded with my ghetto speech
I'm copasetic, I won't let it bring me down
Bring me down...
I say it's enstilled
As I peep from beneath the titled brim of my pinwheel
Steady mobbin', heavy problems
Genocide resynthesize to violence, makes it hard to sympathize
Harden, individuals whose feelings is miniscule
Soon become criminals if you dark-skinned
And you was raised in a project apartment
Public Aid made it that your father couldn't stay
He had to part then, left with only a mother
The family structure suffers
He will soon cling to hustlers, as his guardians
He still a boy, needs to fill a void, marchin'
Up the block up to no good, sellin' in the wrong hood
He was taken down by a marksmen
At his wake, 8th Grade Graduation picture
Last words: Don't let the habitation get ya
Pardoned, Lord have mercy on the fallen
Amen, feel like I'm hardened
Got the harbinger for the coming of the carpenter
Til then, I got some big fish to fry like Marlins
Part niggas, steady mobbin'
[Chorus:]
I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answers
Like, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dicatate my glory
Cuz it's something out there for me
But I'ma flee my territory
So I won't end up, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
And I try to see past it
Through the down-roll window on the driver side of my Caprice Classic
Steady mobbin', corner store traffic
i.e. dope fiends, hookers and teens with alcohol IVs
I see, plastic, cups is a nickel, 50 cent for Dutch Masters
My big brother's Pelle Pel' lingers of a fargone weed smoke
Lookin' for greener pastures, pasturized 2% for $2.19
You can get 2 quarts, there's also a sale on Newports
A seperate line for Lotto, bumpy face, add a model
Huggin' a bottle, salt and sour Jays, and blueberry Hugs
Shorties consider a meal, been my feel for it
Sweatin' for a pair of Air Jordans they would steal for
And a gold chain 4 fiends would knife, wild and kill yours
There's nothing too promising on our billboards
Drink Tanqueray, eat KFC, come abort your child
Buy Nikes, which makes it highly unlikely that we gon' fight, G
Steady mobbin'
[Chorus:]
I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answers
Like, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dicatate my glory
Cuz it's something out there for me
But I'ma flee my territory
So I won't end up, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
And I'm still on
As I stroll down the same street so many like me once before, were killed on
Steady mobbin', thinkin' bout the Black Panthers
And the babies that were born in the late '80s
That now have babies that lack Pampers
No Kwaanzas and they lack Santas
And the father who thinks shoe-shopping is the answer
Skipped out on parenthood classes so she don't know how to handle her
And never learned from her grandmother
One day got hot, couldn't take it, dropped her in a vacant lot
Album of Life, now condensed into a sampler
See the shapes these little girls is gettin'?
Somethin' say the steroids in the chicken is the cause of the thickening in the young women
Livid, see some shorties playin' Cops & Robbers, livin'
Bittersweet thoughts is what I had for them
I can picture colder feelin' Police chasin' after them
Catchin' up to, friskin' and askin' them
Where the packs at? Who yo' cheif is? Where the straps at?
Am I thinking too hard? Or perhaps that's reality
In a project mentality, but through it all
I hope we learn more than how to be whores and how to move a ball
Steady mobbin'
[Chorus:]
I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answers
Like, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dicatate my glory
Cuz it's something out there for me
But I'ma flee my territory
So I won't end up, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
[Lupe: Talking]
The uprising has begun,
The revolution is here,
The propaganda will be smashed,
Your establishment will be shaken to the core,
A new regime is being ushered in on the back of the people,
We will not be held down any longer,
This is a new day. Yeeaaa, spaze out.
Fiasco
Fiasco
Fiasco [x3]
Fiasco
Fiasco
Fiasco [x3]
Uh, Uh, Uh,
The revolution is here, a evolution of years.
The building of skills now my brilliance is clear. Chea!
The anointed one to point a gun that?s been appointed by the slums
to make u get it, show u how to get it done.
Get a gun if u got it, tuck your chain, remove your watches,
brush up on your slang and your knowledge,
Just acquaint yourself with making wealth, join a gang,
pick a system, take it hostage,
stuff your shoes, get a white tee, say hello to the impoveraged.
not completely poor, but they are completely more
in the mist of getting missed and getting pissed and takin? yours.
What u shakin? for, you scared? Naw.
well I'm just makin' sure
no cowards will not take this cause.
[Chorus:]
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now) [x3]
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now) [x3]
No problem we will take wit force,
We properly will break em? off
Got em lead em freed em teach em rape em make em take em off,
Look homey run your chain
Not the one that?s on your neck,
but the one that?s on your brain
that they use to keep in check,
Rebels that don?t have a cause
The devil down here doesn?t pause
so u gotta keep it movin?'
so the movement doesn?t fall.
And this consistent white and black and all
that?s tired of frontin??' tired of jumpin' for the man
every time he ask for sumthin, NO.
don?t they think they got ?em drinkin?, smokin? just to fit in
women that think they gotta screw the owner just to fit in, NO.
the overlooked and undercared, its over look
the son is here, they unprepared, so we took them unawares!
[Chorus:]
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now) [x3]
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now) [x3]
Get ready its about to change,
things might never be the same,
u might never be the king coup! (Coup)
as long as they release the reigns,
if u think that we are playin,
watch us leave here with a bang BOOM!
Be careful cause theres thinkers here,
most the crooks are slingers here,
who know the tricks and know the books
and what took to bring us here.
Now, a coup is in effect u serpents of the throne,
bring a bird for the next and a murder of the known.
The propagandas ugly the truth is on its way.
This is a lot felt, they just didn?t know how to say.
They mouth is here, the stakes is high, the doubt is here,
the threat is real, they cant survive what we are about to do!
[Chorus:]
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now) [x3]
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now)
Spaze out (O really now) [x3]
[Lupe Talking:]
Pimp the system.
Things are never gonna be the same.
FNF full reign.
First and Fifteenth.
Chea.
[Jennifer Hudson:]
Guess I gotta forget all about [?]
And try to live my life just like it is
Whooa,
But I want everyobody to remember me (everybody)
I will come back 10 years ago (well, hey)
Said I want everybody to remember me
When I go back 10 years and years ago
When I get my second chance
[Lupe Fiasco:]
When I get my second chance I'm gon redeem myself
When I bring myself, me and my team my help
Ain't no "I" in that but I'm in that so I am packed
So there's ten to millions inside of that
Ain't one man army, one man army I am that
Bring it back like a typer-writer, writing that
I attack like a lightening strike with a lions wrath
With a vipers bite come alive with that
Put your life on that
Like everything I do though
All my old wounds have healed but they still feel like they new though
And everytime I see 'em I start to think of you yo
First I wasn't focused, wasn't willing and my goon's
So performance was just lackin at those moments that were crucial
Now my heart is razor sharp and confidence is MUCHO
Big, things I can't forgive, things I can't forget
Things I can't relive, the agony is asking me, defeat is sweet to sin
But I put that on my city we will never miss again.
[Chorus:]
Never miss the city of the wind that I'm in
City of the wind that I'm in
We can do it now
We can do it now
We can do it now
We can do it we can do we can do it now
Second chance, second win, do it again
Yeah eah, eeeeah
Yeah we do it again
We can do it now
Let's do it again
We can do it now
Do it now
[Common:]
The rise of the phoenix, sweat falls
Time has it's meaning, I evolve
Hit the ground and bounce back up, just like B-Ball
Muhammad Ali jaw, I knew that I would be all
[?] where I came from, the same place that [?] from
My name hung, from the rafters before an aftermath of a master
Wishing I could have the moment to grab the trophy and glass of champagne
My locker rooms a cold place, LA got no gates
You mighta seen this man cry, that was just my old face
My soul waits redemption and intervention from a higher dimension
Inspire mission, no more hoping or wishing, conditions'll change
[?] and say Barack on the range
I'm from the Chi' too, now I'm Barack in the game
Came back and overcame, overstood the rain
More than just the fame, married to the game
Now I hold the reign
Yeah, F-N-F up, Through all the trails and the tribulations and the storms...yeah! We still here.
You know what i'm saying? (gemini)
Lupe! Fresh from the reigns of the police , this has been brought to you by genocide, sponsored by crack (we ain't goin no where).
They couldn't belive how I took charge , and made it describe how I push hard through the streets. And at the same time I was pushin the margins so far to the left that I ended up writin on my desk. Yes I'm from a concrete jungle, that will make your set look like bush gardens, test. Who wanna touch the Juan Don, Von Dutch, niggas want none trust! please believe me I don't give a damn how gassed up or eager he is. It started won't stop, who don't want us to blow like bomb squad well fire unguard, its lu-pe toshe. Couped the gras now put them in the trunk like the roofs are our cars. Yeah, Rappers is like Sonny when i'm up in the booths with my bars, a mind full of poisin, a mouth full of flu and a lung full of SARs, fresh from the mayonaise jar, prepared to bring you down reach your razor blades pause
Its only the beginning man, Food and Liquor, F-N-F, up!
But it wasn't easy to crack it (nope), we wasn't fly, had to get it off the ground pedalin. E.T. was in the basket, now its sick 1st and 5th bought to come up like the last bullet in the clip. Click, a few didn't survive, it triggered something inside that gave me power. Got a grip, like the floor of the shower, now I hit anything that I set my sights on, no lights on, silence is my 5th plead the 5th. I don't need a Japanese flag masters, stampede of hip hop, straight from the hip hop, no matter how the enemy bosters I'm going to hold us down like the holdsters right up on my shoulders, clappers why don't cha wait some more. fire. It ain't safe no more. Punk suckas pull backwards I pull fastest it's master. I haven't turned into guns like MegaTron you just brushed upon the upper echelon. gone.
[Chorus 1]
I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly
For the day I die, I'mma touch the sky
Gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly
For the day I die, I'mma touch the sky
Back when they thought pink polo's would hurt the Roc,
Before Cam got the shit to pop, the doors was closed.
I felt like Bad Boy's street team, I couldn't work the Lox (locks).
Now let's go.
Take 'em back to the plan...
Me and my momma hopped in the U-Haul van.
Any pessimists I ain't talked to them,
Plus, I ain't have no phone in my apartment.
Let's take 'em back to the club.
Least about an hour I would stand on line,
I just wanted to dance.
I went to Jacob an hour after I got my advance.
I just wanted to shine.
Jay's favorite line: "Dog, in due time"
Now he look at me, like "Damn, dog, you where I am"
A hip hop legend.
I think I died in an accident, cause this must be heaven.
[Chorus]
[Hook 1: P. Diddy]
Now let's take 'em high-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh la la la la la la la
(Top of the world, baby. T-Top of the world)
Now let's take 'em high-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh la la la la la la la
(Top of the world, baby. T-Top of the world)
Back when Gucci was the shit to rock,
Back when Slick Rick got the shit to pop,
I'd do anything to say "I got it".
Damn, them new loafers hurt my pocket.
Before anybody wanted K-West beats,
Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.
Dog, I was having nervous breakdowns,
Like "Damn, these niggas that much better than me?"
Baby, I'm going on an airplane,
And I don't know if I'll be back again.
Sure enough, I sent the plane tickets,
But when she came to kick it, things became different.
Any girl I cheated on, sheets I skeeted on.
I couldn't keep it home, I thought I needed a Nia Long.
I'm trying to write my wrongs,
But it's funny these same wrongs helped me write this song.
Now,
[Chorus 2]
I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly
For the day you die, You gonna touch the sky
(You gonna touch the sky babygirl!) Testify, come up in the spot
Looking extra fly
For the day you die, You gonna 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 bit on the verge
Hold it down like we're on the serve
Bottle-shaped body like Mrs. Butterworth's.
But, before you say another word,
I'm back on the block like a man on the street.
I'm trying to stop lying like a Mum-Ra,
But I'm not lying when I'm laying on the beat.
Engarde, Touch© Lupe cool as the Unthar,
But I still feel as possessed as a gun charge.
I come as correct as a porn star,
In a fresh pair of steps and my best foreign car.
So, I represent the first.
Now, let me hear my verse right where the horns are like
[Chorus 2]
[Hook 2: P. Diddy]
(We back at home, baby)
Sky high
I'm, I'm sky high
I'm, I'm sky high
I'm, I'm sky high
I'm, I'm sky high
I'm, I'm sky high
Sky, Sky high
I'm, I'm sky high
Yeah! (Keep it rollin)
[Lupe: talking followed by Pen Writing]
[Verse 1:]
Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart
Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my culture
Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric
In other words, I reposition how I sit it,
Then make u "feel it" Like I mispronounced Filet,
On second thought, I can't make u fill it
Like u diggin' ya own grave, 'less u can Kill Bill it
A night of the living passed the wait
Can u dig it? Why Emcee? Hey,
I do it for my village-
The pennin' is John Lennon, the beat; is the Beatles
Go together like Lennon and the people
In some fresh linens and some John Lennon's fresh outta Seagle's
The pen and the needles...
[Writing and mumbling upcoming verse]
[Verse 2:]
I'm back at cha, and I Pac' like cap backwards
Like a hat's backwards, you know, when the bats backwards
Yeah, like a bat catchers
The law gotta long arm like a back scratcher
But before I leave mine at home
Like a bad catcher, I think about my zone
Where pimps make scratch off the track like a DJ
Easy, that's my zone rappers
It's my deck...
And if I catch u set trippin' wit my cassette sittin' in a zone rappers:
It's not a threat,
Cuz it'll span ya where I roam rappers, where I hone my skills
They wanna send me back home the devil, is on my heels
The wreckingness thing like in a sequences police, i repeat
We go together like the Beauty and the Beast
Writing is in my veins;
The ink is the diesel, the pen and the needles…
[Writing and mumbling upcoming verse]
The word is mightier than the sword
And my serve is tightier than yours
Like year in St. Louis ya whole flow
I fear I sank through it...
It all became clear,
Like a paramedic with an electric chest kit, YEAH
The gravity of the vocabulary is a caliber equal to Excalibur
Swung wit the grace of Agassi in his amateurs, THERE
There was a deeper depth, don't know how I got here
I also had a hole in my flow,
It appears I sank to it...
My swing, it couldn't be seen
I apply some paint to it, the invisible man
Wrapped in bandages, in critical, CLEAR
The scriptin' of Scorsese the score is Count Basie
We go together like, the original and the sequel
This is the end of the trilogy, ya feelin' me?
[Hook]
This world ends, this world ends
This world ends, this world ends
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now
[Verse 1]
Uh, she love her people so much
Came to my show just to throw her flag up and
Pray to God that I saw her
Wonder if she saw my scarf for Palestine all on it
Never struggle, Valentine all on it
Put my heart into it
Like Noah's Ark I'm too into it
Like justice I'm just too influenced not to do this to it
This one dedicated to the soldiers
Throw up peace signs in the face of bulldozers
Never bow down or wrap their body in explosives
As long as your alive, fight your whole lifetime
The Horn of Africa needs you
Callin' out to all you friends of the people
Be the change that you wanna see
Tell 'em no change just ain't what it gonna be
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
Yeah, the people, united, will never be defeated
And all my people's smite just forever be repeated
Whose streets? Our streets, it'll never be deleted
No matter how many cops that you send to try and beat it
This is revolution in the making
A ragtag movement set to takeover the nation
Now isn't that fun?
You just wanna make the world better, isn't that young?
Well, blessings to the youth then
And don't stop, until they let the truth in
Once there, never let it leave
And protect it, they'll catch it and never set it free
And every set is free
Blood sweat and tears, no place I'd rather be
So, let's occupy Wall Street, all day, all week
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
So again, I fight evil
This what I gotta do to live my life peaceful?
So be it, outspoken and low key it
My heart big, limousine no Fiat
And you can hear it loud every time God beat it
Love always shines every time I see it
Exactly what they hated is exactly what I needed
And exactly where I started is exactly where I leave it
Cause I ain't never ever ever change
I say that because I ain't never felt better mane
Beautiful LASERS as fans, do me a favor, this time I'll repay ya
Friend of the peeps, free Chill, ask her what's peace
Holla at me if you see me in the streets
A picture costs a dollar, First and Fifteenth
Alright They're Kinda Sketchy...But I Hope U Like Em!!!
Handcuffs
[Intro:]
You Know Wut Im Sayin You Know Sum Niggas Really Out There Bad
You Know Wut Im Sayin Sum Niggas Is Forced In Positions Where They Gota Do Things Where They Donât Wana Do It You Know Wut Im Sayin So Sum Nigas Forced 2 Dope Sell Dope Sum Nigas Forced 2 Pimp You Know Wut Im Sayin But U Got Sum Nigas Out There That Just Lazy You Know Wut Im Sayin They Nigas Aint Forced 2 Do Nuthin Nigas Got Other Options They Jus Choose Not 2 Do Em You Know
[Verse 1:]
Sittin In The Back Of The Police Car Position Your Mission Is Forgettin Deny They Existas Thinking Of Different Ways To Keep From Submitten And Contain And Not To Mention Like Dat Grandma Keep Police In The Second Edition(I Think Thatâs It) With The Walls So U Can Barely Fit In
Knees Is Touchin The Front Seat Shiftin Cuz Ye Handcuffs Is Cutting Ye Wrists And Ye Pushin That He Wud Drive Fasta Please But He Slows Through The Hood As He Drives Past The Free Itâs Cool But U Trippin The Quicka U Get There The Quicka U Sit There Cuffed To Bench And They Playin Good Cop Bad Cop One Of Them Pretendin So U Rewind Urself To Ur Under Easy Recline In The Back Of The Police Car Handcuffed In The Seatbelt
[Chorus:]
Nah U Aint Gota Quicken The Pase They Just Giv Me More Time 2 Sit In The Race Alibine Alius Switch And Replace Think About Then Forget About An Escape Thank God That Im Up In The States Cuz If I Wuz In Russia Who Wud Know How Theyd Do A Hustla W8 I Aint A Hustla Im Str8 Im Dam Near A Busta No Laws I Break
[Verse 2:]
Money I Neva Seen Guna I Didnât Hold Drugs I Neva Sold Cars I Didnât Make Niga This Is A Waste Of Your Time And Mine Im Comfortable Im Fine A Case This Aint Even A Fine U Aint Find Nutin Homie Not Even A Dime Not Even A Dime That Wud Drop Die Moment(I Think) I No U Is Dyin So U Put A Dime On It I Know Thatâs A Crime U Supposed 2 Fight Crime For Me Protectin The Serve Prosecute Correct And Return To The Homies And Thatâs Gona Send Them Direct 2 The Curb So U Can Put It Back On Me
[Chorus: Backround Saying Handcuffs]
You Knoe Donât Get Me Wrong Sum Ppl Aint Got No Optionsu No Wut Im Sayin They Surrounded Cuz They Aint Vaumet(No Idea Thatâs A Guess) And The Way That Society Works On Things Actually Forces Them Into Rexment(No Idea) You Now Wut Im Sayin To The Point Where They Got No Options So They Gota Go Out There And Carry Guns And They Carry Guna To Protect The Dope
[Verse 3:]
Sittin In The Front Of The Police Car Postion Is Mission Is Bendin Pinnin Charges On Niggas Even If They Didnât He Sittin In Court Lyin Testifyin Againt Defendents Like That Uh And He Love 2 Choke Nigas He Donât Trip With The Rich He Jus Like The Broke Niggas Probly Did More Dirt In The Street Then Most Niggas Even The Old Ppl Donât Like Em Cuza The Way He Approach Niggas Niga U Aint No Betta Then Me Just A Hustla With A Badge Confiscate The Dope Money Put It With Ur Retirement Hope Money U Aint Building No Playgrounds In The Poor For Sum Cash That Aint A Pention Thatâs A Shoe Box Stash With A Glock To Protect It We Both Undercova Check It Thinking That The Good We Do Donât Out Wigh The Centa That We Do To Collect It Sayin This Fore The Community They Donât Value Us Only A Round Cuz The Property Value Up And They Gota Clear The Streets Before They Put The Houses Up Put Them 200 Thousands Up Feel Him Donât Get Payd Enough To Kick In Doors Raid And Cuff So Use Wut Nigas Get On The Street A Settlement That The Wage Is Cut So We Gota Keep Just Enough Nigas Out There Hustling To Keep This Paper Up Like That Maybe He Shud Be In Them Handcuffs
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go?
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
Have you ever had the feelin' that you was bein' had?
Don't that shit there make you mad? They treat you like a slave
Put chains all on your soul and put whips up on your back
They be lyin' through they teeth, hope you slip up off your path
I don't switch up, I just laugh, put my kicks up on they desk
Unaffected by they threats, then get busy on they ass
See, that's how that Chi-Town made me, that's how my daddy raised me
That glitterin' may not be gold, don't let nobody play me
If you are my homeboy, you'll never have to pay me
Go on and put your hands up when times is hard, you stand up
L-U-P the man, 'cause the brand that the fans trust
So even if they ban us, they'll never slow my plans up
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
One in the air for the people ain't here
Two in the air for the father that's there
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
Four for the kids that don't wanna be there
None for the niggas tryin' to hold them back
Five in the air for the teachers not scared
To tell those kids that's livin' in the ghetto
That the niggas holdin' back that the world is theirs
Yeah, the world is yours, I was once that little boy
Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour
I will give up everything even start a world war
For these ghetto girls and boys, I'm rappin' 'round the world for
Africa to New York, Haiti, then I detour
Oakland out to Auckland, Gaza Strip to Detroit
Say hip hop only destroy, tell 'em look at me, boy
I hope your son don't have a gun and never be a D-boy
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
So no matter what you been through, no matter what you into
No matter what you see when you look outside your window
Brown grass or green grass, picket fence or barbed wire
Never ever put them down, you just lift your arms higher
Raise 'em 'til your arms tired let 'em know you here
That you struggling, survivin', that you gon' persevere
Yeah, ain't nobody leavin', nobody goin' home
Even if they turn the lights out, the show is goin' on
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up, the show goes on
Alright, already, the show goes on
All night 'til the morning, we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they would see the sun go
Uhh.. yeah
He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes
Everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it
Heeeeee mimics and he mocks it
Really hates the box but he can't remember how to stop, it
Uhh, so he continues to watch it
Hoping that it'll give him something that he can box with
Or how the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box
Ain't got the combination to unlock, it
That's why he watch-es, scared to look away
Cause at that moment, it might show him
What to take off the locks with
So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it
Swallowed the combination and then forgot, it
As the doctors jot it all down, with they pens and pencils
The same ones that took away his voice
And just left this instrumental, like that
And he never lies (he never lies, he never lies, uhh)
And he never lies (uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no)
And he never lies (he never lies)
Cause he never said anything at all
He just sits, and listens to the people in the boxes
Everything he hears he absorbs and adopts it
Anything not coming out the box he blocks it
See he loves to box and hope they never stop it
Anything the box tell him to do, he does it
Anything it tell him to get, he shops and he cops it
He protects the box, locks it in a box
when he goes to sleep, but he never sleeps
Cause he stays up to watch it, scared to look away
Cause at that moment, it might get stolen
And that's the last of the boxes
So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it
Swallowed the combination and then forgot, it
As the doctors jot it all down, with they pens and pencils
The same ones that took away his voice
And just left this instrumental, like that
(Anything at all..) He never lies
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are
You buy new clothes just to hide those scars
You built that roof just to hide those stars
Now you can't take it back to the start
And you can't tell me just who you are
You buy new clothes just to hide those scars
You built that roof just to hide those stars
Now you can't take it back to the start
(Anything at all.. anything at all..)
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are
You buy new clothes just to hide those scars
You built that roof just to hide those stars
Now you can't take it back to the start
And you can't tell me just who you are
You buy new clothes just to hide those scars
You built that roof just to hide those stars
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the camera's is here
And the microphone's
And they wanna' know oh oh oh oh (The Return)
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the crowd is here
And the lights are on
And they wanna show oh oh oh oh, yeah
Yeah, uh
A fresh cool young Lu'
Tryna' catch his microphone check 2, 1, 2
Wanna' believe my own hype but it's too untrue
The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?
Did you improve on the design? Did you do somethin' new?
Well ya' name ain't on the guest list, who brung you?
YOU! The more famous person you come through
And the sexy lady next to you, you come too
And then it hit me
Standin' outside of heaven waitin' for god to come and get me
I'm too uncouth
Unschooled to the rules and too gum shoe
Too much of a new comer and too un-cool
Like Shadow and Lavelle, I battle wit' it well
Tho I need holiday like lady who sung "Blue"
Go back, whatever you did you undo
Heavy as heaven
The devil on me, two ton's too
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the camera's is here
And the microphone's
And they wanna' know oh oh oh oh, yeah
And ya' better wear ya' shaaades
The spotlights here can burn holes through the staaage
Down to the basement pass the Indian graves
Where the dinosaurs laid
Then out through shinin', nearly miss the airliners
Magnified times five, 'less its pointed at the ryhmer
Ricochets off the moon and sets the forest ablaaaze
Now that's important to say
'Cause even with all that most of us don't want it to faaade
We want it to braid, meaning we want it to grow
Meaning we want it to staaay
Like the Governor called and he told him to waaait
Un-strap him from the chair and put him back in his caaage
The audience ain't faaazed
And they ain't gon' clap and they ain't gon' praise
They want everything back that they've paid
'Cause they've been waitin' since ten to see the lights get dim
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the crowd is here
And the lights are on
And they wanna show oh oh oh oh, yeah
So chauffeur chauffeur come and take me away
'Cause I've been standin' in this line for like five whole days
Me and security ain't getting' along
And when I got to the front, they told me all of the tickets were gone
So just take me home where the mood is mellow
And the roses are grown, M&Ms; are yellow
And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
One for you and one for your sister
Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
Every songs her favorite song and mics don't feedback
All the reviewers say "You need to go and see that"
And everybody claps 'cause everybody is pleased
And then they all take the stage and start performin' for me
Like, ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha, ha
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the camera's is here
And the microphone's
And they wanna' know oh oh oh oh
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the crowd is here
And the lights are on
And they wanna show oh oh oh oh, yeah
If you are, what you say you are
Fresh to def, she is
From her steps to her set, she is
So death might not let me live
Ya dig? Fresh, yes, she is
Had a feelin' that it would be a day like this
The orchestra in my mind don't play like this
Naw but I'm prepared for it, got a little rare for it
Brushed off my Airs, even cut my hair for it
'Cause normally I don't care for it
Don't even be lookin' for light like that
Then there it go, yeah, right over there
So I prepared to pour it, little scared
My stare lowered, mamma said have no fear
Plus I'm already outta my chair
Gathered up my airs on my square from here for it
It's nothing, right? So here go it
Whispered in her ear, it was crowded in here
Would she care to blow it? She said yeah
You're my sunshine, you're my moonlight
You're the starry skies above me
Won't you please come down and hug me?
Think I found love in this club tonight
Never met her before
But I think I like her like a metaphor
It's hard to get in the car, we sit from the intro
She rolled down the window just in case I was a schizo
I compliment on her common sense
I'm calm a little, more confident, uh huh
And then we lose consciousness
She says that, "I've been waitin' for you"
"And I know that you've been chasin' me too
Since they kidnapped me from my castle
I've been thinkin' of you
I told a fire breathin' dragon, he bet not harm me
Or be sorry when he meets my for my one man army"
"And thou has come to rescue me
My knight in shinin' armor, yes, you be"
Woken up by the horn of an S.U.V.
I said, "See too beautiful to let you sleep"
You're my sunshine, you're my moonlight
You're the starry skies above me
Won't you please come down and hug me?
Think I found love in this club tonight
Relationship is just 30 minutes long
It's kinda heavy, maybe a little strong
Goin' take much more than once
Can't trust what each of us say at least for a month
Or two before I bid you adieu, do this one thing for me
Out of the trillions of numbers that's in the world
Just leave me a few, they'll lead to you
Won't be long and I'll see you in the mornin', cool?
You're my sunshine, you're my moonlight
You're the starry skies above me
Won't you please come down and hug me?
Think I found love in this club tonight
You're my sunshine, you're my moonlight
You're the starry skies above me
Won't you please come down and hug me?
A simplified love sick taking no prisoners
Sunny day, cold heart-listen up listeners
Darkside love affair, out of time and in a rush
You can’helped me till the sunrises up
Let’s levitate up over the horizon
I can see it in your eyes, everything you’re hiding
I can see the truth in you even when you’re lying
Even through the darkness, I can see you shining
When it's midnight and it's colder
Pull you closer, I can see you through
When it's sunshine and it's solar
And it's over, guess it's me and you
Blood!
Sun!
Light!
A played out love song playing in the background
Seems to describe every part of where we’re at now
Every feeling that we ever had for each other
Every karaoke love letter, lyrics undiscovered
Now your mother used to tell me you ain’t nothin' but some trouble
Now it’s a couple trouble makers making mayhem on the double
Tryin'a figure out the meaning and break apart the puzzles
Why they love it when I hate you and they hate the way I love you,
solar(?)
When it's midnight and it's colder
Pull you closer, I can see you through
When it's sunshine and it's solar
And it's over, guess it's me and you.
When it's midnight and it's colder
Pull you closer, I can see you through
When it's sunshine and it's solar
And it's over, guess it's me and you
Blood!
Sun!
Light!
A complicated heartbreak losing its direction
Cold day, warm heart, object of affection
My dark-side love affair come to my protection
Midnight’s on the way I’m losing my connection
Levitate up over the horizon
I can see it in your eyes, I know that you’re hiding
I can see the truth in you, I know that you’re lying
Throw away the darkness, I wanna see you shining
When it's midnight and it's colder
Pull you closer, I can see you through
When it's sunshine and it's solar
And it's over, guess it's me and you.
When it's midnight and it's colder
Pull you closer, I can see you through
When it's sunshine and it's solar
And it's over, it's just me and you.
When it's midnight and it's colder (blood)
Pull you closer, I can see you through (by)
When it's sunshine and it's solar (sun)
And it's over, it's just me and you. (light)
When it's midnight and it's colder (blood)
Pull you closer, I can see you through (by)
When it's sunshine and it's solar (sun)
[Chorus: x2]
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
On a Sunday night I might bring me some haze.
[Lupe Fiasco:]
I tilt mine to the left, it's just the west side of him.
Don't ride nothing but know plenty people, peoples that ride something.
Decided cousin, I should describe the lives of him.
Some wise, drive Chevy's with gold Dayton's in the Taj of 'em.
But first let me tell you where son grown.
Grew up 'round GD, CVL's, black soles and unknowns.
Hanging hat, banging sack, slanging with guns on.
Forced to drop the folks or you gotta run home.
Or you gotta run anyway after you drop the folks.
'Cause they was really folks looking for somebody to jump on.
Wars, lords shoot up all the corners they hung on.
Hear the squeezing ring for my region brother to come home.
Violations, laws, lessons, sessions and mandates.
Picnic collections, lit sign throwing the handshakes.
That's why I stay, drop eyes where I play.
GDN in they fades where the 150 sittin' sideways.
[Jay-Z:]
You know the boy slam Bentley doors.
I been riding Lexus since '94.
Before I had a deal I was on a world tour.
In a town near you showed up with raw.
Fast forward a couple years I growed up some more.
Closed up the store, sewed up the floor.
Rose up with the charts, sold up with the 4
Sold 5, sold 6, sold 30 more.
Yo I'm a kilo in the game like I was before.
My life repeating like words in the corridor.
(Hello, hello, hello, hello)
Before I open the door you let me know if you are close kinfolk with the law.
If not let's further explore.
Same shit different toilet, yeah, I know you heard it before.
I was the youngest of four, pop couldn't take it no more.
Stayed together for the kids they couldn't fake it no more.
[? ] in the streets I had to take me a course.
Not only made me a man, it made me a boss.
The world chico, maybe it's yours.
Maybe it's your time to die, get so hardcore.
Just be a man of your word, you got your word and your balls.
Before you act on a word please consider the source.
Please remember to floss, anyday could be yours.
Death don't discriminate; eliminates all.
[Chorus: x2]
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
On a Sunday night I might bring me some haze.
[Lupe Fiasco:]
I seen 'em brawl for it, right on the wall for it.
Get kicked out the mall for it, run from the law for it.
See things they should've never saw for it.
Long as it's all well, almighty, alrighty, they all for it, uh.
Black hawk fitted, get hit in the jaw for it.
Blue and black, joey spoken might get you applause for it.
Peace treaty for like a week if chief and them call for it.
100 and 50 deep and the streets saying ya'll broke it.
But what started that was a shorty walking down the ave in a starter cap.
Pop said he ain't want me having no part of that.
Those happenings with the hats and things.
Moved me down south now all my homies is Latin Kings.
Teaching me spanish, low-rider magazines.
Black and gold bandanas, tagging crowns up on the scene.
That was the age kinda how Lupe was made.
Homies from Packstown to Terra, New Era sittin sideways.
[Chorus: x2]
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
On a Sunday night I might bring me some haze.
[Lupe Fiasco:]
Uh, See from you, a stranger.
Pops schooled him to the L-Ruegen's plus the Peace Stone Rangers.
And as I grew up knew most of what having [? ].
Disciples [? ] the ghetto boys cause they was talking to Hoover.
Time versus life is all a process.
Drive-by's, gang fights and lockdowns had us scared of the projects.
Couple Arab knights and solid folks I knew thought that the Moles was cool.
They said Salam-Alaikum too.
To my out of town friends to take off they hat.
That they couldn't wear that in the places that I was taking them to.
My homies was breaking it so I was breaking it too.
If they started chasing them then they was chasing me too.
Probably all got cousins, brothers, sisters and loved ones.
That probably die for nothing, or shaken up or something.
To the mother's that paid to the homies in the grave.
Keep a glittered 150 in your memory homie sittin sideways.
[Chorus:]
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
Sittin' sideways, paused in a daze.
[Chorus - Eric Turner]
It's the way of the stage it's like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It's like a stereo sun
It's the way I build up, the system really gets done, ohh ahhh aiyy It's like a stereo sun.
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
I hear it, the spirit
and I don't fear it
Matter 'fact I steer/spear it
Right in the heart of the hardships,
I don't veer it
And this car is just a metaphor for my experience
No registration or insurance, just a license to ill,
God's hands on the wheel, and my pedal's to the ceilin', peelin'
Speedin like 24 frames through the lights,
With the traffic cameras filmin', brights
So I could see the brilliance of this life I've been givin', livin'
To start a revolution every minute
Driven' to win it, no breaks, no pittin'
Poll position ya soul, keep ya windows tinted
So we can see out it, but they cant see in it
So this here's ours, and them their's rented
Cars moving at top gear, Jeremy Clarkson
I feel like this my first track and I ain't even start nothin'
[Chorus - Eric Turner]
It's the way of the stage it's like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It's like a stereo sun
It's the way I build up, the system really gets done, ohh ahhh aiyy It's like a stereo sun.
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
The sky's on fire, the storm is almost near us
But that's when I'm the clearest. When things are the severest
I'll be here for its arrival and for its disappearance.
Broadcastin' live and clear, even with the interference.
See this is what it sounds like when life becomes lyric.
The best thing ever, you should really come and hear it.
But if you cant, cool. We'll be coming to your nearest, soon.
Shinnin' like two suns, is better than two thumbs
The whole plot's to get you to stop from doing what you do, to do better than you've done.
Then we'll scare down the feds in the room. Who dares not to scare? Hear it, boom!
Unaffected by your werewolves, ghosts and your 'boo'
The tour through the tombs don't do nuttin to 'em.
Neva'
I turn the pressure into treasure.
My problem's in the presents
And my presence is foreva'
Yes!
[Chorus - Eric Turner]
It's the way of the stage it's like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It's like a stereo sun
It's the way I build up, the system really gets done, ohh ahhh aiyy It's like a stereo sun.
[Outro]
(Love, always, shines)
Like a stereo sun
It's like a stereo sun
(Love, always, shines)
It's the way of the stage
It's the way of the stage
(Love, always, shines)
Like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It's like a stereo sun
(Love, always, shines)
Like a stereo sun
(Love, always, shines)
Chorus
You must be, a radio station
And who are we, we must be
the number 1 songs, spinning all day long
and over again, and over again, and over again, and never again, and never again
And we know when,
when we call in,
and nothings free,
sounds to me like,
state run radio x8
verse 1
We now interrupt this broadcast,
to bring you a special message about the forecast,
the futures cloudy and itâ??s raining on the poor class,
the roads to peace are closed, and the traffic's on the war paths,
love is balling on a budget, the militaryâ??s stressing
we need more cash, to keep fighting for your gas
keep us in our hoods and hope we never explore pass,
stay inside of your half, believe the lies you learn in your class,
that there's no treasure in your trash, & the ceiling has the same feeling,
that the floor has, and thatâ??s where you should stay,
and this is what they play
Chorus
and over again, and over again, and never again, and never again, and never again
And we know when,
when we call in,
and nothings free,
sounds to me like,
state run radio x8
Verse 2
Youâ??re now tuned into the weakest,
frequency of fear, keep you locked right here,
and hope you never leave this, never be a leader,
think inside the box, and follow all procedures,
never ever believe that, you will never need this,
hit up all your friends and tell them to repeat this,
hi, your on the air, now what you want to hear?
well we ainâ??t got the truth, but how about a remix,
different is never good, good is only what we pick,
you ainâ??t got a hit, unless it sounds like these did,
not too smart you will be a superstar,
and if you dumb or something maybe you could be number one
Chorus
You must be, a radio station,
And who are we, we must be,
The Number 1 songs, spinning all day long,
And you put me, on daily rotation,
You on the air,
We know youâ??re scared,
But we donâ??t care,
Well bleep this here,
And over again, and over again, and over again, and never again, and over again
And you know when,
when we call in,
and nothings free,
sounds to me like,
state run radio x16
Lemme put you on game
Lemme put you on game
Don't you know that I run this place,
And I've begun this race,
Must I rerun this pace?
I'm the reason its become this way
And their love for it is the reason I have become this praised
(lemme put you on game)
They love my darkness,
I make them heartless,
And in return, the have become my martyrs,
I've been in the poem of many a poet,
And I reside in the art of many a artist
(lemme put you on game)
Some of your smartest have tried to artictulate
My whole part in this
But they're fruitless in their harvestin'
The drow grows from my footsteps
I'm the one that they follow,
I am the one that they march with
(lemme put you on game)
Through the back alleys
And the black markets,
The Oval Offices,
Crackhouses and apartments
Through the mazes of the queens,
The pages of the sages
And the Chambers of The Kings
(lemme put you on game)
Through the veins-es of the fiends,
A paper chaser's pager,
Yo, I'm famous on the scene
One of the oldest, most ancient-est of things
Seak every single language on the planet, y'all mean?
(lemme put you on game)
I am the American dream,
The rape of Africa
The undying machine,
The overpriced medicine,
The murderous regime,
The tough guy's front,
And the one behind the scenes
(lemme put you on game)
I am the blood of this city,
It's gas, water, and electricity,
I'm it's gym, and it's math, and it's history,
The gunshots in the class
And you can't pass if you're missin, G.
I taught them better than that
I taught them aim for the head
And hope they never come back
I'm glad your daddy's gone, baby,
Hope he never comes back,
I hope he's with your mother,
With my hustlers high in my trap
(lemme put you on game)
I hope you die in his trash,
I can't help it all I hear when you're crying is laughs
I'm sure somebody find you tied up in this bag,
Behind the hospital little baby,
Crack addicts had
(lemme put you on game)
Then maybe you can grow up to be a stripper,
A welfare-receiving prostitute
And gold digger,
You can watch on TV,
How they should properly depict you,
The rivers should flow with liqour,
Quench your thirst on my elixers,
(lemme put you on game)
I am the safe haven for the rebel runaway and the resistor
Ihe trusted misleader,
The number one defender,
And from a throne of their bones I rule,
These fools are my fuel
So I make them Cool
(lemme put you on game)
Baptize them in the water out of Scarface pool,
And feed 'em from the table that held Corleone's food,
If you die, tell them that you played my game
I hope your bullet holes become mouths that say my name,
[** Beat: All the Way Turnt Up by Roscoe Dash:]
[Lupe Fiasco:]
Microphone check, I make em all bounce
Every teller in Bank of America, make em all count
You gone need the whole staff to add up the amount.
It's gonna take to pay me off to keep me out your house
To keep me in my zone so that I don't zone out
I'm Rich and Po' like Zone 4, thoughts is deep like Tone Loc
Walk with me like old folk, cross your street a score's goal'ed
I don't rap, I hockey rink cause my flow is so cold
Uh, we just gonna keep it goin' and goin',
Until I feel completed and happy about it... You know?
Uh, Opus of a ghetto boy who grew into a project man
Brewster Place, he used to stick his scissors in his sockets damn,
Clear that Project Runway, 'cause this is where my rocket lands,
Ain't got no problems, Houston, I A.K.A. then rocket land.
Events recent that lit a fire under him like pots and pans,
Rockets and I (eye) up in the sky like helicopter cams...
And you down there in the traffic jam
From here I've seen a bunch of fake shit like avid wrestlin' fans...
Came up from the bottom of the eye exam ZOOM
Now I'm like the biggest G up in the room,
Still hard to see me like the truth on TV
Or the roof from the sidewalk, I don't flo' (floor), I ceiling
My mama said they need me...
'cause, I'm made from the best stuff on earth like Snapple Tea Leaves,
They glass is half full so I spit into them like Celie,
No longer G, now you can see me
But your letter's still under my sea like seaweed
C and G but nothing bout me C-G, It's all real, none of this is green screen...
"Shut Up and Let Me Go" just like The Ting Tings,
I'm feelin' like a Mac, standing around a bunch of PCs.
I've rocked it from the shouters to the soccer moms,
Try to stop what's going on...
You'll see the back of my hand like the tops of palms,
I'm balling like the tops of pawns,
Circle of influence getting bigger like the ripples on the tops of ponds.
Short-footed and War Headed like the tops of bombs,
Domino-in n****'s, delivery is Papa John's, Little Ceaser's, uh,
Burning down your Pizza Hut...
Plaque collection building 'cause, I don't brush my teeth enough,
Yeah, Crack is wack and reefer sucks, you might think this deep as fuck
But this like my weaker stuff,
They ask "Is this his day-to-day 'cause this is like a week to us? "
Mic is shy and speakers blush, I is shy (Chi) and he is up,
I correct, me is up - no we is up - cause it's like two of me
And each of us, rappin' acid, eat this up,
A-Town down, peace is up, New York to East Coast is tough,
West Side ridin', lot of n****'s salty 'cause,
'cause I be overseas and tough.
Everything seamless, WorldStar never seen this,
NahRight gotta stream this, motherfuckin' genius!
Brave and fly, you backbone-less and wingless,
Bunch of chickens on the strip, I'm coming for they fingers...
Till what they throwin' up is meaningless...
Chilly Chill you seeing this? This didn't make MTV's list...
Finish fingers, eating wrist, feedin' frenzy and shit,
Succotash stuffering, Chicken-Frikasee'en this...
A beat eatin' media blitz,
Pace is getting feverish, pain is growing Seaver-ish,
These the peppers Peter picked,
Things are at their easiest, Real Compton city G'in it
But I'm from Chicago... house lights, bravooos!
[Applause]
[Intro: Pharrell Williams]
I said think about your future
You can't do that tomorrow
But you don't hear a word, you see that SLR
[Lupe Fiasco:]
O' ye told 'en in the souls
My goal is to sit on the globe like North Poles
And that's the top mane; goin' hammer like a glock can
All flowing grammar; no shots strayin'
I'm so sober when I speak
I call it catchin' bullets with my teeth
You can feel it in your chest
Like Bruce Lee jumpin' on your vest
But I can't feel yours through my Superman "S"
Yes, I'm Superman'd-out
Red Cartier look like Superman's house
Inshallah to my plan hope it super pans out
My life is like Italians doin' 100 miles
And the top open like the roofer ran outta towels
Walk right into Felipe's when I ran outta Chow's
Next up is crustaceans and fast food halals
The beef is all the same, it's just how they kill the cows
Somebody tell Malcom X that I'm tryna steal his style
And tell Cornell West that I'm tryna steal his fro
Go back in time, take the slaves plows, shovels, and they hoes
The masters get the "It Was Written" intro
SLR 10-4
SLR 10-4
Soundtrakk let the beat go
Soundtrakk let the beat roll
[Hook:]
In this World I'm so alone
In a category all on my own
Cause I tell the World what I want to
Yeah I tell the World what I want to
Man I feel so alone
They treat me like an Outcast
Cause I tell the world what I want to
But you can't tell me what you gon' do
[Verse 2:]
'Cause nigga I don't believe that
Like 9/11 came from Iraq
Mayweather on the speed bag
Automatic weapons keep the same rhythm he has
That's how the hood sound
Grew up in the hood town
West side ghetto, Windy City could count
Black skies lookin' up, crack pipes lookin' down
Accused of not lookin' back, blind nigga look around
City on my back, so the CHI go everywhere I'm at
Presence so shiny, Mercedes so mack
Cop that from Platinum, the color of my plaque
I memorize colors off of Yo! MTV Raps
A nightmare walkin' in a psychopath's map
Defeat your purpose like a weed stash in the rehab
Guess who's sneakin' in the weed bags
They be me with my mean ass
Not tryna be anything but free as
Flow is so nuts, the track is getting' teabagged
Just wanna rap nice, that ain't me tagged
If you wanna be mean, then you wanna be me bad
Call it bein' Pretty Lyrically Swag
Soulja call it Super Lupe Lyrical
You can't understand me nor mimic my miracles
All I see is me and I'm a mother lovin' mirror full
Bein' dope is all in the muscle
It's more than just a pause and a chuckle
I bench press elephants, and bowlin' ball juggle
So don't be scared to take the Super Lu route
Top 5 alive and I only got 2 out!
School ya on your history, I tell ya what you 'bout
Fight for all the right things and let the Huey New out
Pharrell what these niggas talkin' bout?
Two man Big Pun, a one man Slaughterhouse
A two album Jay-Z, a one nigga Wu-Tang
Young and hungry Mos Def, a conscious rappin' Lil Wayne
I don't care for similarities
Cause I'm a pioneer, not a parody
These ain't bars, this is barbarity
SLR... Clarity
[Hook:]
In this world I'm so alone
In a category all on my own
'Cause I tell the world what I want to
Yeah I tell the world what I want to
Man I feel so alone
They treat me like an Outcast
Cause I tell the world what I want to
But you can't tell me what you gon' do
[Verse 3:]
Holy shock and awe, cattle prods
All up in the action where the fraction of the catalog
All my peers, I ain't doin' numbers like Amazon
But I'm here, and I'm revered
Lyric boy, Based King, Master Chef, All City Chess moves makin' Donnie Diggy CRS fool
Carrera Era, pan Amera, F-Tool, Emperor, Free Chilly nigga, FNF Rules
'Ye, what these niggas talkin' bout?
A Jesus in the desert walkin', Dundee walkabout
A self imposed exile, learn to let the awesome out
Even if I was homeless I would still have an awesome house
Cause the World is mine, Lupe to the rescue, the World is fine
Words and lines of mine, I feel are better than every rapper in the World combined!
And that's how you do it
Everything flow, everything fluid
Stupid with the raps, but the raps never stupid
Trakk on the music, SLR ruthless
And the next whip is that Ferrari cart
Game over – body parts
[Hook:]
In this world I'm so alone
In a category all on my own
Cause I tell the world what I want to
Yeah I tell the world what I want to
Man I feel so alone
They treat me like an Outcast
Cause I tell the world what I want to
[Helicopter Propellers]
[Man's Voice:]
Well the first thing I want to say is:
[Verse 1:]
They say real recognize real
The dollar bill will exercise our ills... E
Frauds is thoroughly camouflaged and fatigued in the field
Be careful who you believe, the pills
Is dealed like flaccid, proceeds go towards the buying of Caprice Classics
With the wheels to match it, so they can mack it
Like an automatic weapon steppin' off into traffic
Like, check him, tears roll down the eyes
Of the rides inside of a funeral procession
Here lies, with X's in his eyes, the unguided misdirected
Squad cars roll past and laugh
[Hook: Sample]
Out There
Out There
There
There
There
[Verse 2:]
They say the streets is a demon in a dress
With dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath (UH!)
Scantly clad, no panties, deep throating in an alley
Aging badly in sunglasses she pretty
Slain boyfriend names is tattooed on her titties
Sprinkling greed ignorance and envy inside of a Philly
Hennessey tears, ass'll bring ya enemy's here
Flirt with her flaws till you run up in her raw
[Hook: Sample]
Out There
Out There
There
There
There
[Verse 3:]
They say the game has the belly of a beast
Blunts for fingers and hollow tips for teeth
Wire taps for ears, Nike Airs for feet
Blasphemy for prayers, a system for a heart
Rap music for beats, heroin for a son and it's married to the streets
Crack pipes for lungs, and he never sleeps
Just spies, with dice in his eyes
Loves life cause he likes when it dies
With a baking soda soul, he cough up pleasure
Clothes made out of dollar bills that he sewed together
He knows, he's clever, jealous his house
All the liquor that's poured out, goes right in his mouth
Rides around on a stray bullet;
With prostitutes, pimps, dope dealers and killers tied to it to pull it
A TV in his head, stripper slides down his legs
And he's known to ride around with feds, and he's OUT THERE
[Hook: Sample]
Out There
Out There
There
There
There
[Verse 4: Sample]
But, righteousness is a father teaching his kids
That what's better than wealth is the respect in itself (Out There)
A pistol packing old lady standing up to the dope dealers
On the block, making sure her presence is felt (Out There)
[lupe fiasco - verse 1]
yield, to the forces of darkness
i bring you the torches of our shit
reinforced with hardness of wolverine's
arms with the harshness and overall sharpness
now how far do the arms get?
my nigga, from the stars to the starfish
from the baby to the bomb
it's a whole lot of light and a whole lot of armlift
my arms long, but i'm lawless
a strong arm, i can lift up all this
you gon' have to build a bigger farm for us
to keep them wolves out of old macdonald barn, bitch
yeah, team jacob
we're long armed, put my arms on a lear
everytime i put my hands in the air
watch the throne as i dance in the chair
throw my crown in the crowd, hope it lands on the heir
the weak niggas like to pass interfere
spend a lot of lint over jams in the year
that act like the man up in here
that don't count when your only real fan is a mirror
that's subliminal to any nigga that he feel he is too
but you don't stand a chance, playa
i am there, chi-town, fan of the bears
love where they dance in the square
yeah, yankees too, but only cause granderson there
and now wears khaki pants on la brea
we all friends, why your man lookin' scared?
turning whiter than anderson hair
came out the garage like he saw a phantom in there, huh
[verse 2]
oh shit alert, louis clothes
callin women bitches, louboutin and gucci shows
well, i guess there goes my louis shows
more o shit, if your role model's a movie role
and if you live your life like it's a studio
talkin' to us like we mics, a bunch of you ain't do befo'
electric fences for a urinal
also keep a toaster in my jacuzzi, yo
shock-a-zulu, call me wasalu ii
oh shit, man these record labels prostitute you
strap them to sushi bars, and feed em lots of fugu
catch a bad piece
you can stick that 360 between your asscheeks
artists let's mobilize and unionize like the athletes
radio is making our craft weak
forced to repeat the same dumb shit that work
only as hot as your last beat
and rappers, they relating to that last piece
album never leave they desk if you don't got no b.d.s
sacrifice your publishin', they said you really need a hook
and they ain't gon' pay you, said that you received a look
and what's stupid real, is what producers feel
twenty placements or you stuck in that producer deal
and r&b; chicks so get it the wildest
all they money goes to hairdressers and stylists
gotta keep up with that image
label lose they mind if they ever see a blemish
proactiv impeals, airbrushers and trainers
managers suggest you fuck a nigga to be famous, huh
but it's all entertainment
wonder when cobain blew out his brains, did he blame it?
and if those snakes in the industry helped him aim it
started pressing up records before the bullet left the chamber
i fight evil, everyday i'm livin'
rest in peace to men, women and the children
and middle fingers to the pilgrims that killed 'em
Now little Terry got a gun he got from the store
He bought it with the money he got from his chores
He robbed a candy shop, told her, ?Lay down on the floor
Put the cookies in the bag, take the pennies out the drawer?
Lil' Khalil got a gun he got from the rebels
To kill the infidels and the American devils
A bomb on his waist, a mask on his face
Prays five times a day and listens to heavy metal
Little Alex got a gun he took from his dad
That he snuck in the school is his black book bag
His black nail polish, black boots and black hat
He gon' blow away the bully that just pushed his ass
Little weapon
Little weapon
Little weapon
Little weapon
I killed another man today
Shot him in his back as he ran away
Then I blew up his house wit a hand grenade
Cut his wife throat as she put her hands to pray
?Just five more dogs, then we can get a soccer ball"
That's what my commander say
How old? Well I'm like ten, eleven
Been fightin' since I was like six or seven
Now I don't know much 'bout where I'm from
But I know I strike fear everywhere I come
Government want me dead so I wear my gun
I really want the rocket launcher but I'm still too young
This candy give me courage not to fear no one
To feel no pain and hear no tongue
So I hear no screams and I shed no tear
If I'm in your dreams, then your end is near, it's you
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we're callin' you
There's a war, if the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you somethin' small to use
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we need you now, pow
Little weapon
Now here comes the march of the boy brigade
A macaw parade of the toys he made
And in shimmers shades, who look half his age
About half the size of the flags they wave
And camouflage suits made to fit youths
'Cause the one off of dead soldiers hang a lil' loose
Where AK-47s that they shootin' into heaven
Like they tryin' kill a Jetson that struggles little recruits
Cute, smileless, heartless, valiants
Childhood destroyed, devoid of all childish ways
Can't write their own names
Or read the words that's on their own graves
Think you gangsta, popped a few rounds?
These kids'll come through and murder a whole town
Then sit back and smoke and watch it burn down
The graves get deeper the further we go down
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we're callin' you
There's a war, if the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you somethin' small to use
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we need you now, pow
Imagine if I had to console
The families of those slain I slayed on game consoles
I, aim my hole, right trigger to squeeze
Press up and Y, one less nigga breathe
B for the bombs, press pause for your moms
Make the room silent, she don't approve with violent games
She leave, resume activity
Start in blue heart, subpar sharp wizardry
On next part I, insert code
To sweeten up the little person's murder workload
Artillery work fo', C I A with A
A operative, a operate to scam all day
I hold the controller connected to the soldier
With weapons on his shoulders, he's only seconds older
Than me, me, playful but serious
Now keep that on mind for on line experience
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we're callin' you
There's a war, if the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you somethin' small to use
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we need you now
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon, we're callin' you
There's a war, if the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you somethin' small to use
[Lupe Fiasco:]
What up it's Lupe Fiasco
You're watchin the Pepsi Max NFL audible
[Nick Javas:]
Hello sports fans, we're coming down to the nitty-gritty
Who will be representin the city
It's the moment in motivatin' your back into it days
Allow me to pass it off to Lupe (Get 'em!)
[Lupe Fiasco:]
Welcome to Chi-town, lie down, nah, never that
Packers and the Bears in the battle that never lasts
They go forever back to the days of Butkus and NInsky was simply on this planet just to run blitz
[Nick Javas:]
Up against each other in this
The one hundred and eighty-second clash of titans, do the math
Bitter rivals for ten short of a century
NO tryin' to be friendly
Who's applying their better D
[Lupe Fiasco:]
For Chicago, comin off of the end is a beast
Far as I know, Julius will pepper the beef
[Nick Javas:]
Put the season on it but Jennings steadily beats the best of the DB's to get him his TD's
12 on the year like his quarterback wears
But he won't be signin any autographs here
The cornerback Bears got their hands full button hook
If you ain't got your guard up like when that man pulls
[Lupe Fiasco:]
But the Packers better punt it out of bounds,
Or Hester's gonna turn them into clowns and jesters
When 22 be running through them hummin blues
And B-Jax standing south of the B- gaps
Why would you insist on trying to split Brian and Briggs applying the hits, denying them six
So cue the violins for the losers amused by their egos their super bowl ring is being re-pulled
[Nick Javas:]
And it was right there but now it lives in your nightmare
The pride of a Packer verse the flight of a Bear
The Lion's chair could only go to the king
See you next week, or see you in the spring
[Lupe Fiasco:]
Dreams of rings that gleam upon the mantle are cancelled
If you plan to win it plan timid
[Nick Javas:]
Quite the challenge
Who's gonna be trying their talents
(John Legend)
Take me to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won't erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I'll never forget you
I'll never let you go
I'll never forget you
I'll always remember, I hope you know
(Lupe Fiasco)
Let the record reflect the records we set
Best foot forward with every step
And let's push towards it, never regress
And let's remember, if ever we get
Down, the places that we came from 'round
And all the good times on the bad side of town
The upside of bad, flip it upside down
Came from the bottom but we up high now
Believe, and from this view we achieved
We looked back at the rules we received
And how we broke those, dismantled and rewrote those
And the ghost still alive in the photos
Sounds of the summer, day and go wise
Cold wind blowin' through a city on fire
Moments of the past, came here to find you
Not to relive them, just to remind you
Take to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won't erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I'll never forget you
I'll never let you go
I'll never forget you
I'll always remember, I hope you know
And let the evidence show, the future's so bright
It's never been more, not like tonight
We walk into the glow, right into the light
The past all around us, the time of our life
The first love kisses, the broke heart disses
This is just like a first-class ticket
Back, to the first written rap
The crumbled-up paper and the pen with no cap
The hand-me-down clothes and the unturned hat
The hookers on the corner and the kids sellin' crack
The needles in the yard where we used to play catch
Stories from the project we could never go at
Or to, these are shades of my youth
Trials of a child, everything truth
Moments of the past, comin' back to find us
Not to relive them, just to remind us
Take to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won't erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I'll never forget you
I'll never let you go
I'll never forget you
I'll always remember, I hope you know
Everything cherished, remembered in my heart
So you will never perish, you will never part
I tell 'em all about you, drummin' in the park
We put you in the ground, but I see you in the stars
Go'n, take a bow, a round of applause
The best that ever, always ready we are
Love always shines, that's how I'll find you
In case you forgot, I hope this reminds you
Take to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won't erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I'll never forget you
I'll never let you go
I'll never forget you
[Verse 1:]
I gave you honesty on my first joint and y'all all came out
I'll show you what change 'bout
Unroll your blunts, pour your champagne's out
Dullers of the pain, so you can plainly see the black man pain I campaign 'bout
God willing 'fore I wane, I take a champion route
Before I throw a bout
I'll walk out the game while my fans chanting my name out, Lupe, Lupe, Lupe...
Uh, and it's going to be PPV, won't be back for free
Gone need scratch to see me, rematch with me
My greatest enemy, is my inner me
So I take this urge and give you revenge of the nerd, Fahrenheit 1 15, uh
Yeah, uh, and you know I fight the feeling
Box so I can shop, sometime it doesn't register
So I return to the ring, like Return of the King
With the habit of a hobbit it makes it hard to drop it
I'm a klepto stealing
And it gets the best
Just when I guess that I left those leanings
I be back on post in a trench coat scheming
[Verse 2:]
So I get back into my stance, revert to my dance
With a shirt full of pants
And my accomplice got a purse full of pants
A pocket full of purses, with no intent to purchase in the plans
And we rehearsed it, till it's perfect, just to dodge the searchers of the man
Just to surface outside, then return of all the merch? (short for merchandise) to stay, in the service of the perfect understand
Um, uh, yeah, and I boost myself
So from the cold car to the caboose I'm felt
From the rear to the engineer
From the L to the Underground Railroad
From the redline to the TGV
A champion fighter for whom the bell tolls, LUP
Little engine from the hood, the hustler in me
Known to hit the track like John Henry
Just give me my glasses
My eight ounce everlastes
And I'm Michael Buffer in tree
(Uh, let's get ready, let me calm down man)
Shoplifter, tag switcher
That's me, nigga I'm back with cha
Revenge, Lupe, uh, championship is here
FNF up is here, 1st and 15 is here
Madison Street we back in here, Chi-Town is here
Lupe Fiasco
The wound heals but it never does
That's cause you're at war with love
You're at war with love, yeah
These battle scars, don't look like they're fading
Don't look like they're ever going away
They ain't never gonna change
These battle
Never let a wound ruin me
But I feel like ruin's wooing me
Arrow holes that never close from cupid on a shooting spree
Feeling stupid cause I know it ain't no you and me
But when you're trying to beat the odds up
Been trying to keep your nods up and you know that you should know
And let her go but the fear of the unknown
Holding another lover strong sends you back into the zone
With no Tom Hanks to bring you home
A lover not a fighter on the frontline with a poem
Trying to write yourself a rifle
Maybe sharpen up a song
To fight the tanks and drones of you being alone
I wish I never looked, I wish I never touched
I wish that I could stop loving you so much
Cause I'm the only one that's trying to keep us together
When all of the signs say that I should forget her
I wish you weren't the best, the best I ever had
I wish that the good outweighed the bad
Cause it'll never be over, until you tell me it's over
These battle scars, don't look like they're fading
Don't look like they're ever going away
They ain't never gonna change
These battle
(And just leave then)
You shouldn't have but you said it
(And I hope you never come back)
It shouldn't have happened but you let it
Now you're down on the ground screaming medic
The only thing that comes is the post-traumatic stresses
Shields, body armors and vests
Don't properly work, that's why you're in a locker full of hurt
The enemy within and all the fires from your friends
The best medicine is to probably just let her win
I wish I couldn't feel, I wish I couldn't love
I wish that I could stop cause it hurts so much
And I'm the only one that's trying to keep us together
When all of the signs say that I should forget her
I wish you weren't the best, the best I ever had
I wish that the good outweighed the bad
Cause it'll never be over, until you tell me it's over
These battle scars, don't look like they're fading
Don't look like they're ever going away
They ain't never gonna change
These battle
I wish I couldn't feel, I wish I couldn't love
I wish that I could stop cause it hurts so much
And I'm the only one that's trying to keep us together
When all of the signs say that I should forget her
I wish you weren't the best, the best I ever had
I wish that the good outweighed the bad
Cause it'll never be over, until you tell me it's over
Cause you've set me on fire
I've never felt so alive, yeah
Hoping wounds heal, but it never does
That's because you're at war with love
And I'm at the point of breaking
And it's impossible to shake it
See, you hoped the wound heals, but it never does
That's cause you're at war with love
Hope it heals, but it never does
That's cause you're at war with love!
These battle scars, don't look like they're fading
Don't look like they're ever going away
They ain't never gonna change
These battle
These battle scars, don't look like they're fading
Don't look like they're ever going away
They ain't never gonna change
[To the beat of Gorillaz' "Last Living Souls"]
[Lupe Fiasco:]
So I think you had enough
What up Chuck? FNF up
RKF Tucks, adjust my cuffs
John Lennon Chucks, Independent Trucks
Yup, a little bit of dust
Brush my shoulder
Plus, a little bit of church
Uh, I showed you
Just a little bit of what can happen
If you open your eyes and imagine
Expand your horizons with rhyming and rapping
Quit rapping and rhyming bout coke and supplying
And clapping is anyone out there or are y'all all absent?
[Gorillaz:]
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last to get away
To some another day?
Or do we know why we love?
Doesn't seem to be conveyed that way
Are we the
[Lupe Fiasco:]
Fahrenheit 1/15 part III
One time to the FNF army
After party in the +Angel Nights+ RV
Don't forget your cell phones and car keys
Don't forgot to tip the valet where you park please
I wish you well
Unh! I bring you murder in the first
And even as we speak we gettin further in this verse
With no further adieu I do what I respect
Doom got me stripes like Hamburgler for my work
Ask Lupe the killa, killa, killa, killa
Mercy, he's a mess! So immersed in his murk
He's two thirds submerged below the surface where they surf
This is where I lay it down like a bird givin birth
So call me Lu the giant's goose or just, Faberge paint
Til I'm called back to the shore by the watchers of the bay
I wait, til I come back like a tsunami
Never microwave like the watchers of the weight
I'm wrapped in aluminum foil, I do my dirt like Kwame
Until that same soil bein pushed into my grave
But I'm so ahead of my time, the next day
Might strike oil while I delay, homie I'm so crude
Texas T, haters is so screwed
But I can't fill it like a flathead in a Philips
Don't get it twisted, nigga I'm no tool
More cool than a pool in a blizzard
With ice cubes in it during Christmas
Meanin there's no school, in the misfit
Like I'm throwin a fit
Or I just can't fit it, tidbit too big
It's gotta hem it til it's fresh to death
Dressed to kill it, like unh!
Unh! 187 on my second, I reckon
This is an assault with a deadly session
A soft peace and blessins to the sentence that be reppin
All across in every direction, locality, and section
That know Lupe the killa, killa, killa, killa
Give it how I live it most niggaz won't believe
Or achieve how I did it most niggaz won't recieve
Til I leave and I bereave the secrets of my sickness
How I, flooded the streets like Venice
I've suffered, demanded, withstanded, pimp handed and hustlin
I'm Colonel Mustard with the speech
They ain't catchin me, no suspicions of stickin
No convictions on my rap sheet
I'm so committin lay my murder game, that's sweet
Speakeasy like Prohibition, no emission
If you ain't knockin like me to the underground bar, buryin a toast
Dodgin the raid like roach, nigga please
Unh! I make it give up the ghost
On the trifecta, the third, I differ
Nigga, you ain't heard? My lecture like Lector
Letcha in on a secret, but you can't leak it
Lupe's the killa, killa, killa, killa
Since my entrance, my niggaz had packs
They moved 'em to a trap like Winston
Far from bustas, baby nah
All my homies henchmen
I was the rhymer, my talk went through the walls like Slimer
Or like, eatin vagina
Or, a stray bullet, whichever ways I put it
Crooks was hooked like crooks through neighborhoods I pushed it
Little Caesar niggaz pizzas was like book it
Delivery mean like Leroy Green
They couldn't take it to the places I took it
Beware, you don't look it
You ain't dressed for this affair
[elle goulding]
i had a way then, losing it all on my own
i had a heart then but the queen has been overthrown
and i'm not sleeping now
the dark is too hard to beat
and i'm not keeping up the strength i need to push me
you sure the lights don't stop me
turn to stone shining when i'm alone
and so i tell myself that i am strong
dreaming when they're gone
cause they're calling, calling, calling
calling, calling, calling
you sure the lights don't stop me
turn to stone shining when i'm alone
[verse 1 - lupe fiasco]
so, what do you bunches stand for?
dreads in the sky, i and i
2 new vans on a land 4
take that back, make that 2 new shoes on a van floor
me and my band out on that road
on a never-back-down-from-a-stance tour
yeah, touch more souls than a dancefloor
while they touch less tours than a hand or
ceiling fan or wait, let me tell ya slower
lift my fans up to the to the ceiling
and you'll never touch the floor
now if noah need a rower, i'll be there with my oar
til we get back to the shore
dad made me a soldier, gi joe to these cobras
tryna fbi my panther, cia my sankofa
infiltrate my carter, illuminate my culture
while they watching through that bunker
but i stay up on my hustle
turn that belt back on theyself
now i watch them scream for help
like africa need aid, or black women as maids
uncover undercovers turn those maids to ?mothers
take the hero out the nino, keep it real as treble trouble huh?
or maybe cartoon martin on the boondocks
flip the script on chicks who think they shit smells like perfume shops
half them girls find beauty without a magazine or movie
she delila with them 45 or keisha with that uzi
now i know that's contradiction, wants and needs and competition
but it's hard to stay on point with such extremes in opposition
while we waiting on that compromise, proceed with that conscious eye
new gang alert: hashtag #occupies
repping to the death of me, fnf what's left in me
all my hate is for the fake recipes for ?
only time i wrestle's when i'm wrestling with sex and lean
only way i settle if we wrestle over everythig
i know that don't mix like ecstasy and ketamine
funny how i'm only sick if you never catch a thing
argue with your friends over what really the record means
back and forth about it's course, with professor's refereeing
why he so rebellious? up-front with his realness?
they wanna be fiasco's, reproduce his failures
emperor is his alias, but not marcus aurelius
this is more like sparta: kick you down a well, kid
and on my last check, i copped that nsx just like pharrell did
well did, better days to come
my only promise is i'll never ruin the young
i'll never human and sung lyrics in a spirit thats
super human to some, keep you pursuin' the sun of
slums, plus, get up outta them, plus never forget
this is where you from plus
make sure that you ballin when you come back up in them, plus
we don't die, multiply, every single come-up
a rumpa-pum-pum-yup
she said love is a hard thing
somewhere between golfing and gardening
or parole board pardoning
but she was still down for a hard swing
flowers she would pick like guitar strings
for a real good whiff
of how life behind par seems
until then she a bar-teend
and poor hot lead shots out of carbines
if an inmate ever even think about departing
before it's time for the theft of a hard thing
wanna see what a bum riding bar dreams
before he get gunned down, cause some sharp scene
saw it all on the way to the art scene
around the time they kicked us out, they had the park cleaned
she ain't living in a car she just rv-ing
life on ice like the san jose shark team
hard times, tryna duck em like darkwing
known for burning clothes and petty car-keying
and other less harmful skylarking
bought a bag out of american rag
a small chinese-made american flag
took a dollar bill then split it in half
the picture that she bought wouldn't fit in the cab
on the train trying her best not to live in the past
a bum probably asked could he spit in her ass
and that was it, fits, tantrums random
helter-skelter, a world gone manson
and i'll spare you the details
dinner is ceviche out of seashells
annoyed cause her date really can't speak well
but she forced to press on like lee nails
next table was abhored by the weed smell
she was done at the moment that the tea fell
a thick wool jacket on a cool night
unimpressed by poems or the moonlight
doesn't satisfy her like a game of pool might
thinking "what if fantasia had a broom strike?"
tuned right out of that school life
soon as reality became a camera crew and a boom mic
so what do you do like?
she said "absurd last words from a dude off a zoosk site"
and then left him
like the roots left geffen
and the state howlin' wolf left chess in
stop to watch flows have an unpaid session on the steps of a westin
she really need to check in
and to apologize to her best friend
new bras to put her chest in
They tryin' to censor the influencer
Just makes me sicker, influenza, (yeah)
I'll abide by the censorship,
Soon as they ride I'll get back on my nigga shit,
Can't reverse [song lyrics reversed]
The boy-game Advanced, complete the genesis,
I've broke bread with societies menaces,
I've dedicated sentences to the dead, and said hold your heads to my niggas doin' sentences,
I send condolences to the victims but, threats two the witnesses, (Ugh)
On my path I was facing a paragraph, Myself,
So they sentiments is felt,
When you hate your own and discriminate of self,
In a cell gotta make your home, cause you might never make it home,
Suicide on your side might commit it with your belt,
Keep your pants on homie, (uh)
Streets are damn so lonely, like only,
A bunch of niggas won't help (nah),
That's the enemy of stealth,
Plus if they get caught how you gonna keep your heart fatigue,
The hustler's diet is the enemy of health, give you heart disease (uh),
Arteries hard but it's hard to leave the bread alone,
Aren't we hard headed, headed for harm, but don't threat it homes,
From the twist tied to the butt,
We be rippin' it up
Frm the horror to the cure, don't force the issue,
[Lupe Fiasco - Chorus]
I think I'm Malcolm X, Martin Luther
Add a King, add a Junior
Some Bible verses, a couple sunnahs
An AK-47, that's a revolution
Then, think I'm Tupac, Bob Marley
Fela Kuti, Marcus Garvey
Them the real ones, light a lighter for 'em
Let you know, that I'm ridin' for 'em
Gon' git me some, a little mo' beat
Call your friends around, then call the police
I'm ridin' wit my flow, it take up fo' seats
So I'm gon' ghost ride, but with no sheets
One man by myself, even then I'm four deep
Like hotel swimming pools, that's four feet
These n-ggas like the rooms, so suite
Priceline, so cheap
I'm a cell phone, they some room keys
I'm some shell toes, they the shoestrings
I turn 'em off (I turn 'em off)
I take 'em out (I take 'em out)
I'm Reverend Run, with the laces out
My Adidas, so adios
All day I dream, like I'm comatose
That's your ship sinking, and I'm so afloat
I'm T-Pain, I'm on a boat
Not the slave one, the Caprios either
Here the waves come, they started in the bleachers
So I'm swag surfin', the pool's gettin' deeper
You still sweet, though, here come them roomkeepers
Okay, I be the strings, you be the shoes
But guess what? Now they Jimmy Choos
I wear the pants, you in the Poohs
Yo' shit meows, my shit awoooooos
I got a fifth floor, call me Brother Man
Africa the set, yeah, that's the Motherland
For that BP, I she'd fifty tears
In Nigeria that oil been spillin' for like fifty years
"Fifty years? Hell naw!"
Hell yeah! I'm tryna tell y'all
At this rate, n-ggas gon' lose
Can't search for water, or grow your own food
Tell me what's gon' happen, when them stores close
And ain't gon' open up, no more?
That's the realest shit, yeah, you gon' feel that
Hunger's your enemy, but you can't kill that
N-gga, wake up, don't join the Army
Kill your own peoples, but fear Illuminatis
And they ain't even real, or are they?
But you wouldn't even know, because you partay
Too fucking much, if you start to doubt
They already in your mind, and comin' out yo' mouth
It's not a trick, n-gga, it's a trap
Survival of the fit, is what they aimin' at
And n-ggas ain't fit (nope), fat as hell (yep)
Fat in mind (yep), body fat as well
Who use most the drugs? Americans!
What's in Afghanistan? Heroin!
You think that's by mistake? They can stop that?
Don't think you safe though, because you not black
Greed is colorblind, so I'm colorblind
They gon' fuck with yours soon as they done with mine
They say I try too hard, verses overwhelm
I learned most of this, from n-ggas sittin' in jail
Where you think I'm from? From the streets, n-gga
Triple OGs, told me to teach, n-gga
And that ain't made up, that's a fact
They say that gangsta shit, is the shit I rap
Look who I attract, look at my inner circle
Buncha street n-ggas, and a couple Urkels
Look at my fan base, oh, yes
Fuck what Pro say, look at this protest
Where they do that at? (Huh?) Who they do that for? (Who?)
Must mean I'm doin' bad, and things is movin' slow
They talkin' revolution, on public radio
They catch down in Houston, sittin' on them 84s
Trae, what's up? AVN
Got your back, n-gga, sink or swim
Free Chilly Chill, shake off yo' masters
Pray to God, build your mind faster
[Chorus]
I think I'm Malcolm X, Martin Luther
Add a King, add a Junior
Couple Bible verses, a couple sunnahs
AK-47, that's a revolution
I think I'm Tupac, Bob Marley
Fela Kuti, Marcus Garvey
Them the real ones, light a lighter for 'em
Let you know, that I'm ridin' for 'em
FNF up!
Lasers!
[verse 1]
first off say peace to pine ridge
shame at all the damage the white man wine did
ghost dance, trail of tears, 5 million beers a year
and all that other crime did
more peace to the teachers of blind kids
to rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
say everything's hostile
suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models
with cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
straight hair, high heels and a handbag
crucifixes, racism and a land grab
katrina, fema trailers, human body sandbags
a peace sign and a pants sag
a money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
a friend request following a hash tag
now everybody want it like the last laugh
a michael jackson jacket or a daft mask
purple jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
stable is when the ba'ath had baghdad
but corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
war and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
cause that's just more dinosaur for the cadillac
[hook]
live from the other side what you see
a bunch of nonsense on my tv
heaven on earth is what i need
but i feel i'm in hell every time i breathe
reporting live from the other side what you hear
a bunch of nonsense all in my ear
rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way
[verse 2]
and we marvel at the state of ottoman
then turn around and treat ghana like a garbage can
america's a big motherfuckin' garbageman
if you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem
you say no you ain't, and i say yes you is
soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
you say no they didn't, and i say yes they did
the definition of unnecessary-ness
manifested
say that we should protest just to get arrested
that goes against all my hustling ethics
a bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective
depart from martin, connect on malcolm x tip
insert baldwin to similar the separate
to me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
or finding really fast internet to have some sex with
it's all one song short of a set list
couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
so absurd word to chief bone necklace
down at the lakota sioux casino
a whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino
i go as left as a heart in the chest
cause the horn of africa is now starving to death
[hook]
[verse 3]
an all white los angeles, the dream of mr. chandler
hope and pray they take columbus day up off the calendar
south central an example of god's gifts
so shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6
the projects of oakland city, detroit ghost towns
monopolies on poverty where d-boy coke bound
it's parts of manilla like the video for thriller
but the us embassy is reminiscent of a villa
if poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
then what's the flavor of the sunday preacher's pedophilia
cash rules everything around these niggas
as classrooms everywhere around me wither
hither you can be mr. burns or mr. smithers
the tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
of the extremes of america's dream
freud fighting neo, freddy krueger refereeing, naaa
[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
With her eyes to the ceiling and a needle to her brain
She looks back into the crowd, wipes the blood and then explains
How she slipped from this existence to the realm of the deranged
Her becoming must be halted to reverse what she became
From the looseness of her tongue, to the pollution of her aims
To do nothing is barbaric, the solution is humane
You must destroy the mind and hopefully retrain
You torture out the wildness, then replace it with the tame
Blank slate when she recovers, she won't even know her name
Perfect wife and perfect lover, no resistance, no complaints
My God bless the scientific cure for the insane
[Intro:]
Knockin' at the door but you can't get in
Peekin’ through the blinds but you can't see in
Knockin' at the door but you can't get in
Knockin' at the door but you can't get in
[Verse 1:]
They wanna start again, no arguin',
Guns in the car for them, hit em while they feet on they Alterman’s
Off guard, blow em out they Cardigans
They case hardenin' , they at the table bargainin'
No time for stuck safeties or shaky targetin'
Hit the face, hit the safe and the carpet in
Get the weight, get the cape, get the tape that we starred in
Escape, hit the interstate partyin'
They guardians is soft frames as jellyfish
Give em shirts that they can strain spaghetti wit
Extra button holes for touchin’ those
They rarely kick, my readiness only matched by my pettiness
Get the change where the couch at,
Pick pocket fleas, please get the cheese off they mousetraps
Remember, they holdin' jus like us
Burners under the furniture, 4-4's and floorboards
Murderers, burglars, they game just as hood
And they aim jus as good,
A little better
Little Berettas wit suppressors
And all the etceteras for whatever
We can pole climb, cut phone lines, the whole nine
But we got to stay together, that’s the key to this
Even if, its no longer secretive
They gonna start panicin', when they see that u backstage without the laminent
Don’t ease up, niggaz tend to freeze up, become mannequins
"What about you?", don't worry bout me
I'm averagin’ 50 shots a game when its cracklin'
Turn the lights off on they ambulance
Just, give me room to operate
They be in operatin’ rooms wit wounds to contemplate
Don’t speak, no room to commentate,
Make sure ya sneakers tied, no shoes to confiscate
Get aways, take the cables out they Sables,
Slash the tires on they Chryslers, no survivors
Niggaz can't make it with McGuyver
Either u get them, or they get u
No amount of karate class can keep u outta body bags
So save ya boxing and Ninjitsu
Don’t be cheap, bullets is ten cents apiece
Give em each a saw buck the instant they reach (UH!)
Movin’ on, make sure you know who’s who, who’s you
Who’s not, and who to shoot upon
Friendly fire, and hittin’ innocent standbyers'll
Get ya enemy wired, and its bad enough
So dont go gassin’ em up,
Leave that for the shells, the 12's from the pumps
If done correct, the condo's on me
Gotta go, rock-n-roll, lock and load on 3
[Intro]
Today, nobody cares
But tomorrow, they will
Today, nobody cares
But oh tomorrow, they will
[Hook]
They said my future was dark, see me now
Just look around, I'm beaming
They used to talk, when I wasn't around
You see me now, I'm beaming
[Verse 1]
I get my energy from my inner G
I be in outer space but I got inner peace
So tell my enemies that they can't injure me
I know that irritate, you have my sympathies
Well you should protest, yeah you should picket me
I'm on a losing strike, I'm on a winning streak
I'm out at left field, I'm speaking mentally
But that's a better place than where the benches be
I'm feeling really good, me and my different beat
Me and my different drummer; he play the timpanis
See that's what got me here, you hearing me
Me on my "black man in the future" shit, call me Billy Dee
See I'm just forward looking, that's how I really see
See while you Valentines, I'm thinking Christmas trees
And that's how this would be even at Micky D's
Semi-colon, closed parentheses
[Hook]
They said my future was dark, see me now
Just look around, I'm beaming
They used to talk, when I wasn't around
You see me now, I'm beaming
[Verse 2]
Do you remember me, the guy from verse one
Failure's my last name, Never's my first one
You see I hood a lot, and yeah I nerd some
Hood's where the heart is, nerd's where the words from
Don't represent either because I merged them
It's kids who wanna leave and I encourage them
Go out and see the world, never return from
Yeah you don't come back unless you learned some
And baby girl what does it matter where your purse from
Your hair done, your nails did, your ass fat but you're dumb
Mix Melissa Ford with Maya Angelou
Become a top model and Sojourner too
I try to follow this, what Muhammad do
It's such an old soul, inside this sonic youth
It's why I'm Ferrari'd up, and I'm conscious too
I don't prophesize, I promise you
[Hook]
They said my future was dark, see me now
Just look around, I'm beaming
They used to talk, when I wasn't around
You see me now, I'm beaming
[Verse 3]
Yeah it's me again, the guy from verse two
Well this the last one, it's almost curfew
It's almost night out so turn ya lights on
Where all my 760s with ya brights on
Yeah they are the ones to keep your eyes on
Like how we used to do to keep the house warm
Now those the type of eyes I not cry from
You see the tears of fire run out my crying songs
Now the world shoulders is what I'm crying on
The world's fast lane is what I'm driving on
What am I driving at, trying to drive it home
I'm in the drivers seat but you can ride along
It's never cyclops, it's never I alone
I'm telling your story wherever I perform
Now if they looking for me, you tell 'em I've gone
[uncredited female rapper]
Food and liquor stores rest on every corner
From 45th and State to the last standin Henry Horner
J&J;'s, Harold's Chicken, good finger lickin
While they sin, gin, sin sin at Rothschild and Kenwood Liquors
The winos crooked stagger
meets the high stride of the youth searchin for the truth
They rebel and raise hell across alleyways and in classroom settings
They get, high off that drum bass and 20/20 rims
They rock braids, Air Force Ones and Timbs
They drink Hennessy, Hypnotiq and 40's
They call they women hoes, bust downs and shorties
They keep funeral homes in business and gunshot wards of hospitals full
Prisons packed, bubblin over in brown sugar
They keep empty, Westside lots crowded, hype's powdered
The well is running dry, the days of Malcolm and Martin have ended
Our hope has descended and off to the side
Waiting for the reinstallment of the revolution
Because we are dying at the cost of our own pollution
But God has another solution, that has evolved from the hood
I present one who turns, the Fiasco to good
[Lupe Fiasco]
A'uzu billahi min ash shaitani r rajimi
Bismi 'llahi 'r-rahmani 'r-rahim
Dedicated, to my grandmother
Peace! And much love to you
YEAH!! And it start
1st and, 15, proudly present
You know what it is
See.. I got this philosophy right
I think the world, and everything in it
Is made up of a mix, of two things
You got your good, y'know, and your bad
You got your food, and your liquor
That's right.. Chilly Chill!
You already know, it's a long time comin
I give you my.. I give you my heart
My soul, my mind my thoughts, my feelings
My experience, nuttin more, and nuttin less
Yes, FNF, uh-huh! So
With no further adieux...
And since im presently on the incline
I feel inclined to invite yall
In the mind im feelin real spiffy
Signed sealed illest label deal in the city
Check me and my fifty dollar fifty-nine fifty
Buyin diamonds is just no longer in me
So no more chains flooded watches on the right
hand
I work like a Mexican spend like a white man
That's right man I could Bentley afford
Instead I coped a couple skateboards and
some sneakers my kick game is crazy
keep a french eyeglass a backstage pass and a
model for a lady
Charlia stop winein I got a bottle ya babies
Don't get gassed up on what ya pomp-pomp [?]
think
Cuz the heart still dark as my Bloncic ink [?]
But the real OG'S told me fall on back
You got a secret service now you call on that
If that aint real mane I fall on tacks
Im feelin real good
I think I might post in here
And hold the westside down like itz a coast
this year
Bishop G they told me I should come down cousin
But I flatly refuse I aint dumb down nuffin
Like BOW
lovin the Chi right now
Comm Sense the Priest
Bump Jay ta chief
Kanye the champ
Twista man the Beast
Crucial still the king
Kato[?] rest in peace
and for those that aint never met I
I own 1st and 15th im Lupe the Jedi
Jay don't mind me im just blowin my zone up
Doin it bout as fly as a maggot grown up
And still got a life that's back in the palms up
just give me a foldin chair I aint after the
throne but
got a broken left flow that aint no body aint touch
just sayin if FnF aint up
friend naw
this aint a pen this a paint brush and I intend to rearrange how they paint us
I can't, I won't, I can't
I won't let you leave
I don't know what you want
You want more from me
She said to him, "I want you to be a father
He's your little boy and you don't even bother
Like 'Brother' without the R and he's starting to harbor
Cool and food for thought but for you he's a starver?
?Starting to use red markers on his work
His teacher say they know he's much smarter but he's hurt
Used to hand his homework in first
Like he was the classroom starter?
?Burst to tears, let them know she see us
Now he's fighting in class
Got a note last week that say he might not pass
Ask me if his daddy was sick of us
'Cause you ain't never pick him up?
?You see what his problem is
He don't know where his poppa is
No positive male role model
To play football and build railroad models?
?He's making a hole, you've been digging it
'Cause you ain't been kicking it
Since he was old enough to hold bottles
Wasn't supposed to get introduced to that
He don't deserve to get used to that?
?Now I ain't asking you for money or to come back to me
Some days it ain't sunny but it ain't so hard
Just breaks my heart, when I try to provide
And he say, 'Mommy, that ain't your job'?
To be a man, I try to make him understand
That I'm his number one fan
But it's like he born from the stands
You know the world is out to get him
So why don't you give him a chance??
I can't, I won't, I can't
I won't let you leave
Now, now, I don't know what you want
You want more from me
So he said to him, "I want you to be a father
I'm your little boy and you don't even bother
Like 'Brother' without the R and I'm starting to harbor
Cool and food for thought but for you I'm a starver?
?Starting to use red markers on my work
My teacher say they know I'm much smarter but I'm hurt
I used to hand my homework in first
Like I was the classroom starter?
?Burst to tears, let them know he see us
Now I'm fighting in class
Got a note last week that say I might not pass
Kids ask me if my daddy is sick of us
'Cause you ain't never pick me up?
?You see what my problem is
That I don't know where my poppa is
No positive male role model
To play football and build railroad models?
?It's making a hole, you've been digging it
'Cause you ain't been kicking it
Since I was old enough to hold bottles
Wasn't supposed to get introduced to that
I don't deserve to get used to that?
?Now I ain't asking you for money or to come back to me
Some days it ain't sunny but it ain't so hard
Just breaks my heart, when my momma try to provide
And I tell her, 'That ain't your job'?
?To be a man, she try to make me understand
That she my number one fan
But it's like you born from the stands
You know the world is out to get me
Why don't you give me a chance?"
It's like, I can't, I won't, I can't
I won't let you leave
Now, now, I don't know what you want
You want more from me
I can't, I won't, I can't
I won't let you leave
I don't know what you want
You want more from me
I can't, I won't, I can't
I won't let you leave
See I live it, Charlie
And then I write it, pimping
Then I record it, dirty
Then it's a song!
But then they hate on me
Cuz they can't take, homie
That I might break, homie
From my home
Which is the west side
F I wicked as the witches from the
West side in the wizard
You see I live it, scribble it
Deliver it, then I distribute it
To my niggas, But yet I
For the life of me
Can't understand the rivalry
Said about my number one fan, my man
He used to ride with me
But now he spitefully uses fighting words to frighten me
Slightly perturbed I war at his words rightfully
I should be lightning like in his ass
But I pass and lightly brush off the ash
From the square of that square
You see I really don't care
But it's a whole lot of insulted niggas over here
Bear in mind some of them mind, all of them won't
Some of them rhyme, all of them don't
Most of them grind, all of them inclined
To see you signed and combined
To be on your ass so serious
You see I live it, Charlie
And then I write it, pimping
Then I record it, dirty
Then it's a song!
But then they hate on me
Cuz they can't take, homie
That I might break, homie
[Gorillaz:]
Picture I'm a dreamer
I'll take you deeper
Down to the sleepy glow
Time is a low
Don't you know?
What are we going to do?
What are we going to do?
Is there something in the air? Do you feel it?
Is it close? Is it far? Is it here? Do you feel it?
Are you happy? You sad? You scared? Do you feel it?
Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it fair? Do you feel it?
Is it real? Is it fake? Do you care? Do you feel it?
When he stopped and he paid for head, did he feel it?
With his wife when he laid in the bed, did she feel it?
When the police kicked in the door, did he feel it?
When he had to go to war, did he feel it?
When they hung and they swung from a tree, did they feel it?
Well I know when they come for me, will I feel it
When he blew all his money to ball, did he feel it?
When that bullet came through a wall, did she feel it?
When he stopped and he dropped when he died, did he feel it?
When his momma closed his eyes, did he feel it?
When she couldn't take the pain, did she feel it?
When the dope flows through her veins, does she feel it?
When she took off all her clothes, did she feel it?
When she slid down that pole, did she feel it?
Will it all be clear to see, will I feel it?
If God forgives me, will I feel it?
[Matthew Santos:]
I ask my baby if she love me, she said she don't know
She said the game's got her heart, the streets have got her soul
I ask my baby if she love me, she said she don't know
She said the game's got her heart, the streets have got her soul
I said, "Wow"
When his food come out the trash, does she feel it?
When he sleeps under the underpass, does he feel it?
When she's pregnant and smoking weed, does she feel it?
When the jury just won't believe, do they feel it?
When this song come on in the club, do you feel it?
When a racist shows you love, do you feel it?
When he know he won't win the game, do he feel it?
When a preacher is driven insane, do he feel it?
Every time I write a rhyme, do I feel it?
When I'm running out of time, will I feel it?
When the liquor is poured on the ground, do they feel it?
If my music didn't make a sound, would you feel it?
I swear when I see this nigga, I'ma kill em, I'm going to kill him, so make niggas suffa.
My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy streets be all
Like feed me feed me when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy (x2)
My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy
Hey he had a whole lotta cheese plus he was a mac had a whole lotta seeds
Made alot of niggas fat gave a whole lotta G's, grams man he had a whole lotta dese
And he would let you hold a whole lotta keys, even if u lose some he would give you new ones
Twice the bread like he had two buns, and he had a whole lotta seeds even his kids had meals
For reals some rich small fries wraped in paper since they was little, ketchup nigga
My man said life ain't easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy streets be all
Like feed me feed me when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy
My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy
He was a heart breaker and a large shaka, if it was bout cakin, he was a part taka
International he would take trips bon voyage just as hard he was fishin for the chips so greedy
Never gave to the needy thats what some say he shoned on the bums hangin in the subways he
Called them fruits and laughed at em delivery man on the pick up drive thru and throw the bag
At em it was hard to understand him sometimes makin a killin the way he had em standin in line
Like
My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy streets be all
Like feed me feed me when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy
My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy
Others call him king haters call him clown he would say bite me thats the way its goin down he
Was havin thoughts that maybe he should retire went to church on sunday and say deep fire said
He had beef and people want him dead he love the hungry ones only scared of the feds he lived
The fast life couldn't get his path right fried just told him bout the hooters that he had last
Night turn yoself in to the patty wagon said no bacon wouldn't take em had the pigs on the pay
Roll
To be continued, on another menu, ya dig.
Will he give up his life of crime or will he stay?
This and other adventured on lupe fiasco's next album, L - U - P - END
Yessir!
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
I got my go go go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I'm back I'm back
I'm cool I'm cool
It's our identity
All me
No ghost no 16 bit like sega genesis
All g ball on the ball soundtrack on the track gemini on the job shayla g on the g sarah green
for the green free chilly
And I'm back on my thing for the listeners
What you are about to to witness is
Lu new valuable album 2
Get ready for the ghetto ghetto images
From the m-a-d-i to the s to the o-n
Potent so get your oak pen
Move like a nigga supposed to
Get your dough on the go with the flow
That I'm holdin
I'm on my go go go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
Love, got the windy city on my back
So I'm back on my grizzle like a bearskin rug
Put some lain on the floor blame it on the goat
Little rapper turn it out cause I'm very pluh
I convert I can work anywhere any word you can ask my brother huh
He'll concur that I'm sers with the worst with the man up above thank you very much
That I got what I got and I'm at where I'm at like an a in a circle with a pay little erkel
What they say when they see og from the f to the f to the amazing verbals
They race in circles like they raisin a gerbil
I race in a circle like I'm raisin a horse
I'm racin a porsche while they racin in place
They race in a cage I race on a course
COURSE
That case in the court did not defer the dream
I am still a raisin in the sun raging against the machine
From the m-a-d-i to the s to the o-n
Potent so get your oak pen
Move like a nigga supposed to
Get your dough on the go with the flow
That I'm holdin
I'm on my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
Hey hey don't hate on me
My tank on full your tank on e
Look good on you look good on me
Cause I'm a go and never gon s-t-o-p
Like hey hey don't hate on me
My tank on full your tank on e
Look good on you look great on me
Cause I'm a go and never gon s-t-o-p
Like hey hey I'm the boss
Rock genuine time not de lacoste
be on clean and phenom jeans
Little rap is like azemof
I let my momma into rhyming and she raised me off
A 80s baby on file like a safety off
Got my hood ridin high on 28s
Off of everything that's gon be like a 84
And they in love with him and I'm in love with them
And we never ride dubs again
No we won't
Tryna get above the rim
A little too short to dunk
So we donk
From the m-a-d-i to the s to the o-n
Potent so get your oak pen
Move like a nigga supposed to
Get your dough on the go with the flow
I'm on my go go go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I got my go go go go go go go go gadget flow
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (say it now)
I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world (hey)
City in the whole wide world (hey)
You On Da Dig? (Yes Sir)
You Naw'm Talkin' Bout? (Yes Sir)
You See Wut Im Sayin'? (Yes Sir)
You Know? (Yes Sir)
And If You Dont, Well Thats Too Bad!
As I Gently Push Up On The Sceeeene,
I Feel Like Ammunition For A Sliiiing Shot.
(Uh)
I'm Trying To Get Triple Sevens On My Slot Machine
And Knuckle Up With Time Like A Riiiiing Watch.
With No Wings, Hustle Man, Sittin In A Rubber Band - A Dennis The Menace's Weapon Of Choice With The Window's Up And Sooo...
Dead Intended Unattended Windows Of A Rolls, Broken Glass On The Driver's Seat Of A Royce!
Now How Am I 'posed To Sit For Mista Wilson Drop A Dime, Before Another Penny - Spent On This Gaaaame
Before I Cough Up The Cars And Invest Another Thought - I Walk Without My Bucket Of Change
But Im Poor, Materially Speaking So...
I Can't Be Leaving This Casino With Less Than A C-Note
Even If It Takes A Grand To Get It I Ride, Just To See That My Sedan Has Been Van-Da-Lized.
I....Ah Ah Aa Ahhhh
Game Time, Dont Get Caught Up In The Magic, Keep Your Brain Right
Cuz Thangs Aint Wut They Seeeeem Like
It Dont Matter What They Say Just Get The Naaaame Right..
Now Thats L As In Little -- U As Opposite Of Me And P As In Pistolin' And E As In ...E (?)
Now Playaz Say That Boy Walk-A-Like A Man, Treat Cha Like Ya Fam' And Talkin' Like A G...
Now This Is Art, Taylor Made,
Sharp, Wrists A Kill Like Raaaazor Blades
I Do My Part, I Chill Like The Barber Of Seville(?) Homie, It's Like Im Paid To Faaade.
Turn Around N' Paid My Dues, With The Wages Maaade - And Then I Tip Like What A Waitress Pay
I'm A Ghetto Supa-Star (Star, Star, Star)
Hand Prints Chillin' And My Name Written Where The Pavement Lay
Turn Around And Place My Shoes Where The Name Engraved - Then (Uh) Game Is Played - Till I'm Rain Delayed... (Uh)
Now Thats My Zone But Im Far From An Actor Home - Like A Star Map This A G Talking Like Seasame Street
Referee The Beats That I'm Rappin' On,
They Tryin' To De-Rail My Train Of Thought!
But I'm Bruce Willis -- Ya'll Dont Feel It, Why You Break Yo'self
Like A Car-Jack,
This Is Hard Black
Like Where My Palms At.
Niggaaaz
Gaaaame Time
Dont Get Caught Up In The Magic, Keep Your Brain Riiiiiiight
Cuz Thangs Aint Wut They Seeeeem Like
It Dont Matter What They Say Just Get The Naaaame Riiiiiiight..
Now Thats L As In Little -- U As Opposite Of Me And P As In Pistolin' And E As In ....E (?)
Now Playaz Say That Boy Walk-A-Like A Man, Treat Cha Like Ya Fam' And Talkin' Like A G...(Uh)
Now Back To My Scrap With Time,
The Tat With The Tickin', I Make My Fists
Wrap My Writs, Leave The Ring On, I Could Neva Get Enough
Punch My Clock
Clock My Grip
Niggaz Tryin To Pull My Card, Stop My Shift
Shift Me To That Graveyard And Knock My Hustle
They Hope I Domino And Free Up My Delivery And At The Same Time Mark My Magnificennnnce...
I'm Just Trying To Do The Opposite Of Left (Right),
As Long As There Is The Opposite Of Death (Life)
- (You'know?!) Yes!
(You Feel Me?) -
You Test, And I Might Just Bring The Opposite Of Life (Death)
Till There's No One The Opposite Of Right (Left)
Check!!!
As You Bop Down The Writer's Block And Can't Find It...
I Address (I Speak It) -
I Correct,
You A Dress,
I A Pair-A-Pants
I A Motarola, You A Just A Pair-A-Cans!
Couple Coke-A-Colas And A String,
Playa Im Bout My Green Like Marsha's Skin
A Sinner On A Side-Walk, They Wavin' To From The Floats In A Parade, Saint's Go Marchin' In....
I Got My ..Ah Ah Ah Ahhhhh
Gaaaame Time
Dont Get Caught Up In The Magic, Keep Your Brain Right
Cuz Thangs Aint Wut They Seeeeem Like
It Dont Matter What They Say Just Get The Naaaame Right..
Now Thats L As In Little -- U As Opposite Of Me And P As In Pistolin' And E As In ....E (?)
Now Playaz Say That Boy Walk-A-Like A Man, Treat Cha Like Ya Fam' And Talkin' Like A G!...
My man Lupe asked me... a freestyle?
kick some massive freestyle
A lot of massive freestyle
I'm just saying!
So freestyle, yeah!
I absorb this energy, refer to my memory and scenes and lines and rhymes
So put together for these times
Right off the top like suicide jumpers landing on your block, uh
I do pauses like that, I do... to stretch
... more like a suggestion, but maybe is the truth
Still falling off the roof, uh
Thought I was dead, no then I hit the ground
Call the police and hit the pound
Is 911 when when you...
Is a lot around when... the fun
See I do it like my flows and I was a 92
And I was in school and I was rapping like ghost face killer with a higher...
With a... and the megaphone zone
Can't nobody stop when the dread is gone along
So I'mma keep the... and never said...
The beer be the poison and the food and the liquor
And you watch and study the moves of the niggers
From the back with the jungles on attack
With the Mac tucked in with the strap, bring it back
Uh, see I do it, but I feel it when it's done
And then when I comment then you run
See I messed up dear, but then the best up here
I try to do that... fear and say
Moving like a movement dude, me and you
Me and him is me and him two and two
Four and four math don't work, but the... don't work
so I wash it in the shower for an hour
But the rain is still is... any lines, many times
Any rhymes that I kick or I commit
Like a murder serving shit, hit you like a burglar
... when I'm sneaking through the back with your purse sir
And that's a man with a lady bag,
Maybe drag, maybe fat
But no less homo, no zone goes deeper than mine
when I'm in time... and commit crimes every time when I'm...
The New York flow is kicking in...
So I'm like President Obama when I'm ripping it
Maybe a terrorist, maybe embarrasses us
But never scaring us, and everything is...
... is more better, and can't nobody be stop when I score
A sweater like a booster, when I'm jumping I'm a polo on...
You can call me what I am like... I'm a...
So word to the homie and the hero never zero
And I move and I disappear, representing like... in court
You're still might lose!
I get punch, but I still don't bruise
Fly like that cat, semi-automatic attack
The raps, and they give... to everybody back in the day
But that's more than no... when I'm flowing in
Everybody trying to... but I'm shocked, I'm going in!
Shout the... two times, two rhymes, funk master flex.
And... and I'm still Ramadan
My momma blind, and everybody dropping bombs
Buum! and let's do it like nuclear war...
Is full of these lyrics and spiritual
Can't nobody stop the massive attack when the rap is so lyrical
Uh, and then I bless up and...
When I come through, you better put your vest up
Cause chest shots ain't coming more like for the dawn
And I rap like it's going home
Like... it's going home, like it's flowing on beaten
Broken bones... stick to your football track... and attacking it and...
Can't nobody stack to this
You can't stack up and back up
Rest in peace till my brother S Cole is... we let you see us
Some... some so deliverance
Said it when I be kicking it, spitting it and ripping it
See, that's a... and fair like I don't care
But I still rock like I'm the player of the year
So I shout to the best and I move you around like the... to the Brooklyn
Shook it! Can't nobody stop it,
Can't take it where I took you
And if you want more then just push it, and I'll be there
Rocking, kicking the head, and then just split it
Ripping it down and doing things
And I might give you a pound but if the phone don't ring, don't be mad!
Homie just be sad cause you're missing out
I'm giving out more knowledge to drop it
It's like school and the college and the university is like the...
And rhyming, we're rhyming wits, trying to drop a dime in this
With a dime and glits, ring black hammer
Keep it rolling round...
I'mma run around stunning on you and your crew
So I bless you to do something
Never step... and I might have to rep you cousin!
It's mean, soldier
Now let me put the streets down like steamrollers
With the CATS that push
40 oz. through the hood like King Cobras
See me sling soda
'Cause the extra four in the split is mixed
It's really 36
Used to buy toasters and clips
You can tighten your circle or boa constrict
While you was lighting your purple, I was over the scripts
See, I couldn't walk the walk, couldn't really talk the talk
Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
'Cause this lack in talk had my walk looking off
Now I'm over the limp
Watch how they mugs drop when they see my Verbal's able
(That's the Usual)
When I was po' I was low
Now me and my Chaps cop Purple Label
It's Ralph Lauren on the rap laureate
Niggas brownnose, they are like "after him"
Runners at Interscope are not as Stoute as him
Please don't Interscope
It's gonna be a whole lot of Iovine and respirating
If I lean out this window with Irene
Niggas as tall as Yao Ming
With L-U-P-Emperor
Is the foundation's high beams and the antennas
It's so serious every time I write my John Hancock like
Could damn near see Detroit
Niggas is scared of heights
This is saran wrap and aluminum foil
Some potpourri, a little machine oil
I stack my paper and throw off my 6
This is top floor, better look out before
Pennies from heaven is the same as the semi from the second
And I reign supreme
Turn your umbrellas upside down
Did you even catch the change in theme?
And them niggas ain't Watts nor from his regime
Gangsta lean
Hats on tilt like these niggas ain't drop out the vending machine
You gotta put more money in
And I shake niggas up every time I drop a bar
(2 for 1)
It's horse in the Porsche and bricks in the box
Like mo' money them every time I cop a car
You see I'm a roller, right
So it might be a Rover, right
But every time I drop a 'r'
(Get off the streets)
It's "over" aite
Bet I be in the head like overnight
Like rollers, right
She the chauffeur, right
So I keep her sober
She don't get Fed Ex like overnight
I am Dolemite
All that gas can't help you but solar might
Just call on sun
Drop a 's'
Pick up an 'o'
Uno, put it all on "one"
Brace yourself like overbite
"For that quiet nigga that relocated down south
Coming back to floss"
Nigga get your molars right
Fix your grill
No plaque but a whole lot of cheese
This the drill
Mr. Chill
Gave me the green light like Yoda knife
So I'ma force my will
Like the Force I wield
Of course you will
Take my time
But weight behind only pertains
To that Porsche grill
It's snakes in the hood
Gotta watch for that Cobra bite
Let me see
There's snakes in the hood
A bird, a horse behind the grill
Something gator on the seat
And a fox behind the wheel
For achiever
My procedure's
To proceed at all cost
With no breather
I'm all walk
Rain, snow, or fever
I'm all coughs coming after your teacher
I'm on the ball like FIFA
Viva
Lupe Duce
Long live the leader
I remember I ain't have sneakers
It was welfare
Coming up for air is like
Whales there
Fila
But now I'm well here
I'm Shamu with twelve pair
And niggas wanna take me back to zero like tear fare
Well, my skill's clear
You Sea World
It's Braille here
I'm Bumpy Johnson I stick to the streets
Keep my dogs out in front of me
You see what I'm saying
And I push ki's wonderfully
[Lupe Fiasco]We gon do what we say,
see us when see that again, call us instant replay (2x)
cop a coupe and then recoup, we call it instant replay
say hello to your goodbyes, we continue to heat wave, Chris!
[Chris Brown]From VA to Chicago in a murcielago,
pretty lil model, model, model
Follow me where I go, it look like a slide show,
it look like a slide show, follow me where I go
My chain look like a car show, her body like a bottle
Pretty lil model, model, model
that's why this dude is trippin
Steady investigating, being a situation (waitin', hatin')
[Chorus]I Don't want your girlfriend (No!) (3x)
I don't want your girl, but she like
la la la la la la (4x)
I Don't want your girlfriend (3x)
I don't want your girl, she in my
la la la la la (4x)
Damn your girl be drankin', why she steady sippin
I see she got that feelin, I guess that why he mad for
Cause you more than he ask for, Why you hella mad bro, mad bro, mad bro?
My chain look like a car show, her body like a bottle
Pretty lil model, model, model
that's why this dude is trippin
Steady investigating, being a situation (waitin', hatin')
[Chorus]I Don't want your girlfriend (No!) (3x)
I don't want your girl, but she like
la la la la la la (4x)
I Don't want your girlfriend (3x)
I don't want your girl, she in my
la la la la la (4x)
[Lupe Fiasco]Shot town down to VA, slept, walk out them PJ's
Pockets smell like females so I fed them cheesecake
She wanna know how these taste, she gave me the please face
I gave her the leave face, she know what think like Gene Grey
Stepped on in so cleanly, mastermind in yeezy
Your diamonds aint got no class, we call them dr. Kingly
Our watches got them scholarships, we knowledge that
She fine yo, but we don't want your baby girl, we will take
all your shine though.
[Chorus]I Don't want your girlfriend (No!) (3x)
I don't want your girl, but she like
la la la la la la (4x)
I Don't want your girlfriend (3x)
I don't want your girl, she in my
la la la la la (4x)
Don't want your girl [4x]
[Lupe: talking]
You know I had to do it, man. It wouldn'ta been right if I didn't. You seen it? You seen the show last night on TV? You seen nigga's rims man? You seen the new Jordans man? You see her ass yo? Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
[Singing:]
Seein' with my ghetto eyes
I walkeded with my ghetto feet
I talkeded with my ghetto speech
I'm copasetic, I won't let it bring me down
Bring me down...
I say it's enstilled
As I peep from beneath the titled brim of my pinwheel
Steady mobbin', heavy problems
Genocide resynthesize to violence, makes it hard to sympathize
Harden, individuals whose feelings is miniscule
Soon become criminals if you dark-skinned
And you was raised in a project apartment
Public Aid made it that your father couldn't stay
He had to part then, left with only a mother
The family structure suffers
He will soon cling to hustlers, as his guardians
He still a boy, needs to fill a void, marchin'
Up the block up to no good, sellin' in the wrong hood
He was taken down by a marksmen
At his wake, 8th Grade Graduation picture
Last words: Don't let the habitation get ya
Pardoned, Lord have mercy on the fallen
Amen, feel like I'm hardened
Got the harbinger for the coming of the carpenter
Til then, I got some big fish to fry like Marlins
Part niggas, steady mobbin'
[Chorus:]
I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answers
Like, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dicatate my glory
Cuz it's something out there for me
But I'ma flee my territory
So I won't end up, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
And I try to see past it
Through the down-roll window on the driver side of my Caprice Classic
Steady mobbin', corner store traffic
i.e. dope fiends, hookers and teens with alcohol IVs
I see, plastic, cups is a nickel, 50 cent for Dutch Masters
My big brother's Pelle Pel' lingers of a fargone weed smoke
Lookin' for greener pastures, pasturized 2% for $2.19
You can get 2 quarts, there's also a sale on Newports
A seperate line for Lotto, bumpy face, add a model
Huggin' a bottle, salt and sour Jays, and blueberry Hugs
Shorties consider a meal, been my feel for it
Sweatin' for a pair of Air Jordans they would steal for
And a gold chain 4 fiends would knife, wild and kill yours
There's nothing too promising on our billboards
Drink Tanqueray, eat KFC, come abort your child
Buy Nikes, which makes it highly unlikely that we gon' fight, G
Steady mobbin'
[Chorus:]
I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answers
Like, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dicatate my glory
Cuz it's something out there for me
But I'ma flee my territory
So I won't end up, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
And I'm still on
As I stroll down the same street so many like me once before, were killed on
Steady mobbin', thinkin' bout the Black Panthers
And the babies that were born in the late '80s
That now have babies that lack Pampers
No Kwaanzas and they lack Santas
And the father who thinks shoe-shopping is the answer
Skipped out on parenthood classes so she don't know how to handle her
And never learned from her grandmother
One day got hot, couldn't take it, dropped her in a vacant lot
Album of Life, now condensed into a sampler
See the shapes these little girls is gettin'?
Somethin' say the steroids in the chicken is the cause of the thickening in the young women
Livid, see some shorties playin' Cops & Robbers, livin'
Bittersweet thoughts is what I had for them
I can picture colder feelin' Police chasin' after them
Catchin' up to, friskin' and askin' them
Where the packs at? Who yo' cheif is? Where the straps at?
Am I thinking too hard? Or perhaps that's reality
In a project mentality, but through it all
I hope we learn more than how to be whores and how to move a ball
Steady mobbin'
[Chorus:]
I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answers
Like, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dicatate my glory
Cuz it's something out there for me
But I'ma flee my territory
So I won't end up, just a ghetto story
Just a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
Yes Sir, What up Shanobie, Susie What up, Salamalakem, Uh Yeah What up Chi town what up west side what up every where else in the world President Carter What up man
[Verse 1:]
Dear Fall you might not know what my album is called its Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor. God willing September is when I plan to fall I mean drop like the temperature then rock on right through the winter put something on they mind give 'em lines to remember. Uh a lifetime remembered which is mine then record it put in georges then rewind then ??????. My misadventures, adventures into the underworld hanging with them cover girls. This aint my enter Nah on Arista I coulda been the Contender but BMG hada different agenda. What up LA Reid I still see ya, ya still my homeboy wont even charge you for a feature. I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller to motivational speaker. Niggas sta ?????? Nah Im not a prophet but Farenheit 115 is being quoted by preachers. Far from being a leader but Im still being invited by teachers. With no hennesy and no reefa give 'em a hand I came from hand-me-down sneakers. And I don't want to boast or brag but for what most niggas hope a nigga dun had. Chop game wit my folk and split it in half you aint gotta bring it back tomorrow a nigga can have. Rich or broke. A nigga aint mad. Self esteem'll make a Regal ride like a Silver ???? Just wipe the french fries off the seat, lean back and then tilt my hat. Uh and Ima head to the bass line free bass to the 8 times at bass line watching Jay put it together. I wonder if he knew while he was mumbeling that this would push Lupe forever, together. With the F and F crew, Atlantic on post proudly present to you.
UH sumthn new sumthn fresh sumthn different A lil to the left a lil upliffn' A lil good game A lil hustln in'it Some S-B Nikes some nice crush linen. Dont forget the skateboard Of course the nice women. Can I get a mic check and a lil light dim and a fresh bottle of Vas maybe wit some light lemon and ya gotta blame my momma for the lil light skinnin.
And this aint writtin I swear autumn I was just recordin um as I thought um. Y-G F and F U-P 23 ya O-V-P. Wit a flow like Laud an nem that a get ya sleepy but soon as they nod off thats when Im smelling ???. What down Madisson Street how they gone keep us off 'em. Peace
[To the beat of Gorillaz' "Dirty Harry"]
Catch me I'm balling, catch me I'm balling
Catch me like Spalding, catch me like Rawlings
If he indeed the MC
Invite him in/vitamin like GNC
Can't see me like BIG on CMT
Did a little bit of time on BMG
But this right here homie, this all me
Can you be down? Nah, nigga C.M.B.
That's cold, that ain't nice G
So what though? Little homie remind me of Ice-T
By the way we share the same birthday
The word play is work but pimping is easy
So catch me I'm balling
I'm sick too if you ain't catch me like coughing
Back when I said you should catch me like Rawlings
It's cool, cause most cats that I bump into can't catch me that often
Most times they just end up falling
Ball for a few then end up walking
Catch me in the ball with a Cinderella waltzing
And I do it until it's no longer exclusive
Might go once, might go twice
But never three times like an auction to it
See I, walk into it, I do my thang
[Verse 1:]
If I wasn't Rapping, I Probally Be Wrastlin
Hand Ta Hand, Grappling, On The Coner Of Madison
Or Realestating Tryna Sell You A Mansion,
Or Rollerblading Doing 360 Flash Bends,
Or I'll Prolly Be Flipping Da Burger, Attemptin A Murder, Paralized, Sipping On Gerber
I Could Be Working At Jewels, Chain Snatching, Jerking Ya Jewels,
Homeless, Working For Food,
I Might Be Cleaning Ya Pool, Teaching Ya School, Preaching To Fools,
Leaching, Smoking Weed To Be Cool
At DMV's Holding Lines Up, A Whine Duck In Line Ups, Who Times Up
Full Of Holes In A Whole In A Fine Tux,
Out On Parole, Out Of Control, Holden Ya Dime Up
I Could Be Lazy Sitting On Your Couch
Or I Could Be Crazy Cussin Pidgeons Out
[Hook x2]
I Could Be Hustlin Bags,
Struggling Bad,
If I Wasn't Up In The Lab,
Shit, I Just Might Be,
Cutting Ya Grass
Walking Ya Dog
Pumping Ya Gas
Or Nuttin At All
[Verse 2:]
Could Be Thanking The Academy,
Friend Of The Family,
Ya Man, Delivering Bail,
Or I Could Be The Man That Delivers Your Mail,
Or I Could Be Taking The Stand, Drinkin On L
This Could Be My Third Life, Or My Third Strike Or My Third Wife,
Been Garbage On My First Mic
I Coulda Got Off Easy, That Nigga Deserves Life
Orcan Man Searching For Termites
I Could Be Sticking Up Conveniece Stores Or Twistin Up What You Fiendin For
Or Gettind Bucked With The Meanest whores
Been Giving Up, On Top Of a Building Leaning Forward, With No Wings To Soar It
It Could Of Kidnapped My Daughters, Been Extorted For A Couple Of Porshes
I Might Be Drunk From The Moe, Stombling Slow, Someone Ya Know,
Running Da Show, Or Shoveling Snow
[Hook x2]
I Could Be Hustlin Bags,
Struggling Bad,
If I Wasn't Up In The Lab,
Shit, I Just Might Be,
Cutting Ya Grass
Walking Ya Dog
Pumping Ya Gas
Nuttin At All
[Verse 3:]
I Could Be Starting Galding, Or Planting The Garden, Or Security Gaurding
Or I Could Be Starving And Eating Out Ya Garbage
And Found Stardom, Starring In Sitcoms Wit Martin
I Coulda Been Marching Wit Martin, Handcuff,
Nullface, Over The Face With No Comment,
I Might Not Even Be Darkskin, I Might Not Even Be Conscious, Comatose from a Over Dose
A R&B; Singer Blowing The Notes, Tailor Sowing The Coats, A Sailor Rowing The Boat
I Coulda... Boxed A Little, Fought For The Title, Lost,
And Lost My Vitals On The Way To The Hospital
I Could Of Lost My Business
Won The Lotto And Lost My Ticket
I Could Be The Last One To Cross And Finish It
I Could Be You, I Could Be Him, He Could Be Me, We All Got A Job
[Hook x4]
I Could Be Hustlin Bags,
Struggling Bad,
If I Wasn't Up In The Lab,
Shit, I Just Might Be,
Cutting Ya Grass
Walking Ya Dog
Pumping Ya Gas
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep him happy 'cause I might fall out if he cries
Scared of heights so I might pass out if he flies
Keep him on autopilot 'cause I can't drive
Room enough for one I tell my homies they can't ride
Unless they sittin on the shoulders but that's way too high
Let's try not to step on the children
The news cameras filmin
This walkin project buildin
Now there's hoes sellin hoes like right around the toes
And the crackheads beg at about the lower leg
There's crooked police that's stationed at the knees
And they do drive-bys like up and down the thighs
And there's a car chase goin on at the waist
Keep a vest on my chest
I'm sittin in my room as I'm lookin out the face
Somethin to write about
I still got some damage from fightin the whitehouse, just a
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Now come on everybody, let's make cocaine cool
We need a few more half naked women up in the pool
And hold this MAC-10 that's all covered in jewels
And can you please put your titties closer to the 22s?
And where's the champagne? We need champagne
Now look as hard as you can with this blunt in your hand
And now hold up your chain slow motion through the flames
Now cue the smoke machines and the simulated rain
But not too loud 'cause the baby's sleepin
I wonder if it knows what the world is keepin
Up both sleeves while he lay there dreamin
Me and my robot tip-toe 'round creepin
I had to turn my back on what got you paid
I couldn't see half the hood on me like Abu Ghraib
But I'd like to thank the streets that drove me crazy
And all the televisions out there that raised me, I was
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
I'm feelin' like
I ain't feelin' right
I'm feelin' like
I'm feelin' fly
Right in the sky
Unidentified
Flying object
That a sinners hide
You can get a ride
Just get in line
Hand by your heart
Like memorize
Ask God please
Could you energize?
Beam on up
To the Enterprise
From the inner-city
Or the winter-city
Where's Mini-mini?
Not Mini-me's
Only Mini-me's
Not a lot of hymns
Only one eye
Whole lot of them
Saw a cyclops
That's a eye clock
Like a Rolex
With a eye patch
See what I got
Matches on the wall
Plus a crazy flow
Suicide watch
I'm just killin' time
Plus I'm insane
In a straight jacket
But it's Romanelli
I'm just gettin' back
For now it's kinda poor
Want to have things
Couldn't afford a Pelle
So don't mind me
'cause I ain't got a mind
I'm from Ha--
I ain't got a mind
I'm just gettin' mine
But don't step here
Because it's unbear
That I didn't find
Nympho mo' top
Like a mohawk
I remember when
I was so not
It was no locks
Man I couldn't ball
I was so bald
Robocop
I was Mr. Clean
Now I'm Mr. T
But a different team
F & F rules
Call me F.I.
From the west side
And I'm underground
Pepperin' you fool (yeah homey)
Creepin' on her, come up mystery, we gonna rewrite that
Left for a minute but I tell you I'll be right back
I know you're slummin' and you feel me want to be like that
Well you can't see me, that's 'cause everything is black
(Black
And I'm feelin' good
Like a villian would
If he was doin' bad
Kill Superman
Tied to a log
Push into a saw
Take a little dog
Right through the fan
Enemy man
Like a dictionary
Like a definition
Like you never listen
Not the issue is it
But the deaf part
Break it in half
Like an intermission
You'll see then
What I mean then
Or what I meant there
Doesn't impair
Now you're learnin' it
Keep versin' it
'til it's permanent
Like pen-pal
Got an empire
I'm the emperor
Like the cat were
I'll be faster
Are you tryin' to ask her
Just slow me down
But I'm goin' down
Like a network
That's wolf-man
You got a full house
I got a full moon
Then I pull out
The ace-summer sleeve
Like my hand hurt
Lend me your chips
What they took now
What they put now
Gotta look down
And check your shoulder
'cause I'll be over
Like a boater
You got boaters
In your loafers
Put your foot down
While I ottoman
Or a Laz-E-Boy
Or a handstand
See I elevate
L.A., Otis
My toes is
And my flow sick
Let it marinate
Try to break it down
Might take a while
All good though
I'll wait around
While you chase it down
That white rabbit
Down that long hole
Like paper towels (yeah homey)
Creepin' on her, come up mystery, we gonna rewrite that
Left for a minute but I tell you I'll be right back
I know you're slummin' and you feel me want to be like that
Well you can't see me, that's 'cause everything is black
(Black
, everything is black)
(Black
, you can't see me)
So this light's out
Like a lighthouse
In the daytime
Make it lay down
Make it go to bed
Make it go to sleep
Like D-bo
Who needs jumpin' cred
That's a headlock
It's what I said I got
The whole game is
Like shooter box
Then the Shokazuki
If you don't know the movies
I ninja vanish
Michael Dudikoff
I get super low
I get super lost
I be super cool
Like a super boss
Say they super bad
But they super soft
Like super chicken
Without the super sauce
Let's step out
It's a rap now
Blow your candles
And your lamps out
When I pull up
You can pull the plug
'cause it's game over
It's a black out
Creepin' on her, come up mystery, we gonna rewrite that
Left for a minute but I tell you I'll be right back
I know you're slummin' and you feel me want to be like that
Well you can't see me, that's 'cause everything is black
(Black
, everything is black)
(Black
[Intro]
Yeah
I say bitch bad, woman good, lady better
Hey, hey, hey, hey
[Verse 1]
Now imagine there's a shawty, maybe five maybe four
Ridin' 'round with his mama listening to the radio
And a song comes on and a not far off from being born
Doesn't know the difference between right and wrong
Now I ain't trying to make it too complex
But let's just say shawty has an undeveloped context
About the perception of women these days
His mama sings along and this what she says
"niggas I'm a bad bitch, and I'm bad bitch
Far above average"
And maybe other rhyming words like cabbage and savage
And baby carriage and other things that match it
Couple of things that are happenin' here
First he's relatin' the word "bitch" with his mama, comma
And because she's relatin' to herself, his most important source of help, and mental health, he may skew respect for dishonor
[Hook]
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
(I'm killin' these bitches)
Uh, tell 'em
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
They misunderstood
(I'm killin' these bitches)
[Verse 2]
Yeah, now imagine a group of little girls nine through twelve
On the internet watchin' videos listenin' to songs by themselves
It doesn't really matter if they have parental clearance
They understand the internet better than their parents
Now being the interent, the content's probably uncensored
They're young, so they're maleable and probably unmentored
A complicated combination, maybe with no relevance
Until that intelligence meets their favorite singer's preference
"bad bitches, bad bitches, bad bitches
That's all I want and all I like in life is bad bitches, bad bitches"
Now let's say that they less concerned with him
And more with the video girl acquiescent to his whims
Ah, the plot thickens
High heels, long hair, fat booty, slim
Reality check, I'm not trippin'
They don't see a paid actress, just what makes a bad bitch
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
Disclaimer: this rhymer, lupe's not usin' bitch as a lesson
But as a psychological weapon
To set in your mind and really mess with your conceptions
Discretions, reflections, it's clever misdirection
Cause, while I was rappin' they was growin' up fast
Nobody stepped in to ever slow 'em up, gasp
Sure enough, in this little world
The little boy meets one of those little girls
And he thinks she a bad bitch and she thinks she a bad bitch
He thinks disrespectfully, she thinks of that sexually
She got the wrong idea, he don't wanna fuck her
He thinks she's bad at being a bitch like his mother
Momma never dress like that, come out the house, hot mess like that
Ass, titties, dress like that
All out to impress like that
Just like that, you see the fruit of the confusion
He caught in a reality, she caught in an illusion
Bad mean good to her, she really nice and smart
But bad mean bad to him, bitch don't play your part
But bitch still bad to her if you say it the wrong way
But she think she a bitch, what a double entendre
[Hook]
[Outro]
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
You're misunderstood
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, greatest motherhood
[Intro: Styles P]
BET get your recorders
You rocking with the ghost Papoose
And Lupe the skate boarder (this is crazy)
Welcome to the cipher the beginning of rap,
For record deals first I'm going to toss you the cap
[Verse 1: Papoose]
Over 100 soilders died dis month I drop info out of ahundred da majority was negros George Bush is on a roll like a round hero dey still findin human remains at ground zero dey foundem in da sewers yeah it shows aww man yo I guess dats y dey call it a man hole when we say B.E.T we ain't tryna spell bet black entertainment Papoose is da best Nacirema wait till my album drop he hop up I clap him in his hip u can call it hip-hop rappers be actin like dey tougher den dey really is so I sitem in wheelchairs like jada pinkin kids u was puttin your sneakers on da wrong feet whan Papoose was reppin for da streets man defeat u mineaswell face your defeat look patna I have u lookin at defeat like a foot docta
That's Right
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
They say the game as the belly of a beast (Lupe)
Blunt for fingers and hallo tips for teeth
Wire taps for ears NIKE AIR for feet
Blaspheme for prayers the system full of heart
Rap music for beats heorin for the son and married to the streets
Crack pipes for lungs
And he never sleeps just spized with dice in his eyes
Love life cause he like when it dies
For baking for the soul he cough up pleasure
Clothes made out of dolar bills that he sowed together
He knows he's clever
Jealous his house all the liquor that pours out and goes right to his mouth
Rides around on a stray bullet
With prositute, pimp, dope dealers and killers tied to it to pull it
TV in his head
Strippers slide down his leg and he known to ride around with the Feds
He's
Out there [x4]
[Verse 3: Styles P]
[Let's go P] Don't call me ghost no more call me the phantom
Real brothers lover street brothers understand 'em
This is to the man with his hand on his Canon
Right at this moment I know we need an atonement
The Malcom is dead, The Martin is dead the guns the barber
Let me know who want to pardon there head
And I am back to the clip fill to the top
I'll grill with a bop
Poloce coming through kids still a rock
I don't give a F cause I wanna die cause I am gonna die
You to figure, don't boo who figure
Want to the play the game find out who's who figure
After you do that, find out who's true figure
Lots of brothers died over B.S, nonsense
School of Hardknocks no Parent Teacher Conference
Got to learn the rules real fast, move fast
Stand up the [?] shortie
Cause they know that you ass
[Outro:]
[Styles P:] Yeah
[Papoose:] Yeah that's hip hop
[Styles P:]
Before there was radio, before there were videos, before there were magazines
Put the camera down this what it was
[Papoose:]
The cipher 360 degrees, the cipher
Show you cats how to rhyme man
[Intro: man]
You know you got this fanatasy
In your head about -
Getting out of the life
And, setting that other world on it's ear
What the fuck are you gonna do except hustle?
Now man I ain't putting you down,
I'm just trying to make it real baby like it is, like it is...
[Lupe Fiasco:]
Lupe Fiasco... came from the ghetto
You know! food and liquor!
It's the ghetto right here man!
[Verse 1:]
Ay it's real here, dope fiends steal here
Turn around give us the money, to buy wheels here.
Give you the chills yeah?
Developers don't build here,
Property values low, cause we still here,
Better believe most of us wanna leave
Furthest we went was out of our minds
But we still here
Weapons consealed here,
Little sisters on the pill here,
Can't pay bills here but we like to chill here,
Gotta reap what you sow, grow what you til here
Your mama weap were you sold cause you was killed there
Police put cameras on poles too many deals there
Gotta go to the county, cause you was filmed there
How does it feel knowing innocence was killed here?
Last night, down the park beating harpers still there
For loveilest chain I make up pills here
Let's pray for our brains busting a mil here
[Chorus: Anthony Hamilton]
Sometimes I get rushed
Coming from where I'm from, (I'm from)
Times have got hard yeah
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta work to work, yeah
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometiems I gotta do a little dirty
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
[Verse 2:]
There was once a child in here
Cause all the tribulations and the trials in here
And all the limitations of his housing there
Became a teenage hustler a thousand here
Capitivated with what the drug dealer told
Infactuated by what the drug dealer drove
A life validated by what a drug dealer holds
On the stand because what another drug dealer told
A drug dealers woe: 'time waits for no man'
No woman waits for a man with time on his hands (they don't)
Didn't you know? lord they fearing ye now
They hearing ye now
Specially when the conspiracy comes down
We come down get humble,
It's no longer fun now
But who gonna hustle to feed his son now?
From the cradle to the cage
We bring our sons to be be gunned down
Our daughters to have more - it's war.
[Chorus:]
Sometimes I get lonely
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Things ain't what they seem to be
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little angry
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes it gets the best of me
Well I tried to be good
Wanted nothing but to love somebody
Didn't wanna die young
But it helps me try to feed my family
Too scared to have kids
And do what daddy did, because I'm so scared of failing,
Sometimes it gets hard
Coming from where I'm from
[Verse 3:]
But, but it's beautiful here
There's nothing like the feeling when you do it from here
You ain't have to move or pack
You ain't have to shoot a gat
And you still took your mama
And you moved her from here
You ain't dropped out when we figured the world out
Can survive without any will
Learn to do it in here
Yeah, that's how we do it in here
Hand shortys them players like music to the ear
We still get by, you know?
[Chorus:]
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes you gotta mourn
Coming from where I'm from (I'm' from)
Sometimes I gotta cry a little bit
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta fight the pain
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta walk along
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little worried
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get lost, out of touch
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I think I pray a little bit too much
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little scared
(Lupe Fiasco)
Yeah, Just a lil bit (just a lil bit) And it goes
Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Bought a big house and a whole lot of rangers
A fresh new couch and a whole lot of trainers
A closet full of clothes and some brand new dangers
Some Mexican floral arrangers
A great big TV that'll entertain us
Some colorful commissions for some high paid painters
Someone to take the wrap so that I stay stainless
A new relationship with a banker
Two pinky rings for my manicured fingers
A trained German Shepard that bark when it's angered
To watch my possessions and look out for strangers
A 50 foot yacht with an anchor
Young supermodel that shall remain nameless
Ups and the downs, the sames and the changes
All the money in the world don't make it painless (no)
(Chorus)
(But they love it and they love it)
The more you try to erase me
(And they love it and they love it)
The more that I appear, oh
(and they love it and they love it)
The more, the more you try the eraser
The more that You appear
(Kanye West)
(Plain Pat what up?)
Lifestyles of the broke and famous
Let you know how crazy this game is
Look at all the new beautiful faces
At home supermodel, myspaces
Long for their shot on the TV screens
American Idol never seen these dreams
Just last week they want to see ID
Now they got you in VIP, huh?
How many people almost famous
You almost remember what they name is
Like "Hey, didn't you play in..? No it couldn't be, quit playin"
I try to keep that balance
After MTV that's a Real World Challenge
Back on that train
Never to be heard from again...
(Chorus)
(But they love it and they love it)
The more you try to erase me
(And they love it and they love it)
The more that I appear, oh
(and they love it and they love it)
The more, the more you try the eraser
The more that You appear
(Pharrell)
G.R.I.P P.I.M.P
I, any spelling bitch come on that's me
I bring a burning sensation to the urban eye
Like an eye-drop of Turpentine
You can listen to the serpent, fine
But the earth got gas once it burps its fine
Someone around me they talk about the grease
Not G.H.G, how to cook a quarter ki
Talking all nasal, he aint over that cold
No glove scrub, Manny just over that stove
Perfect paradigm
Wrong place wrong time
Should have been Phizer, GlaxoSmithKline
Number one chemist
Look at him no blemish
Egg shell off white like a DuPont finish
Young, dumb, high strung, who could handle us
I wonder how Gods gon' paint today's canvasses
Cause who knew that day that man would just
Go to VA with a Tec and spray campuses
What a way to see the cover of Time
I know that nigga wish he was standing in line
To see it...As if he didn't do it.
(Chorus)
(But they love it and they love it)
The more you try to erase me
(And they love it and they love it)
The more that I appear, oh
(and they love it and they love it)
The more, the more you try the eraser
[Chorus:]
The champ is here
[Verse 1:]
Flow can't be seen
Like it took one in the face
I'm heavy nigga, tow can't be seen
Like I'm repossessing a Chevy nigga
Don't hang with those niggas those can't be safe
Even in they panic rooms
I will soon be forest to the floor of this
Stethoscope to the door of it
Listenin for the break
And I don't care how long gettin the combination takes
I be concentrating on the crack, get it straight
I was so high up the food chain that which I mentioned before
I ain't know how to make
I master shake like Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Already number 1 in the hood G
It's like my third deal off Could Be
Get it focused, one of the coldest you gonna run across
Like it was stolen from a under boss
Spent for stack and sold to another boy
He might never get it back
So whoever got it gettin' whacked if they ever get caught
Now that's what I call reaction to a chain snatchin
Game got 'bout as much compassion as The Passion
So it gotta make a comeback, just like a champion
[Chorus]
[Verse 2:]
I run it back to that last piece of action
My necklace was took-en by detective
I don't stress it I just gather up my essence
As real as the view through my Cartier correctives, yeah
But now back to the punchin
Back to floor/flow like crunchin
Got a 6 pack on the low now I'm sunk in
Look like I'm driving from the back seat
With a bird shotgun like I'm huntin
You see what happened
I made a call, and she got fly
I was pumping, hit her up
Then I sent my dog to go and pick her up
Camouflaged fitted cut to the left velours, how I did it up
And to the whole Westside, I tip it up
And over to the single baby momma with no job that gotta WIC it up
To all my niggas in the CCDOC waiting on they quick collect to come
So they can live it up
And to my niggas that liquor they livers up and distribute cut in the belly
Sit it up
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:]
In the abdomen is Madison from which I came
But this my gang
FNF crew, first and fifteen
Bear arms like Lebat Blue
Oh yes it's bullets in the toasters as many as the clips that the gun hold
And they itchin to come up out the magazine like the posters that unfold
So my heat like Tigerbeat
I got the shotgun in the driver's seat
So if Lupe's a coupe, my man is a sedan
If there's more than 2 of us, then you up against a van
If I'm leavin, then you leavin
If your niggas wanna come, y'all can ride with me
It's just gonna be a lot of squeezin
Ya understand?
That I don't need Caroline calculator to divide defeat
Just lean a little closer
The flows are his as roses is
So override your pride and decide retreat
It's suicide to me
Like a broke stock broker and a sidewalk
Y'all niggas ain't fly as me
That's why I defy physics and y'all niggas collidin, peace
I'm up here with the Leers
Y'all down down there with the airs
Emperors in the mirror, you're playing with a pair
Nigga I is we
Twice the MC like mc-squared
Trust, I make it relate
I got the poker-face and I'm hiding a flush
Still riding the beat
With a air that still smells like roses from Andre 3000
My housing surroundings is what made me me
And that's two times the G
You see how I doubled that the third time, nigga please
Featuring: Sway, Lupe Fiasco, Eric Turner
I waited all my life to play
But i still cant find the way
But if i were to get one day
I might just break the chain (x3)
Lupe Fiasco:
Freedom, we can use some of that
and switch it to where we're from
where we grew up like a green thumb
like a criminal the only thing you can become
look at what i became
sound like a phenone, nothing but a g thang
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
Uh, and we ain't get exploited
White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it
Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois
Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
Little black Samo grows up to be a lawyer
Extra extra on the news stands
Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
Malcolm Little dies as a old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Quran
President Bush sends condolences from Iran
Where FOX News reports live
That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything[Lupe
Fiasco - Verse 2]
Uh, and it ain't no projects
Keepin it real is not an understood concept
Yea, complexion's not a contest
Cause racism has no context
Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to
mimic him
And that's what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper
by the name of 50 Cent, ha!
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 3]
Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy
I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be?
Now we can do nothing bout the past
But we can do something about the future that we have
We can make fast or we can make it last
Every woman Queenin' and every man a Kingin'
When those color lines come we can't see between
We just close our eyes 'til it's all black every-THING!
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
[Hook: Haley Williams]
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Wishes that the world could see
From the position of my girl and me
From the perspective of laying on the hood of a car
Looking up at the stars with all the connections cut
Cause when you stuck, advantages vanishes
Bandages on the damages of what depression does
So quest it cause, who are they to question us?
Beating up our ear drums like Question Love
With all of their requests from above
Press from below, only directions to bus
Thus we laying in the cut on the Cutlass supreme
Looking up at the scene
Hoping it doesn't cut, the fresh and the make up
Get re-fed the lines and reminded of what they mean
The importance of really acting like they important
And if you don't feel 'em you should force 'em now...
[Hook: Haley Williams]
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Wishes that mend the broken heart
Fill the open palm, pardon my flow and thoughts
My departure from the norm, the parch that's more warm
Walks on from the marching of your armies and the dropping of your bombs
The walking on the waters now stomping on the pond
The ripples now a wave
It can't be peaceful with a pistol in your face
You can't beat the people so you picking on they place
I jump to defend I'm wage with a page
My pen's mightier than them and I got missles on the stage
This couch is for the cowards and stretchers for the brave
And I happily lay upon the bed that I have made
Like house keep, sheets and pillow case
But I don't sleep, dreams keeping me awake
They went up thinking they would never touch the ground
But we gon wish it 'pon 'em on the way back down
[verse 1 - lupe fiasco]
hello gorgeous
the phone call's probably being recorded
just know that i did it for the four of us
and those mutherfuckers kept ignorin' us
after this i'm going underground
if they come asking give them the run-around
how does costa rica in the summer sound?
couple days then we moving to another town
yea i know them dreams, seems
just know that time'll never come between
space either, fake features
things that we reject but connects all us believers
the insurrection's gone viral
they'll never stop it now
i hope it all spirals
outta control, like a dam with a hole
from here on out it's all about survival
the way we left things they probably think we rivals
but don't be naive, they hate you more than i do
remember always speak in opposites, i hate you so much, it's such a compliment
i know that defies the common sense, but we ain't never been right: honestness
we never fit in school, and never did rules, but who'd a thought we'd turn out bombing shit
[hook]
i'm giving you a nightcall to tell you how i feel
i want to drive you through the night down the hills
i'm gonna tell you something don't want to hear
i'm gonna show you where it's dark but have no fear
[verse 2 - lupe fiasco]
he said he was just so tired, of them fighting our water with fire
he said that we need something drier, to really impress the empire
funny cause he really hated war, but why we went to war is what he really hated more
said it's silly how that our schools make us stupid and our jobs make us poor
when he came back from the corps, is when he really got serious
read a lot of books, started acting all mysterious
the va is what really made him furious, told him his condition didn't exist, period
that's why he started that petition, went all the way to washington, said they didn't listen to a white male christian
he just laughed when they took our father's pension
he said that you gotta act in opposites, helps you hide your tracks when you stand up to the dominant
but i knew he felt bad, told me later was the saddest day he ever had
to see our dad so hopeless, that was the turning point that's what really gave him focus
i didn't agree with everything, some of it made sense
but never thought that he would do something like this
[hook]
[verse 3 - lupe fiasco]
i know you don't watch but your brother was on tv
couple guys in black suits came around to see me
they went through all your book's and took all of your cds
my granny said you'd be all right, she saw it in the tea leaves
all the operations going well, had a lotta contact from all the other cells
everybody, everywhere is calling you a hero
they going through the rubble, but the body count is zero
it's all violent and bloodless, i know the government really loves this
this account is hacked, you know how to keep in touch
i'll never see you again, i hate you so much
[bridge]
there's something inside you
it's hard to explain
they're talking about you boy
but you're still the same
Microphone Check, I make em all bounce,
Every Teller in Bank of America, make em all count.
You gone need the whole staff to add up the amount...
It's gonna take to pay me off to keep me out your house,
To keep me in my zone so that I don't zone out.
I'm Rich and Po' like Zone 4, thoughts is deep like Tone Loc,
Walk with me like old folk, 'cross your street a score's goal'ed,
I don't rap I hockey rink... 'cause my flow is so cold!
I am on my "umm hmm, " they are on they "Oh, No! "
I am really in here (hair), they ain't real like Soul Glo.
Don't you know I'm so sho, them n****'s got no Glow,
Find a master for you can come back into the DoJo!
Lupe got his mind right, N**** this is my mic
And I've come to take it all back like MILLER HIGH LIFE!
He must not be tied tight... back against the wall...
He will throw a ball, like he playin' Jai Alai.
I'll do the register, you just get them fries right.
I don't trust America, after watchin' Zeitgeist.
Take a look at my stripes, chest looks like a tiger' arm
And I'm hot as tiger balm, fire like a five-alarm,
[? ] get ya fire-fighter on...
I ain't worried 'bout you hoes (hose). I don't even need to roll.
I turn down your Ex like how you put your tires on.
Once I get these tires on I buy a bomb and tie it on
And ride this around the entire song, find a line to drive it on,
Park it near a metaphor, wait for it, the timer's on,
You can turn your hydrants on, I'll just turn my wipers on,
[Verse 1:]
Fresh to death she is, from her steps to her sex she is,
So death might not let me live, You dig, fresh, uh huh, yes she is,
Had a feelin?, that it would be a day like this,
The orchestra in my mind, don?t play like this.
Naw, but I?m prepared for it, got a little red for it,
Brushed off my airs, even cut my hair for it,
Cause normally I don?t care for it,
Don?t even be lookin? for life, like that, then there it go n
Yea, right over there, so I?m prepared to pour it,
A little scared my dear lord, momma said ?Have no fear.?
Plus I?m already out of my chair, got love my airs,
From my square and here forward,
It?s nothin? right, so here it go whisper in her ear,
Kinda crowded in here, wish you cared to blow it.
She said yeah.
[Chorus:]
You're My sunshine(You My sunshine)
(yea) You're My moonlight(You My moonlight)
You're the stormy skies above me
Won't you please come down and hug me
Think I've found love in this club, tonight
Oh, whoa
[Verse 2:]
Never met her before, but I think I like her like a metaphor,
It's hard to get, in tha car we sit,
From the intro, she rolled down her window,
Just incase I was a schitzo ,
I compliment her on the common sense,
I'm calm, a little more confident,
(Yea) uh huh, and then we lose consciousness,
She says that I've been waiting for you.
And I know you've been chasin' me too.
Since they kidnapped me from a castle, I've been thinkin' of you.
I told a fire breathing dragon He?d better not harm me, he?d be sorry,
When he meets my one man army.
And thou has come to rescue me,
My knight and shining armor, yes you be,
Woken up by the horn of an SUV,
I said 'See, too beautiful to let you sleep.?
[Chorus:]
You're My sunshine (You My sunshine)
You're my moonlight (You My moonlight)
You're the stormy skies above me,
Won't you please come down and hug me
Think I've found love in this club tonight
Oh, Whoa
[Verse 3:]
Relationship is just thirty minutes long,
It's kinda heavy, maybe a little strong,
Gon' take much more than once,
Can't trust what each of us say, at least for a month,
Or two, before I bid you a due,
Do this one thing for me,
Out of the trillions numbers that?s in the world, just leave me a few,
That lead to you, won't be long n, I'll see you in tha mornin'
[Chorus:]
You're my sunshine(You My sunshine)
You're my moonlight (You My moo'light)
You're the stormy skies above me
Won't you please come down and hug me
Think I've found love in this club tonight
We Love You Lupe
(I Love You, Baby, I Love You)
We Love You Lupe [x2]
(I Love You Too)
Uh, Thats What They Say To Me
And I Entertain It Quite Playfully
But Serious Though, I'm Curious George
Killing Cats With A Flow Type Gracefully
Lean Back And Lemme Raise My Feet
Give A Little Blow Before I Sip My Tea
On A World Tour Mami ????
Lou With The Move Can't Wait To See
8.50 I Done Paid My Fee
Say What Up To Venus And I Take My Lead
??? And I Bake Up Spree
And I Done Set It Down Like A ???
Watch All The Pretty Little Mates To Be
They Be Trying To Picture How I Make My Cheese
Little Apricot On The Plate I Eat
Running Late On My Casino Plate I See
Chefs In The Kitchen Wanna Bake My Seeds
But I Keep It Chill Bout The 8th Degree
Everywhere I Go I Gotta Take My Skis So
Cool Turn Milk In A Taste It Free
Used To Watch Trala In A Make Believe
Euro Star First Class Take My Seat
Few More Pounds In My Hmp
Now I Gotta The Bounce And I Can Make Them Sing
[x2:]
We Love You
We Love You
We Love You
Yes We Do, We Love You
She Said She Loves Me And I Believe Her
Making It 100 Times Harder For Me To Leave Her
Im So Eager To Prevail
If Music Was A Female, I'd ??? Her
And End Up Coming Quicker Than An Email
Why? Do It And I Leave Her
I'm Going Over Seas So Hide Your Daughters Behind Your Doors
The Minosaurs And Tore Them Down Like Minotaurs
With Metaphors From ??? And Tauruses With Dinosaurs
(Sway) But I Don't Vrooom With A Tech
But I Will, If You Go Against My Code Of Respect
If I Don't Hustle, My Heart Will Stop
Back In Britain Rappers Post Up Half The Stock
They Ain't Moving Half The Stuff
And They Can't Fit In My Shoes So Put A Sock In It
You Better Stock It Before I Sock It To You
You're A Laughing Stock
Americans Pass My Bags I'm About To Blow So Fast When I Start It Already Passed The Orchestra
She Loves Me And I Still Believe Her
Making It 200 Times Harder For Me To Handle It
Im Coming To America
But I Aint Playing Football With You Folks
Cuz The Last Time The Bloke Picked Up The Ball And Ran With It
Pass Me My Passport And My Cargo
She Still Yelling And Telling Me I Can't Go
Lupe, Running My My Plane
Im About To Leave On My Way, Chi-Car Go
[x2:]
We Love You
We Love You
We Love You
[Hook]
This world, my heart, my soul
Things that I don't know
The icicles they grow
They never let me go
Scars are left as proof
But tears they soak on through
Things I've done
My young
My unforgivable youth
[Verse 1]
With land on the horizon & passion in their eyes then
What they think are islands are much more in their size
Bountiful and plentiful and resource to provide them
Supplies slim. Morale once so heavily inside them
Now steadily declining
Return is not an option as necessity denies them
With this they choose to dive in
Now along the shore and so aware of their arriving
Other children of this land prepared to share in their surviving
A pageantry of feathers stands his majesty with treasure
Not the material things of kings that could never last forever
But secrets of the spirit world and how to live in harmony together
Unbeknownst to him his head would be the first that they would sever
And stuck up on a pike up along the beach
Kept up as a warning to the rest to turn away from their beliefs
And so began it here. And for 500 years
Torture, Terror, Fear til they nearly disappear
[Hook]
This world, my heart, my soul
Things that I don't know
The icicles they grow
They never let me go
Scars are left as proof
But tears they soak on through
Things I've done
My young
My unforgivable youth
[Verse 2]
Ways and means from the trade of human beings
A slave labor force provides wealth to the machine
And helps the new regime establish and expand
Using manifest destiny to siphon off the land
From native caretakers who can barely understand
"How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was
Given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish."
But the lesson went unheeded, for the sake of what's not needed
You kill but do not eat it
The excessive and elitists don't repair it when they leave it
The forests's were cleared, the factories were built
And your mistakes will be repeated by your future generation doomed to pay
For your mistreatments
Foolishness and flaws, greed and needs and disagreement
And you rushed to have the most, from the day you left your boats
You'll starve but never die. In a world of hungry ghosts
[Hook]
This world, my heart, my soul
Things that I don't know
The icicles they grow
They never let me go
Scars are left as proof
But tears they soak on through
Things I've done
My young
My unforgivable youth
[Verse 3]
As archaeologists dig in the deserts of the east
Appeared "A pit" 100 meters wide and 100 meters deep
They discover ancient cars on even older streets
And a city well preserved and most likely at it's peak
A culture so advanced, and by condition of the teeth
They can tell that they was civil, not barbaric in the least
A society at peace. With liberty and justice for all
Neatly carved in what seems to be a wall
They would doubt that there was any starvation at all
That they pretty much had the poverty problem all solved
From the sheer amount of paper, most likely used for trade
Everything's so organized. They had to be well behaved
Assumed they had clean energy, but little to no enemies
Very honest leaders with overwhelming sympathies
Religions kinda complex. Kinda hard to figure out
And this must be the temple
This White. House
[Hook]
This world, my heart, my soul
Things that I don't know
The icicles they grow
They never let me go
Scars are left as proof
But tears they soak on through
Things I've done
My young
Yeah!
I was Like,
Porsche Puller,
Air Force Footer,
Automatic wristed
Therefore shooker
Causing a stir,
Every time I push up
007 with a jester and a look-up
It's Corella-Ella from the F&F; crew
With a tiger on his shirt,
Alligator on his blues
With a nice young lady
And some righteous kung-fu
I'm fighting without fighting
Enlightening you young fool
Frankensteins of mine
I tighten you young screws
Send lighting to your mind
And make you move
Car like cannonball
Run!
I'm lighting my guns fuse
One, that mean I'll lean and leave you
I'm mean as needles
They hook to my hooks
They rehearse my verse
And they sing my singles
I can't even see you
With it Tilted
Brim low
Brim low
With a cartier eye
And his car go by like
NEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!
Tilted (Tilted)
Brim Low
Brim low
With a cartier eye
And his car go by like
NEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!
Fresh tha def F&F;!
I wear Cartier glasses
Van dutch pants-es
Game boy advances
Next to the black berry
I'm next to my black berry Molasses
Hat very slanted
Rappin to the riders
Rider of the stances
Driver of the riders
Matter of fact,
Shur the chauffeur
Reverse the fifteen
Teen is so serve
The service so mean
Like I served in the marines
And it's full metal jacket
Upset the Jokers
Every time I draft it
They trys to jack it
Change my will
I can wait for triple A
I remain, I chill
Even still
Niggas don't know the drill
And I mean it needles
Just hook em with my hooks
They rehearse my verse
And they sing my singles
I can't even see you
Cause it Tilted
Brim low
Brim low
With a Cartier eye
And his car go by like
NEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!
Tilted (Tilted)
Brim Low
Brim low
With a cartier eye
And his car go by like
NEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!
Fresh tha def F&F;!
F, F I to the A S C O
Flyn' like Neo
They lien' like Leo, Cleo
Maybe they fronted
But they ain't never done it like he though
Refering to me Joe!
I feed them through the bars like seals
I lead them through the harm like a Hero
Peaceful, but I can bring the violence
Like Nero
Right to your keyhole
Then bring it back to silence
Cause that's the G-Code
Which means that if you brought it
Or you 'bout to bring it
I'm a tell the polices I ain't seen it
Because I had it Tilted
Brim low
Brim low
With a cartier eye
And his car go by like
NEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!
Tilted (Tilted)
Brim Low
Brim low
With a cartier eye
And his car go by like
NEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!
Fresh tha def F&F;!
Album on hold whole world on hold
The crowd is "HO!" Operator's like "hold"
Man, now ain't that cold?
I'm just tryna talk to my homie that's up in a hole
Now home girl no tryna be a hoe
Even though she on a pole
Now can she get a second chance? No!
Woah, like the opposite of go
That ain't how it's supposed to be(bee), or butterfly
Or for the sake of rhyming let's just say "butterflyee"
The truth stings like Muhammad Ali
I tell 'em tell 'em don't homocide me
I'm just a little old hope with his back against the ropes
Fighting for his fans and, fighting for his folks
But the boo's from the crowd can become so loud
If I could block em out then, I could knock em out then
Dance around the ring, but until then I'll say
Hook:
I'mma keep it cool, and I'mma do me
It is what it is and that's how it's gon' be
Until I get there
Until I get there
And yeah I got flaws, I know I'm not perfect
But all the ups and downs, will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there
Doctor doctor please, the fame ain't painless enough
That's cuz you ain't famous enough
You got a little game, but your name ain't ringing enough
He said take two of these, put some change in my cup
I said I wasn't poor he gave me some more
Prescribed me a publicist and pointed to the door
Out, ouch, I'm telling you this all from a therapist's couch
Tell me 'bout your mother, what she's all about
Prescribed me a interview and then told me to bounce
Damn, jeez, the world is so cold, I'm glad I bought these ski's
Went right off of the bunny slopes and right into the trees
Rendered unconscious they rushed me to a concert
Instead of green jello, and maybe chicken soup
They fed me magazine covers, and video shoots
Hook:
I'mma keep it cool, and I'mma do me
It is what it is and that's how it's gon' be
Until I get there
Until I get there
And yeah I got flaws, I know I'm not perfect
But all the ups and downs, will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there
And when I finally make it I'mma stunt so hard
Evil as Knievel I'mma jump so far
Way up in the atmosphere, I ain't coming back
Be a jerk to them jerks yeah, that'll make 'em hurt
Huh? Said a young boy in the mirror
A young version of me, so I started to tear up
He said you need to cheer up, your mind need to clear up
You're already here, just be yourself from here up
And then he disappeared and I felt something familiar
Something I was taught, something I had lost
If you are afraid, or fear that you gon' change some
All you gotta do is just remember where you came from
Hook:
I'mma keep it cool, and I'mma do me
It is what it is and that's how it's gon' be
Until I get there
Until I get there
And yeah I got flaws, I know I'm not perfect
But all the ups and downs, will soon be worth it
When I get there
[Verse 1:]
I told you I would show up screaming FNF
Till the world, blow up, they said I was so finished
I told 'em its show business
Meaning it's no business, since Fiasco's in it
Disrespect the dress code; wear my street clothes in it
Measured, sold, and clothed in it
Opened up clones, after I entered and drove in it, like unh
[Hook:]
Only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And never fall asleep
[Verse 2:]
Roll in it, let music bumpin, windows tinted
Through they neighborhoods and all of the wolves in it
It's already controlled in it
Seen it come and go, sellin they soul in it
Diamond and gold plated
Fountain of youth, dippin my toes in it
Bounced in the booth, spit it, like skoal in it
Putting my heart and my soul in it
Cause
[Hook:]
I only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And never fall asleep
[Bridge:]
Once upon a time, not long ago
Where the pushaman creep, where they live life po'
[Verse 3:]
With fifteen in the clip and one in the hold
Hallway wall full of bricks, only some of us know
None of us know the makers of the toast
Like the bottom of the stove, that was used in the murderin' of the scroll
Heart colder than EDs
Won't let the CD's city defeat me
Rub me out like genies; smoke a sweet to my graffiti
Nigga what
[Hook:]
I only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And I will never sleep
[Verse 4:]
Marvin Billups said wasup to the reaper
Hell met like Riddell and high water hello
To the five year old gunshot killer, I hear ya
Clearer than the invisible man in the mirror
Cheer up, I'll put in on the bars like beer nuts
Put a bug in they ear, so from here up, they hear us
[Hook:]
Then we only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And we will never sleep
[Bridge:]
Once upon a time, not long ago
Where the pushaman creep, where they live life po'
[Verse 5:]
I put it on my grand mama's daughter
My microphone control of the soul of slave hummin "Wadin in the Water"
I author like PW brother, like a hustla
God place me in ya armor, I prescribe no partnas
I do it for the hood like a parka
And tell my niggaz not to shiver
Only time we quiver like a archer is
[Hook:]
Cause we only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And we will never sleep
[Verse 6:]
Here we are now, entertain us
Change don't change us
Ever since the game trained us
We came up like worms in the rain
I dream my chain became a loose noose that was used to hang us
So now, my insane brain, my 32 teeth
And two feet creep like its Elm Street
Cause
[Hook:]
I only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And I will never sleep
[Bridge:]
Once upon a time, not long ago
Where the pushaman creep, where they live life po'
Featuring: T.I., Young Jeezy
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the camera's here
And the microphones and they wanna know
Oh, oh, oh
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the crowd is here
And the lights are on and they want a show
Oh, oh, oh, yeah
Yeah, uh, a fresh cool young Lu
Trying to cash his microphone check 2, 1, 2
Want to believe my own hype but it's too untrue
The world brought me to my knees
What have you brung you?
Did you improve on the design?
Did you do something new?
Well, your name ain't on the guest list
Who brung you?
You, the more famous person you come through
And the sexy lady next to you come to
And then it hit me, standing outside of heaven
Waiting for God to come and get me
I'm too uncouth, unschooled to the rules and two gum shoe
Too much of a newcomer and too uncool
Like Shadow and Lavelle, I battle with it well
Though I need a holiday like lady who song blue
Go back whatever you did you undo
Heavy is heaven, the devil on my two tons too
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the camera's here
And the microphones and they wanna know
Oh, oh, oh, yeah
And you better wear your shades
The spotlights here can burn holes through the stage
Down through the basement
Passed the Indian graves where the dinosaurs laid
And out through China nearly misses air liners
Magnified times five this is pointed at the rhymer
Ricochets off the moon and sets the forest a blaze
Now that's important to say, 'cause even with all of that
Most of us don't want it to fade
We want it to braid, meaning we want it to grow
Meaning we want it to stay like the governor called
And they told him to wait, unstrap him from the chair
Put him back in his cage
The audience ain't fazed
They ain't gone clap and they ain't gone praise
They want everything back that they paid
'Cause they been waiting since ten to see the lights get dim
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear the crowd is here
And the lights are on and they want a show
Oh, oh, oh, yeah
So chauffeur, chauffeur come and take me away
'Cause I been standing in this line for like five whole days
Me and security ain't getting along
And when I got to the front they told me all of the tickets were gone
So just take me home where the mood is mellow
And the roses are thrown, M&M;'s are yellow
And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
One for you and one for your sister
Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
Every songs a favorite song and Mikes don't feed back
All the reviewers say you need to go and see that
And everybody claps 'cause everybody is pleased
Then they all take the stage and start performing for me
Like ha, ha, haha, ha
Ha, ha, haha, ha, ha
If you are what you say you are a superstar
Then have no fear, the camera's here
And the microphones and they wanna know
Oh, oh, oh
If you are what you say you are a superstar
Then have no fear the crowd is here
And the lights are on and they want a show
Oh, oh, oh, yeah
If you are what you say you are
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Fire
Night
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Fire
Night
Disease the virus is spreading in all directions
No safe zone no cure and no protection
No sense of surviving or signs of an infection
No vaccines remedies and no corrections
Quarantines the dreams and cut off our connections
Don't let em in not a friend not a reflection
Everybody's got it and want you to have it next and
Don't accept em if you wanna stay that's an exception
Appeal
The Heal
The ill of this
Sickness some are still in doubt of it's existence
Some call it forgiveness and some call it the vengeance
Some say it's an exit and some say it's an entrance
The poor say the rich have the cure
The rich say the poor are the source
Revolutionaries say it's psychological war
Invented by the press
Just to have something to report
Some say the first case came from a maternity ward
Some say a morgue, some say the skies, some say the floor
Whores say the nuns, nuns say the whores
And everybody is sure
The scientists said it only infects the mind
The little boy said it only infects the girls
The Preacher said it's gonna kill off the soul
A bum said it's gonna kill the whole wide world
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Fire
Night
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Fire
Night
Believe some say the neon signs
Might allow speakers repeating
And everything is fine
A subtle silence
To demolish the troubled conscious
Of a compass with no knowledge
And every freedom denied
Every dream is designed and broadcasted
From the masters to the masses
From the antennas on top of the trine
As far as the receiving planet during a panic is shorted
It reports back everything in your mind
Everything is lying
Everything is dying
Everything is a rule
And everything is a crime
Everything was healed
And everything rewinds
And new weather burn a feathers off everything's line
And she likes it
And she loves it
The savage
The madness
The bad shit
The lavish
The fastness
To clashes the ashes
To ashes everything in to twine
My femme fatale my darling fongoling angel
Once caught her changing her batteries in her halo
Receipt for her wings and everything that she paid for
And the address to the factory where they made those
The scientist says she all inside mind
The little boy said "What happened to all the girls?"
The preacher man says she gonna kill off the souls
The dope boy said it's the whole wide world
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Fire
Night
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Fire
[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Now I can't pledge allegiance to your flag
Cause I can't find no reconciliation with your past
When there was nothing equal for my people in your math
You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads
The belly of the beast, these streets are demons' abs
I'm telling you that setup in them sit-ups is so sad
The system is a slab
Corruption is the swinger sittin' high ridin' dirty, drag racin' into
Danger
And it's so clean, pine trees smellin' good
With work off in the trunk and niggas in the hood
So I can't she'd blood on any battlefield of yours
I pray the ugly truth comes and shatters your decor
And as it all falls down and tatters on the floor
I she'd tears, I don't know what really matters anymore
Cause I don't know what really matters anymore
[Hook: Casey Benjamin]
Many things, strangest things you ever seen
Oh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?
Embedded they go, no eyelids gone low
Or gone by sundown, they're dodging 5-0
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Now as I wander through the city goin' mad
I see the fruits of planting evidence instead of grass
A swindled generation with no patience, full of swag
Man, they so impatient with the stations that they have
As long as they look good when they be doin' bad
Then the separation from the truth is gettin' vast, fast
Be a slave at first or free at last
Double-edged choices make a nigga wanna pass
Double-headed voices from the eagle on the staff
The pyramid where eyes will split the spirited in half
Divided over money
Delighted by the dummyin' down of the importance of crowns we'll never have
That's why my sounds and sermons are so full of wrath
Baptize your mind, let your brain take a bath
Swim inside the river get delivered from the craft
Of the witches in this business that be livin' off your sad
Hatin' on your happiness you hit 'em off with laughs
Smile 'til they surrender, then you kill 'em off with glad
Hello evil, I'm back
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