Lupe Fiasco [Rap]

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 stranded, 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 tear down the projects and put up million dollar condos, Gentrification.
They think it's cool to stand on the block hiding products in their socks making quick dime bag dollars.
They think it's 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.
Check your ingredients, before you overdose, on the cool.

[Gemstones]
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...

[Sarah Green and Gemstones]
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...

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 raising man with 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)
City in the whole wide world

The coolest niggah... what? [X16]
Lord please have sympathy, and forgive my cool, young history, as
The coolest niggah... what? [X4]

[Verse 1]
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 trip, I fall
Run up and 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 would 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,
The 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 can drink the tears from her eyes
She'll teach me how to fly
Even cushion my fall
If my engines ever stall
And I plummet from the sky
But she will keep me high
And if I ever die
She would comission 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...

The coolest niggah... what? [X8]
Lord please have sympathy,
And forgive my cool, young history as
The coolest niggah... what? [X4]

[Verse 2]
And so began our reign
The Trinity, her and I came
No weather man could ever stand
What her and I can
Hella hard
Umbrella, whatever,
Put plywood on propeller panes,

And pray to God that the flood subside
'cause you gonna need a sub till 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 deadbeat daddies
And well to do mommas
But not well enough to keep 'em from us
The ones that were fightin' in class
Who might not pass
Rap record pressure to laugh
And a life not fast
"Can you feel it?"[echo]
That's what I got asked
"Do I love her?"[echo]
I said I don't know
Streets got my heart, Game got my soul
One time's my sunshine will never hurt your soul
Quote
To a crying, dishonored baby momma
Who's the momma 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-ha'd
Right up in her face, G
There's more fish in the sea,
I'm on my mission to be, be

The Coolest niggah... what? [X8]
Lord please have sympathy,
And forgive my cool, young history
The Coolest... what? [X4]

[Verse 3]
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 talkin' on the hustle
No Heaven up above you
No Hell underneath ye
And nowhere will recieve thee
So.
Shed no tear
When we're not here
And keep your faith,
As we chase

The Cool [echoes]

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 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



Yea, 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
You come too
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 too 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 sung blue
Go back what ever you did you undo
Heavy is heaven
The devil on me two tonnes 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 oh


And you better wear your shades
The spotlights here can burn holes through the stage
Down through the basement
Past 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 ablaze
Now that's important to say
Cuz 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
Un-strap him from the chair
And put him back in his cage
The audience ain't fazed
And they ain't gon' clap and they ain't gon' praise
They want everything back that they paid
Cuz 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 oh yeah

So chauffeur chauffeur come and take me away
Cuz 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 grown
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 song's a favorite song
And mics don't feed back
All the reviewers say you need to go and see that
And everybody claps cuz everybody is pleased
Then they all take the stage and start performing for me
Like 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 here
and the microphones 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

[Intro]
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.

[Chorus]
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.

[Verse 1]
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)

[Chorus]
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.

[Verse 2]
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.

[Chorus]
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.

[Verse 3]
Uh
Guess who's back in the, hooouse,
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 'baby?
Now bring it back, now, uh.

[Chorus]
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,
Brasil, forreal.
Wherever I go she goes.
Wherever I go she goes.

Wherever I go sheeeeeee gooooes.
Wherever I go sheeeeeeeeeeeee goooooooes.

(Chorus Pooh Bear & Snoop Dogg)
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
These street folk don't need permission
My life's in high definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in high definition

(Verse One - Lupe Fiasco)
And my return
It's more like a re-up
I hold a hoe like a tea cup
World in one hand, while the other hand throw the peace up
My other hand throwin' we without the E up
I got like five more, man I'm somethin' like Sheeva
And if all wrong number four deluxe
See I been around the world like the gnome
But I come from a zone where the homes are beat up
The folks on loans and the stones are beat up
Police tap my phones, got my songs on speaker
Said he's spat the poems got they domes all geeked up
To get up on they domes and become young leaders
Oprah put it on my culture now that ain't wrong
Imus got it from the rhymers now that ain't blown
They gave my man forty-four now they ain't long
I put it all on my shoulders now 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

(Chorus Pooh Bear & Snoop Dogg)
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
These street folk don't need permission
My life's in high definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in high definition

(Verse Two - Lupe Fiasco)
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
Assalam alaikum to the nigga of the Vivrant
Them other niggas I don't vibe with
Now I was about three when the eyes went
But I can see everything that you trying to be
You can't hide it, while you comin' out your throats like the Heimlich
I came up the belly like a hop script
Only my circumstance revised it
Hijacked the road and went and shot the pilot
I'm trying to go public so I can get the private
Been so busy then go and get the pirates
Then hit Africa try to fix the virus
Go back to the hood tell Huggie open the hydrants
R.I.P. Stack B, I'ma keep you alive, kid
Dressed in somethin' so fresh and wonderful
FnF and S-N-Double-O-P!

(Chorus Pooh Bear & Snoop Dogg)
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
These street folk don't need permission
My life's in high definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in high definition

(Verse Three - Snoop Dogg)
Loopy it's Snoopy, let's go out
Tiptoe through the door do it Doggystyle
And tell all my chicks in Chi-i-cago
Loopy hit the lotto, Snoopy hit the bottle
Dolemite tight they bite and might follow
Take this chill pill, little nigga swallow
Recital is very homicidal
The big screen will capture you 'cause it's high definition
Listen cookin' collard greens in the kitchen
Them alphabet boys on the mission
If you out to get cash you better get it quick fast
'Cause nowadays niggas get to snitchin' on your bitch ass
Even your boys best believe in them toys
Especially when a nigga know your real name
BLAM! BLAM! went the blammer
Smile nephew you on candid camera
Film at eleven
Dressed in somethin' so fresh and wonderful
FnF and S-N-Double-O-P!

(Chorus Pooh Bear & Snoop Dogg)
Gather around, go ahead and stare
These street folk don't need permission
My life's in high definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in high definition

<i>[Intro: x2]</i>
Let's peruse the essential of cool
A brief study of the things so instrumental to you
That make me feel flyer than lobbys at bellevues
An exclaimer just aramore no credentials from a school
Now

<i>[Lupe Fiasco:]</i>
In my Fall of Rome jeans, my headporter wallet
My Neighborhood shirt and my Eddie Chen clock shit
My not go to college but my street smart polished
Like the black finger nails 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's boys now I'm skating in your pools
Not to be rude I'm just hating on your rules
Like a young fifty I'm on my world tour
Good morning Singapore I'm bringing the sun with me
From the Robert Taylor homes to African slum cities
I am American mentally with Japanese tendencies
Parisian sensibilities so stay out the vicinity of

<i>[Bridge:]</i>
Yea, yea she loves it over here
It's just, yea, yea now look at what I wear

<i>[Chorus:]</i>
Got my gold watch
And my gold chain
With my fancy car
And my diamond ring
With my fancy broad
And she full grain
So it's no words
And it's no slang
And I'm no trick
And I'm no lame
It's just so sick
That she's so game
It's just yea, yea she loves it over here <i>[x4]</i>

<i>[Lupe Fiasco:]</i>
I like zip-t, candles and Maharishi sandals
And Dita sunglasses and Purple Murder Service samples
I like false t-shirts though the street is off the handle
Such a good designer Junya Wantanabe got genu
I like Yohji Yamamoto and I might roll solo
Leather Gucci belts and Guilty Brotherhood polos
I like Mont Blanc pens and Moleskine paper
I like go-yard bags and green Now-n-Laters
Monical magazines and Japanese manga
Futura Nosferatu's and HTM trainers
I like street fighter 2 I just really hate Zangief
If only Ken and Ryu I find it hard to beat Blanca
I keep a Wii Nun-chuk hanging and a uncle album banging
If you negative in energy stay of the vicinity of...

<i>[Chorus:]</i>
Got my gold watch
And my gold chain
With my fancy car
And my diamond ring
With my ghetto broad
And she's so plain
Gotta couple SCARS
And one of those long names
And she fight a nigga
And cusses wit no shame
And her ex-man had her baggin up cocaine
But she..
<i>[x4]</i>
It's just yea, yea she loves it over here

And my most coveted thing is my high self-esteem
And the low tolerance for them telling me how to lean
See the most important parts are the ones that are unseen
See 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 pretty
I am ignorance's enemy so stay out of the vicinity of...

Yea, Yea the niggas over there
Yea, Yea now look at what I wear

<i>[repeat chorus]</i>

Dedicate dedicate
( Lupe speaking )
Uh this one right here goes out
To my homie with the dream
Nahmean

( Verse 1 )
He said 'I write what I see'
Write to make it right
Don't like where I be
I like to make it like
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 Agreed
A mead notebook and a Bic that click
When it's pushed and a wack ass beat
Thats a track thats weak
That he got last week
Cuz everybody in the studio
Was like "thats that heat"
A bass heavy medley with a
sample from the 70s
With a screwed up hook that went
STACK THAT CHEESE
Something somethin somethin
STACK THAT CHEESE
Mother sister cousin
STACK THAT CHEESE
He couldnt think of nothin
STACK THAT CHEESE
He turns down the beat
writers block impedes
Crying from the next room a baby in need
Of some pampers and some food
and a place to sleep
That plus a black cadillac on D's
Is what keep him on track to be a great MC

( Chorus: Nikki Jean )
One you never heard of
I push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but
Hip Hop has saved my life ( Repeat )

( Verse 2 )
Reps Northside 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 2 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
Minutemaid got his momma workin like a slave
Down baby momma who he really had to honor
Cuz she was his biggest fan
Even let him use the Honda
Drive up to Dallas went to
open up for amateurs
Let him keep her debit card
So he could put gas in it
Told her when he get on
He gonna take her to the gallery
Buy up everything but the mannequins ya dig

( Chorus )
One you never heard of
I push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but
Hip Hop has saved my life ( Repeat )

( Verse 3 )
His man called said "your time might be now"
They played your freestyle over "Wipe me down"
They played it two times
Said 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 newborn child
Then he put em down and went
back to the kitchen
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 rolling like she should
Show his homies theres a way
Other than flippin' yay
Bail his homie outta jail
Put a lawyer on his case
Throw a concert for the school
Show the shorties thats it cool
Throw some candy on the caddy
Chuck the duece and act a fool
Man it feels good when it happens like that
Two days from goin back to sellin' crack yessir

( Chorus )
One you never heard of
I push it hard to further the
Grind I feel like murder but
Hip Hop has saved my life
( Repeat 3x )

Hip hope has saved my life ( 4X )

She said there was no love in her heart.
Cause one day a rapist attacked her and broke that all apart.
She said there was no way to fix it or to cover her scars.
Then one day a guy came along and probably could help her start.
He was sincere, made her believe it was safe for her to trust again.
Before long she was cool with givin hugs to him.
Knew that it was right,
cause something was wrong, the alarms in her mind didn't tell her
that he didn't belong. There was no...

Intruder, intruder, intruder, intruder,
Alert, alert, alert, alert.
(x2)

He said nobody else ever loved him.
That's why he get high enough to go touch the heavens above him.
Vividly remembers every pipe, every needle that stuck'em.
Every alley he ever slept in, every purse that he snuck in.
Every level of hell he's been to and the one that he's stuck in.
The one he can't escape, even though it's of his own construction.
Maybe you can't relate, maybe you one of those that just doesn't.
Maybe he doesn't care, loves to allow these demons to come in with no...

Intruder, intruder, intruder, intruder,
Alert, alert, alert, alert.
(x2)

Famine striking his home, landing no social standing
in the economic pecking order.
Emergency relief distribution systems is in disorder,
he's checking water making sure it's safe enough
for his daughter to float across in the boat he built.
Hopefully strong enough to support her.
Praying border patrols don't catch her ass process
and deport her before she reach the shore of the land
of the free. Where they feed you, treat you like equals.
Deceive you, stamp you, and call you illegal when there's an...

Intruder, intruder, intruder, intruder,
Alert, alert, alert, alert.
(x2)

(Sarah Green)

There's someone here, and it's not me
How could this be?
I locked my doors
Kept my armies on my shores
Point my rockets at my sky
I'm so fortified
I built my walls so high (so high)
So, why? (So, why?) ...are there...


Intruder, intruder, intruder, intruder,
(x3)

Tonight, tonight, tonight

[Matthew Santos]
The stars are alive, and the path is colliding
the plan is arriving, and she's out there smiling
the fear is upon us, the skies tried to warn us
their perils are goners, no children to mourn us
it's driving me crazy this whore is my lady
we've lost all our babies and God is amazing
the tick of the timer, the slip of the rhymer
the pimp and the riser your cross there you'll find her
hey, hey

[CHORUS]
Death is on the tip of her tongue and
dangers at the tip of her fingers
streets are on fire tonight
Death is on the tip of her tongue and
dangers at the tip of her fingers
streets are on fire tonight

[Lupe][Verse 1]
Disease the virus is spreading in all directions
no safe zone no cure and no protection
no symptoms define the signs of an infection
no vaccines, remedies, and no corrections
Quarantine the dreams and seal off the connections
don't let them in not a friend not a reflection
everybody's got it and want you to have it next and
don't accept them if you want to stay as an exception
no pill can heal the ill of this
sickness some are still in doubt of its 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 physiological 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 floors
whores say the nuns, nuns say the whores
and everybody is sure
the scientist say it only affects the mind
the little boy said it only affects the girls
the preacher man said it's going to kill off the soul
a bum said it's going to kill the whole wide world.

[CHORUS]

[Verse 2]
Believe some say the neon signs by the
loudspeakers repeating that everything is fine;
a subtle solace to demolish the troubled conscience
of a popus with no knowledge and every freedom denied
every dream is designed and broadcasted
from the masters to the masses
from the antennas on the top of the shrines
refine the receiver and plant it
during the panic and short it, it reports back
everything in your mind, everything is lying
everything is dying, everything is a rule
everything is a crime, everything was here then
everything rewind the new
weather burned the feathers off everything flying
(And she likes it, and she loves it)
the sadness, the madness, the bash it
the lavish, the fastest, the clashes, the ashes to ashes
everything intertwined
my femme fatale my darling fraudulent angel
once caught her changing the batteries in her halo
receipt for her wings and everything that she paid for
and the address to the factory where they made those
scientist said she's all inside my mind
the little boy said what happened to all the girls
the preacher man said she's going to kill off your soul
the dope boy said it's the whole wide world

[CHORUS]

(Intro - Lupe Fiasco Sample)
Now little Terry got a gun he got from the store
He bought it with the money he got from his chores
He robbed the candy shop told 'em lay down on the floor
Put the cookies in the bag; take the pennies out the drawer

Little Khalil 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 in the school in his black book bag
His black nail polish, black boots and black hair
He gon' blow away the bully that just pushed his ass

(Verse One: 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 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 10, 11
Been fightin' 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 cannon 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

(Chorus: Nikki Jean)
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon
We're calling you
There's a war, but the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you something small to use
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon
We need you now

(Verse Two: Lupe Fiasco)
Now here comes the march of the boy brigade
A macabre parade of the toys he made
And shemaghs and shades who look half his age
About half the size of the flags they wave
And camouflaged suits made to fit youths
'Cause the ones off the dead soldiers hang a little loose
With AK-47's that they shootin' into heaven
Like they tryin' to kill the Jetsons
It's Struggle's little recruits
Cute, smileless, heartless, violent
Childhood destroyed, devoid of all childish ways
Can't write they own names or read the words that's on they 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 grave gets deeper the further we go down

(Chorus: Nikki Jean)
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon
We're calling you
There's a war, but the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you something small to use
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon
We need you now

(Verse Three: Bishop G)
Imagine if I had to console the families
Of those slain I slayed on game consoles
I aim, I hold, right trigger to squeeze
Press “up,” then “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 leave, resume activity
Start and blow hearts apart, sharp wizardry
Next part, I insert code to sweeten up
The little person's murder workload
I tell 'em they work for
CIA with a
A operative, I operate this game all day
I hold the controller connected to the soldier with weapons on the shoulder
He's only seconds older than me
My playful but serious
Now keep that online for online experience

(Chorus: Nikki Jean)
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon
We're calling you
There's a war, but the guns are just too tall for you
We'll find you something small to use
Little weapon, little weapon, little weapon
We need you now

I swear I see this nigguh I'm ma kill him
I'm going to kill him so make a nigguh suffer
Ya know what I'm sayin

Man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
Streets be all like feed me feed me
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
Streets be all like feed me feed me
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy

Hey he had a whole lotta cheese
Plus he was a mac had a whole lotta seeds
Made a lot of nigguhs fat
Gave a whole lotta g's
Grams man he had a whole lotta these
And he would let you hold like a whole lotta keys
Even if you lose some he would give you new ones
Twice the bread its like he had two buns
And he had a whole lotta seeds
Even his kids had mills for reals
Some rich small fries wrappin paper since they was lil.

Man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
Streets be all like feed me feed me
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy

He was a heart breaker and a law shaker
If it was bout cakin he was a part taker
International he would take trips bon voyage
Thats a hard he was fishin for the chips
So greedy he never gave to the needy
Thats what some say
The way he shunned all the bums hangin in the subways
He called them fruits then laughed at em
Delivery man on the pick-up drive through
And throw a bag at em
And it was hard to understand him sometimes
Makin a killin the way he had em standin in line

Man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
Streets be all like feed me feed me
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy

Lovers call him king haters call him clown
He would say bite me thats the way its going down
He was having thoughts that maybe he should retire
Went to church on Sunday and saw a deep fry
Said he had beef and people want him dead
He loved the hungry ones was only scared of affairs
He lived the fast life couldn't get his path right
Fry just told him bout the hooters that he had last night
Turned himself in to the pattywagon, said no
Bacon wouldn't take him half the pigs on the payroll

My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
Streets be all like feed me feed me
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy

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.N

My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
Streets be all like feed me feed me
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy
My man said life ain't easy
When nigguhs gotta eat thats when shit gets greazy

Carrera
(dumb it down)
coolest nigga what
(dumb it down)
FNF up
(dumb it down)
(dumb it down)

(Verse 1-Lupe Fiasco)
I'm fearless now hear this im earless
and i'm pealess which means im eyeless
which means im tearless which means my iris
resides where my ears is which means im blinded
but imma find it i could feel it's nearness
but imma vear so i don't come near like a chicken or a deer
but i remember im not a listner or a seer so my windshields smear
here you stare i really shouldnt be behind this
clearly cause my blindness
the windshield in minstrel the whole grill is road kill
so trill and so sincere yea im both inveared
to both pills when a bloak in a trench coat
in the lotes in a chair had approached in here
made it clear as a ghost so a biter of the throats in the mirror
the writer of the quotes from the ghost who supplier of the notes that they living
riverton is rosey pockets full of posies given
to the mother of the deceased awaken at war
'till i'm resting in peace (peace peace peace)

(Chorus 1-Gemini)
you going over niggas heads lu
(dumb it down)
they telling me that they don't feel you
(dumb it down)
we aint graduate from school nigga
(dumb it down)
them big words aint cool nigga
(dumb it down)
yea i heard "mean and vicious" nigga
(dumb it down)
make a song for the bitches nigga
(dumb it down)
we dont care about the weather nigga
(dumb it down)
you'll sell more records if you
(dumb it down)

(Verse 2-Lupe Fiasco)
and im mouthless which means im soundless
now as far as the hearing i found it
it was as far as the distance from the earing to the ground is
but the doorknockers on the ears of a stewardess and Alia
she fine and she flying im feeling fly by cause my minds on cloud nine
and in her mind at the same time
pimp see the wings on the underground king
whos also cling on to infinity and beyond
something realy stinks but i spence like leon
or lion in the desert im flying on Pegasus you flying on a pheasant
writer of the white powder picker of the fire flower
spit hot fire like Dylon on Chappelle skit
yea, smell it on my unicorn we snort the white horse
and toot my own horns (sleet)

(Chorus 2-white man)
you been getting too much light lu
(dumb it down)
you make em wanna do right lu
(dumb it down)
they're getting selfasteem lu


(dumb it down)
these girls is 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'll tell you what you should do
(dumb it down)

(Verse 3-Lupe Fiasco)
and im brainless which means im headless like Icabar Craine is
or foreplay-less sex is which makes me sainless
with no neck left to hang a chain with
which makes me neck less less like a necklace death
and i aint use my headrest yet
they say they need proof like a vestless chest
about to best fair FF jet in the nest
to excuse confidence and access debts
even scuba steve will find it hard to breathe around these leagues
my snorkle is a tuba luda 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 flowered
personal floating devices is falling out of sleeves
David Blane, 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)

(Chorus 3-Gemini)
You be putting me to sleep nigga
(dumb it down)
thats why you aint poppin in the streets nigga
(dumb it down)
you aint winning no awards nigga
(dumb it down)
robots and skate boards nigga?
(dumb it down)
GQ man of the year G
(dumb it down)
shit aint rocking over hear B
(dumb it down)
why dont you talk about your cars nigga
(dumb it down)
and what the f**k is go yard nigga?
(dumb it down)
make it rain for the chicks
(dumb it down)
poor champaign on a bitch
(dumb it down)
what the f**k is wrong with you?
(dumb it down)
how can i get on a song with you?
(dumb it down)

(Gemini speaking
Look B heres my math my 2way uhh,
this right here take this, that
right there f**k with my boy
Faradon nigga, nigga you hot to me
i like you

(Lupe Fiasco mix)
Listen G they told me i should come down cousin
but i flatley refused i aint dumb down nothing

I present the death of The Cool

Well I heard like a group of cows
That all ya enemies wanna shoot you down
They got AK-47s and a bunch of Mac 11s
Semi-automatic weapons that produce kapows

Word on the street is, they all got heaters
They gon' hit you up and you ain't even gon' see it
You got a lotta money, I ain't tryin' be funny
But they say, "Where you goin'? You ain't even gon' need it"

They see you ridin' 'round, shinin' with ya
Fine round diamonds pretty green-eyed lady
Been on the sideline poutin', while you prime time poppin'
Hungry niggaz want a piece of your pastry

I suggest you protect yo' bakery
'Cause they comin' for yo' head
And it's a bounty on that chain
That's hangin' from yo' neck, they said

I don't know, what you've been told in your ear
But I hear it's goin' down, somebody gotta
(Die)
Don't know, what you been told in your ear
But business goin' round, somebody gotta
(Die)

Hit a nigga wit the mini-Mac strap
Clap any nigga think he gettin' Gs' down here
In a meter, any nigga gettin money and my honey
Man, I heard Micheal Young is the re-clown near

Run up on a nigga from the back wit a Mac
Gon' be strapped 'cause a nigga finna squeeze off ten
Run up on this nigga 'Lac, rat-ta-tat-tat
Click clack, where this nigga at? I need sin

Shit is goin' down ever I see him
Bump a nigga out like Oxy-10
And keep a couple of dollars up in the wallet
To pay the cops so they can never box me in
(Die)

That's what I'm thinkin'
While ridin' around polishin' this big pistol
I'ma catch him in the wind, pray the gun don't jam
So until we meet again, nigga it's cool

I don't know, what you've been told in your ear
But I hear it's goin' down, somebody gotta
(Die)
Don't know, what you been told in your ear
But business goin' round, somebody gotta
(Die)

Don't pay them niggaz no mind
They hatin' on you, ain't nobody witta shotty
And plannin' on doin' a robbery, itchin' to catch a body
Creepin' in a stolen jalopy, out there waitin' on you

I'm sittin' in a stolen car, finna rob this nigga
Should I let the mini-Mac or the shotgun hit him?
I been waitin' all day, tryin' spot this nigga
I can't let him get away, I'ma pop this nigga, uh

Plus they don't know about the chopper in the trunk
The Glocks in a box and the nine on tuck
The bulletproof glass, the 40's in the stash
You pull the steerin' wheel and it pop on up

Forty caliber stashed up in the stash box
Bulletproof windows, you couldn't break 'em wit a padlock
Ak in the trunk, where the sounds bump
Two twin Glock 40's and a nine and this damn clock

Man, we finna go up in this club, show a lil' love
Get a few drinks, holla at some girls
Snatch up a pair, leave outta there
Put some 'dro in the air, then go and get some grub

I say we go up in this club, show a lil' love
Get a few drinks, holla at some girls
Snatch up a pair, leave outta there
Put some 'dro in the air, then catch a few slugs

Ay, ay, ay, pull over right here, I gotta take a pee
And don't go nowhere, nigga wait for me
And if some niggaz do kill you in the next few minutes
Just remember my nigga, it's 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
Fo' 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 fo' life, ay man
Aiyyo, nigga hurry yo' ass up, man

Cool ass nigga man, fuckin' three in the mornin'
Coolest muh'fucker in the world man
Niggaz ain't fuckin' with me man
Nigga high, smokin' fly ass car

I run these motherfuckin' streets
Niggaz out here lookin' for me
Nigga, I wish a motherfucker would
Ay nigga hurry yo' ass up, nigga, damn

Wassup now, nigga?
Ain't too cool now, is you nigga?

Let me put you on game
Let me 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 articulate
My whole part in this
But they're fruitless in their harvesting
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
Speak 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 you hear when your crying is laughs
I'm sure somebody find you tied up in this bag,
Behind the hospital little baby,
Beg to share what 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 liquor,
Quench your thirst on my elixirs,
(Lemme put you on game)
I am the safe haven for the rebel runaway and the resistor
The 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,
'Cause I'm the... (gunshot)

[Chorus]
When the fighters are all around
All the lovers are underground
No one will save you anymore
So what`s happening, what you rapping about?
It`s a boy. Is it cars? Is it girls? Is it money?
The world?

[Verse 1]
Or is it something they can never believe?
Or is it something you can never achieve?
Is it
Beyond your means?
Is it
Inside your dreams?
Can it
Never come out cause it`s scared to
Unprepared to
Too worried about the words of the people it`s weird to
You don`t want them to hear you
You just wish there was a door that would appear that you can go disappear through
Well I`m feeling your pain
I was feeling the same
But I said I`d never feel that again

[Chorus]
When the fighters are all around
All the lovers are underground
No one will save you anymore
So what`s happening, what you rapping about?
It`s a boy. Is it cars? Is it girls? Is it money?
The world?

[Verse 2]
Man
I really miss my pops
Hope that God watches over him and that he`s on top
That there is no more disease and that he`s alright
That he`s one of the generals inside the army of the light
And grandma, you know I had to bite something from you
So after every show it`s "peace, and much love to you"
Auntie Tweetie`s on the way, please look out for that girl
I know we`ll meet again, so it`s never me against the world

[Chorus]
When the fighters are all around
All the lovers are underground
No one will save you anymore
So what`s happening, what you rapping about?
It`s a boy. Is it cars? Is it girls? Is it money?
The world?

[Verse 3]
I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners
Turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go
Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow
Thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles
I thank all my fans and all my supporters
Shout out to Bishop G, congrats on your new baby daughter
I tip my hat to all my family and friends
Now we just got one more to go
L - U - P - END

[Chorus]
When the fighters are all around
All the lovers are underground
No one will save you anymore
So what`s happening, what you rapping about?
It`s a boy. Is it cars? Is it girls? Is it money?
The world?

LupeTheFiasco.blogspot.com
Congratulations ladies, this next one`s for you
Peace!

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) (x16)

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) (x16)

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) (x16)

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

Go baby! (Hoo hoo) (x16)

Food and liquor stores rest on every corner
From 45th and State to the last standing hymn nuhana
J&J's, pale chicken, good finger licking
While they sin, gin, sin sin at Rothschild and Lynnwood Liquors
The winos crooked stagger
Meets the high stride of the youth searching 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, bubbling 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

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 coming
I give you my, I give you my heart
My soul, my mind my thoughts, my feelings
My experience, nothing more, and nothing less
Yes, FNF, uh-huh! So
With no further adieux,
Lupe, Fiasco's, "Food & Liquor"

Uhh, Food & Liquor
Yeah, my man said he wanted somethin real..
real.. real.. real.. real
Somethin he could recognize, somethin he could feel..
feel.. feel.. feel.. feel
Baby girl said she was in the mood for somethin real..
real.. real.. real.. real
Somethin that could make her move
Somethin she could feel.. feel.. feel.. feel

Lust... sometimes can override trust
She said that's why she gave it up
My man said blood spilled out of everything he touched
He crushed everything he crushed
Ruined everything he loved, he just wanted to rush
Blamed it on the times bein' rough
Doin dirt, with the devil, chasin' after the dust
Make a fuss, if it's them, but we hush, if it's us

That's why, my mama said she wanted somethin real..
real.. real.. real.. real
Somethin she could be proud of, somethin she could FEEL..
feel.. feel.. feel.. feel
She said they so used to not havin nuttin real..
real.. real.. real.. real
That they don't know how to act
They don't know how to feel.. feel.. feel.. feel

Life... ain't meant to come around twice
Yeah, that's why I gotta get it right
They said I got it honest now I gotta give it LIFE
But sleep on it, that's why God give you night
I mean, I had a dream that, God gave me FLIGHT
Too fly for my own good so, God gave me plight
If I wake up in the mornin now I gotta give 'em SIGHT
Make 'em see, break 'em free, ain't a G, sho' you right

The game is not to give 'em nuttin REAL..
real.. real.. real.. real
Nothin they could use, nuttin that they could FEEL..
feel.. feel.. feel.. feel
Give 'em a bunch of lies and teach 'em that it's REAL..
real.. real.. real.. real
So that's all that they a-know
That's all that they a-feel.. feel.. feel.. feel

Struggle... yeah yeah, another sign that God love you
Cause on the low, bein po', make you humble
Keep they names in my rhymes to try and keep them out of trouble
Cause bein po', also teach you how to hustle
All they want is some shoes or some rims for they bubble
Now that I got my own, I can hit them with a couple
Couple, my homies so they ain't got no reason to cuff you
That's my plan, if I can, on the man, up above you

That's why, I gotta give 'em somethin REAL..
real.. real.. real.. real
Somethin they could recognize, somethin they could FEEL..
feel.. feel.. feel.. feel
To my homies on the block I gotta give 'em somethin real..
real.. real.. real.. real
Somethin that'll make 'em stop
Somethin they can feel.. feel.. feel.. feel

Yo! For real, really real, yeah!
Know what it is!
Baby girl said she was in the mood for somethin REAL..
real.. real.. real.. real
Let's go.

(Sarah Green - to fade)
So real.. so real...

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 hope 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

[Chorus:]
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
Cuz 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 its 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
Cuz 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 deliberian wiriben living in it the city
Out of his mind
Liria reconsilia
I'm cool I don't for tell best
I ain't nice as MC, I'm cornel west
I am cornel west side chi town Rivera
Malcom x assise 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
Ia ain't for masorith
My conception won immaculate
I ain't mastering no calculus
Doing addition to the rap my audience
I back flipped on the mattress the slept on me on
What down yo, knowing is half the battle
And fighting temptation, have an apple
Shakes the snakes, pimp the system
Let's get into it, tabernacle

[Intro]
Uh, what up ya'll yeah wo
Ya'll ain't know I go by the name of Lupe Fiasco
Representin' that 1st & 15 yeah
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

[Verse 1]
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 lips
Like this now we can end the story right here
But shorty didn't quit it was something 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 his first kickflip he land it (uh)
Labeled a misfit, abandoned
Ca-kunk, ca-kunk, 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 he said it's getting late in here
So I'm sorry young man there's no skating here

[Chorus]
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
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, and push, and coast (uh uh uh)

[Verse 2]
My man got a lil older became a better roller yeah
No helmet, hellbent on killin' himself
Was what his momma said but he was feelin' himself
Got a lil more swagger in his style
Met his girlfriend, she was clappin' in the crowd
Love is 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 2
She said bow I weigh 120 pounds, now
Lemme make one thing clear
I don't 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

[Chorus]
So we kick, push kick, push kick, push kick, push coast
And the way they roll just lovers in the twine with no place to go
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 uh) and push, (yeah yeah) and coast (yeah uh yeah yeah)

[Verse 3]
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 weren't safe no more
And it wasn't like they weren't getting chased no more
Just the freedom is better than breathing they said (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"

[Chorus]
So we kick, push kick, push kick, push kick, push coast
And the way they roll just a rebels without a cause with no place to go
So we 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

1st Verse
They call me Lupe, I'll be your new day
They wanna smell like me, they want my bouquet
But they cant they accented like the UK
Turn that ude Lupe to Pepe Le Peu spray
Fragrantly fragrant and they cant escape me
My perfume pursued them everywhere that they went
You don't want a loan leave my cologne alone
It's a little to strong for u to be putting on
Trust me I say this justly
I went from musty to musky and yall cant mush me
I warn yall cornballs I hush puppies
The swans in the pond call my duck ugly
But now they hug me because its lovely
They love the aroma of a roamer of the world
Got the shakers and the skaters and the players and the girls
Keep the fakers and the flakers and the haters in a twirl

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

2nd Verse
And I'm from Chi-Town thats where I flies round
Keep some Cartier frames over my eyes now
We used to gangbang a lot of that done died down
Children of the hat tiltin' keepin hope alive now
All with no high I do It so fly
Bank caesar tack helicopter with the bow tie
I love my city really hope that God bless it
Have my mind moving faster than that hog in the hedges
Welcome all of yall to my dark recesses
This is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges
My Ivories And My Doves My Levers and my Zests
It takes half of your bubble bath to match the freshness
The belly of the beast you know I'm from it
I wrap it in a towel here go my pal in the stomach
And I be on my green like Irish Spring and I Coast
Fudge wit It and get a mouth full of soap

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either They pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

3rd Verse
And so to sign off, this beat I rhyme off
Is from the Thelonious P and Hugo Mind Boss
You feel it in the air, its such a fine force
But you don't hear me though, just like a mimes toss
That's cuz I'm in Europe, me and my friends tour a
Im on my pimp, my temperature is temperer
I take it easy on my watch Im watchin TV
Am I clean as my her-re-shy's, see the hare is trying to beat me
I continue to do Lu's pace
They say him got two heads and four eyes just like screwface
But see my secret's safe its in my secret safe
That's in my secret room on my secret base
So from the runner of the FNF crew
Come in hip hop we've come to resurrect You
You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they Pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

[Lupe Fiasco]
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
Hopin that it'll give him somethin 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 hisself 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

[Chorus: Jonah Matranga] + (Lupe)
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

[Lupe Fiasco]
He just sits, and listens to the people in the boxes
Everything he hears he absorbs and adopts it
Anything not comin 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 hisself 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

[Chorus]

[Lupe Fiasco]
(Anything at all..) He never lies
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are
You buyin them 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 buyin them 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

[Chorus]

[Lupe Fiasco]
(Anything at all.. anything at all..)
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are
You buyin them 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 buyin them 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
{*repeats and fades as Jonah ad libs*}

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
It'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 its like he born from the stands
You know the world is out to get him, so why don't you give him a chance?"

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 its like you born from the stands
You know the world is out to get me, why don't you give me a chance?"

Uh, Fresh to def she is
From her steps to the set she is
So "death" might not let me live
Ya dig
Fresh uh huh, yes she is
Had a feeling 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 lil 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 looking for like, like that
Then there go it
Yea right over there so I prepare the poet
Lil scared my stair lowered
Momma said have no fear
Plus I'm already outta my chair
God love my airs on my square from here forward
It's nuthin right so here go it
Whisper in the air "its kinda crowded in here"
Would she care to blow it she said "yea"

[chorus]
You're my sunshine (you're my sunshine),
You're my moonlight (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 (Wowowowo)

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 her window
Just in case I was a schitzo

So I compliment her on the common sense
I'm calm
A lil more confident (Uh Huh)
And then we lose consciousness
She says "that I've been waiting for you"
And I know you been chasing me too
Since they kidnapped me from a castle
I been thinking of you
I told a fire breathing dragon "he bet not harm me" or he be sorry when he meets my one man army
And thou has come to rescue me
My knight in shining armor, yes you be
Woken up by the horn of an SUV
I said "see, too beautiful to let you sleep"

[chorus]

Relationship is just 30 minutes long
It's kinda heavy maybe a lil strong
"Go and 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 outta the trillions of numbers that's in the world
Just leave me a few that lead to you
Won't be longing I see you in the morning

[chorus]

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

[Lupe Fiasco]
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

[Lupe Fiasco]
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
Such a beautiful day

<i>[Talking]</i>

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...

<i>[Chorus]</i>

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..

<i>[Chorus]</i>

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?"
He said: "Hustler for death. No heaven for a gangsta."

<i>[Chorus]</i>

yeah.. this one right here
i dedicate this one right here
to everyone out there
you DIG~~

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
'Cause it huuurts meee soul

(Thanks to JT for these lyrics)

Uh, close your mind, close your eyes, see with your heart
How do you forgive the murderer of your father?
The ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr
Terrorist

We came through the storm
Nooses on our necks, and a smallpox blanket to keep us warm
On a 747 on the Pentagon lawn?wake up!
The alarm clock is connected to a bomb
Anthrax lab on a West Virginia farm
Shorty ain't learned to walk, already heavily armed
Civilians and lil' children is especially harmed
Camouflage Torahs, Bibles, and glorious Qu'rans
The books that take you to heaven and let you meet the Lord there
Have become misinterpreted reasons for warfare
We read 'em with blind eyes, I guarantee you there's more there
Rich must be blind 'cause they ain't see the poor there! ...Yeah
Need to open up a park, just close 10 schools, we don't need them
Can you please call the fire department, they down here marchin' for freedom
Burn down all they tepees, turn the TVs on to teach them, and move!

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Terrorist

Now a poor Klu Klux man see that we all brothers
Not 'cause things the same, but 'cause we lack the same color
And that's green, now that's mean
Can't burn his cross, 'cause he can't afford the gasoline
Now if a Muslim woman's strapped with a bomb on the bus
With the seconds runnin' give you the jitters
Just imagine an American-based Christian organization
Plannin' to poison water supplies to bring the Second Coming quicker
Nigga, they ain't livin' properly
Break 'em off with a lil' democracy
Turn they whole culture to a mockery
Give 'em Coca-Cola for they property
Give 'em gum, give 'em guns, get 'em young, give 'em fun
But if they ain't givin' it up, then they ain't gettin' none
And don't give 'em all, naw, man, just give 'em some
It's the paper, some of these cops must be Al-Qaeda, nigga, uh!

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Ter-ro-rist

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Ter-ro-rist

Don't give the black man food, give red man liquor
Red man fool, black man nigga
Give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
Also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
Give black man crack, Glocks, and things
Give red man craps, slot machines
Now bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back

Don't give the black man food, give the red man liquor
Red man fool, black man nigga
Give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
Also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
Give the black man crack, glocks and things
Give the red man craps, slot machines
Now bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back

<i>[Verse 1:]</i>
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

<i>[Hook:]</i>
Only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And never fall asleep

<i>[Verse 2:]</i>
Roll in it, let music bumping, windows tinted
Through they neighborhoods and all of the wolves in it
It's already controlled in it
Seen it come and go, selling they soul in it
Diamond and gold plated
Fountain of youth, dipping my toes in it
Bounced in the booth, spit it, like scolding it
Putting my heart and my soul in it
Cause

<i>[Hook:]</i>
I only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And never fall asleep

<i>[Bridge:]</i>
Once upon a time, not long ago
Where the pushaman creep, where they live life po'

<i>[Verse 3:]</i>
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

<i>[Hook:]</i>
I only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And I will never sleep

<i>[Verse 4:]</i>
Marvin Billups said what's up 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

<i>[Hook:]</i>
Then we only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And we will never sleep

<i>[Bridge:]</i>
Once upon a time, not long ago
Where the pushaman creep, where they live life po'

<i>[Verse 5:]</i>
I put it on my grand mama's daughter
My microphone control of the soul of slave humming "Wading in the Water"
I author like DW's brother, like a hustler
God place me in ya armor, I prescribe no partners
I do it for the hood like a parka
And tell my niggas not to shiver
Only time we quiver like a archer is

<i>[Hook:]</i>
Cause we only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And we will never sleep

<i>[Verse 6:]</i>
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

<i>[Hook:]</i>
I only fear God
Know the weapons of the weak
The weakness of the hard
And I will never sleep

<i>[Bridge:]</i>
Once upon a time, not long ago
Where the pushaman creep, where they live life po'
He said...

Look at what we did, came a long way from Dirty Ghetto Kids (Uh, yeah)
Look at what we did, came a long way from Dirty Ghetto Kids (Yeah)
You know what it is (Haha, uh, uh, come on)
When the cops didn't find him for grindin' though
They kinda blew the vibe, figured it was time to go
Plus, he had to at home a long time ago
And he had made like ten dollars off the sign he wrote
It read, "A little hungry, and need a little money,
It's for my little sister, and her little tummy."
Wasn't lyin' though didn't go buy hydro
Went to the restaurant and bought two gyros
'Cause he knew they wasn't cooking where he lived
Da-kook-akook-akook's now took him to the crib
A little hurt from the rail he took into the ribs
Right bast the pushers who couldn't underdig
"What's the use of pushin' if you ain't pushin' none of this"
If I kick with y'all I'm just pushin' for a bit
But, what was on his mind had pushed him to the lid
They best customer wasn't cooking for a kid
Yes sir

[Chorus]
So he kick, push
Over his shoulders he swore he'd never look
'Cause wasn't nothin' back there but the blackness
Life wasn't too attractive (Yeah, uh)
And so he kick, push
Over his shoulders he swore he'd never look
'Cause wasn't nothin' back there but the blackness
Life wasn't too attractive (yeah)

You see his mom was a crackhead and his father couldn't be contacted
He lived with being different, was combated
Amongst the other things on his young, black head
And see, his girl was a white girl
But, just cause she was white, see her life wasn't light-world
She, too had the drama thick
Had a daddy and a momma, but her daddy used to momma hit
Daddy caught something, chasing fatties made her momma sick
Couldn't afford the medicine, pimped it to the pharmacist
As suicidal feelings would rise, switch over to transitions, helped her conquer it
Pays for her momma's pills with a sponsorship
A cell phone bill and a Honda kit Uh-huh
And that's why she skates with him
Someone to feel her pain and her place to be

[Chorus]

A traveling band of misfits and outcasts
Knock their heads from Misfits to Outkast
A lot of scars, they did this without pads
A lot of hearts, who did this without dads
One's father was filthy rich, two was middle class, and one was homeless
Add in a paralyzed girl in a wheelchair who just liked to watch it, that was the whole clique
I think about it every time I see this old flick
That was taken in the park, in front of this old bench
They wrote on the back, "You thank for push, kick, hope you make a video, the beat is so sick."
Well, I did, I hope you seen it It's on MTV, Soundtrack's a genius
Love from Tony Hawk, beat from the Ice Creamer's
Before we out it out had to pay the Filipino's
Just to show 'em how

[Chorus]

(Feat. Kanye West, Pharrell & Lupe Fiasco)

(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
And
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
And
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
And
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 to erase her
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 to erase her
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 ***** 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 to erase her
The more that You appear

Uh, close your mind, close your eyes, see with your heart
How do you forgive the murderer of your father?
The ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr
Terrorist

We came through the storm
Nooses on our necks, and a smallpox blanket to keep us warm
On a 747 on the Pentagon lawn?wake up!
The alarm clock is connected to a bomb
Anthrax lab on a West Virginia farm
Shorty ain't learned to walk, already heavily armed
Civilians and lil' children is especially harmed
Camouflage Torahs, Bibles, and glorious Qu'rans
The books that take you to heaven and let you meet the Lord there
Have become misinterpreted reasons for warfare
We read 'em with blind eyes, I guarantee you there's more there
Rich must be blind 'cause they ain't see the poor there! ...Yeah
Need to open up a park, just close 10 schools, we don't need them
Can you please call the fire department, they down here marchin' for freedom
Burn down all they tepees, turn the TVs on to teach them, and move!

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Terrorist

Now a poor Klu Klux man see that we all brothers
Not 'cause things the same, but 'cause we lack the same color
And that's green, now that's mean
Can't burn his cross, 'cause he can't afford the gasoline
Now if a Muslim woman's strapped with a bomb on the bus
With the seconds runnin' give you the jitters
Just imagine an American-based Christian organization
Plannin' to poison water supplies to bring the Second Coming quicker
Nigga, they ain't livin' properly
Break 'em off with a lil' democracy
Turn they whole culture to a mockery
Give 'em Coca-Cola for they property
Give 'em gum, give 'em guns, get 'em young, give 'em fun
But if they ain't givin' it up, then they ain't gettin' none
And don't give 'em all, naw, man, just give 'em some
It's the paper, some of these cops must be Al-Qaeda, nigga, uh!

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Ter-ro-rist

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Ter-ro-rist

Don't give the black man food, give red man liquor
Red man fool, black man nigga
Give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
Also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
Give black man crack, Glocks, and things
Give red man craps, slot machines
Now bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back

Don't give the black man food, give the red man liquor
Red man fool, black man nigga
Give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
Also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
Give the black man crack, glocks and things
Give the red man craps, slot machines
Now bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back

[Chorus:]
If you are what you say you are
A super star
Then have no fear the camera's here and the microphone and they wanna know
Oh oh oh oh

If you are what you say you are
A super star
Then have no fear the crowd is here and the lights are on and they want a show
Oh oh oh oh


Yea, 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
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 what ever you did you undo
Heavy is heaven
The devil on my two tons too

[Chorus]


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
Cuz 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
Un-strap him from the chair
And put him back in his cage
The audience ain't fazed
And they ain't gone clap and they ain't gone praise
They want everything back that they paid
Cuz they been waiting since ten to see the lights get dim

[Chorus]


So chauffeur chauffeur come and take me away
Cuz 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 cuz everybody is pleased
Then they all take the stage and start performing for me
Like ha ha hahaha
Ha ha hahaha ha

They call me Lupe, I`ll be your new day
They wanna smell like me, they want my bouquet
But they cant they accented like the UK
Turn that ude Lupe to Pepe Le Peu spray
Fragrantly fragrant and they cant escape me
My perfume pursued them everywhere that they went
You don`t want a loan leave my cologne alone
It`s a little to strong for u to be putting on
Trust me I say this justly
I went from musty to musky and yall cant mush me
I warn yall cornballs I hush puppies
The swans in the pond call my duck ugly
But now they hug me because its lovely
They love the aroma of a roamer of the world
Got the shakers and the skaters and the players and the girls
Keep the fakers and the flakers and the haters in a twirl

You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

And I'm from Chi-Town thats where I flies round
Keep some Cartier frames over my eyes now
We used to gangbang a lot of that done died down
Children of the hat tiltin' keepin hope alive now
All with no high I do It so fly
Bank caesar tack helicopter with the bow tie
I love my city really hope that God bless it
Have my mind moving faster than that hog in the hedges
Welcome all of yall to my dark recesses
This is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges
My Ivories And My Doves My Levers and my Zests
It takes half of your bubble bath to match the freshness
The belly of the beast you know I'm from it
I wrap it in a towel here go my pal in the stomach
And I be on my green like Irish Spring and I Coast
Fudge wit It and get a mouth full of soap

You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either They pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

And so to sign off, this beat I rhyme off
Is from the Thelonious P and Hugo Mind Boss
You feel it in the air, its such a fine force
But you don`t hear me though, just like a mimes toss
That`s cuz I`m in Europe, me and my friends tour a
Im on my pimp, my temperature is temperer
I take it easy on my watch Im watchin TV
Am I clean as my her-re-shy`s, see the hare is trying to beat me
I continue to do Lu`s pace
They say him got two heads and four eyes just like screwface
But see my secret's safe its in my secret safe
That's in my secret room on my secret base
So from the runner of the FNF crew
Come in hip hop we've come to resurrect You
You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You

You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they Pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

[Intro] Uh, what up ya'll yeah wo Ya'll ain't know I go by the name of Lupe Fiasco Representin' that 1st & 15 yeah 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 [Verse 1] 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 lips Like this now we can end the story right here But shorty didn't quit it was something 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 his first kickflip he land it (uh) Labeled a misfit, abandoned Ca-kunk, ca-kunk, 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 he said it's getting late in here So I'm sorry young man there's no skating here [Chorus] 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 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, and push, and coast (uh uh uh) [Verse 2] My man got a lil older became a better roller yeah No helmet, hellbent on killin' himself Was what his momma said but he was feelin' himself Got a lil more swagger in his style Met his girlfriend, she was clappin' in the crowd Love is 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 2 She said bow I weigh 120 pounds, now Lemme make one thing clear I don't 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 [Chorus] So we kick, push kick, push kick, push kick, push coast And the way they roll just lovers in the twine with no place to go 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 uh) and push, (yeah yeah) and coast (yeah uh yeah yeah) [Verse 3] 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 weren't safe no more And it wasn't like they weren't getting chased no more Just the freedom is better than breathing they said (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" [Chorus] So we kick, push kick, push kick, push kick, push coast And the way they roll just a rebels without a cause with no place to go So we 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

1st Verse
They call me Lupe, I'll be your new day
They wanna smell like me, they want my bouquet
But they cant they accented like the UK
Turn that ude Lupe to Pepe Le Peu spray
Fragrantly fragrant and they cant escape me
My perfume pursued them everywhere that they went
You don't want a loan leave my cologne alone
It's a little to strong for u to be putting on
Trust me I say this justly
I went from musty to musky and yall cant mush me
I warn yall cornballs I hush puppies
The swans in the pond call my duck ugly
But now they hug me because its lovely
They love the aroma of a roamer of the world
Got the shakers and the skaters and the players and the girls
Keep the fakers and the flakers and the haters in a twirl

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

2nd Verse
And I'm from Chi-Town thats where I flies round
Keep some Cartier frames over my eyes now
We used to gangbang a lot of that done died down
Children of the hat tiltin' keepin hope alive now
All with no high I do It so fly
Bank caesar tack helicopter with the bow tie
I love my city really hope that God bless it
Have my mind moving faster than that hog in the hedges
Welcome all of yall to my dark recesses
This is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges
My Ivories And My Doves My Levers and my Zests
It takes half of your bubble bath to match the freshness
The belly of the beast you know I'm from it
I wrap it in a towel here go my pal in the stomach
And I be on my green like Irish Spring and I Coast
Fudge wit It and get a mouth full of soap

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either They pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

3rd Verse
And so to sign off, this beat I rhyme off
Is from the Thelonious P and Hugo Mind Boss
You feel it in the air, its such a fine force
But you don't hear me though, just like a mimes toss
That's cuz I'm in Europe, me and my friends tour a
Im on my pimp, my temperature is temperer
I take it easy on my watch Im watchin TV
Am I clean as my her-re-shy's, see the hare is trying to beat me
I continue to do Lu's pace
They say him got two heads and four eyes just like screwface
But see my secret's safe its in my secret safe
That's in my secret room on my secret base
So from the runner of the FNF crew
Come in hip hop we've come to resurrect You
You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they Pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

1st Verse
They call me Lupe, I'll be your new day
They wanna smell like me, they want my bouquet
But they cant they accented like the UK
Turn that ude Lupe to Pepe Le Peu spray
Fragrantly fragrant and they cant escape me
My perfume pursued them everywhere that they went
You don't want a loan leave my cologne alone
It's a little to strong for u to be putting on
Trust me I say this justly
I went from musty to musky and yall cant mush me
I warn yall cornballs I hush puppies
The swans in the pond call my duck ugly
But now they hug me because its lovely
They love the aroma of a roamer of the world
Got the shakers and the skaters and the players and the girls
Keep the fakers and the flakers and the haters in a twirl

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

2nd Verse
And I'm from Chi-Town thats where I flies round
Keep some Cartier frames over my eyes now
We used to gangbang a lot of that done died down
Children of the hat tiltin' keepin hope alive now
All with no high I do It so fly
Bank caesar tack helicopter with the bow tie
I love my city really hope that God bless it
Have my mind moving faster than that hog in the hedges
Welcome all of yall to my dark recesses
This is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges
My Ivories And My Doves My Levers and my Zests
It takes half of your bubble bath to match the freshness
The belly of the beast you know I'm from it
I wrap it in a towel here go my pal in the stomach
And I be on my green like Irish Spring and I Coast
Fudge wit It and get a mouth full of soap

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either They pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

3rd Verse
And so to sign off, this beat I rhyme off
Is from the Thelonious P and Hugo Mind Boss
You feel it in the air, its such a fine force
But you don't hear me though, just like a mimes toss
That's cuz I'm in Europe, me and my friends tour a
Im on my pimp, my temperature is temperer
I take it easy on my watch Im watchin TV
Am I clean as my her-re-shy's, see the hare is trying to beat me
I continue to do Lu's pace
They say him got two heads and four eyes just like screwface
But see my secret's safe its in my secret safe
That's in my secret room on my secret base
So from the runner of the FNF crew
Come in hip hop we've come to resurrect You
You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You

Hook
You want the flava ma, hey I got cha
You want the realness, well I got cha
I know you sick of them players big car and watch ya
Either they Pimps or they macks or they mobsters

You want the real shit, hey I got cha
You see ma people here, you know we proper
You know we do it right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right

We gon do what we say
see us when see that again
call us instant replay
see us when see that again
call us instant replay
cop a coupe and then recoup
e call it instant replay
say hello to YO goodbyes
we continue to heat wave
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
I Don't want your girlfriend No
I Don't want your girlfriend No
I Don't want your girlfriend No
I Don't want your girlfriend
But she like
la la la la la yeah
la la la la la yeah
la la la la la yeah
la la la la la la la
I Don't want your girlfriend yeah
I Don't want your girlfriend say
I Don't want your girlfriend
I Don't want your girlfriend
She in my
la la la la la
She in my
la la la la la
She in my
la la la la la
She in my
la la la la la la la
Damn your girl be dranki
why she steady sippin
I see she got that feelin
I see she got that feelin
I guess that why he mad for
Coz you weren't what he ask for
why hella mad for mad for mad for
Her chain look like car show
body like a bottle
Pretty lil model model model
that's why this dude is trippiin
Steady investigating
Being a situation
waitin hatin
I don't want your girlfriend NO
I don't want your girlfriend NO
I don't want your girlfriend NO
I don't want your girlfriend
But she like
LA LA LA LA LA yeah
LA LA LA LA LA yeah
LA LA LA LA LA yeah
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
I don't want your girlfriend yeah
I don't want your girlfriend say
I don't want your girlfriend
I don't want your girlfriend
She in my LA LA LA LA LA
She in my LA LA LA LA LA
She in my LA LA LA LA LA
She in my LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
Shot town down to V A
straight walk out them P J
Pockets smell like feme's
so I fed them cheesecake
She wanna know how 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 Your shine though
I don't want your girlfriend NO
I don't want your girlfriend NO
I don't want your girlfriend NO
I don't want your girlfriend
But she like
LA LA LA LA LA yeah
LA LA LA LA LA yeah
LA LA LA LA LA yeah
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
I don't want your girlfriend yeah
I don't want your girlfriend say
I don't want your girlfriend
I don't want your girlfriend
She in my LA LA LA LA LA
She in my LA LA LA LA LA
She in my LA LA LA LA LA
She in my LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

Don't want your girl
Don't want your girl
Don't want your girl
Don't want your girl
Why she singing just like

Uh, close your mind, close your eyes, see with your heart
How do you forgive the murderer of your father?
The ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr
Terrorist

We came through the storm
Nooses on our necks, and a smallpox blanket to keep us warm
On a 747 on the Pentagon lawn?wake up!
The alarm clock is connected to a bomb
Anthrax lab on a West Virginia farm
Shorty ain't learned to walk, already heavily armed
Civilians and lil' children is especially harmed
Camouflage Torahs, Bibles, and glorious Qu'rans
The books that take you to heaven and let you meet the Lord there
Have become misinterpreted reasons for warfare
We read 'em with blind eyes, I guarantee you there's more there
Rich must be blind 'cause they ain't see the poor there! ...Yeah
Need to open up a park, just close 10 schools, we don't need them
Can you please call the fire department, they down here marchin' for freedom
Burn down all they tepees, turn the TVs on to teach them, and move!

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Terrorist

Now a poor Klu Klux man see that we all brothers
Not 'cause things the same, but 'cause we lack the same color
And that's green, now that's mean
Can't burn his cross, 'cause he can't afford the gasoline
Now if a Muslim woman's strapped with a bomb on the bus
With the seconds runnin' give you the jitters
Just imagine an American-based Christian organization
Plannin' to poison water supplies to bring the Second Coming quicker
Nigga, they ain't livin' properly
Break 'em off with a lil' democracy
Turn they whole culture to a mockery
Give 'em Coca-Cola for they property
Give 'em gum, give 'em guns, get 'em young, give 'em fun
But if they ain't givin' it up, then they ain't gettin' none
And don't give 'em all, naw, man, just give 'em some
It's the paper, some of these cops must be Al-Qaeda, nigga, uh!

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Ter-ro-rist

The more money that they make, the more money that they make
The better and better they live
Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take
Whatever, whatever it is
The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn
The better and better they get
American Ter-ro-rist

Don't give the black man food, give red man liquor
Red man fool, black man nigga
Give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
Also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
Give black man crack, Glocks, and things
Give red man craps, slot machines
Now bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back

Don't give the black man food, give the red man liquor
Red man fool, black man nigga
Give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
Also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
Give the black man crack, glocks and things
Give the red man craps, slot machines
Now bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back

[B.o.B:]
If you asked me what's on my mind you probably won't believe it
Cause if life was one big pool I'd be in the deep end
So I play my role and never ever speak it
Like a secret
And all the while you just just to figure me out

[Chorus: B.o.B]
But you can't see past my shades
Past my shades
Past my shades
And you can't see past my shades
Past my shades
Past my shades
And you can't see past my shades
Past my shades
Past my shades

[B.O.B:]
Well ask me a question I tell you no lies
Cause there's nothing to hide my souls in my eyes
And I'm ahead of my time but I cannot rewind
The only thing I fear is the mirror in my bathroom
People look and try to see a disguise
But there is nothing that nobody can't see in light
If it's a song with a rhyme or a verse with a line
Then you wanna stay in my mind

[Chorus]

[Lupe Fiasco:]
Uh, who else but Lu else
You know I got two belts the black and the white one
I begin and I master
I see in my eye glasses
But they sayin' what I'm seeing through is false like Ross
I can hear him through the wall like walk
This way they tryin' to dissuade my thoughts
I'm a slave to myself and disobey my boss
It's all in disarray this parade I walk
They get amazed when they catch a chain I toss
Amidst dis array of different ways I talk
And it hangs from your brain if my chain you caught
Like I cough without covering my mouth
I tip the scales like the King of the south
Forgot that I was fat I lost my way
But now I'm back looking for the shade I sought
And not wonders, Scott Summers
So don't make me take off my stunners
Bobby Ray you know you got my numbers
And them there can't see us like hunters

[Chorus]

La la la la la
Oh yeah
La la la la la
You can't see past my shades
La la la la la
You can't see past my shades

[Chorus]

[B.o.B:]
If you asked me what's on my mind you probably won't believe it
Cause if life was one big pool I'd be in the deep end
So I play my role and never ever speak it
Like a secret
And all the while you just just to figure me out

[Chorus: B.o.B]
But you can't see past my shades
Past my shades
Past my shades
And you can't see past my shades
Past my shades
Past my shades
And you can't see past my shades
Past my shades
Past my shades

[B.O.B:]
Well ask me a question I tell you no lies
Cause there's nothing to hide my souls in my eyes
And I'm ahead of my time but I cannot rewind
The only thing I fear is the mirror in my bathroom
People look and try to see a disguise
But there is nothing that nobody can't see in light
If it's a song with a rhyme or a verse with a line
Then you wanna stay in my mind

[Chorus]

[Lupe Fiasco:]
Uh, who else but Lu else
You know I got two belts the black and the white one
I begin and I master
I see in my eye glasses
But they sayin' what I'm seeing through is false like Ross
I can hear him through the wall like walk
This way they tryin' to dissuade my thoughts
I'm a slave to myself and disobey my boss
It's all in disarray this parade I walk
They get amazed when they catch a chain I toss
Amidst dis array of different ways I talk
And it hangs from your brain if my chain you caught
Like I cough without covering my mouth
I tip the scales like the King of the south
Forgot that I was fat I lost my way
But now I'm back looking for the shade I sought
And not wonders, Scott Summers
So don't make me take off my stunners
Bobby Ray you know you got my numbers
And them there can't see us like hunters

[Chorus]

La la la la la
Oh yeah
La la la la la
You can't see past my shades
La la la la la
You can't see past my shades

[Chorus]

Today nobody cares
But tomorrow they will they will
Today nobody cares
But ohhh tomorrow
they will they will
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
I get my energy
from her energy
I be in outer space
but I got inner peace
So tell my enemies
that they can't injure me
I know that irritates
you have my sympathies
Well you should protest
yea you should pick at me
I on a losin strike
Im on a winnin streak
Im out at left field
Im speakin mentally
But thats a better place
then where the benches be
Im feelin really good
me and my duffle beat
Me and my different drummer
he played the timpanis
See thats what got me here
you hearin me
Me on my
Black man in the future shit
call me Willy D
See Im just forward lookin
thats how I really see
See why you valentines
Im thinkin christmas trees
And thats happens to be
even at Miccy D's
Semi colon close parentheses
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
Do you remember me
the guy from verse 1
Failures my last name
nevers my first one
You see I hood a lot
and yea I nerd some
Hoods where the heart is
nerds where the words from
Dont represent either
because I merged them
Its kids who wanna leave
and I encourage them
Go out and see the world
never return from
Yea you don't come back
unless you learned some
And baby girl what does it matter
where your purse from
Your hurr done
your nails did
your ass fat but you're dumb
Mix Melyssa Ford
with Maya Angelou
Become a Top Model
and Sojourner too
I try to follow this
what Mohammed do
Its such an old soul
inside this sonic view
Its why I'm ferrari'd up
and I'm conscience too
I don't 'pply for size
I promise you
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
Yea its me again
the guy from verse 2
But its the last one
its almost curfew
Its almost night out
so turn ya lights on
Where all my 760's
with ya brights on
Yea 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'm not cry from
You see the tears'll fall
run out my cryin songs
Now the world shoulders
is what we cryin on
The worlds fast lane
is what I'm drivin on
What am I drivin at
tryin to drive at home
I'm in the drivers seat
but you can ride along
Its never cyclops
its never I alone
I'm tellin your story
wherever I perform
Now if they lookin for me
tell me I've gone
Out in the bright lights
right where I belong
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

All right 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
All right 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 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'n and put your hands up
when times is hard
you stand up
L U P the man
cuz the brand that the fans trust
So even if they ban us
they'll never slow my plans up
All right 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
All right, 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
tryna 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, 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
All right 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
All right 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 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
Ain't nobody leavin'
nobody goin' home
Even if they turn the lights out
the show is goin' on
All right, 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
All right, 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

Things are getting outta control
Feels like I'm running out of soul
You are getting too heavy to hold
Think I'll be letting you go

My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured
Self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit
A shelf full of awards
Worshiping the war ships that set sail on my sea of life
When I see my own self I wonder if we still see a light
We was tight seeing lights
Speaking right and breathing life
Now I see my demons and barely even sleep at night
I don't get high life keep me at a decent height
As the old me I predicted all my recent plights
Exhausted. Trying to fall asleep. Losses at my recent fights
Burdens on my shoulders now, burnin' all my motives down
Inspiration drying up, motivation slowing down

Things are getting outta control
Feels like I'm running out of soul
You are getting too heavy to hold
Think I'll be letting you go

I'm begging me don't let me go
We vow like the letter 'Oh'
To never go our separate ways
And spin-off into separate shows
Tired of all the wardrobe changin'
Playing all these extra roles
Filled with all these different spirits
Livin' off these separate souls
Point in life is getting hollow
Can't wait for the exit hole
Give me room. The entry room. Let me in and let me go
So I can roam around this wilderness
See it for what it really is
I'm prepared to filter list
Magnify the youth in me, alibi the shootin' spree
Amplify the revolution, sanitize the lunacy
Strip away the justice, justify the scrutiny
I can see the lasers shootin' out of you and me

Things are getting outta control
Feels like I'm running out of soul
You are getting too heavy to hold
Think I'll be letting you go

Sometimes I feel like the world
Sometimes I feel like the world is against me
And everything that I've done before
I swear we used to be so pure
But we can't be in love no more
Cause I don't wanna fight this war
But when I put down my gun
I turn around and pick up one
This uzi weighs a ton, but I think I'm done!

Things are getting outta control
Feels like I'm running out of soul
You are getting too heavy to hold
Think I'll be letting you go

Think I'll be letting you go
Things are getting outta control
Said, it feels like I'm running out of soul
You're getting heavy to hold
I think I'll be letting you go
Letting you go

[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 up?
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
I can’t take back the words I never said

Album on hold, whole world on hold
The crowd is like "ho!" operator's like "hold"
Man, now ain't that cold?
I'm just trying to talk to my homie
that's up in the hole
now homegirl not trying to be a ho
even though she on a pole
can she get a second chance? no
whoa! like the opposite of gold
that ain't how it's supposed to be: a butterfly
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 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 and
dance around the ring, but until then I'll sing

[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 ups and downs, will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there

Doctore doctor please!
the fame ain't painless enough
that's cause you ain't famous enough
you got a little game
but your name ain't ringing enough
he said "take 2 of these and put change in my cup"
I said I wasn't poor, he gave me some more
grabbed me a publicist and pointed me to the door
"Out!" ouch..
I'm telling you this all from a therapist's couch
Tell me about your mother? what she's all about?
prescribed me an interview and then told me to bounce Damn.. geez the world is co cold
I'm glad I bought these skis
went right off of the bunny sloped and right into the trees
went unconscious they rushed me to a concert
instead of green jello, they made me 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 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
Evel as Knievel, I'mma jump so far
way up in the atmosphere, I ain't coming back
be a jerk to them jerks, yea that'll make'em hurt
huh? instead of 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"
then he disappeared and I felt something familiar
something I was taught, something I had lost
if you are afraid, the 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 ups and downs, will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there

I'm not a choo-choo, I'm a turbo
Hater pray to God that I turn slow
Like I'm sipping on purple
But I ain't on your glow
I'm in a whole 'nother circle
Trying to keep it clean like church clothes
Said that respect was something had to work for
But that ain't gonna work though
Get your respect, but lose all my worth, no
You can dead that, get a hearse, go
Don't need 48 you'll find a killer in the first floor
It was me boy, to commercials
Feeling out of place like PETA at a fur store
So I left with a couple dozen fur coats
Said I could never break away from your hold
Watch me, turn though
Said that I blew it like Turquoise
Just mad hear it all in your word choice
Know it hurts but I really don't care though
Let me rub it in, get it all up in that ho

MDMA:
I can see the morning creeping up on us
It's like the world's in my hands now
I'm feeling so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me
I don't wanna care right now
I don't wanna care right now
No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now

[Verse 2]
Oh God over everything
You fly but stars over everything
And I'm one of them, yeah one of them
Oh I'm not one? Well I'm a hundred then
I'm a hundred mother loving stars
You're no lights, you're an undercover car
I'm an ambulance, and a fire truck, and some strobe lights, tied up!
Shining all in your eyes, all out of yours and all into mines
Lights and stars is all intertwined
And I'm feeling like Malcolm looking all out the blinds
Any means any means, and you can do anything anything
And the flow tight, skinny jeans, skinny jeans
Hit you like Pacquiao, Philippines Philippines

MDMA:
I can see the morning creeping up on us
It's like the world's in my hands now
I'm feeling so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me
I don't wanna care right now
I don't wanna care right now
No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now

[Verse 3]
Ya'll know on the letter homie, Lupe, yes sir, who they?
They yester, and I'm today, and tomorrow, hooray
Can I get a hip-hip for the new K-I-N-G, nigga, I am G
Got the game in the clutch like Iron Sheik
You ball little boy, But I N-B-A
With a hand for the world, you a boy band with a dance and a twirl
I'm a rockstar with a band so thorough
Big ass tour bus that's jammed full of girls
T-t-tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof
T-t-tell em what it do, I don't care about your curfew
I'll tell you when I'm through boy

MDMA:
I can see the morning creeping up on us
It's like the world's in my hands now
I'm feeling so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me
I don't wanna care right now
I don't wanna care right now
No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now

Verse 4

Tell em what it do, yell it from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy
Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy
Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy
Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy
I don't wanna, I-I don't wanna, I-I-I don't wanna
C-c-c-care right now
I don't wanna, I-I don't wanna, I-I-I don't wanna
C-c-c-care right, c-c-c-care right now

[Hook: Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head
Girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did
But I love it

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
uh uh everything hooks
everything works, you're a real good cause
I'm a real good verse, freestyle unrehearsed
so clean no curse
and when the song's gone man everything hurts
so I put it in reverse
go back to the scene where I seen you first
yeah, I need you to sing that single again
play that video I seen you up in
a hundred million scenes in my mind all day
call in and request on the line always
yeah, the president of your fan club
leave them players all behind like a bad love

[Hook: Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head
Girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did
But I love it

[Verse 2: Lupe]
playa need a minute
like a time out in tennis 'for I finish
how'd I get in this
maybe 'was your hair, maybe 'was your flair
maybe it's the heels and the way you wear
maybe it's you're real and the way you care
you don't care if I'm ill or a millionaire
the only thing that matters that the feeling's there
your smile is so bright it's like a grills in there
high off life, don't need a pill in there
you're killing me, I think I need a will in here
got me feeling real skills impaired
hard to discribe why you're still in here

[Hook: Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head
Girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did
But I love it

[Bridge: Trey & Lupe]
don't care what nobody say
cause I like it girl
might go crazy try'na figure this out love
(but I like it girl)
don't even know why I feel this way
cause I like it girl
caught up in something that I can't get out of
(but we like it girl)

[Hook: Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head
Girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did
But I love it

All right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onHave you ever had the feelin'that you was bein' hadDon't that shit theremake you madThey treat you like a slavePut chains all on your souland put whips up on your backThey be lyin' through they teethhope you slip up off your pathI don't switch upI just laughput my kicks up on they deskUnaffected by they threatsthen get busy on they assSee, that how thatChi-town made methat's how my daddy raised meThat glitterin' may not be gold,don't let nobody play meIf you are my homeboyyou'll never have to pay meGo'n and put your hands upwhen times is hardyou stand upL U P the mancuz the brand that the fans trustSo even if they ban usthey'll never slow my plans upAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right, alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onOne in the air for thepeople ain't hereTwo in the air for thefather that's thereThree in the air for thekids in the ghettoFour for the kids thatdon't wanna be thereNone for the niggastryna hold them backFive in the air for theteachers not scaredTo tell those kids that's livin'in the ghettoThat the niggas holdin' back thatthe world is theirsYeah, yeah, the world is yoursI was once that little boyTerrified of the worldnow I'm on a world tourI will give up everythingeven start a world warFor these ghetto girls and boysI'm rappin''round the world forAfrica to New YorkHaiti then I detourOakland out to AucklandGaza Strip to DetroitSay hip-hop only destroytell 'em look at me boyI hope your son don'thave a gun and never be a D boyAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onSo no matter what been throughno matter what you intoNo matter what you seewhen you look outside your windowBrown grass or green grasspicket fence or barbed wireNever ever put them downyou just lift your arms higherRaise 'em 'til your arms tiredlet 'em know you hereThat you struggling, survivin'that you gon' persevereAin't nobody leavin'nobody goin' homeEven if they turn the lights outthe show is goin' onAll right, alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right, alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes on

[Chorus:]
There's only two ways, out, of, here,
If your too late you'll be trapped here, forever.
There's only two ways... out, of, here,
Ones through the door, the others through Me

Sometimes livin' in a word like this,
It's pretty hard not to go insane,
Not pretty if you don't comply,
Pretty easy if you don't complain,
Stand there like you don't feel pain,
No tears in the face of defeat,
Pretend to the end that you don't feel change,
Don't admit it that your faith is weak,
Don't say that you feel like dying,
Life's hard that it feels like diamonds,
Go home, shit's far too gone,
Much too late to even feel like trying,
Can't understand what I'm saying,
Can't figure out what I'm implying,
If you feel you don't want to be alive,
You feel just how I am...

I'm on the dark side,
And you can't come find me,
How? when it's light all around you,
Yeah but it's dark on the inside,
No win when it's me against me,
One of us ain't gonna survive,
My heart been broke for a while,
Yours has been the one keeping me alive

[Chorus:]
There's only two ways, out, of, here,
If your too late you'll be trapped here, forever.
There's only two ways... out, of, here,
Ones through the door, the others through Me

This world's such a fucked up place,
My mind's in such a fucked up shape
Everything down here sucks,
Maybe what's up there is great,
We all gotta go one day,
I just wanna cut to the chase,
I wanna stop these nightmares,
I just wanna touch your face,
All you see is all my feats,
All I see is all my flaws,
All I can hear is all my demons,
Even through your applause,
All you see is all my flights,
All I see is all my falls,
All you see is all my rights,
All I see is all my wrongs,
Go on keep telling me to fight,
Gun on my table telling me to come on
Tellin me to put it inside my head,
Then put it up right next to my dome,
Don't keep tellin me to find a reason,
Anything to keep me from squeezing

Simplest things yeah you really like summer
You really like music, you really like reading
I can't win if it's me against me
One of us ain't gon survive
And my heart been broke for a while
Yours been the one keeping me alive
Yours been the one keeping me alive
Yours been the one keeping me alive

[Chorus:]
There's only two ways, out, of, here,
If your too late you'll be trapped here, forever.
There's only two ways... out, of, here,
Ones through the door, the others through Me

[Verse 1:]
This one goes out to the baby girls
In a rush growing up in this crazy world
Yeah your brother on the road and he never home
I know you feeling kinda sad now that daddy gone
You can't let it get you sad, gotta carry on
We only lose things because it make us strong
You always had my love, and now you got a song
From the biggest biggest fan that you've ever known
I know you want me, little girls, not for very long
And you ain't gotta have a man if you don't ever want
Cause I'm gonna make sure you got two of everything
That you ever want, every time, like your very own
Not to make you hard to respect
Just really really really really hard to impress
It's a whole wide world for you to go and get your hands on
Until then, just come and get your dance on now

[Hook:]
I see you coming up
I'm a get you going down
You will never work, you'll be wealthy
Just as long as I'm around

[Verse 2:]
This for everybody feeling good
You know who you are, or you misunderstood
Never had money, or you living good
If you from the burbs, if you in the hood
Recognize where we come from
In my day, mane, I did a little somethin some-
They like "how come you don't rap that? "
Cause that's a backtrack and I ain't tryna back back
I'm only moving forward homie that's that
Direction, a lot of shoulders lack that
I'm just tryna give it to 'em like [?]
Now I know I'm gonna make out like a fat rat
That's cool as long as they don't trap crack
Graduate from school, and still let his pants sag
Never catch a case, know how to let his cash stack
Welcome to the [?]

[Hook]

[Bridge:]
When the floor falls out
I'm a be there to carry you
And if you want that star
I'll go get it out the sky for you
If you cry, shed a tear
I'm a dry your eyes
Just to let you know it'll be alright

[Verse 3:]
I know it's like a whole lot going on
Things going right, things going wrong
Maybe baby, I've been waiting for you so long
Know that in this world you're never really on your own
Yeah I got a [?] get him on the phone
He'll never put you places where you don't belong
Put you through the pain, to put you on the throne
And I know that from the bottom of my corazon
And if they looking at you sideways
You just wave right back, tell 'em hi hater
Mad you ain't hanging with 'em in the driveway
Nah we gon' keep it moving to the highway
[?] like Friday, chilling
Shout out to King David for bringing in philly
And I'm a put the independent women in the building

[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

[Verse 1:]
We now interrupt this broadcast,
To bring you a special message about the forecast,
The futures cloudy and it'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 military'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 that'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

[Verse 2:]
You'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 ain't got the truth, but how about a remix,
Different is never good, good is only what we pick,
You ain'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 you're scared,
But we don'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

[Hook]
I waited all the night to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain

Lupe Fiasco [Verse 1]

Freedom, we can use some of that especially where we from
Where we grew up like a green thumb
Its like a criminal is the only thing you can become
Look at what I became
Something like a phenom, nothin but a g thang
Things I've seen when I'm looking out of these frames
Pictures I painted on the walls where we hang
From the trees we hung
Strange fruit man look at how we swung
How the hell you gonna tell us something
We ain't have a father
How to try to grow up and be one
See umm feel it in my bones
That I'm sittin on a throne
Like a killer with a crone
When I slit another poach
Shed a whole lot of light on a little bit of home

[Hook]
I waited all the night to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain


Sway [Verse 2]
Super swatter, the kid remains but I represent
I ain't no paper planes. I'm fly
Plus, I dont write no more, sorta from the top
I'll show you razor stay sharp
But I knew how to razor blade
I've paid my dues and now I wait for change
Because the flows so rude
It goes without asking Lupe
I'm so big, you aim to break
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[Hook]
I waited all the night to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain


Lupe Fiasco [Verse 3]
Chain broke, you ain't make a rep for your chain smoke
No cigarrettes on my plane, yo
Stunt your ham bones from the game though
Put it on mine, take a long time
B-A-Barock is how I'm livin' online
On a webisode like let's go let 'em know
That I put up the footage that I'm takin' your shine
Wanna see the real change? look in your mind
Your brain look like your ? brotha
Overgrow, overload, broken zone
Niggas playing games in the hood they got you stuck-up
Playa thinkin' that its cool to be a pimp still
We gon' set it free like a fish in a ??
Take this home, rearrange it, change it
Danger, Sway-zer, Lupe Laser. Pow!

[Hook]
I waited all the night to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain
I might just break the Chain

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 sambo 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]

[Lupe Fiasco-Verse 2]
Uh, and it ain't no projects
Keepin it real is not an understood concept
Yea, complexions not a contest
Cuz racism has no context
Hip-hop ain't got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin like crack never happened
Crips never occurred nor bloods to attack them
Matter a 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 the five white guys called the jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
And thats a really rose up out of michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 cent

[Hook]

[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 seen between
We just close our eyes till its all black everything

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

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
I’ll always remember, I hope you know

Your mind's all a flutter no pigs on the gig, no swine for the supper
No wine in the cupboard, everything of mine must show signs of the suffer
And keep you oppressed to the other, struggle
To keep it all fresh like tupper
One of the tougher ginger bread men out the cutter,
Skin ain't Huck Finn but I ain't Nigger Jim mother fucker
I'm more like clubber from the upper cut of the gutter
Never can't tell I won't bow down to the bull like Calculta
That ain't what I'm rapping for, I'd rather be a matador
So tar, tar, rev and roar
I know that sounds fucked up like a raptor/rap tour?
But there's no roof clips if I lose so I choose
To keep on seeing red like crips in
Ha!
He the guy who rise to eye pools
...
Hey I must admit it, I ain't sayin I'm the best OH!
...
Niggas just jealous, cuz what i got restin on my neck OH!
Cuz it took me from down on the ground to soarin' like a G4!
Mug if you want to, bug if you want to, chill if you want to
Strug if you want to, build if you want to, joke if you want to
Disrespect me, that's what you wan' do

Been around the world the things that I've seen
These things get turned into things that I sing
Things stringed together with similes in between
Then ming with the thing
Since little green marines I
Been, mean, jing ming, ring, ling, string, bean, dream, team, bling, bling, 3, rings, ring, ling ...

So move towards it, I had to root for it like my home team, now they all lean,
Singin' that Queen, Somebody to Love, Rhapsody Boheem, we are Champeens,
Ya'll that worried bout the dust better stay on your scene?
I drop the lyric with...

You can document it, call it Bye Bo Leen?
I got the spirit I fly over Wayne
It's the fly MC...

I must admit it, I ain't sayin I'm the best OH!
...
Niggas just jealous, cuz what i got restin on my neck OH!
Cuz it took me from down on the ground to soarin' like a G4!
Mug if you want to, bug if you want to, chill if you want to
Strug if you want to, build if you want to, joke if you want to
Disrespect me, that's what you wan' do

I'm preforming mama, now everybody know me mama,
All these hoes on me mama, why the hell you ain't want me mama, hey
I'm preforming mama, now everybody know me mama,
All these hoes on me mama, why the hell you ain't want me mama

Success is my friend, who knew that when I grew up I'd be just like him
Expect my roar if you reject my whim, errect my law, respect my pim
I bring the pain, Method Men, I bring the pain
S&M, jump the family one of my bestest friends,
Try and kill us all your deaths breaks in, I'll just reply with excess winds
Please God correct my sins to protect my kin, as they keep thinking
... my leg...

I must admit it, I ain't sayin I'm the best OH!
...
Niggas just jealous, cuz what i got restin on my neck OH!
Cuz it took me from down on the ground to soarin' like a G4!
Mug if you want to, bug if you want to, chill if you want to
Strug if you want to, build if you want to, joke if you want to
Disrespect me, that's what you wan' do

Hey, little girl, don't cry, dry your eyes
I wrote this song for you
Now, it goes down

Can you imagine every world?
Every boy and every girl
They'd all get the same things
They'd all get the same things


A little dough, a lot of love
With a mom and dad to hug
They'd all get the same things


Huh, but down here the world is real
And it don't matter how you feel
Because, we don't get the same things
We don't get the same things


You got to work to stay alive
Forty hours, from 9 to 5
We don't get the same things


All my gangster friends, yeah
And all my skater friends
(What they want?)
We all want the same thing
(What we want, now?)
We all want the same thing, yeah


DJ's in the clubs, Jesus, freaks and thugs
We all want the same thing
Same thing, same thing
Same thing, same thing, now


And, I think about the way
All the politicians say
(What they saying, now?)
Say they want to change things
Say they want to change things


But every year, they take some more
And I don't know what it's for
Though, they never change things
(They don't change nothing)


But, if you want to make it stop, stop
Well, first, you got to start
Making some big, old changes
Doing some different things, yeah


Get up out your bed, think outside your head
And you won't get the same things
Same thing, same thing
Same thing, now


All my gangster friends
And all my skater friends
(What they want, now?)
We all want the same thing
(What we want, now?)
I said, we all want the same thing


DJ's in the clubs, Jesus, freaks and thugs
We all want the same thing
Same thing, same thing
Same thing now


All my ex-girlfriends
And all their new boyfriends
(What they doing, now?)
They all want the same thing
(What they want, now?)
I said, they all want the same thing


From Wall Street to the hood
New York and Hollywood
We all want the same thing, yeah
(And what you say, what you say?)


This is a message to
Remind you there's just one who calls love


All my gangster friends
(What they want, now?)
And all my skater friends
We all want the same thing
I said, we all want the same thing


DJ's in the clubs, Jesus, freaks and thugs
We all want the same thing
Same thing, same thing
Same thing, same thing now


All my ex-girlfriends
(What they want?)
And all their new boyfriends
They all want the same thing
I said, they all want the same thing


From Wall Street to the hood
New York and Hollywood
We all want the same thing, yeah
We all want the same thing, yeah

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Now what if I told you
my city was the best
And my city was a threat
to the rest
And my city was a threat
to the rest
This city is my city
And I love it yeah I love it
I was born and raised here
I got it made here
And if I have my way
I'm gonna stay
From every corner
To every block yeah
And whether it's warm or
storming it down or
right stupid hot hot
From the colors all the way to
the solutions yeah
Forget all the drugs and gangs
corruption and pollution no
Cause this city is my city
And I love it yeah I love it
I was born and raised here
I got it made here
And if I have my way
I'm gonna stay here
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
Now what if I told you
my city was the best
And my city was a threat
to the rest
But you can't rest inside my city
My city's so cold
if you ain't dressed
And what they accept
better had a right address
Come to my city
certain colors can't step
And sadly I'm talking
about the color of your skin
Sorry my brother can't let you in
Cause the property value might
go down to a level that's
Economically unacceptable and
socially tabu fast to
live around you
Uh uh is this what it's down to
Roof for the same team
nigga had the same dream
Not the same reality
Actually mines is a bad
education and gentrification
Despite all the above I love
This city is my city
And I love it yeah I love it
I was born and raised here
I got it made here
And if I have my way
I'm gonna stay here
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
And you can take it back
Picture you can take it back
But you're never gonna
take my city away
Cause you can burn it
to the ground
Oh or let it flood
but it's in my blood
Cause this city is my city
And I love it yeah I love it
I was born and raised here
I got it made here
And if I have my way
I'm gonna stay here
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life uh huh
For life