Lupe Fiasco

Released: March 24, 2006

Songwriter: Lupe Fiasco

Producer: Just Blaze

[intro]
Mic, What up man
I told you man
Im feeling real happy to be from chicago

[verse]

And since im presently on the incline
I feel inclined to invite yall
In the mind im feelin real spiffy
Signed sealed illest label deal in the city
Check me and my fifty dollar fifty-nine fifty
Buyin diamonds is just no longer in me
So no more chains flooded watches on the right
Hand
I work like a Mexican spend like a white man
That's right man I could Bentley afford
Instead I coped a couple skateboards and
Some sneakers my kick game is crazy
Keep a french eyeglass a backstage pass and a
Model for a lady
Charlia stop winein I got a bottle ya babies
Don't get gassed up on what ya pomp-pomp [?]
Think
Cuz the heart still dark as my Bloncic ink [?]
But the real OG'S told me fall on back
You got a secret service now you call on that
If that ain't real mane I fall on tacks
Im feelin real good
I think I might post in here
And hold the westside down like itz a coast
This year
Bishop G they told me I should come down cousin
But I flatly refuse I ain't dumb down nuffin
Like BOW
Lovin the Chi right now
Comm Sense the Priest
Bump Jay ta chief
Kanye the champ
Twista man the Beast
Crucial still the king
Kato[?] rest in peace
And for those that ain't never met I
I own 1st and 15th im Lupe the Jedi
Jay don't mind me im just blowin my zone up
Doin it bout as fly as a maggot grown up
And still got a life that's back in the palms up
Just give me a foldin chair I ain't after the
Throne but
Got a broken left flow that ain't no body ain't touch
Just sayin if FnF ain't up
Friend naw
This ain't a pen this a paint brush and I intend to rearrange how they paint us
And...

The Chicago born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco first tasted success when he featured on Kanye West’s hit “Touch the Sky”, a track that shortly preceded his real breakout, his 2006 debut album Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor, and he never looked back. He has established himself as one of the greatest urban wordsmiths of all time, with Genius even dubbing him the ‘Proust of Rap’.

While he’s now regarded of one of the 21st Century’s Hip-Hop greats, he wasn’t always a fan of the genre, initially disliking it due to the prominence of vulgarity and misogyny within it. In his late teens, he aspired to make it as a lyricist. In his early twenty’s, he met Jay-Z, who helped him sign with Atlantic Records in 2005. The following year, he released his debut album (Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor), which was met with acclaim from fans and critics alike, as did his sophomore effort, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool.

The following eight years of his career saw far less output than many would’ve anticipated. This can be partly attributed to his struggles with Atlantic Records. The executives wanted him to sign a 360 deal; however, as he refused to do so they instead shelved his already completed 3rd album, Lasers, and wouldn’t promote him as they had previously. The overseers at the label also interfered with his music (as they had tried to do with his fan-favorite track “Dumb it Down”); subsequently effecting the quality and sound of his third and fourth albums.

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