Released: December 26, 2020

Featuring: JAY-Z

Songwriter: JAY-Z Lupe Fiasco Kanye West Pharrell Williams

Producer: The Neptunes

[Verse 1: Pharrell Williams]
Don't wanna sound full of myself or rude
But you ain't looking at no other dudes
'Cause you love me (I'm sorry baby, so sexy)
So you think about a chance
You find yourself trying to do my dance
Maybe 'cause you love me (Uh, you do it well)
Trying to be the best girlfriend you could be
But still you sneak and look at me, and girl, I love it
Then you give your other girl a shove
Tell her you gonna call her ass how it was
And she's gonna love it (Whoa-oh whoa, yeah, yeah)

[Pre-Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
So then we tried singing it slow now
Because you weren't used to how fast we touched (Fast we touched)
Then we locked eyes and I knew I was in there
And I was gon' tear your ass up (Tear your ass up)

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
I know that I'm carrying on, never mind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin' (You know I want you, babe)
I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (You should stop frontin', babe)

[Verse 2: Kanye West]
When you take the picture, cut off your face
And cover up the tattoo by the waist
Let the MC Serch 'til I reach 3rd base
And when I get home I'ma hit home plate
Wait, could this be considered our first date?
"'Ye, the picture just looks so trash"
Your body make a baller spend cooked coke cash
Plus every good girl wanna go bad
Passion of the Christ, 33-Year Old Virgin
That's disrespectful baby, don't encourage him
I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Persian
Dashiki, kimono, or turban
They say I dress white, but my swag so urban
Tryin my luck, I hit her with the text say
"Baby you up," Question mark
And she respond, "YES-S-S-I-R"

[Pre-Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
So then we tried singing it slow now
Because you weren't used to how fast we touched (Fast we touched)
Then we locked eyes and I knew I was in there
And I was gon' tear your ass up (Tear your ass up)

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
I know that I'm carrying on, never mind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin' (You know I want you, babe)
I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (You should stop frontin', babe)

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
Hold hands in public
I does it
Cool
I dug it
Everything you do
And everything you doesn't
Everything you done, hope I'm the one, you does it
Too
Hope this trick goes wrong, then I'm cuttin'
Too
So I can feel it twice as much as two Lu's
To lose is something that I never wanna do
I'm too loose to check on this track like choo-
Choos
To choose, I rather have you
Even if it's half
And I don't even hold for the whole
If I have two
But I don't want a one
That's too close to none
Come
But get rid of the gun
It's covered in clues
The one that you use, to kill off the playa inside
Chicago mayne (Bang...)
Come on

[Pre-Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
So then we tried singing it slow now
Because you weren't used to how fast we touched (Fast we touched)
Then we locked eyes and I knew I was in there
And I was gon' tear your ass up (Tear your ass up)

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
I know that I'm carrying on, never mind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin' (You know I want you, babe)
I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (You should stop frontin', babe)

[Bridge: Jay-Z & Pharrell]
Ho!
We got another one, Phar-real!
Dance, oooohhh
I call you "for real" cause you the truth, haha
Whoa-oh, ohhh-ohh
Young, great Hova
Dance, oooohhh
Uh, yeah, let me talk to 'em
Whoa-oh, ohhh-ohh
I'mma keep it real

[Verse 3: Jay-Z & Pharrell Williams]
Every time your name was brought up
I would act all nonchalant in front of an audience
Like you was just another shorty I put the naughty on
But uh, truth be told, you threw me for a loop, this Hov
I'm too old to be frontin' what I'm feelin'
Denzelin', actin' like you ain't appealin' when you are
Stuntin' like you ain't my only girl when you are
(I was just frontin') I'm ready to stop when you are

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
I know that I'm carrying on, never mind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin' (You know I want you, babe)
I'm ready to bury it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (You should stop frontin', babe)

[Outro: Pharrell Williams]
C'mon (ho!)
Dance, oooohhh
Whoa-oh, (oh), ohhh-ohh
Dance, oooohhh (aoww!)
Whoa-oh, (oh), ohhh-ohh

Child Rebel Soldier

An accidental hip-hop supergroup consisting of Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams. The group released three songs together between 2007 and 2010 and toured together for Kanye’s 2008 “Glow in the Dark Tour”.

There were plans to release a very in depth album, supposedly titled “God Unwilling” with both Lupe and Kanye confirming the project many times, planned to be released in 2012.

Lupe has since confirmed many times that Child Rebel Soldier has been disbanded, despite the album apparently being complete. There are no reasons that have been announced to why the album never came or to why the group broke up.