Featuring: GemStones

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[Intro: Lupe Fiasco (Gemstones)]
Reportin live from somewhere sexy
Heh, somewhere up top
You know what it is!
Heavy As Heaven in '07 (yeah, yeah)
Gemini, Troubles of the World, you dig?
(Yeah, yeah, yeah...)

[Lupe Fiasco]
I, represent it to the fullest

[Gemstones]
Never met a nigga that can take it where I took it

[LF]
That ain't gon' make you hate us now would it?

[GS]
Troubles of the World man, there nigga pull it

[LF] Come kick with your homie I'll show you how to push it
[GS] You lookin and starin I'm camoflague in the bushes
[LF] Fly in your mind, I'll show you how to look it
[GS] Rocks in the band like oh God, my goodness
[LF] I'mma tell 'em bout you
[GS] Tell 'em bout we
[LF] We let's tell 'em on two
[GS] Tell 'em on three
[LF] We'll show 'em what it do
[GS] Show 'em what it be
[LF] Gem- to the M-IN-I
[GS] L-U-P-E
[LF] Got, gold watch and, gold chains
[GS] Twenty, fo's choppin, so clean
Beat, knock, we, rock, Chi-ca

[LF] -go mayne, gotta understand this is who we are
Purple murder service and comme des garcons

[GS] Any given time we purchase them new cars
Somebody call a surgeon, we hurtin them too hard

[LF] Us takin it light, is takin it too far
[GS] What you expect? Playboy, we two stars
[LF] Screw stars, we the new Mars
Lookin for a Venus -
[GS] me and you a genius

[Hook: Pooh Bear]
We gon' show ya, what it was
How it do, what it does, light it up, catch a buzz
We gon' lock it, on down
Throw ya keys, in the motor, keep it movin, cross the border
We on (we on), we on (we on)
We on (we on), we on (we on)
Cause we on (we on), we on (we on)
Cause we on! (we on!), We on! (We on!)

[Gemstones (Lupe Fiasco)]
We the '85 Bears, ('92 Bulls)
'05 Sox (wit a whole lotta pull)

[Lupe Fiasco]
All rolled up and there's no lettin up
If you're smart, you'll wanna be the '07 us

[GS]
Uh, never met a nigga breathin this cold
Bought Chevy's everywhere, 23's 24's
Nuttin' but the best, TV screens on the do'
Gotta get it how you live it when you livin in the go

[LF]
Well I'm all like no chrome, low tints fo' phones
Just in case, E.T. wanna go home
Never chase, cause of me there is no Jones
Levitate from the sea floor to the ozone

[GS] Five-star hotels all week
[LF] Non-stops to Paris ain't cheap
[GS] Sick lake views, big penthouse suites
[LF] Champs-�lys�es is magnifique

[GS]
Gucci sweats when I'm out in the streets
Linen shorts when I'm chillin on the beach

[LF]
Idium when I'm out on the mountains
Maharishi when I'm out on the town-end

[GS]
Spring water, we don't mess with the fountains
Land Rovers back to back when we campin

[LF]
Felipe Lemonade, police did a raid
We didn't fade, back to the bouncin

[GS]
Fresh Benz smoke one-eight peel
Speedin down the freeway, we chill-ay chill

[LF]
Did the food then and it's sill-ay still
Got it off the ground like a wheelied wheel

[GS]
Uh, you from the Westside?

[LF]
Born and raised, you from the Southside right?

[GS]
It's where I spent my days
Where I lay, where I stay
And you ain't gotta wonder why I get my ways

[Hook]

[Lupe Fiasco (Gemstones)]
Free Chill, (we will)
God willing, and I miss him
Was ten at the hand, got the spirit all in him
I cease the billin with the lyrics I'm pennin like

[Gemstones]
I ain't really trippin cause I know that God's with him
'Til we met again, nigga, free my niggas
Sick with the pen, I'm a beast, my nigga
Let it, new Benz but the 23's don't fit 'em

[LF]
Uh, and you know you can't red light the green light
Try to break us up, lace it up, keep the theme tight

[GS]
This lifestyle may get off we don't sleep nights
I'm on the 747s, finna take flight

[LF (GS)]
Yeah, sport car faster than your car
(It's Gemini), and y'all know me
Better together, y'all know the letters
Forever N Forever - FNF U-P

[Hook]

Lupe Fiasco

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.