Lupe Fiasco

[fox69]

"Slow Down"

"Slow Down"


[LUPE]
Yeeeah
Pooh bear, lupe, eva
Happy birthday
You know, ha
F.n.f.u.p
Ya'sayin, slow down

[EVA]
[verse 1]
Gotta be careful
Cos nobody's gona care for you
Like you do (like you)
And nobody's gona have your back
Like you do (you do)
Just be sure before you go and make (and make)
A move (a move)
You've got the world to lose

[bridge]
You need to stop and listen
Cos every word i say is true
Try to pay attention
Cos I'm just tryna watch out for you
I know you're on a mission
I see how you're livin
Chu don't wana end'up missin
I think you oughta listen to me

[chorus]
I'd slow down (all the way down, down, down)
Before you hurt yourself
I'd slow down (all the way down, down, down)
It's just not worth it
I'm savin tens (I'm savin tens)
For a rainy day (for a rainy day)
Just slow down (slow it all the way down)
I'd slow down (just slow it all the way down)

[verse 2]
You're so innocent
They're gona try to run a game (a game)
On you (on you)
Just be aware of all the lies
That they use (they use)
I can't help it
Cos I've been
In your shoes (your shoes)
I'm givin you the rules (the rules)

[bridge]
You need to stop and listen
Cos every word i say is true
Try to pay attention
I'm just tryna watch out for you

I know you're on a mission
I see how you're living
But chu don't wanna end'up missin
I think you oughta listen to me

[chorus]
I'd slow down
Slow down (all the way down, down, down)
Before you hurt yourself
I'd slow down (all the way down, down, down)
It's just not worth it
I'm savin tens (I'm savin tens)
For a rainy day (for a rainy day)
Just slow down (slow it all the way down)
I'd slow down (just slow it all the way down)

[LUPE]
You movin too fast
You movin too quick
You heavy on the gas
You movin too swift
Can't keep up the pace
Might not finish the race
But do it now for it's too late to switch
And how you make a impala lift
But the set card is ya heart
And is hard to be fixed
You gon break it if you don't downshift
And I know you get a rush when you hang around risk
But you gon get enough when you breakin down sick
All ill cant move your wheels and feelin like shhh
Just a mile back you was feelin quite brisk
Now you sittin on bricks, wit ya car on strict
Radio gone
Insurance won't cover
Paint job wreck
And you draggin your muffler
Wouldn't listen then, but i bet you hear now
Cos you gotta speed ticket
Cos you wouldn't slow down, yeeeah

[EVA]
[chorus]
I'd slow down (all the way down, down, down)
Before you hurt yourself
I'd slow down (all the way down, down, down)
It's just not worth it
I'm savin tens (I'm savin tens)
For a rainy day (for a rainy day)
Just slow down (slow it all the way down)
I'd slow down (just slow it all the way down)

 

[fox69]

"SLR 2"

"SLR 2"


[Intro]
For real though, like for real though
Like for real
You know what I'm sayin', I don't even
It's like, niggas must forget who the fuck
Did what the fuck
When the fuck
When niggas was still, not the fuck
Or whatever
Fine then, I say

[Verse]
Dear Lord, have mercy on my banana clips
Give 'em half, call it that banana splits
But my halves is really like a banana 6
Do these bananas have any idea who they on the planet with?
Apes, yeah you bananas to the grapes
That mean your bitch got a banana in her face
And wine on her chin, get these heathens off of my trunk
And all of these swine up off my rims
Tryin' to take the shine up off of my Benz
SLR, nigga please
Niggas 'bout to go to work so these bitches gon' have to leave
Gon' roll around with that B-Y, nigga just roll up my sleeve
Got body plans, so I karate stance so I could open up my chi
Lu the boy, too Bruce Lee boy to destroy
Doo doo beat like two T-boys with one freak one me
But I can DP like it's three more
Three rewards for me or me or me or me or me or me
Team me is like meat eating animals meeting a meteor
Dinosaurs, I'm fine with all kinds of wars
Knives and swords, lions, tigers bitin' boars
Lightening striking Viking hordes
Fighting heightened, violence soars
[German-sounding nonsense]
That was Adolf, reacting to my new shit
Translation: how come he can't be as evil as Lu get?
Well that's cause you ain't Lu, bitch
Took two sips of the holy grail
Then I backed up and I turned around
And I bent over and pittoo'd shit
I love Jay, that's my nigga
I feel sicker than a cruise ship
I ain't competition, I don't move shit
The only opposition is this new shit
These new niggas rappin' like they 2
They be actin' like they you, man that's - wheeeeeew shit
What happened to the game?
Niggas think they Jappin' cause they rappin' like they Wayne
Rappin' like they Chainz
I ain't matchin' them in platinum
But I'm rappin' like I'm flames
Like smackin' them in the back of him and my antonyms is on 'cain
And my heroin is on metaphors and my metaphors is on brains
My left foot is in LA but my right foot is in Spain
Now we all heard what he said, but what he said means we dead
And that shit is insane
He's so crazy, look at the little baby
Nigga you ain't Nas, nigga you ain't Jay-Z
You will respect me, you will reject me
But I've done so much, no matter how far you go, you will reflect me
SLR, nigga please
These niggas 'bout to go to work so these bitches gon' have to leave
And when the bitch gone, knee shots disabled
Your DVD of Dick Jones in your TV and a grenade all on your table.
And my punch bowl's like an ocean
And I lay it on by the ladle
But it's so strong, when I pull it out, I'm only hangin' on to
a handle
Satan on my ankles while I'm hangin' on to an angel
Ain't hatin' on that you hatin' wrong, cause you can't hang
on to my angles
It's hard being a Lupe fan, go to Harvard to be a Lupe stan
I ain't sayin' that I'm harder, it's just harder when it's in Lupe's hands
Welcome nigga, Lupe Land, SLR
Here we go, FL bars
Hold up, go back to the hard part
Would say pause, but I was talkin' 'bout my own balls
Nigga

 

[fox69]

"SNDCLSH In Vegas"

"SNDCLSH In Vegas"


[Verse 1:]
Let's go, hah
It's some fresh new Vans on my fresh new plans
Obama lied to you you nigga know you can't, ha
Change these nuts, shout to Fox news tryin' ta change me up
Saw Uncle Rush but I still don't vote
Cause niggas on the ballot and there's still no hope
So I'm back in the hood, Englewood to Inglewood
Doin' work that politician should, good
Blocks do they best tryin' to break my heart
Just tryin' to make you smart when I make my art
Occupy forever, more tents to the park
Howard Zinn gettin' spins in the Benz
If it's NPR, Diane Rehms
Kai Ryssdal, any good man
Sorry Bill O'Reilly but I'm so involved
Can you ask Limbaugh to return my calls

[Verse 2:]
Yeah, Atlantic on the fritz
Cause I might not step foot back in that bitch
It disgusts me like Jerry Sandusky
Goodness gracious pedophiles and rapists, in high places
Not to mention slavery and slave ships
Come on Lu, gon' and keep it out the past
Tell Jerry's cellmate try and keep it out his ass
What happened to the class? All the low blows
I guess that most of the kids are black from the choke holds
As long as y'all win you can still put it in
Yup, hip hop back with a vengeance
Spirit of Chuck D with a whole lot of entrance
Just inches from the interest
Not to knock nice, but to knock it off the hinges, huh

[Break:]
I'm just playin', I'm just playin'
You know I like y'all
Well, some of y'all
But you know who I'm talking to, I rock with y'all
You know we do it big
Atlantic records First and Fifteenth all day
Yeah, let's go

[Verse 3:]
Soundclash in Vegas, only dropping those new Kaskade hits
Let's see how crazy the rave gets
Might play my 2Pac favorites
Me and Sky back in the Labs
Q came through with beats by the back
Shout to Bassnec, count all that cash
Whatever you do, don't drop that flag
Watch is stll gold, chain is still gold
Feelin' brand new, Ferrari still old
Got the dreads cause Marley still cold
GTR my car be real slow
Nah my car be real close
To the speed of the light when I be on roads
Flow like I be on roids and I be on ten when I be on tour

 

[fox69]

"So Ghetto"

"So Ghetto"


This one's for Chilly Chill, (Food and Liquor) flow
Strong like it's been distilled by
Hillbillies in the hills and we move down to Beverly
So heavenly, waking niggas up like revelry
We won't be going back to you regularly, so forget it
Shadow flow, colder than Punxsutawney Phillip
My mind's on dope, my brain's on skillets
Thoroughly trained to just bang off lyrics
Bang bang bang like Pops Wayans
(Witherspoon) or with a fork
Was coming out my egg like Mork, deserves his own head on Rushmore
Flood the game like a giant in a dwarf's shorts
So long niggas, career so short it should be riding on a horse
Mines is a horse, but mines is the size you could sneak inside a fort
Yours is a pony, it could sleep inside a Porsche
I am on point like the eating side of forks
So keep your head down like your reflection in a spoon
Chilly Chill will be out of corrections real soon
Enemy, god willingly

 

[fox69]

"Solar Midnite"

"Solar Midnite"


A simplified love sick,
Taking no prisoners,
Sunny day, cold heart,
Listen up listeners,
Darkside love affair,
Out of time, and in a rush,
You can't help me 'til the sunrise lifts up.

Let's levitate up the horizon,
I can see it in your eyes,
Everythin' you're hidin'
I can see the truth in you,
Even when you're lyin'
Even through the darkness,
I can see you shinin'

[Chorus:]
Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.
Blood. (Blood) By. (By) Sun. (Sun) Light. (Light)

A played out love song,
Playin' in the background
Seems to describe every part of where we're at now.
Every feeling we ever had for each other,
Ever karaoke love letter, lyrics undiscovered.
Now your mother used to tell me you ain't nothin' but some trouble,
Now it's couple trouble makers,
Making mayhem on the double,
Tryna figure out the meanin' and break apart the puzzles,
Why they love you, when I hate you,
When they hate the way I love you.
(Solar.)

[Chorus:]
Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.

Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.
Blood. (Blood) By. (By) Sun. (Sun) Light. (Light)

A complicated heartbreak,
Losing it's direction,
Cold day, warm heart,
Object of affection,
My darkside, love affair,
Come to my protection,
Midnight's on the way,
I'm losing my connection.

Let's levitate over the horizon,
I can see it in your eyes,
Everythin' you're hidin'
I can see the truth in you,
Even when you're lyin'
Even through the darkness,
I wanna see you shinin'

[Chorus:]
Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.

Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.

Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.

Well it's midnight, and it's colder,
Pull you closer, I can see you through.
When it's sunshine, and it's solar,
And it's over, guess it's me and you.

 

[fox69]

"State Run Radio"
(feat. Matt Mahaffey)

"State Run Radio"
(feat. Matt Mahaffey)



[Chorus]
You must be, a radio station
And who are we, we must be
A number one song, spinning all day long
And over again, and over again, and over again, and over again, and over again
And we know when,
When we call in,
And nothing's free,
Sounds to me like,
State run radio [x8]

[Verse 1]
We interrupt this broadcast,
To bring you a special message about the forecast,
The future's 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,
This is what they play

[Chorus]
And over again, and over again, and over again, and over again, and over again
And we know when,
When we call in,
And nothing's free,
Sounds to me like,
State run radio [x8]

[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, you're 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,
A number one song, spinning all day long,
And you put me, in daily rotation,
You're on the air,
We know you're scared,
But we don't care,
We'll play this here,
And over again, and over again, and over again, and over again, and over again
And you know when,
When we call in,
And nothing's free,
Sounds to me like,
State run radio [x16]

 

[fox69]

"Stereo Sun"
(feat. Eric Turner)
(originally by Tinchy Styder)

"Stereo Sun"
(feat. Eric Turner)
(originally by Tinchy Styder)



[Chorus - Eric Turner]
It’s the way of the stage it’s like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun
It’s the way I build up, the system really gets done, ohh ahhh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun.

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
I hear it, the spirit
and I don’t fear it
Matter ‘fact I steer/spear it
Right in the heart of the hardships,
I don’t veer it
And this car is just a metaphor for my experience
No registration or insurance, just a license to ill,
God’s hands on the wheel, and my pedal’s to the ceilin’, peelin’
Speedin like 24 frames through the lights,
With the traffic cameras filmin’, brights
So I could see the brilliance of this life I’ve been givin’, livin’
To start a revolution every minute
Driven’ to win it, no breaks, no pittin’
Poll position ya soul, keep ya windows tinted
So we can see out it, but they cant see in it
So this here’s ours, and them their’s rented
Cars moving at top gear, Jeremy Clarkson
I feel like this my first track and I ain’t even start nothin’

[Chorus - Eric Turner]
It’s the way of the stage it’s like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun
It’s the way I build up, the system really gets done, ohh ahhh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun.

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
The sky’s on fire, the storm is almost near us
But that’s when I’m the clearest. When things are the severest
I’ll be here for its arrival and for its disappearance.
Broadcastin’ live and clear, even with the interference.
See this is what it sounds like when life becomes lyric.
The best thing ever, you should really come and hear it.
But if you cant, cool. We’ll be coming to your nearest, soon.
Shinnin’ like two suns, is better than two thumbs
The whole plot’s to get you to stop from doing what you do, to do better than you’ve done.
Then we’ll scare down the feds in the room.
Who dares not to scare? Hear it, boom!
Unaffected by your werewolves, ghosts and your ‘boo’
The tour through the tombs don’t do nuttin to ‘em.
Neva’
I turn the pressure into treasure.
My problem’s in the presents
And my presence is foreva’
Yes!

[Chorus - Eric Turner]
It’s the way of the stage it’s like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun
It’s the way I build up, the system really gets done, ohh ahhh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun.

[Outro]
(Love, always, shines)
Like a stereo sun
It’s like a stereo sun
(Love, always, shines)
It’s the way of the stage
It’s the way of the stage
(Love, always, shines)
Like a stereo sun, ohh ahh aiyy
It’s like a stereo sun
(Love, always, shines)
Like a stereo sun
(Love, always, shines)
It’s like a stereo sun

 

[fox69]

"Strange Fruition"
(feat. Casey Benjamin)

"Strange Fruition"
(feat. Casey Benjamin)



[Lupe Fiasco]
Now I can't pledge allegiance to your flag
Cause I can't find no reconciliation with your past
When there was nothing equal for my people in your math
You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads
The belly of the beast, these streets are demons' abs
I'm telling you that setup in them sit-ups is so sad
The system is a slab
Corruption is the swinger sittin high ridin dirty, drag racin into danger
And it's so clean, pine trees smellin good
With work off in the trunk and niggas in the hood
So I can't shed blood on any battlefield of yours
I pray the ugly truth comes and shatters your decor
And as it all falls down and tatters on the floor
I shed tears, I don't know what really matters anymore
Cause I don't know what really matters anymore

[Chorus: Casey Benjamin]
Many things, strangest things you ever seen
Oh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?
Embedded they go, no eyelids gone low
Or gone by sundown, they're dodging 5-0

[Lupe Fiasco]
Now as I wander through the city goin mad
I see the fruits of planting evidence instead of grass
A swindled generation with no patience, full of swag
Man, they so impatient with the stations that they have
As long as they look good when they be doin bad
Then the separation from the truth is gettin vast, fast
Be a slave at first or free at last
Double-edged choices make a nigga wanna pass
Double-headed voices from the eagle on the staff
The pyramid where eyes will split the spirited in half
Divided over money
Delighted by the dummyin down of the importance of crowns we'll never have
That's why my sounds and sermons are so full of wrath
Baptize your mind, let your brain take a bath
Swim inside the river get delivered from the craft
Of the witches in this business that be livin off your sad
Hatin on your happiness you hit 'em off with laughs
Smile 'til they surrender, then you kill 'em off with glad
Hello evil, I'm back

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Streets On Fire"
(feat. Matthew Santos)

"Streets On Fire"
(feat. Matthew Santos)



[Chorus: Matthew]
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Are
On
Fire
To-
Night

Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Are
On
Fire
To-
Night

[Verse 1: Lupe]
Disease the virus is spreading in all directions
No safe zone no cure and no protection
No symptoms to find the signs of an infection
No vaccines remedies and no corrections
Quarantines the dreams and cut off our connections
Don't let em in not a friend not a reflection
Everybody's got it and want you to have it next and
Don't accept em if you wanna stay as an exception
No pill
Can heal
The ill of this
Sickness some are still in doubt of it's existence
Some call it forgiveness and some call it the vengeance
Some say it's an exit and some say it's an entrance
The poor say the rich have the cure
The rich say the poor are the source
Revolutionaries say it's psychological war
Invented by the press
Just to have something to report
Some say the first case came from a maternity ward
Some say a morgue, some say the skies, some say the floor
Whores say the nuns, nuns say the whores
And everybody is sure

The scientists said it only infects the mind
The little boy said it only infects the girls
The Preacher man said it's gonna kill off the soul
A bum said it's gonna kill the whole wide world

[Chorus: Matthew]
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Are
On
Fire
To-
Night

Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Are
On
Fire
To-
Night

[Verse 2: Lupe]
Believe some say the neon signs
Might allow speakers repeating
And everything is fine
A subtle silence
To demolish the troubled conscious
Of a compass with no knowledge
And every freedom denied
Every dream is designed and broadcasted
From the masters to the masses
From the antennas on top of the shrines
As far as the receiving planet during a panic is shorted
It reports back everything in your mind
Everything is lying
Everything is dying
Everything is a rule
And everything is a crime
Everything was healed
And everything rewinds
And new weather burn a feathers off everything's line

[Matthew]
And she likes it
And she loves it

[Lupe]
The sadness
The madness
The bad shit
The lavish
The fastness
To clashes the ashes
To ashes everything intertwined
My femme fatale my darling fraudulent angel
Once caught her changing her batteries in her halo
Receipt for her wings and everything that she paid for
And the address to the factory where they made those

The scientist says she all inside mind
The little boy said "What happened to all the girls?"
The preacher man says she gonna kill off the souls
The dope boy said it's the whole wide world

[Chorus: Matthew]
Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Are
On
Fire
To-
Night

Death is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers
Streets
Are
On
Fire
To-
Night

 

[fox69]

"Sunshine"

"Sunshine"


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
Gathered up my airs on my square from here forward
It's nothing right so here go it
Whisper in her ear "it's 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 skitzo
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've been chasing me too since they kidnapped me from a castle
I been thinking of you
I told her "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
Gonna take much more than once
Can't trust what each of us say at least for a month
Or two before I bid you a due
Do this one thing for me 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]