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Lupe Fiasco
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[** Beat: The National Anthem by Radiohead:]
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[Lupe Fiasco:]
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Your attention please, your attention I need it
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So I can sit you in a position from which I see it
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Where I'm seated is scenic
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Heavy-weighter, slim as the Machinist, so bulimic
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Which means you somewhere in between it
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I take it back for you like the Wyld Stallyns of San Dimas
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I'm in the market for low-mile 360 Modenas
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And a good organic cleaners
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My car always a winner
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Your car's always pitted
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We should call it Stanley Steamers
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Most of my friends in gangs
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My new nickname is gang is con/Ghengis Khan
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But without the 'Ye, but his last name's my side
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I ride with the demeanors/the meanest
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I'm armed to the teeth
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You're Venus and you've never been to the Dinas/dentist)
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School of Hard Knocks, I dean it
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I done it, as well as a celebrated alumnus
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I donate to the campus and my name's on the arenas
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But you can't bring it to my court not even with subpoenas
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Cause you can't play my sport but you can still cheerlead us
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And you can't sit there, that section's for the seniors
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And the sexy senoritas so just move up to the bleachers
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How you going to school me when I grew up with your teachers
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I know that you can't hear me
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Cause I blew up all the speakers
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And the power line is hanging
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Cause I threw up all the sneakers
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I ate up the imposters/pasta
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And I chewed through all the pizzas
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I blacked out with a black card
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And I maxed out all the Visas
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Accreditation so prestigious
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Just walk across my stage
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Your life will be completed
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Don't need financial aid
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Cause this is just some free shit
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You been properly prepared
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Throw your hats up in the air
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I'm red hot, Chilly/Red Hot Chili, I'm Anthony Kiedis
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My spirit smells teenage
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And Chi-town's feeling excellent
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We hit them with the President
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See we set the precedent
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I don't feel I'm best
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I just feel I'm better than
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[Chorus: ~Thom Yorke/Radiohead~]
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Everyone, everyone around here
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Everyone is so near
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So alone, so alone
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[Lupe Fiasco:]
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See I don't disagree
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This is just a grievance
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This ain't dissing
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This is civil disobedience
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How you going to make hip-hop
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Without all the ingredients?
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Lot of mouths to feed
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Plus a lot of greediness
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And that greed, outshines the neediness
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What niggas need is some question they authority
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And tune out all the TV shit
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And we be this
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So I give them more
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You see I did it for
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[Repeat Chorus:]
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[Lupe Fiasco:]
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Yeah, I am back up on the airwaves
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Feeling like a Soldier and I ain't talking where the Bears play
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Flair, look how I Fred Astaire down the staircases
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Fixing to be a hair-raising tortoise versus hare race
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So you should hang around here/hair like some earrings
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I know attention's all about how you pair things
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So when I want them to hear me out
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I just sit them next to some pictures of Rosa splitting with her titties out
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And what's written on her titties is what it's really about
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Then her vagina is some poor kids from China
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Nipples nuclear missiles
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Ass is a daughter without a dad
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Back is like Afghanistan, Iraq
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Health care hair, drive-by thighs
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Education lips, HIV eyes
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Environment feet
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Justice get her so wet, brains get you brains
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You can fuck her if you protest
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But before you bust in her face, finish listening to the tape
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Enemy of the State
Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On
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