Lupe Fiasco

eager; (often followed by `for’) ardently or excessively desirous

One for you and one for your sister

Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener

Every song's her favorite song and mics don't feedback

drink; take in, also metaphorically

Dive with us, vibe with us

Imbibe with the tide, sea salty 'cause it cry with us

When we looked it in the eyes, like how could you help her?

rebellion; an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority

My chair position or conditions of my porridge

Submission for sedition against the religion of a chorus

Keep them golden weed thieves out the motherfuckin' forest

unaware; (followed by `to’ or `of’) lacking conscious awareness of

Overweight taster of kings food that kills crews

Oblivious feather-weight baker who

Autographed cakes whenever his quill moves

release from blame; grant remission of a sin to

With the teleprompter rolling he looks right into the lens

Doesn't mention his redemption but absolves him of his sins

He forgives them in advance says that he will do again

kind; pertaining to or concerned with the humanities

From the looseness of her tongue, to the pollution of her aims

To do nothing is barbaric, the solution is humane

You must destroy the mind and hopefully retrain

fall; drop sharply

Even cushion my fall if my engines ever stall

And I plummet from the sky

But she would keep me high

decrease; wear off or die down

Hella hard, umbrella whatever, put plywood over Pella pains

And pray to God that the flood subside

'Cause you gonna need a sub 'til he does reply

uncaring; marked by a lack of interest

It seems I was seein' the same scene adopted

Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it

They said don't knock it, mind ya business

refuse to do business with; refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with

And it hurts me soul

I had a ghetto boy bop, a Jay-Z boycott

'Cause he said that he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti

gleam; shine with a weak or fitful light

A macaw parade of the toys he made

And in shimmers shades, who look half his age

About half the size of the flags they wave

worsen; grow worse

Claim sovereignty, because I'm bunkin' with the moors

They degenerate, they ain't looking at the game

They just looking at the scores, they be putting on my books

dominant; most frequent or common

It seems I was seein the same scene adopted

Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it

They said don't knock it, mind ya business

examine; examine or consider with attention and in detail

Said the patron to the painter, the painter said, "The blues"

"Do you act off intuition or languish and peruse?"

"More like tap into tradition from the angle of my mood"

not transparent or translucent; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy

Like do genitals and gender roles successfully conflate?

The current art world is just competitively opaque

It never ceases to amaze, my mouth is medically agape

to make briefer

Yea, and get your hibiscus and petunia way before you have your funa, uh

Abbreviate it for the dopery, my poetry don't deserve flowers, deserves potpourri

Word to Dough Burger of the poetry to stop the sting like a broken bee, runaways versus overseas

impressive; relating or belonging to or serving as a monument

Who say mobsters don't prosper? Wasa, uh

I foresee a place and time, monumental like they're makin' dimes like Wilhelmina

I foresee like it's mace in mines on the MIC, like I be makin' mines

drive away; force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

I tell stories like Maria Flor's, though a poker vis-à-vis how I carry mines forth

These flocka flames pith hot as a wok at Chang's, drop the proper relics dispel it like Doctor Strange

The rumor, that runs like a puma throughout the Uma that we still believe in humor

saved item; an antiquity that has survived from the distant past

I tell stories like Maria Flor's, though a poker vis-à-vis how I carry mines forth

These flocka flames pith hot as a wok at Chang's, drop the proper relics dispel it like Doctor Strange

The rumor, that runs like a puma throughout the Uma that we still believe in humor

agree; be in accord; be in agreement

I convert, I can work anywhere in the world, you can ask my brother Hugg

He'll concur that I'm serious with the words

To the man up above, thank you very much

expand; increase in size, volume or significance

Alibi the shooting spree,

Amplify the revolution,

Sanitize the lunacy,

awkward; difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

The colored-stage, rage-covering from the gun

Number-to-number fades made confrontin' outta cumbersome

Lips lift water in bottle on up to them

picture; show in, or as in, a picture

You can watch on TV,

How they should properly depict you,

The rivers should flow with liquor,

force back; cause to move back by force or influence

Signs of intelligent life

Mosquito nets repel anopheles bites, look at the night

Nice, we look alike, they want a slice to your dreams

create; bring something new to an environment

Around a bunch of sinners who feelin' great

Or around a bunch of niggas who innovate, take real estate

Gentrify different sides like Geminis

sophistication in speaking; using language effectively to please or persuade

Bum, bum, bum, bum (I'ma be the one)

I turn letters to rhetoric

Turnin' feathers to fetishes, dispersin' treasure

stimulate; cause to be alert and energetic

Gentrify different sides like Geminis

Energize like the Starship Enterprise

I'ma be the one that you

coax; influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

The city: population control, occupation parole

Hope the swayed persuades and this conversation cajoles

Not to be Enron

thrill; fill with sublime emotion

So the arts to me is-is a, uh, is-is a thing of, uh, upliftment

It-it exhilarates me and it makes me

It makes me become actually who I am

make laws; make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation

To make fools of the schools and pool Bueller's

The crusade to legislate oxygen

And put it in a box just like Desiree Washington

think about something constantly; haunt like a ghost; pursue

Beauty is the Largest

Obstacle to Obsess

Decorate the Sergeant

importance; special importance or significance

3 buttons, see somethin'

That's emphasis on genesis

Why you ready to die? You just a baby

apparent contradiction; (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

She knows that I'm crooked like Owen

But still goin' like a paradox

Parasite, know it ain't right

deceitful; professing feelings or virtues one does not have

We gotta talk about something else

I mean, because it's hypocritical, nigga, you got guns

You surrounded by gangsters and killers, all your niggas

unique; eminent beyond or above comparison

I'm fearless, now hear this, I'm earless

And I'm peerless, that means I'm eyeless

Which means I'm tearless

religious order; a subdivision of a larger religious group

On the porches and steps to the farm houses of settlers

One of several sects who can come and charm the predators

We who measure the measuring tools of measurers

emphasize; give extra weight to (a communication)

This is 1985 meets the hover board

That was Bobby Johnson potato, just the underscore

Think deep, but don't let it fry your motherboards

quarrel; a quarrel about petty points

That will define how lions in Zion became alley cats

Who traded their baseball bats for gats that spat

Blood of the people across steeples

lifeless; belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things

The goal is as always, in my work

Is, to add emotion to inanimate objects, so

Uh, release day is finally upon us

trouble; a severe or trying experience

Touching, I never forget it like riding bikes

The ordeal starts to spring feelings like guiding light

Permanent villains go about chilling they psychic fights

deter; turn away from by persuasion

I can hear him through the wall like walk

This way they tryin' to dissuade my thoughts

I'm a slave to myself and disobey my boss

ordinary-looking; lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting

In the rims with friends and like state trials and Paypals

In nondescript homes in Arizona

In sub-divided neighbourhoods, with floors made of solid wood

whirlpool; a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

Then pass the audition

To the poor hands sided in maelstrom's position

Street sales in comparison pale to

permeable; able to absorb fluids

Gets me through the day (Gets me through the day)

To the horses, made her body porous

Absorbing up the pork, made 'em enormous

madness; state of violent mental agitation

That's no different from a young Liberian

In Mecca delirium, weary of livin' in the inner city

Out of his mind literally, re-conciliate

catastrophe; a sudden and violent collapse

But God has another solution, that has evolved from the hood

I present one who turns, the Fiasco to good

A'uzu billahi min ash shaitani r rajimi

deceive; represent falsely

And please don't excuse my language

Cause I would hate for you to misrepresent

The true expression of my anguish

fluctuate; be undecided about something

Kaleidoscope into a Eiffel

It ripples then it tidals, vacillates then it virals

Babylon's in the Bibles and others

disinterested; seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

Where recognition went unnoticed

And then solidified 'til it was stoic

We should've been poets

verse; a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Hat very slanted rapping to the riders

Writer of the stanzas, yeah, driver of the riders

Matter of fact Shur the chauffeur

floaty; tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas

Can't keep the duck rubber under

Fundamentally it's buoyant

It rises like court rooms to swoon for your enjoyment

unconsciousness; the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Hello nowhere

Hello oblivion

Hello goodbye

collection; a collection of works that an artist or company can perform

Dedicate a record to, battling whoever who'll do whatever you'll never do

Tryna keep your repertoire respectable, it's revolution

Excommunicate a communicator

endanger; pose a threat to; present a danger to

Still kinda paranoid from when they leaked my tape

Jeopardize being friendly just to keep mine safe

When keeping it real goes right, I couldn't keep my faith

scold; censure severely

Lori, from planet self-explanatory

It's all love, but sometimes you gotta chastise the shorties

Go in the house kids, essential ventures only

leading position; the leading units moving at the head of an army

Just without the glamour or the gala ties

Manner more alive with the jazz guys eating piano pies at the Vanguard

She's a artist and starved, a couple dollars in the band jar

hinder; be a hindrance or obstacle to

He couldn't think of nothin', "Stack that cheese"

He turns down the beat, writer's block impedes

Crying from the next room a baby in need

spitefulness; feeling a need to see others suffer

You don't need no Khaled, 'cause that's on me, valid

Let me push my brother, we don't need no malice

Niggas raised in the projects, now they gon' need a palace

take back; fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

Of the international playboys and playgirls

But I revoke my membership, all for My Tenderness

She said, "Pursue your interests 'cause even if I'm ticketless

threatening; threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Consuming the comments and then vomiting up the Vonnegut

Ayy, ominous as a monster is

Underneath your Posturepedic, possibly in the closet, it's

refill; fill something that had previously been emptied

Uhh, I just need a minute to replenish who I am

And who I am is so dependent on exactly where we stand

flexible; easily influenced

Now being the internet, the content's probably uncensored

They're young, so they're malleable and probably unmentored

A complicated combination, maybe with no relevance

friendly; suitable to your needs

To briefly state it that's briefly stayed with we still apart

But the split was so congenial it's like divorces was mediated

Drifted the genetics till it speciated

keep down; put down by force or intimidation

Who rappin never happened to fall

Wanna subdue Lu like Max Verstappen

Take him off the track and lap him I see the devil clapping his claws

comparison; a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds

A simple flip of the monogram

That ain't shit, I had similes on my sonogram, my momma's man

Before I was born, I was doing reconnaissance

wander; lose clarity or turn aside from the main subject in writing or speaking

And, what's more dangerous than that?

But, as I digress