Genius Lyrics
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Lupe Fiasco – The Cool
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Taken from his debut album Food & Liquor, Lupe Fiasco spins a lyrical tale about a hustler who is shot to death but miraculously comes back to life.
This track became the basis
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Lupe Fiasco – The Coolest
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In a prequel to his song “The Cool” on Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor, Lupe raps about a fictional character named Michael Young History (notice the pun with “my cool young history
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Ayesha Jaco) – Baba Says Cool for Thought
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The opening of Lupe Fiasco’s album, The Cool is a spoken word verse by Ayesha Jaco. It’s about the definition of the word cool, and how we say a lot of thing is cool, not thinking
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. GemStones) – The Die
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In the prequel to his song “The Cool” off his debut album Food & Liquor, Lupe Fiasco, along with the help of his labelmate and rapper/singer GemStones, spins the timeline of events
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Matthew Santos) – Superstar
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In the first single off his second concept album The Cool, Lupe Fiasco delivers one of his most popular songs yet with a melancholic, lyrical meditation on the drawbacks of being
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Lupe Fiasco – Go Go Gadget Flow
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Lupe Fiasco’s flow-filled tribute to Chicago shows his love and dedication to his city. This track is the third cut off of Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool.
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Trey Songz) – Blackout (Circuit City Bonus Track)
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A exclusive bonus from when back in the day there was a magical electronics store called Circuit City that is now liquidated.
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. GemStones & Graham Burris) – Dumb It Down
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A sprawling polemic about the pressures to simplify one’s lyrics to appeal to the mainstream – Lupe will have none of it.
It is a song Russian novel-esque in its depth, and rich
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Lupe Fiasco – The Cool [Credits]
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These are the official liner notes for Lupe Fiasco’s sophomore studio album The Cool, according to the booklet included with a hard copy of the album.
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Lupe Fiasco Explains Why He Isn’t Concerned With Fans Understanding All His Lyrics
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“I’m not trying to belittle you if you don’t understand it.”
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Lupe Fiasco – Gold Watch
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As the intro states, Lupe takes this Chris & Drop-produced cut to shed some light on some of the things he likes. It’s a testament to his relative uniqueness: he’s got an American
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Matthew Santos) – Streets on Fire
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Lupe Fiasco and Matthew Santos describe an apocalyptic world being swept under a massive, perhaps figurative plague of some sort. Though the “disease” can be interpreted plenty
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Lupe Fiasco – Clean (Mic Check)
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Lupe’s rappin about his music and how he’s aiming for something bigger than awards and hype
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. GemStones) – Go Baby
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The final track on Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool. An ode to a lady that makes Lupe happy. Jazzy track
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Bishop G & Nikki Jean) – Little Weapon
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“Little Weapon”, produced by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, looks at children with guns, from child soldiers in Africa to high school shooters to violent video games
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Lupe Fiasco – Paris, Tokyo
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The sixth track on Lupe’s The Cool. Lupe explained the inspiration behind the song:
I love Paris, I love Tokyo… And what inspired me to write the song was that between ‘Food And
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Guy Sebastian) – Blur My Hands
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“Blur My Hands” is the third track on Lupe Fiasco’s Tetsuo and Youth. The song features Guy Sebastian — who also collaborated with Lupe on “Battle Scars”.
Lupe released 2
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Lupe Fiasco – Super Cold
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Off of Lupe’s late 2011 mixtape, Friend of the People: I Fight Evil.
Lupe borrow this beat from The Glitch Mob’s “Bad Wings.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thkapBJYfg
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Lupe Fiasco – Gotta Eat
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In another installment of the Cool saga, Lupe Fiasco takes “extended metaphor” to new heights, talking about fast food while simultaneously telling a story of gangster glory and
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Nikki Jean) – Hip-Hop Saved My Life
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Lupe tells the story of a young black man who prevents resorting to drugs and murder by making it as a rapper. This song was inspired by Slim Thug and Bun B.
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Ayesha Jaco) – Intro
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The first part of the intro to Lupe Fiasco’s first studio album is given by his sister, Ayesha Jaco (Lupe’s birth name is Wasulu Jaco). It introduces the topic that Lupe will delve
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. GemStones & Sarah Green) – Free Chilly (Interlude)
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A song recorded in honor of Lupe’s jailed business partner, Charles “Chilly Mac” Patton, who was taken in for dealing Heroin.
This is the second song Lupe has written to Chilly—“
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Jill Scott) – Daydreamin'
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On a cool summer’s day, Lupe Fiasco kicks back and dreams of skyscraper robots and stereotypical rap videos. The first verse was inspired by his father, an engineer, who told Lupe
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. UNKLE) – Hello/Goodbye (Uncool)
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This song tells us about a world where everyone lives in terror and fear and the air is so dangerous the citizens are told, “Not to breathe the air.” And how the government can
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. GemStones & Sarah Green) – He Say She Say
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Lupe Fiasco’s melancholic warning off Food & Liquor of the consequences of a father abandoning his family. The song represents the beginning of the Cool saga that prevails on his
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Lupe Fiasco – I Got A New Mic
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Lupe Fiasco dropped this track on his official Twitter. The rapper freestyles over Nas' classic DJ Premier produced single, “Nas is Like”.
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Sarah Green) – Intruder Alert
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A song off of Lupe Fiasco’s Sophmore album, “The Cool”. About different intruders affecting people’s lives.
The first verse clearly explains the tale of a girl who was raped at a
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Lupe Fiasco – Sunshine
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From the mind of The Cool saga comes a more lighthearted song about a first date, complete with tricky lyrics and extended metaphors. Lupe uses the song to not only express his
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Matthew Santos) – Fighters
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The emotional outro to Lupe Fiasco’s second album The Cool
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Lupe Fiasco – Till I Get There
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This song is off of Lupe Fiasco’s long awaited album Lasers. This song is about his record label holding back on his album release and how they kept trying to change his image and
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Ayesha Jaco) – THE LION'S DEEN
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The intro to DRILL MUSIC IN ZION is narrated by Lupe’s sister, Ayesha Jaco who has done the “Intro” for Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor and “Baba Says Cool for Thought” on Lupe
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Lupe Fiasco – Go to Sleep
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The third single for Lupe Fiasco’s fourth album, The Great American Rap Album: Food & Liquor II, is a densely-packed tour-de-force from the RapGenius™ King of Lyrical Trickiness
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Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Guitar Wayne) – Fast Money
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This song is a discussion of the gangster lifestyle from the point of view of “The Game”, a character from Lupe’s concept album “The Cool”.
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