Have you ever the feeling that, you was being had?
Don’t that shit that make you mad?
They treat you like a slave
Put chains all on your soul
And put whips up on your back
They be lying through their teeth
Hope you slip up off your path
I don’t switch up I just laugh
Put my kicks up on their desk
Unaffected by their glitz
Then get busy on they ass
See that’s how that Chi-town made me
That’s how my daddy raised me
That glitterin’ may not be gold
Don’t let nobody play me
If you are my homeboy
You never have to pay me
Go on and put your hands up
When times is hard you stand up
L-U-P the man, cuz
The brand that the fans trust
So even if they ban us
They’ll never slow my plans up
Download: Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes On (via Splash)
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Sidebar: I recently put together a list of my favorite hip hop albums of all time and Lupe’s The Cool was on there. The highly anticipated follow up to that album is called Lasers and is dropping March 8, 2011.
All this after Lupe (and his army of super fans) fought his label tooth and nail by staging protests to force the higher ups at Atlantic to agree to release the album after much unexplained delay. The label finally set a release date and Lupe claimed victory…
And if you believe that label-is-holding-back-my-album story then I got some land to sell you in Lebanon in a really peaceful part of the country.
Tue, Oct 26, 2010
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