Lyrics
[Intro]
All proceeds to my chain
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
[Chorus]
Should've never gave them **** no money
We was in the store, man, but we ain't want nothing
'Cause we was broke, now a **** ain't frontin' no more, no
Should've never gave them **** no money
We was in the store, man, but we ain't want nothing
'Cause we was poor, now a **** ain't frontin' no more
[Verse 1]
My mentality's a tapestry, ain't it if I can paint it
It'd be too heavy to hang it from the nail in the wall
Dangerously dangling
Sick with the languages, speaking pangolin down at the animal mall
He who answered the call
The most cancelled rapper 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
But this what happens after applause
If rappin' was blacked call this rappin' from the back of a broad
This style of rapping's called pattern and pause
Still a one-man class action trapped in his cause
Yeah
[Verse 2]
I'm a different type of ****, fulfilled
Say the word "****" is a trigger, so chill
I'm like, why keep **** concealed?
It's white people still using the word **** for real
Never ignorant, genuine genius appeals, sincerely hearing it thrills
Yeah
I'm from a lyrical, miracle, biblical guild
A great white clearing his gills, the nearest mirror of skill
Somewhere between jazz, Jigga, and drill
Minus all the **** it kills
Right before they finish they wills
A healthy menace told the dentist I eat Splenda, spinach, and pills for life
Playing Ur with David Blaine on a commercial flight, first class rolling the dice
This for my chain
All donations are appreciated
I put the pen down, but the location was abbreviated
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
Put variables in my data set and then I deviated
It's miracles in the data set, it's like I DBA
As TD Jakes without a CPA, I used to CTA it
Ferrari from that Harvey from this car seat, can't believe he made it
Target hated, feeling like a Star of David where they GDK it
Independent thinker
I should CD Babe it, feet covered in Tinkers
Promise to self, no longer reference the Matrix and stay away from fake shit
'Cause in a flash, they'll turn on the click just like blinkers
These and other hazards are just part of the work
Reverse Aztec, put my heart in a verse
The one man half Dash, Carter & Burke, yeah
[Bridge]
Rock-a-fella y'all
[Verse 3]
Impediments, the random egotistical elephant in the room
Looking for something heaven-sent
Like it's medicine in the moon
Or intelligence in the heaviness of a tune
How much ya song weigh?
30 pounds for every entendre
So the playlist will still be heavy as a spaceship on a spaceship
Even though it's weightless
Bar full of plates, so a waitress weight-lifts
With every single entree
Contrary to what the pawn say
Swan slay with every convey
If words were rocks, birds in flocks, stop, that's not the chess of experts
That's a straight rookie move
To get close to the DOS, I fed 'em bread first
Jaded, so denigrated and inundated
With every image that I was finished and in a status of ending stages
So I insulated into pages, liberated my inner sages
Now the minutes from the meetings of my mind with my mind
Look a minister mixed Dennis, the menace made it, baited, beat it, baked it, and ate it
Graciously my engineer saved the most sacred of it in Avid, Msoor
I can sell money to the poor
A pyramid to a mummy, they even pay attention even when they ignore
My compulsive indecision made addition into a chore
Is it 2 plus 2, just 2 Two's, or is it 4?
If I got a calculator, what's the point of even keeping score?
That's not allowed when you tested
So I added it all up, they just trying to slow us down like instruments in Texas
All proceeds to my necklace
[Bridge]
Rock-a-fella y'all
Rock-a-fella y'all
[Chorus]
Should've never gave them **** no money
We was in the store, man, but we ain't want nothing
'Cause we was broke, now a **** ain't frontin' no more
Should've never gave them **** no money
We was in the store, man, but we ain't want nothing
'Cause we was poor, now a **** ain't frontin' no more
Written by: Lupe Fiasco