Lupe Fiasco- Failure
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2008
- Failure
Lyrics:
It's mean, soldier
Now let me put the streets down like steamrollers
With the CATS that push
40 oz. through the hood like King Cobras
See me sling soda
'Cause the extra four in the split is mixed
It's really 36
Used to buy toasters and clips
You can tighten your circle or boa constrict
While you was lighting your purple, I was over the scripts
See, I couldn't walk the walk, couldn't really talk the talk
Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
'Cause this lack in talk had my walk looking off
Now I'm over the limp
Watch how they mugs drop when they see my Verbal's able
(That's the Usual)
When I was po' I was low
Now me and my Chaps cop Purple Label
It's Ralph Lauren on the rap laureate
Niggas brownnose, they are like "after him"
Runners at Interscope are not as Stoute as him
Please don't Interscope
It's gonna be a whole lot of Iovine and respirating
If I lean out this window with Irene
Niggas as tall as Yao Ming
With L-U-P-Emperor
Is the foundation's high beams and the antennas
It's so serious every time I write my John Hancock like
Could damn near see Detroit
Niggas is scared of heights
This is saran wrap and aluminum foil
Some potpourri, a little machine oil
I stack my paper and throw off my 6
This is top floor, better look out before
Pennies from heaven is the same as the semi from the second
And I reign supreme
Turn your umbrellas upside down
Did you even catch the change in theme?
And them niggas ain't Watts nor from his regime
Gangsta lean
Hats on tilt like these niggas ain't drop out the vending machine
You gotta put more money in
And I shake niggas up every time I drop a bar
(2 for 1)
It's horse in the Porsche and bricks in the box
Like mo' money them every time I cop a car
You see I'm a roller, right
So it might be a Rover, right
But every time I drop a 'r'
(Get off the streets)
It's "over" aite
Bet I be in the head like overnight
Like rollers, right
She the chauffeur, right
So I keep her sober
She don't get Fed Ex like overnight
I am Dolemite
All that gas can't help you but solar might
Just call on sun
Drop a 's'
Pick up an 'o'
Uno, put it all on "one"
Brace yourself like overbite
"For that quiet nigga that relocated down south
Coming back to floss"
Nigga get your molars right
Fix your grill
No plaque but a whole lot of cheese
This the drill
Mr. Chill
Gave me the green light like Yoda knife
So I'ma force my will
Like the Force I wield
Of course you will
Take my time
But weight behind only pertains
To that Porsche grill
It's snakes in the hood
Gotta watch for that Cobra bite
Let me see
There's snakes in the hood
A bird, a horse behind the grill
Something gator on the seat
And a fox behind the wheel
For achiever
My procedure's
To proceed at all cost
With no breather
I'm all walk
Rain, snow, or fever
I'm all coughs coming after your teacher
I'm on the ball like FIFA
Viva
Lupe Duce
Long live the leader
I remember I ain't have sneakers
It was welfare
Coming up for air is like
Whales there
Fila
But now I'm well here
I'm Shamu with twelve pair
And niggas wanna take me back to zero like tear fare
Well, my skill's clear
You Sea World
It's Braille here
I'm Bumpy Johnson I stick to the streets
Keep my dogs out in front of me
You see what I'm saying
And I push ki's wonderfully
This is gangsta, man 
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Been listening to this since I was 15, on the bus, silver iPod 4gb.
The memories. 14 years later…
Glad I'm not the only 1
Damn same scenario for me too!!
SAMMMMMEEEE
SAMEEEE...age 15 2007 tenth grade this song got me thru JV football lmao
These lyrics are STILL top tier sheesh 2007 era
This song is why RapGenius was created.
On God
well not literally they said a cam'ron song inspired the creation
@Cedrick Carson "killa cam"
@Cedrick Carson Cam's lyrics are wack asf!
it was actually Dumb It Down
This shit still going over my head 14 years later
One of the sickest most complex songs ever written. Lupe is the best pure lyricist alive in my opinion.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yer 12 years later. Lupe tha don
The best writer in the history of the world
“So it might be a [R]over, [R]ight? But every time I drop an 'R'(R refering to rhyme)
Get off the streets! It's over, 'ight?”... Think about that, Rover minus R = OVER. Right minus R = ‘IGHT... Damn! - Lupe Fiasco HAS to be one of the Greatest Lyricist to grace a mic. Like WOW!
GREATEST
Don’t forget the RR for rolls Royce reference on the street
Mannnn...
Give Lupe a platinum already DAMMIT!!!
arguably the BEST LYRICS ever spat in the booth...Lupe was way ahead of his time..so effin dope
Yep!
it really pisses me off how many people don't realize this
+Corey Perry they're resonating on different frequencies..
Facts. I liked this shit alot when I was younger. But now I'm older and listening for the first time in years. Dude had so many metaphors that went over niggas heads.
This song made me a fan.
when i was po' I was lo'... now me and my chaps cop purple lable...
still my fav hiphop line ever
Double and triple entendres crazy
This might be the most multi-layered song I have ever heard.
Lupe straight murders the english language.
some of these lines have over 6 different interpretations
I love how you guys below me are showing all the ways we see lupe's lyrics.
Its beautiful.
" See, I couldn't walk the walk
Couldn't really talk the talk
Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
Cause this lack in talk had my walk lookin' off " ... lupe cracks me up! XD
Wait until you understand the next line where he mentions learning his verbals able, making your mugs drop, and then saying it’s the usual. Some of the most creative wordplay in the song
@@zaksji 🤯 I just got it. Thank u.
that Rover Right bar will never be topped lmaoo
I must have listened to this song at least 100 times, and I probably still havent picked up on all the double entendres and hidden meanings. Lupe is unreal.
Lupe different
Thank you lupe. You changed my outlook on music.
Craziest thing is "Mural"(although an improved version of this and several other lu songs) blows this out the water. This song is F'n amazing, how he improved lyrically when he was already so advanced is inexplicable. Battle rappers dont want to battle this dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lupe should have named this song " Entrendres " ....lol !!!!
This track till this Day literally runs 100 laps around rappers mixtapes & albums !!! Bravo Lupe!! 👍💯😁
True, it does.
you know it's Ironic because the name of the song is an entendre as well, you on point ✊🏿
Failure = Fiasco
One of my favorite joints by Lupe. Dude is one of the GOATS. I knew it back then that he was on that path.
Absolutely!
The deepest lyricism yet.......damn near needed GOOGLE TRANSLATE to decipher this song.....
This is hands down my best Lupe track ever. The wordplay was RIDICULOUS. Took my time to understand it lol
Lupe killed this song. He the goat
Years later.......I'm still catching shit I missed...
this was me listening to Dumb it down, amazed everytime
It’s really 36
i cant believe this only has 1,119 views lol. just goes to show that the industry still isnt giving the proper play and acknowledgment for the audience to enjoy the way it should. thank god it's still lyricist left in the game like lupe. much respect to all my real hip hop heads
Lupe is my favorite mc of all time. I been rocking with him since the beginning but I hate him for one reason. He is so lyrically immaculate that I don't even know if i can listen to most other rappers. He is an elite. Top 1% of 1%. Do the math.
DGEPB he killed hip hop for me
DGEPB i feel the same way
Lupe Fiasco has a great catalog. Good thing I have his mixtapes on my PS3 system !!!
10 years later still unraveling the lyrics..
It's amazing.
best lyrical work in the english language hands down
Listen to "Mural".
Listen to " Peace of Paper Cup of Jayzus "
Lol why argue when they're all Lupe songs anyway
Lyricism at its very finest, no doubt!
In all seriousness, the only other person with wordplay like lupe in the history of the English language is Shakespeare
Will Boogie Lupe > Shakespeare, easily!
Will Boogie doom has pre crazy wordplay too
Will Boogie Canibus no doubt has him. I love Lupe though, top five easily.
Rook Canibus has Lupe???
I really think Canibus has him but not by much. 2000 BC, Mic Club, Rip the jacker and C of tranquility confirm it for me, not to mention poet laureate infinity
With L-U-P Emperor
Is the foundations and I beams and the antennas
It’s so serious every time I write my John Hancock
Lupe literally based each line of this verse on his name and this is shown when he says it’s the foundations and I beams and so serious becomes a homophone for Sears which is building which has I beams (high beams) and a foundation and John Hancock is referring to another building, the John Hancock center. And each Verse has a letter of his name the first L-U-P (E)mperor, (F)oundations, (High/I )beams (S)o, and finally Han(CO)ck
This all ends up spelling Lupe Fiasco, genius
"Pennies from heaven is the same as the semi from the second
And I reign(rain) supreme
Turn your umbrellas upside down
Did you even catch the change in theme?"
In this line he's saying that the bars he drops are like "pennies from heaven" and because he "rains" supreme, you should turn your umbrellas upside down and catch the "change"( as in pennies). Also I think the reason he uses the word "reign" is because an upside down umbrella looks like a crown....
“Pennies from heaven is the same as the semi from the second”
Is he referring to getting shot from a second floor, being the same as getting hit with pennies from heaven, basically saying when he “rains” he’s killing the streets, which he was heavily referring to in the beginning of the verse
There's an old jazz song "Pennies From Heaven" which used the line "turn your umbrellas upside down"
Irene - I rain - Irene
ALONE, this song made me a Lupe fan....
I swear this man needs to go back to this...he did with SLR (by far my favorite track by him) but F&L2 was kinda back to his roots...i need a whole album or at least a mixtape/EP
Kaesid Stuckey hope Tetsuo & Youth satisfied you ;)
or Pharaoh Height
So sad that this doesn't have over 10 million views
Somebody's has probably said this already but that penny from heaven line is so good. His music is obviously going to take longer to hit you but when it does it's going to smack just as hard "semi from the second" music.
and then he caps it with "And I reign/I rain/Irene supreme" which is just amazing
When i first caught the 3rd meaning like 5 years later. Shit hit me like a train
This shit is still bumping in my headset in 2021!!! There’s is honestly no one in the industry tht can top this still. I don’t even know if the man himself (Lupe) could beat himself at tht pace anymore.
Lupe come back to this!
2024 who is here listening
@PoloBoyPrince he's also doing a Stevie Wonder reference, going with the whole "blind" theme in that verse...."[See] World"..."its [brail] here...i'm "bumpy" (like brail) johnson"....."I stick to the streets keep my dawgs out in front of me" [like a blind man with a stick and a seeing eye dog]...."you SEE what im saying? and i push keys (like piano keys) Wonderfully (like Stevie wonder).............
This is probably one of the most complex tracks I've ever heard.. each line has 2 or 3 meanings, it's crazy
This might be the most technical "freestyle" of all time.
See, I couldn't walk the walk, couldn't really talk the talk
Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
'Cause this lack in talk had my walk looking off
What a line
"Niggas wanna take me back to zero like tare fare, and my scales clear" "and I push kis wonderfully" yeah lupe was definitely pushing that boy. His partner is doing like 40 years for being a dope kingpin in Chicago and they were caught on the phone discussing splitting up yellow and red packs. Lupe said they were talking about mixing tracks but come on.
The line goes “ take me back to zero like Telfair” Sebastian Telfair an NBA player or “tearing a ticket fare”
@@TheRJRabbit23 The whole song is filled with double entendres referring to selling h so its probably both.
This zero thing is a quadruple entendre which ties into the skill/scale double entendre. This pushing ki's line was a quintuple. Great
I don't know how many times i've listened to this song, but i still catch meanings each time. Lupe is deff on top of my list.
THE ENTRENDRES ARE TOO MUCH
kozmik casselle Dude's got lyrics deeper than the mariana trench and wordplay for days, it's a travesty this guy's so underrated.
Lupe has the three most entendre filled, wordplay laden dope flow tracks in hip hop. Failure, mural and form follows function
+MegaHAZE21 The crazy part is that people know he is a goat. A lowkey legend but wont give him the "public crown."
it's so ridiculous lol. Everytime the most lyrical rapper is mentioned, everyone yells out "Emimen!", when Em's specialty is really rhyme schemes. He's as lyrical as Lupe and people don't want to accept that lol.
Alex Fairgood I put Lupe up there with Pac, Big, Pun, Big L, Nas, Jay-Z, Em etc.
This could very well be the most lyrical song ever in the history of hip hop ....
a magnificent display of lyricism!
lupe is a genius ! best rapper to spit truth in a song and have your mind blown wanting more. forever a fan :)
I used to ride the 204 and 206 bus to this song as a teenagers dreaming of going to college and getting out of the hood and traveling to Japan and buying a house one day and doing tech. I did it all and now I have to build a production company animation & video games.
can i say most lyrical song of all time!!!!!?? i wish lupe still spit like this
I wonder how bro reacted to mural
When he said
"You see what I'm Sayin(Saiyan) and I push Key's(Ki's) wonderfully"
That's like 3 different meanings in one.
Lupe is like the master of the English language.
What you said ain't bad but that ain't what he was saying there
THat line links back in to the braille reference. For blind people to read. Since they can't see. It also links in with I keep my dogs out in front of me. (Service dogs) but this links into the Bumpy Johnson statement who was a drug king pin in NYC. So thats also a reference for street dealers. Ki as in Kilo. BUt the wild shit is what you have is also another possible meaning.
@@Papercut625 and also "I stick to the streets" = blind folks wit canes
"see what I'm sayin" is another blind reference he talks about seeing with his ears all the time....
and push keys wonderfully ties it all together...
Keys = bricks/drugs whatever you wanna call it....
Wonderfully = he's very good at it, and also WONDERfully as in Stevie wonder....back to the blindness
Dude goes bonkers on this one smh
@@bobbybigfellow8516 he is right, Lupe used a dragon ball reference here, and it's not like he hasn't done it in other freestyles/songs. Lupe is an otaku, he loves japanese culture, he is a weeb. He even did "Mazinger".
"You see what I'm saiyan/sayin and I push KI's(Chi's)/Keys wonderfully"
Bro how yall missing the Stevie Wonder reference though
A rap song with no curse words. That still knockss ..
drop the mug... walk with a leap... usual suspects ending when the cop is sitting back with his mug he figures out that the guy who did all the crimes was Roger "Verbal" Kint. And at that very time he realizes it, we see Verbal, whose character was known for walking with a limp, all of a sudden start walking normally and gets away. crazy metaphor.
There's enough material here to write a dissertation and I wouldn't be surprised if someone already has.
This is the dope/deepest song I have ever heard.
If you don't like this song it's because you aren't intelligent enough to get it.
I know that sounds stannish but I don't even care. ✌🏿️💯
It's the truth fam 👌
listen to "handcuffs", not fulla metaphors, but still one of the realest tracks out.
+Violent Handcuffs is lit fam 🔥and Gotta Eat
+Ishimwe from the block Oh yeah man, straight fire.
I feel the same way, but it's not necessarily intelligence that they lack, it's knowledge of the streets.
The real monster of the double entendre is Lupe not JZ.
this might be the most lyrical song of all time, think about it ! ! !
Dawg....Lupe!!!!!! This is pure lyricism and skill!!!!!!!!
i love how he uses so much sarcasm in his lyrics. in so many songs.
I haven't got pass "she don't get FedEx like overnight"...Stop it dude
FedEx/fed ecs[stasy]... yeah, he nice with homophones.
im not a big lupe fiasco fan but this is amazing
You must be by now!
for me it still remains to be seen for someone to make a collection of songs like this, glory, theme music to a drive by, twilight zone, mean and vicious, dumb it down, real recognize real, ooh...as a collection those are some of the best lyrics i have heard come from one mc
That's crazy! Still learning stuff coming back to this song, classic. Lupe's soooooooo underrated.
I'm STILL in awe over this line
"Call on sun (son)...drop the S pick up a O...(uno[you know[)(you know)..put it all on one"
Seriously, what the fuck. o_o. Lupe = GOAT Lyricist.
I just caught this line. Here in 2022. I have listened to this song so many times, and I'm still picking up lines and entendres.
Also:
s = stack = $1000
o = ounce = ounce of coke
i rain supreme, turn ya umbrellas upside down.. did u even catch the change in theme?
Every time I hear that line I get chills
Greg K hell yea
Top 5 dopest bars in rap history
I don't get it
Did y'all realize that it was a continuation from the previous line when he said "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN" then says "did you even catch the CHANGE (like coins) in theme" this guy is unfair 😭
I’m glad everyone else recognizes this as the most lyrical rap song of all time in terms of entendres / punch lines. Lupe was a genius.
Most insane collection of words ever. It's actually unbelievable what this song entails. Much like his Dead Presidents, just absolute genius.
THE GOAT
WORD PLAY LUPE!
one of the sickest tracks ever.. lupe's iiiiilll!! can't stress that enuff! dudeis a beast! damn one of the most intellegent tracks i've ever heard.
Lupe is amazing, but the GOAT im not ready to give that to him while Nas is here still putting out quality music.
jesus fucking christ these lyrics are insane
Mural tops this, which I didn't even think was possible
Yeah, I heard it the other day. He went all the way in on it. He had to stop himself.
+john stewart still lightwork for lupe tho
peace of paper cup of Jayzus tops this lol
I listen to twilight zone a few times a month. Mind fuck
oh shit really? lupe topped this?? he topped failure? fuuuuck...im boutta listen right now
TALK THE TALK
One of the greatest to ever breathe into the mic.
FIRE!!!!! his best shit!
Samples idris Muhammad could heaven ever be like this
This song right here (along with a lot of other lupe songs...) goes over a lot of peoples heads. CLASSIC
I've NEVER EVER witnessed words be put together so flawlessly - no fucking exaggeration.
"I stick to the streets keep my dogs out in front of me, you see what I'm saying and I push keys wonderfully"
Newtoschool damn WONDERfully! I iust got that... Smh
"Saying(Saiyan)" "Push KEYS(Ki)". I caught that DBZ reference.
Only caught the Stevey wonder reference
@@motsekiletsela876 he said it was Braille there...then that he was bumpy Johnson....a gangster, but also bumpy like the Braille is cuz of his face....he talks about seeing with his ears all the time so the blind Braille reference goes right into STICK to the streets (like their canes) dogs out in front of me (obvious on both levels) SEE what I'm saying (as in he's blind so sees with his ears and also just the obvious are you keeping up with him) and he push keys wonderfully (as adept at moving work as Stevie is on a piano)
@@djdj696 this goes back to the first verse. Pushing drugs line CATS
Why isnt this on spotify?!?!?
Straight drill music! The pioneer of drill music rap.
So many triple entendres, amazing.
"when i was po i was lo now me and my chaps cop purple label"
Am I the only one that loses it when he cracks the soda and pours it? lol
lupe has to be the most creative rapper out there...its amazing
LOL ive known this song for like 2-3 years and im still JUST getting some of his metaphors omg... he is too lyrical. raw
This shit is dope
Kendrick who?
Let’s not do this
thats heavy cuz... lupe is a monsta... giggidy giggidy...
i like how lupe dosent talk about doing ppl and doing drugs alot. He talks about different things Drake used to be like that then lil wayne changed him. Eminem dose the same stuff on how lupe talks about other stuff. this song is very speaking about lots of ppl
...back to zero like tare fair (tare is a button on a digital scale) or ... back to zero like telfair (sebastion telfair wears number 00 for the OKC thunder) just trying to fix your description. Thx for the upload
both of those metaphors went way over many people's heads. I think if they'd understand the depth of his lyrics, they'd give him more credit.
Wrong
AB SOUL has the same type of design with his cover for control system, very ironic
jakobi kornegay Na, it's not ironic, it's the illuminati.
Righthand Luke actually it is the tree of life chakra for an souls design, but opinions are opinions,
jakobi kornegay Nope Illuminati bro, educate yourself.
Righthand Luke How do I know you're not Illuminati? Righthand Luke = Illuminati Confirmed.
jakobi kornegay Soul used the tree of life for his.
this is lupe's own original symbolism.
THIS is hip hop. Welcome back. Missed you.
LUPE TOP 5 DOA
This is easily the greatest song in terms of wordplay and lyrics. LUPE THE KILLA
Not even close
Lil wayne could never
both of you are wrong lmao
@@ii8192ii Ok
Runners at interscope are not as Stoute as him
Please don't enter scope
It's gonna be a whole lotta IV-ing and respiratin'
If I lean out this window with Irene
This connects to the I regin supreme line.
lupe has always had that old school flow it changed when he released lasers hopefully F&L2 will bring back the flow we all love
Just scrolled through my TL and HAD to run this 🔥🔥 back. LU different
Lmao he said This is Saran Wrap
why isnt this song on spotify???
LVscreamed still aint
It was originally Juelz Santana's track. Still should be tho cuz this is no question Lupe's now
The most lyrical rap song ever, not Nas, not Rakim, not Tupac, not Biggie, not Kool G Rap has done somethin like this, when u talk about lyrics and not hits, Lupe is the greatest rapper ever.
OMG this song should be put in the hip hop hall of fame of lyrical wordplay. Sheeeeeesh