Video: Lupe Fiasco - Adoration Of The Magi (Lyric Breakdown)
TimesNuRoman is back with another lyric breakdown, this time for track 14 off Tetsuo & Youth!
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"Clarence Carter, Fred Astaire Meets Aristotle, Air To Air Your Just Plane Rears In Red Baron's Goggles" ...TETSUO...YOUTH...
That puts me in a stupor, kinda like saying I wanna see the young you in the future.
Scratch that, to deepen the absurdity, certainly to remain young in the face of getting old requires plastic surgery.
And I've never been 1 to fake it and give you young shit from an old ass nigga with a facelift. I still hip so if it aint break, don't replace it.
These the complexes of a complex nigga in the face of criticism so basic, when your basics are the basic mathematics of spaceships.
And if I do dumb it down for dumb niggas or younger crowds...to pay rent, an old man with younger styles on some Jay shit.
My old fans run around and trash my latest efforts at making records as watered down so go old, but forgetters that Food & Liquor didn't go Gold.
I mean G is G, I don't do this shit for free, always for some freedom, but niggas got lawyer fees in that Windy City where rapping is a breeze.
A Twis-ta nig-ga you-so...cra-zy, would I do when they want that young Lu? "Nigga tell em time machine or Fuck-You, Pay-Me." - Screen Caps
I first heard Fiasco’s name via his turn on West’s album, but merely passed his cameo off as some new kid rapper with bad taste in stage names. As I learned later, you have to look past the lyrics the majority of the time when dealing with Lupe’s bars.