Lupe Fiasco - Dead Presidents Freestyle (lyrics breakdown) video free download


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Duration: 02:08
Uploaded: 2011/02/20

another of Lupe's lyrical breakdowns. This freestyle is a little more convoluted, and even I don't get some of the references. So feel free to contribute your insights in the comments!

LYRICS:

No question, you ain't gotta A-S-K

I fly dope, pocket full of J-F-K's

I rise tote, the occasion like toast

Wit tote's on the waist, I flood ya watch flooded like a basement man

You and my main foes fold like clean clothes

Sub-machine holes the size of Shaq rings in between ya eyes like nose

Pinky mac ring like the song that Peedi Crack sings, "I Propose"

Don’t make me stand up, told you, you ain’t gotta have ya hands up

I was like "screw paper"...

Then I ran 'round touched money, changed my mind

Mind on my change so I tucked money hands down

Now, in addition to the semi

There's paper on the waist like Henry

And niggaz ain’t seeing what I’m keeping concealed

They wanna be it, chill; you would leak it if the secret's revealed

Peep it, might leak it to polices and squeal

Then you gotta hide money...like,

Fresh or witness protect

Went from, best to business execs in less than Four!

You can get it in the chest like Fresh

Anything not next to Tec is hidden in the floor

So act like u Denzel or Rudy Ray Moore

Wait, there’s more:

Let me ,catch you tappin’ my floor like Savianna Moss

Hope u like the sound of hollow i got more

I black out like boss, How u gonna back out?

There's no back doors, like Porshe

Or course, it's the Boss, Tony Danza of Stanza

Springsteen of sixteens...

It's nothin’ sweet, it's Lupe

I am white people's Kool-Aid, it’s mean

The balla wit the goggles like Kareem

From Chicago wit the models on the scene

Duck fellas,

Betta get down like duck feathers

A rhyme or a crushed pepper

A grinder yeah that’s much better

You a, dice game I’m a casino man

Hustla for life, u hear the lingo and

Find me covered in ice like Encino Man

Only one missing is Pachino man...Get it? HA-HA!

Comments

9 years ago

Michael Truque

He was actually talken bout henry from good fellas cuz he walked around wit money on his waistband

10 years ago

Newtoschool

Been watching the same videos for years cmon Nu please make some more. like The Champ is Here or Twilight Zone or Peace of Paper Cup of Jayzus or Pound of Flesh or his verse with Big Sean in Wait For Me

10 years ago

DJVEGAS1000

Insane wordplay

10 years ago

SOZZYLAND

Go back in forth with your friends about what the record means - lupe fiasco.

10 years ago

theonlym12

This video was good.

11 years ago

Anthony Taglia

Although, I get 90% of what he says..that one was throwing me through a loop. Good explanation.

11 years ago

SophoSoham363

Not sure If anyone has made the comment or Connection to the line "in addition to the semi, There's paper on the waist like Henry" It's not refering to Henry n his paper route, but to Henry Hill from Goodfellas! In one scene in the Movie they Show Henry removing stacks from his waist!

11 years ago

Mark David

just wanna add the line "anything not next to tec is hidden in the floor" can also mean anything not next to tek (gun) is hittin the floor. meaning if u not a shooter y his side then you gettin shot or are a victim

11 years ago

CockyR4

Lupe so nice with this that you need two or even three lyric breakdown videos to get the whole idea.

11 years ago

Hans Polonio

lol. i thought the same thing but i also thought of one more analogy. Raising your hand in paper form is like how the nazi' hailed hitler. Raising your hand in scissors is also the sign for peace. Raising your hand in rock form is similar to the the symbol for "black power/pride"

11 years ago

Ben S. Cisse

Can't it technically be "toast on the waist" since toast is slang for a weapon?

11 years ago

felixdljkra

Lupe throws in doubles like that ALL the time!

11 years ago

jkrizzyboston

when he said hide money like fresh, he meant the kid who was sellin crack from the movie fresh not fresh prince of belair. fyi...

12 years ago

Phyuck Yiu

The part where he says "...tapping my floor like Savion or Morris..." The way he says Morris sounds kind of like Morse as in tapping in Morse code. Just something I've always heard in this freestyle.

12 years ago

cheesecrackersgame

maaan lupe use to be on some sinister shit lol

12 years ago

MrBlastoise25

Freestyle or not he did real good "springsteen of 16s"

12 years ago

Martian Lynch

@Pipebombdreams Listen to... "Proceed (come from the corner like dunce, done that)" "Free Chilly freestyle (push ki -of coke- like DBZ)" "Monster freestyle (he specifically says used to be a YG rest in peace Esko brother much love)" "Champ Is Here" "Fast Money (with the rocks I slang like David Fee Fi Fo Fum)" There's plenty of examples.. it's why his dude Chilly Chill is locked up. They were both dealers.

12 years ago

Capital B

@bigthingspoppinoff Do you have any proof?

12 years ago

Capital B

Simply stunning.

12 years ago

Martian Lynch

@TheDrew137 Lupe was a YG (Young Gangsta) that slang coke for like 5 years man. He mentions it all the time. That's how he afforded to create FNF.

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