Top 15 Lupe Fiasco Quotes

My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, You aint trying to go to college?
Be a lawyer or a doctor, Get a whole lotta dollars?
Rather degrade women and glorify violence?"
"Well the work that works for me might not work for you
No homework, I got work to do."

Glenn Beck is a racist, Limbaugh is a racist,
Gaza strip was getting bombed Obama didn't say shit.

Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts,
if you think that hurts then wait here comes the upper-cut,
the school was garbage in the first place that's on the up and up.

The future's cloudy and it's rainin on the poor class.
Road to peace is closed, heavy traffic on the war paths

My most coveted thing is a high self-esteem, and a low tolerance for them telling me how to lean,
see the most important parts are the ones that are unseen, cause the wings don't make you fly
and the crown don't make you king

Made me a ripper, deliver like a river, content a little more thicker, slicker...and they said
oil and water don't mix, now they all down at the beach washing off the fish.

And so it seems that I'm, sewing jeans. And, 1st and 15 is just a sewing machine. So I,
cut the pattern and I, sew in seams. And, button in this hustling then publically, I'm
Buddy Lee. There's no bustin' them and cuffin' them is like. Ushering in the regime, they want
me to make Prince pants. But I withstand, I ain't gotten into that. A little big (B.I.G.) in the
waist, two-pocket (Tupac-it) on the back. Call them Lu-vi's, O.G.'s covered in blue dye

Life ain't meant to come around twice, that's why I gotta get it right. They said I gotta
get it honest, now I gotta give them light, but sleep on it, that's why God gave you night

Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
All the world's ills, sittin' on chrome 24-inch wheels

Gangsta rap-based filmings became the buildin blocks
For children with leakin ceilings catchin drippins with pots
Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written"
In the mix with my realities and feelings
Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision
I began to jot, tap the world and listen,

I used to hate hip-hop, because the women degraded. But Too Short made me laugh,
like a hypocrite I played it; a hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
omitting the word b*tch, cursing I wouldn't say it. Me and dog couldn't relate, until a b*tch I dated.

Jay gave me a co-sign like I was RocaWear, but be clear I'm not the air/heir
I'm the water, fire and the earth
That means I'm doing dirt, spitting flames and quenching thirst

If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping.
Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?

Heavy problems genocide desensitized environments
Sometimes make it hard to sympathize, pardon

Didn't have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers, raiders of the villages, the
pillagers of the school....shooters of the innocents, tortures of the witnesses, burners
of the businesses..and my bracelet was the fuel.