Kick Push II

[Talking: Lupe Fiasco]

Look at what we did

Came a long way from dirty ghetto kids

Yeah, look at what we did

We came a long way from dirty ghetto kids

Ha... uh, uh... c'mon

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Well the cops didn't fine 'em for grindin, no

They kinda blew the vibe, figured it was time to go

Plus he had to be at home a long time ago

And he had made like ten dollars of a sign he wrote

It read:

"A lil hungry, and need a lil money

It's for my lil sister and her lil tummy"

Wasn't lyin tho, he didn't go buy hydro

Went to the restaurant and bought two gyros

Cause he knew they wasn't cookin where he live

The coo ca coo ca coots now took him to the crib

A lil hurt from the rail he took into the ribs

Right pass the pushers who couldn't under dig

What's the use of pushin? U ain't pushin none of this

If I kick it with y'all I'm just pushin for a bid

But what was on his mind, and push him to the lid

Their best customer wasn't cookin for her kids

Gets up to pump, so he

[Hook: Lupe Fiasco]

Kick, push

Over his shoulders he swore he'd never look

Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive

Yeah, uh, and so he

Kick, push

Over his shoulders he swore he'd never look

Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Yeah, you see his mom was a crack head

And his father couldn't be contacted

He knew that being different was combated

Amongst the other things in his young, black head

And see his girl was a white girl

But just cause she was white, see her life wasn't light world

She too had the drama thick

Had a daddy and a mama, but her daddy used to mama hit

Daddy caught something chasin fatties, made her mama sick

Couldn't afford the medicine, pimped her to the pharmacist

And suicidal feelings would rise

Switch over the transition, till her conquer it

Pays for mama's pills with a sponsorship

Her cell phone bill and a Honda kit

Uh huh, and that's why she skates with he

Someone to feel the pain and a place to be

That's why, that's why, that's why, she

[Hook: Lupe Fiasco]

Kick, push

Over her shoulders she swore she'd never look

Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive

Yeah, uh, that's why she

Kick, push

Over her shoulders she swore she'd never look

Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

Yeah, a traveling band of misfits and outcasts

Nod they heads from Misfits to Outkast

A lot of scars, they did this without pads

A lot of hearts who did this without dads

Ones father was filthy rich

Two was middle class, and one was homeless

And the paralyzed girl in the wheelchair

Who just liked to watch, and that was the whole clique

I think about 'em everytime I see this old flick

That was taken in the park in front of this old bench

They wrote on the back, "we thankful, push, kick

Hope you make a video, the beat is so sick"

Well I did, I hope you seen it

It's on MTV, Soundtrakk's a genius

Love from Tony Hawk, beat from the Ice Creamaz

Before we put it out, had to pay the Philippiners

Just to show you how you

[Hook: Lupe Fiasco]

Kick, push

Over ya shoulders you swore you'd never look

Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive

Yeah, uh, that's why you

Kick, push

Over ya shoulders you swore you'd never look

Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive

Yeah