Lupe Fiasco - Sway in the Morning (2015 Freestyle) lyrics

[Verse] Represent intelligence I did it before When I came through, sold out all the albums in the store Shout to Joey Bada$$, that's that, uh Now we bout to backtrack When I first started I was seventeen Came up in the game, had a ring, had a chain, had some things Shout to Chilly Chill man he showed me the game Drove me around the city in the black, black Range But now I'm back, at it attack Had to do it again, and now we signed to Epic But I ain't never stretched I got robbed on my first deal And that's so real you wouldn't even know it That was about nineteen and I didn't even show it But I was the best rapper in the crew and they knew Shout to [?] and shout to Butcher B And shout to D-Low and [?] Yea, yea, yea, and bring it back We was raw dope records Every single sector we was in, we would bless it Howard home coming, I did that before And they ain't even know Now, was we in this, or what were you doin' I signed to Arista next and I was brewin' Shout to L.A. Reid, did my thing on the page But never planted the seed to turn into a stage Yea, I was growin' stage up And when I got up on that joint, I was blowing stage up Now, I'm back in the rage I said the stage twice That's cause I set the stage, so nice You ain't even catch it so I gotta bring it backwards again On the stage I was attacking my friends But I was attacking my foes, save no b**hes and save no hoes Sway, you know how it goes in these streets How it goes in these beats, how I do it so sweet How I do it so neat and I wrap it in a package And I bow-tie that every time that I wrap it I lost a little breath, this is real time rap In real time, every time, I real rhyme that Yes, yes, I will rhyme that And they can't do it like I do, they try to but You know it's blessings when you come through like this Impressed like this and how I'm dressed like this All black cause I'm mourning for my brother I love Esco, they don't even know, how much above you I don't place anything I wed the game like a wedding ring With a diamond set-it-ting And you know I'm never settling I rap burn things down like acetylene I said this before, only wrestling with settling I only settle if I wrestle with everything And I mean it from the heart From the time when I was in the park on the benches I was rapping Snapping, trapping and doing my thing Yea I did the street a lil bit, did the heat a lil bit Did the beats a lot, and now I can't stop I dropped my fifth one, I feel so proud I hope you blow it up while you smokin' your loud Or you sittin' in your room in the basement and you cherish it Uh, every rapper I embarra** with the flows and the structure The beats, rhymes and rhythms How I give ‘em, how I put it together in exorcisms How it skz's like a schism Bring scissors how I cut through the rhythm and bring it back again And again, and again Shout to all my friends, shout to all my brothers, all my lovers I love y'all And shout to Young Thugga, you a good lil dude I like the way you rap too See, there's blessings in this It's a message in this, it ain't no testin' in this Now, let's get back to the narrative I signed to Atlantic And everything was good Until Craig Kallman called WGCI and said “stop playin' Kick, Push” We was like “what the f**?!” f** are you doin? Tried to bring my crew down Tried to ruin us But you didn't know what you was puttin' into in us Then Chill got locked up and everything stopped I wanted to stop rapping, but I couldn't On the phone when I'm cryin' like “I couldn't” But he was like “nah, you gotta carry on” At least for me, your family, you gotta bury songs That mean you gotta dead ‘em Every time you got in the studio he put the Glock to ‘em and head ‘em “bang!” Yea, doin' my thing, shout to the gang Shout to the man, it's how I maintain living in the mainframe Should I ever do this before, again, I dunno it's the same It's a shame but sometimes you gotta get on that paper plane And fly to the other side of the earth And show you truly what's your worth and your values If they don't know you gotta show ‘em how to If they don't understand then you gotta make ‘em over it You gotta do it again, and again, and again, it's over with