Lupe Fiasco - Valleys (Lyrics)

[Intro]

Pharaoh, pharaoh?

Pharaoh

[Verse 1]

Dollar mission, Mississippi masala getting

Guava Casaba melons, getting a spot at competition

Titties and teeth, so silly of me, no really, it's free

Aye you can use the phone like a new computer wand

That's an Ethernet pun, cause dial-up's done

When it took twenty minutes just to download one

Aye, you got a fine face, also a dime in your behind

Please can I find some time space to find base

Kinds of rhymes to describe how you're designed great

And maybe remove the mind free

Like it's overhead creams at the train yard

That Tom Cruise used in the War of the World's

Before the aliens came part

Remember that, I'm not a fan of the sci-fi

Like dial-up's not a fan of the wi-fi

I'm in your eyes like little reflective little pools of tie-dye

And it's 1972 and I'm some long-haired high guy

Driving a Volkswagen Beetle off into the California twilight

I usually got top cause I'm a guy right

But if you're gay that's straight too

Hey, I don't hate, I got a couple of friends who went bi twice

Did that arrive right?

Do you like whole stories or just the highlights

Cause I like to write your life story on the sky

Made of Lite Brights, remember those?

10 years old, let me get your age

You were a ten, ten years ago

Am I right, who you calling?

Maybe New Orleans

Where your Mother lives with your brothers kids

Because he locked up cause

Of what some other motherfucker did

Love to fib but the Fibonacci sequence

Do you flicker like Liberace sequence

Or maybe twinkle like little stars

And tingle like little scars

I run a wrinkle with you like a car hood

And we crash test and b-box while we re-rocks

Saw William's slam set

Then wrap like saran over the pan

Keep the yams fresh, sweet

Five different songs, over five different beats

And this one's called Valley

I wrote it on the plane in the chair by the galley

On the way to Cali, chicken in the salad

Sounds like a ballad

You loyal, so I'm Khaled

Buy your momma a palace, scratch that

Buy your momma what matters

Data says dollars hotter than tuna feathers

Burning hole in the pockets

And in the wallets of all the rappers

Trappers attracting all the yellowboning Instagrammers

But what about us?

[Verse 2]

It burns inside like lactic acid

Exorcise demons, turn them into gods

Turning in the rods for the bags of the catfish

I don't believe that god is a black man

Spoiled child getting robbed for his black vans

Mars and other stars in the CAT scans

Back when I listened to Killer Priest

Hand my mind sicker and bigger than Philip Heaps

Walking around in kunis with sunnis with thicker beads

Remembering the movies my duty was killing beats

Social villain I'm willing to live in peace

I told you children I'm willing to live in beast

Streets, this is where Helen and Ellen meet

So you can get lost like Gilligan on the beach

The players getting mad they not kicking it with the freaks

Cause they took away they pussy and giving it to the geeks

Like us, paradigm shifter, South Carolina nine shrine grime giver

But not enough dimes to be a prime lin tipper

The difference between "nigga", and "nigger"

Uh, Bernie Sanders need a Nike deal

Then I might consider that, he might be real

If Phil Knight, knight him then I might like him

Until then children, enjoy the white icing on the cake

Cake, cake, cake, cake

On the cake, cake, cake, cake

On the cake, cake, cake, cake

On the cake, cake, cake, cake

Yeah, yeah, pharaoh, higher, yeah

[Verse 3]

What you need a little more? Okay, I'll give you a little more, a little more

Freestyle off the top, sitting on the stool on the block

Watching for the cops watching for the thots and watching for the shots

I'm watching for a lot, I gotta use my eyes cause they use me

Cause to them I'm like a price, I say surprises

And they don't deprive them, I just demises

And nothing ever lies yes, on my premises

Watched for my demises

Maybe might like them, until then just enjoy the white icing on the cake

Cake, cake, cake, cake

The cake, cake, cake, cake

The cake, cake, cake, cake

The cake, cake, cake, cake

Ameri- the cake, cake, cake, cake

The cake, cake, cake, cake

Ameri- the cake, cake, cake, cake

The cake, cake, cake, cake

Ameri- the cake, cake, cake, cake