Lupe Fiasco- Pen & the Needles

Pen & the Needles

Lyrics:
[Lupe talking followed by Pen Writing]

[Verse 1]
Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart
Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my culture
Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric
In other words, I reposition how I sit it,
Then make u "feel it" Like I mispronounced Filet,
On second thought, I can't make u fill it
Like u diggin' ya own grave, 'less u can Kill Bill it
A night of the living passed the wait
Can u dig it? Why Emcee? Hey,
I do it for my village-
The pennin' is John Lennon, the beat; is the Beatles
Go together like Lennon and the people
In some fresh linens and some John Lennon's fresh outta Seagle's
The pen and the needles...

[Writing and mumbling upcoming verse]

[Verse 2]
I'm back at cha, and I Pac' like cap backwards
Like a hat's backwards, you know, when the bats backwards
Yeah, like a bat catchers
The law gotta long arm like a back scratcher
But before I leave mine at home
Like a bad catcher, I think about my zone
Where pimps make scratch off the track like a DJ
Easy, that's my zone rappers
It's my deck...
And if I catch u set trippin' wit my cassette sittin' in a zone rappers:
It's not a threat,
Cuz it'll span ya where I roam rappers, where I hone my skills
They wanna send me back home the devil, is on my heels
The wreckingness thing like in a sequences police, i repeat
We go together like the Beauty and the Beast
Writing is in my veins;
The ink is the diesel, the pen and the needles...

[Writing and mumbling upcoming verse]

The word is mightier than the sword
And my serve is tightier than yours
Like year in St. Louis ya whole flow
I fear I sank through it...
It all became clear,
Like a paramedic with an electric chest kit, YEAH
The gravity of the vocabulary is a caliber equal to Excalibur
Swung wit the grace of Agassi in his amateurs, THERE
There was a deeper depth, don't know how I got here
I also had a hole in my flow,
It appears I sank to it...
My swing, it couldn't be seen
I apply some paint to it, the invisible man
Wrapped in bandages, in critical, CLEAR
The scriptin' of Scorsese the score is Count Basie
We go together like, the original and the sequel
This is the end of the trilogy, ya feelin' me?
The pen and the needles...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hip-hop
• rap
• Lupe
• Fiasco
• Pen
• the
• Needles
• and

[gio1764]

LUPE FIASCO IS BETTER THAN EMINEM,ADMIT IT PEOPLE,YA'LL FINALLY FOUND ANOTHER MC OUT THEIR BETTER THAN EMINEM,AND HE'S LUPE FIASCO

[dtb1331]

I like how in between each verse you can hear him whispering the beginning of the next verse

[Tony96588]

@gio1764 that would be a real argument if lasers hadn't come out....em has bad albums but his catalog is bigger and overshadows them, lupe doesn't have that catalog yet. FL2 should be nice tho and then we can resume this discussion tho, lol.

[Ant718100]

@jspears19 Word, well said.

[gizmoexplodes]

@gsnax22 Not trying to troll on that comment above, more trying to educate those who don't know. When you are comparing artists you gotta compare them to similar artists. Like comparing Rick Ross and Lil Wayne is ok because they both do the same type of rap. If your gonna compare Lu to anybody you gotta try artists like Common or Nas.

[IamLincolnLand1]

@gio1764 Nas is still NASTY, the nasty EST, then lupe... Nas is the GOAT

[Gunshinzero]

@TheEJaymes Addition

The law got a long arm like a back scratcher (meaning he could get caught)

But before I leave mine at home (before I leave my gun at home so the police wont catch him with it)

Like a bat catcher, I think about my zone (I think about how dangerous my neighborhood is)

[jspears19]

@gizmoexplodes yea Lupe favors more of the double entendre/metaphor/concept/adva­nced punchline lyricist. Em is lyricist as far as multisyllables go just making anything rhyme with anything and putting an over the top flow over it. Lupe is more the poet type and makes one think more when listening so you have 2 rewind. Em shocks you with the shit he says so you rewind it. It's personal preference at the end of the day but I like both

[jspears19]

Its not a threat

[gsnax22]

@gio1764 I like lupe and he might be better than eminem but whats the point in starting an argument??? I feel like lupe deserves the respect of us not comparing him to other mcs

[docbaddoc]

@TheEJaymes wow I didnt even catch the concept about the bat catcher staying at home punchline.....Who thinks of that.lmao

[MrVizionary2012]

@TheEJaymes um I hate to stick a pin in an otherwise flawless analysis but I think he said "bad" catcher, not bat catcher.