Key: F major
Verse 1
G#m
C#m
E
G#m
Ugh, what up y'all?
A
Yeah (Soundtrakk, what's poppin',
G#m
baby?)
Y'all ain't know
I go by the name of Lupe
E
Fiasco
A
Representin' that First and Fifteenth,
G#m
yeah, uh
And this one right here
I dedicate this one right here
E
To all my homies out there grindin'
G#m
A
You know what I'm sayin'?
G#m
Legally and
illegaly, haha (Uproxx)
You know what I'm talkin' about?
So, check it out, uh
Verse 2
E
First got it when he was six,
A
didn't know any tricks
Matter fact first time he got
G#m
on it, he slipped
Landed on his hip and busted his lip
For a week he had to talk with a lisp like this
E
Now we can end the story right here
G#m
A
But shorty didn't quit,
G#m
it was something in the air
Yeah, he said it was something
so appealing
He couldn't fight the feeling,
something about it
E
He knew he couldn't doubt it,
A
couldn't understand it, brand it
G#m
Since the first kick flip he landed, uh
Labeled a misfit, a bandit (ka-kump, ka-kump,
ka-kump)
His neighbors couldn't stand it
E
A
So he was banished to the park
Started in the morning,
G#m
wouldn't stop 'til after dark
Yeah, when they said its getting late in here
So I'm sorry young man,
there's no skating here
Verse 3
E
A
And so he kick, push, kick, push
G#m
Kick, push, kick, push, coast
And away he rolled
Jus' a rebel to the world
with no place to go
E
A
And so he kick, push, kick, push
G#m
Kick, push, kick, push, coast
So come and skate with me
Just a rebel looking for a place to be
E
So let's kick
G#m
A
And push
G#m
And coast
Verse 4
E
My man got a little older,
G#m
became a better a roller
A
Yeah, no helmet,
G#m
hell bent on killing himself
Is what his momma said
but he was feeling himself
Got a little more swagger in his style
E
Met his girlfriend,
A
she was clapping in the crowd
G#m
Love is what was happening to him now, uh
He said "I would marry you
But I'm engaged to
these aerials and varials
E
And I don't think this board is
strong enough to carry two"
G#m
A
She said "Bow,
G#m
I weigh a hundred and twenty pounds
Now, let me make one thing clear
I don't need to ride yours,
I got mine right here"
E
So she took him to a spot he
A
didn't know about
G#m
Some modern apartment parking lot
She said "I don't normally
take dates in here"
Security came and said "I'm sorry,
there's no skating here"
Verse 5
E
A
And so they kick, push, kick, push
G#m
Kick, push, kick, push, coast
And away they rolled
Just lovers intertwined
with no place to go
E
A
And so they kick, push, kick, push
G#m
Kick, push, kick, push, coast
So come and skate with me
Just a rebel, looking for a place to be
E
So let's kick
G#m
A
And push
G#m
And coast
Verse 6
G#m
Yeah, uh (swanky)
Yeah, yeah
Verse 7
E
Before he knew,
A
he had a crew that wasn't no punk
G#m
In they Spitfire shirts and SB dunks
They would push 'til they couldn't
skate no more
Office building lobbies
wasn't safe no more
E
And it wasn't like they wasn't
G#m
getting chased no more
A
Just the freedom was better
G#m
than breathing they said (they said)
An escape route they
used to escape out
When things got crazy,
they needed to break out
E
G#m
They head to any place with stairs
A
G#m
Any good grinds, the world was theirs, uh
And they four wheels
would take 'em there
Until the cops came and said
"There's no skating here"
Verse 8
E
A
And so they kick, push, kick, push
G#m
Kick, push, kick, push, coast
And away they rolled
Just rebels without a cause
with no place to go
E
A
And so they kick, push, kick, push
G#m
Kick, push, kick, push, coast
So come roll with me
Just a rebel looking for a place to be
E
So let's kick
G#m
A
And push
G#m
And coast
Outro 1
Haha (swanky)
G#m
E
G#m
A
G#m
E
A
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