Crédits
INTERPRÉTATION
Lupe Fiasco
Voix principales
Pooh Bear
Chant
Snoop Dogg
Chant
COMPOSITION ET PAROLES
Pooh Bear
Paroles/Composition
Alexander Shuckburgh
Paroles/Composition
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
Paroles/Composition
Jason Paul D. Boyd
Paroles/Composition
Wasalu Jaco
Paroles/Composition
PRODUCTION ET INGÉNIERIE
Jesse Gladstone
Assistance d’ingénierie de mixage
Josh Shultz
Assistance d’ingénierie de mixage
"You Can Ask" Giz
Ingénierie de mixage
Alshux
Production
Greg "G Ball" Magers
Ingénierie de prise de son
Chris Gehringer
Ingénierie de mastérisation
Ethan Sugar
Ingénierie d’enregistrement des voix
Paroles
[Verse 1]
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
You street folk don't need permission
My life's in hi-definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in hi-definition
[Verse 2]
And my return is more like a re-up
I hold a **** like a teacup
World in one hand, while the other hand throw the peace up
My other hand throwing we without the E-up
I got like five more, mane, I'm something like Shiva
In that fall of Rome, Number IV Deluxe
See, I've been around the world like the gnome
But I come from a zone where the homes are beat up
[Verse 3]
The folks, unknowns and the stones all meet up
Police tap my phones, got my songs on speaker
Say he's back to poems, got their domes all geeked up
To get up on they thrones and become young leaders
Oprah put it on my culture now if that ain't wrong
Imus got it from the rhymers if that ain't blown
They gave my man 44, now if that ain't long
I put it all on my shoulders, now if that ain't strong
[Verse 4]
I made it out alive from the streets of the westside
C.H.I., now if that ain't home, you better tell 'em
[Verse 5]
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
You street folk don't need permission
My life's in hi-definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in hi-definition
[Verse 6]
And in my flyness, I've become the hero and the sidekick
The rider and the **** that'll ride with
In your ear like the maker of the vivrant
Assalamualaikum to the maker of the vivrant
Them other **** I don't vibe with
Now, I was about 3 when the eyes went
But I could see everything that you trying to be
You can't hide it
[Verse 7]
While you coming out your throats like a Heimlich
I came up out the belly like a Hype script
Only my circumstance revised it
Hijacked the roll and went and shot the pilot
I'm tryna go public so I can get to private
Then send Busy to go and get the pirates
Then hit Africa, try to fix the virus
Go back to the hood, tell Huggy open the hydrants
R.I.P. Stack B, I'ma keep you alive, kid
[Verse 8]
Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful
F.N.F. and S-N-double-O-P
[Verse 9]
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
You street folk don't need permission
My life's in hi-definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in hi-definition
[Verse 10]
Lupey, it's Snoopy, let's go wild
Tiptoe through the door, do it Doggystyle
And tell all my chicks in Chi-I-Cago
Lupey hit the lotto, Snoopy hit the bottle
Dolemite tight, they bite, they might follow
Take this chill pill, lil' ****, swallow
Recital is very homicidal
The big screen will capture it 'cause it's hi-definition
[Verse 11]
Listen, cooking collard greens in the kitchen
Them alphabet boys on a mission
If you ever get cash, you better get it quick fast
'Cause nowadays, get to snitching on your ********
Even your boys best believe in them toys, out your game
'Specially when a **** know your real name
Blam-blam with the blammer
Smile, nephew, you on candid camera, film at 11:00
[Verse 12]
Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful
F.N.F. and S-N-double-O-P
[Verse 13]
Gather 'round, go ahead and stare
You street folk don't need permission
My life's in hi-definition
Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears
I don't need no intermission
My life's in hi-definition
Written by: Alexander Shuckburgh, Cordozor Calvin Broadus, Lupe Fiasco, Pooh Bear