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[00:00.00]Lupe Fiaco
[00:08.64]Hurt me soul
[00:09.77]From the album FOOD & LIQUOR
[00:10.72]Editted By Joshua's Eyez
[00:14.69]
[00:15.31]I dedicate this right here
[00:19.18]To Everybody out there
[00:23.44]Ya dig
[00:28.02]Check it out
[00:28.70]Now I ain't tryna be the greatest
[00:30.64]I used to hate hip-hop... yup, because the women degraded
[00:34.57]But Too $hort made me laugh, like a hypocrite I played it
[00:37.44]A hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
[00:40.37]Omittin the word "bitch," cursin I wouldn't say it
[00:42.99]Me and dog couldn't relate, til a bitch I dated
[00:45.87]Forgive my favorite word for hers and hers alike
[00:48.74]But I learnt it from a song I heard and sorta liked
[00:51.89]Yeah, for the icin, glamorized drug dealin was appealin
[00:55.24]But the block club kept it from in front of our buildin
[00:57.53]Gangsta rap-based filmings became the buildin blocks
[01:00.53]For children with leakin ceilings catchin drippins with pots
[01:03.35]Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written"
[01:06.09]In the mix with my realities and feelings
[01:08.74]Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision
[01:12.69]I began to jot, tap the world and listen, it drop
[01:15.34]My mom can't feed me, my boyfriend beats me
[01:18.46]I have sex for money, the hood don't love me
[01:21.29]The cops wanna kill me, this nonsense built me
[01:24.20]And I got noooo place to gooo
[01:27.20]They bomb my village, they call us killers
[01:29.86]Took me off they welfare, can't afford they health care
[01:32.71]My teacher won't teach me, my master beats me
[01:35.73]And it huuurts meee soooul
[01:37.76]I had a ghetto boy bop, a Jay-Z boycott
[01:40.39]'Cause he said that he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti
[01:43.43]I'm thinkin godly, God guard me from the ungodly
[01:47.19]But by my 30th watchin of "Streets is Watchin"
[01:49.92]I was back to givin props again and that was botherin
[01:52.57]By this uncomfortable as a untouchable touchin you
[01:56.29]The theme songs that niggas hustle to seem wrong but these songs was comin true
[02:00.84]And it was all becoming cool
[02:02.28]I found a condom on the ground that Johns would cum into and thought
[02:05.59]What constitutes a prostitute is the pursuit of profit then they drop it
[02:09.13]The homie in a suit pat her on the butt, then rock it
[02:12.23]It seems I was seein the same scene adopted
[02:14.76]Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it
[02:18.23]They said don't knock it, mind ya business
[02:20.86]His business isn't mine and that nigga pimpin got it
[02:24.40]They took my daughter, we ain't got no water
[02:27.11]I can't get hired, they cross on fire
[02:30.10]We all got suspended, I just got sentenced
[02:33.08]So I got noooo place to gooo
[02:35.86]They threw down my gang sign, I ain't got no hang time
[02:38.64]They talk about my sneakers, poisoned our leader
[02:41.15]My father ain't seen me, turn off my TV
[02:44.52]'Cause it huuurts meee soooul
[02:47.03]So through the Grim Reaper sickle sharpening
[02:49.30]Macintosh marketing
[02:50.93]Oil field augering
[02:52.48]Brazilian adolescent disarmament
[02:54.64]Israeli occupation
[02:56.06]Islamic martyrdom, precise
[02:58.42]Yeah, laser guided targeting
[03:00.32]Oil for food, water, and terrorist organization harborin
[03:04.07]Sand camouflage army men
[03:05.66]CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin
[03:09.80]Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin
[03:13.24]String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin
[03:15.71]Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them
[03:20.14]They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and
[03:23.77]Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
[03:28.37]All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that
[03:33.18]They say I'm infected, this is why I injected
[03:36.04]I had it aborted, we got deported
[03:38.99]My laptop got spyware, they say that I can't lie here
[03:41.78]But I got noooo place to gooo
[03:44.79]I can't stop eatin, my best friend's leavin
[03:47.63]My pastor touched me, I love this country
[03:50.33]I lost my earpiece, I hope y'all hear me
[03:53.34]'Cause it huuurts meee soooul