Lupe Fiasco "Shining Down" - MP3, Lyrics (updated)

Man Lu pissed bout this. and I believe it's
"i ain't the nigga trying to get a lick of lime"

Naw nigga its "i aint trying to get a liquor line" like how diddy got ciroc and jayz got armadale. The lyrics are correct

yeah, on that LupEND blog. he's mad as heck. its not the final version supposedly though.

A couple things i noticed:

In the 1st verse the last line is "this is HIS memorial"

The line about Fabolous it's "hatS". it's plural.

In the in the 3rd verse it's "to everybody out there who ain't never heard MINE"

And you should add (lines) after lions to show the play on words

"cowards (cow-words), you only heard lions"

Cow-herds

the chorus is wrong its "thought i wasnt around"

He was right. It is actually Cow-words. Because he says "Lu don't moo, no cow words"

Lu don't moo, no cow-words you've only heard lines
Lu don't moo, no cow-words you've only heard lions
Lu don't move no cow-herds you've only herd lions
Lu don't move no cowards, you've only heard lions (lions are brave)

this is probably one of the smartest lines ive ever heard, im gonna go with

Lu don't moo (move), no cow-words (cow-herds/cowards) you've only heard (herd) lines (lions)

then again thats still indecisive haha

Fire

i believe "judge jury like a loop" is making reference to judge and jury like a noose.

also "taking off with the dough" not "door"

Dough/Door - Its both.

"Little" Walter Jacobs took the doors off his Cadillac because he was hot and that the car lacked air conditioning.

A few verses of lupe deliver more content than a whole lp of almost every radio, tv, and chart wanna be mc.

sick song, lupe keeps getting better, hopefully the rest of his album will be this good

*thot i wasnt around

i really love my people i'm sick of pimping mine

true to true

i love lupe.
sighhh.

Chess is actually chests because Jerry Lawler is all about those tig ol bitties. trust me.

no jerry lawler was "the king" in wrestling so if lupe was a chess piece in this game of hip hop he would be jerry lawler the king

Wow, Lu's genius is proven by the way we try and decipher his lyrics, and every interpretation given is so ill and creative.

I agree with this tho:
"no jerry lawler was "the king" in wrestling so if lupe was a chess piece in this game of hip hop he would be jerry lawler the king"

Wow, Lu's genius is proven by the way we try and decipher his lyrics, and every interpretation given is so ill and creative.

I agree with this tho:
"no jerry lawler was "the king" in wrestling so if lupe was a chess piece in this game of hip hop he would be jerry lawler the king"

I'm glad to see that people still know how to interpret lyrics.

No one mentioned the duality of this bar:

"Rather being FEDS instead of National Geographics"

Yes, they are both magazine references but phonetically Lu says:

"Rather being FEDS (eating no matter how broken they are as people) than National Geogra-"fixed"

this absoloutly blows my mind... nas sed hip hop is ded but lupe jus reived it wit one song... im jus speechless

this absoloutly blows my mind... nas sed hip hop is ded but lupe jus reived it wit one song... im jus speechless

This is a fucking epic song. Good job deciphering guys.

Actually it IS "chess" because it's referring to both Little Walter who was on "Chess Records" as well as Jerry Lawler who was called "the King" which is obviously the #1 piece in Chess.

Also it should be "taken off of the dough(door) like Little Walter" because he's talkin about taking ppl's attention off of the dough(money) and putting it back on the flow(lyrics).

And, as someone else posted, Little Walter was said to have taken the doors off of his caddy so he could get in and outta shit quicker.

Lupe's wordplay is just immortal in this song.

I think the most complete lyrics version is on LyricWiki now that I edited it there with ppl's suggestions here and all the homonyms to0.

who is the chorus supposed to be? God? Lupe is God (rap god)?

and also he says rebel with a cause. well speaking of chess records(old original rock n roll label), there was a movie around the time chess was a major label called THE REBEL, but the star character supposedly had no cause. Lupe has a cause.

also it could be liquor line or "lick a line"

saying hes not trying to get rich off of every line he spits.

move is actually called Rebel Without a Cause(1955)

on the verse that says: "but my daddy named me warrior
this is a memorial"

Correction,
But my daddy named me warrior
this is HIS memorial.

Can someone explain the "Rather be in FEDS than national geographics" line? It doesn't make much sense over here in the UK.

I thought that, keeping with the theme of headwear throughout the verse (bandanas, hat), it was something to do with the following:

Rather be in Fed's (as in a Fedora)
Than National geographics
Well I'm not having it

As in certain stars would rather pose for the present than be remembered for something worth while?

Am I totally off the mark or is this just another classic Lupe line that can mean a thousand things?

i think the hook is relating to Lupe's deceased father. how he is looking down on him.....thus, the song is 'his memorial'

man, i love this dude. my goodness. Lupe fiasco......'i aint after the throne, jus give me a folding chair'........then the throne must be the folding chair.

does anyone kno wher i can get 'The Truth Is Amongst Us' ?

does anyone kno wher i can get 'The Truth Is Amongst Us' ?

"now if we autotune that shit
we can hear the songs from that opera grown fat b*tch"

now if we look at the quote "it aint over till the fat lady says its over",
it seems he's saying auto will end this

its Chess, Little Walter was a blues musician for chicago's Chess Records. the play on it is about jerry lawler and how he loves chests. brilliant

I think he wanted each line to have more meaning... that’s the brilliance in his word play. Not only is each line mean something, each verse is a metaphor for something totally different if u want to read deep. I can’t believe pp sleep on him like they do... BEST RAPPER ALIVE! Hands down!

"now if we autotune that shit
we can hear the songs from that opera grown fat b*tch"

now if we look at the quote "it aint over till the fat lady says its over",
it seems he's saying auto will end this

Posted by: Frank; b-boy shadow (truth and creativity!) at October 13, 2009 3:01 PM

this is a beautiful and highly intelligent analysis. Only minor correction is the quote is, it's not over till the fat lady sings

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