Lupe Fiasco Songs 2013: Rapper Drops 'Pound Of Flesh (Paris, Tokyo 2)' - Subtle Attack On Drake's 'Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2'
Exactly a year ago today, Lupe Fiasco released his last (fourth) studio album, "Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1," and in the last several weeks, he has dropped a few songs such as "SLR," which was a response track to Kendrick Lamar, "SLR 2," "SLR 3 (Round of Applause)" and "Peace of Paper / Cup of YAYZUS."
Now, the Chicago emcee returns with his new song, "Pound Of Flesh (Paris, Tokyo 2)." In this two-and-a-half minutes of straight bars, he jumps on the Jay Z-assisted beat from Drake's standout track "Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2" from his newly released album "Nothing Was The Same."
In his freestyle remix, the "Superstar" rapper brings the bars nonstop on, and raps before he goes into the beat acknowledging that he's indeed using Drake's beat, "It's yo beat I'm sorry, but out eyes was so starry / I just had to get some... and one up it / hit the bricks, drop the coins, pick up the sh--." The outspoken MC surely subtly knocks down Drake, "Your beat is in my bedroom, giving head to 'em... Beat the beat till it's beat there's eggs to 'em." Lupe Fiasco pronounces "beat" to also sound like "b---h" and "head to 'em" sound like "head tomb": he uses wordplay to say that he's killing this beat (now has a headtomb) in his bedroom.
In his bars of knowledge, with his metaphors and puns, Lupe Fiasco speaks about the serious realities that people from Chicago are up against.
In the last seconds of the verse, he makes a shout out to his fellow rappers from Chi-town, Lil Durk, Lil Mouse, Chief Keef, Chance the Rapper, Common, and of course Kanye West.