In this stand-out track off Lupe Fiasco’s debut album Food & Liquor, Lupe Fiasco and Jay-Z trade rhymes over a lively instrumental provided by producer Prolyfic.

“Pressure” samples the instrumental disco… Read More [Intro: Lupe Fiasco]

Roc-A-Fella

1st and...!

Jay! Lupe!

Yeah! Ugh!

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

And so it seems that I'm sewing jeans

And 1st and 15th is just a sewing machine

So I cut the pattern and I sew its seams and

Button in this hustling, then, publicly, I'm Buddy Lee

There's no busting them

And cuffing them is like ushering in the regime

They want me to make Prince pants

But I withstand, I ain't gotten into that

A little big in the waist, two-pocket on the back

Call them Lu-vi's, old jeans covered in blue dye (Woo!)

Give 'em the game, that's like giving chocolate to the fat

Look: how you think I got here?

That's the same game that came through where I lived as a kid

In the bad luck truck and threw boxes off the back

Made me a ripper, deliver like river

Content a lil' more thicker, slicker, yeah!

And they said oil and water don't mix

Now they all down at the beach, washing off the fish

Was Blackbeard 'til I brought the Roc into your ships

Yeah!

[Chorus: GemStones]

It's my life (My life)

Everything I do I do for you (I do it all for you)

Everything I say, you know it's the truth (I'll say it is the truth)

I'll take all the pressure off of you (Take pressure off of you)

I'll take the pressure off of you

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Yeah! Uhh, it's hella proper (proper)

'Cause it sag so low you can see boxer—like a boxer's

That's the way that the family's pants worn

Don't be sly and try and put 'em on

The stones in the pocket'll drag you down to Davy Jones' locker

Beware if you wanna rock the Knickerbocker

Other nigga from the block what, they was selling O's

Like Wheel of Fortune, of imported cocaine

Just to feel important, it was "Do or Die"

They was tired of being "Po' Pimps," not for sure (Sure)

That was just a product of my common sense (Sense)

I guess, I was just guessing like the consonants

Momma said, "Beware of what the devil do"

"Tell 'em that your soul's not for sale like the Ws"

So go 'head and pirate the highest

Cannons make you leak like, pirated my shh...

It's no shh.. it's just shh like quiet

And big homie's out of retirement, nigga

Yessir!

[Chorus: GemStones & Jay-Z]

It's my life (My life)

Everything I do I do for you (I do it all for you)

Everything I say, you know it's the truth (I'll say it is the truth)

I'll take all the pressure off of you (Take pressure off of you)

Unh!

I'll take (Young!) the pressure off of you

Unh!

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]

So the pen is mightier than the sword, my Lord

My first picture was a line-up, now I'm on the Forbes (Unh)

And I still remain the artiste through thees all

If you force my hand, I'll be forced to draw (Hahaha)

If the war calls for Warhols

Hope you got enough space on your hall's walls

I make niggas murals, then escape the Bureau's investigation

Out in Europe on vacation

I'm back for these puppies with the pound, boy (Rrrrra!)

Here's a round, boy (Rrrra! Rrrra!), down, boy

Sound boy, you don't wanna sound-clash; loud noise

Leave niggas paranoid if not paralyzed

Which means you can't walk in my shoes

Too much green; you can't talk in my hue

Extend the team, nigga, holla at Lu'

1st and 15th, that's my cue

I'm through

[Chorus: GemStones]

It's my life (My life)

Everything I do I do for you (I do it all for you)

Everything I say, you know it's the truth (I'll say it is the truth)

I'll take all the pressure off of you (Take pressure off of you)

I'll take the pressure off of you