Microphone Check, I make em all bounce,
every Teller in Bank of America, make em all count.
You gone need the whole staff to add up the amount...
it's gonna take to pay me off to keep me out your house,
to keep me in my zone so that I don't zone out.
I'm Rich and Po' like Zone 4, thoughts is deep like Tone Loc,
walk with me like old folk, 'cross your street a score's goal'ed,
I don't rap I hockey rink...'cause my flow is so cold!
I am on my "umm hmm," they are on they "Oh, No!"
I am really in here (hair), they ain't real like Soul Glo.
Don't you know I'm so sho, them nigga's got no Glow,
find a master for you can come back into the DoJo!
Lupe got his mind right, Nigga this is my mic
and I've come to take it all back like MILLER HIGH LIFE!!!
He must not be tied tight...back against the wall...
he will throw a ball, like he playin' Jai Alai.
I'll do the register, you just get them fries right.
I don't trust America, after watchin' Zeitgeist.
Take a look at my stripes, chest looks like a tiger' arm
and I'm hot as tiger balm, fire like a five-alarm,
(???.....) get ya fire-fighter on....
I ain't worried 'bout you hoes (hose). I don't even need to roll.
I turn down your Ex like how you put your tires on.
Once I get these tires on I buy a bomb and tie it on
and ride this around the entire song, find a line to drive it on,
park it near a metaphor, wait for it, the timer's on,
you can turn your hydrants on, I'll just turn my wipers on,
wipe it off then wipe me down but don't forget about my bomb!
These are the lyrics to Lupe Fiasco's All The Way Turnt Up freestyle. I posted the song earlier, and after listening to the song several times, I feel like Lupe needs to pull a young dro and come out with a R.I.P. mixtape because he ripped this beat, annihilated, murdered, murked, kilt, destroyed, assassinated, put it six feet deep, sent it to that long never ending sleep, in fact this is the hardest I have ever heard somebody rip a beat in a minute. Just marvel at the amazing wordplay. The metaphors in the song are ridiculous and I probably have not even found all of them.
Right off the bat he goes in with "microphone check I make em all bounce" which is simple enough, meaning when he gets on the mic he makes people bounce just like a bad check, and he surely did. The next metaphor that stands out to me is "I am rich and poor, like zone 4" referring to 1.) the zone in Atlanta where you can see the nicest houses in the world, and drive only two blocks and be in the hoodest place ever. 2.) Referring to Rich Boy and Polow Da Don of Zone 4 music. Then he goes in with the Tone Loc reference and his deep voice with the line "thoughts deep like tone loc". But I feel like this could have another meaning.
Lupe then proceeds to just go off:
"I don't rap I hockey rink...'cause my flow is so cold!
I am on my "umm hmm," they are on they "Oh, No!"
I am really in here (hair), they ain't real like Soul Glo.
Don't you know I'm so sho, them nigga's got no Glow,
find a master for you can come back into the DoJo!"
This verse was just crazy. The hockey rink one is simple enough. The ones that really sets this verse off is the references to Coming to America and The Last Dragon. That whole verse about sho-nuff, who is the master, and finding the glow is bananas. Lupe really shows that he can use a number of things to create deep and thought provoking metaphors. But wait it does not stop there, he follows that up with:
"Lupe got his mind right, Nigga this is my mic
and I've come to take it all back like MILLER HIGH LIFE!!!
He must not be tied tight...back against the wall...
he will throw a ball, like he playin' Jai Alai."
Lupe continues to be able to reference almost anything when he talks about bringing his mics back. If you have not seen it he is referring to the beer commercial where the black guys takes away beer from people who do not deserve to have it. I feel like Lupe is a person who can truly say this. There are a lot of people in rap who mics but do not deserve to have them. Then references a sport that most people probably have not even heard of. Jai Alai is a sport of Basque Spanish origin. It is the sport that is played against a wall, with the holder things, and is believe to be the fasted sport in the world. It was once on an episode of Jackass. That is what he is talking about with the last few lines.
To me the standout verse is this one:
"I ain't worried 'bout you hoes (hose). I don't even need to roll.
I turn down your Ex like how you put your tires on.
Once I get these tires on I buy a bomb and tie it on
and ride this around the entire song, find a line to drive it on,
park it near a metaphor, wait for it, the timer's on,
you can turn your hydrants on, I'll just turn my wipers on,
wipe it off then wipe me down but don't forget about my bomb!"
Like I feel like this is a verse you just have to hear and understand for yourself, But you have to listen to the whole song and other verse to understand why this verse is so great. But I will say the hoes/hose line was crazy, and "I turn your X like how you turn your tired down" (think about most jacks). This is what makes Lupe a better rapper than Wayne and why he should make an RIP mixtape, because he has the ability to make his metaphors continue throughout an entire song, he can also create double meaning that are beyond belief. While what I have heard from No Ceiling was good, some of the best Wayne I have heard in a minute, Wayne cannot fox with Lupend.
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