Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha Lyrics

I was listening to this in Brooklyn in a apartment yeah I sold kingdom hearts for game boy advance to the owner...2 F ..

Twelve years ago I fell in love with this song and I'm STILL here for it 😍😍😍

I used to hear "Had my mom moving faster than that hog in the hedges", which I thought was neat. He trying to get his mom out the hood faster than Sonic, but then I realized he said "mind", which has left me dissapointed.

Still listening in Nov 2019. Classic

I miss the 00's
Nothing made sense. It didn't have to. The closest we come to it is memes but then it was everyone, a fashion, a plague, a lifestyle, a brand.

This came out at time with hip hop was changing

Talib Kweli - Get By beat sprinkled there. Not complaining tho, this tune is classic.

Why this only got 1M views?

Was smoking and this song just randomly came to mind

ONLY ONE MILL!!!!! y'all are evil, this song is fire

When I first heard "this is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges", I had to restart the song and play it again

Most underrated rapper ever

A time ❤️❤️

Classic !

Them soap bars

I know right

Needs more than 1millions this is a classic song .

This nigga got super #Bars

I was 14 watching this every day in computer class lol now I'll be 27 next week...will never forget this song. Such a timeless tune!

Pharrell delivered on that beat,, but lupe’s whole verse,, was above!

If anybody wants to know what hip hop is, here it is.

Wow right back to the artists besides eminem who inspired me to start rapping.. So i notice that lu does many of his rhymes 4 or 5 punchlines at a time, and then 2, and then so on..is there a general amount that sounds the best on a four count beat?

That broad is fine

Still obsessed in 2019!

Sound kinda like Ashanti

The Ashanti Beat

Recorded a remix to this. Lupe please don’t sue me. Check it out and lmk what you think! https://soundcloud.com/n0legs/5-i-gotcha-lupe-fiasco-remix/s-uacMH

This was ahead of its time.

Most of Lupe is

I kept hearing this song on VH1 countdown shows,a sample

Brasil 2019 🇧🇷

Lupe really underrated in the MC game maine, but he always gotta be one of my favorite MC. also Pharell always a beast with production.

1m view lol🤣

I love this song😄

Another awesome video and song by the great Lupe Fiasco.

Oof this song hooked me on Lupe. One of the most important songs to me.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Pharrel is lowkey a hoeassnicca

I remember being 14 when this first dropped and me being hype when my cousin called me in the living room "there go yo boy" damn time flies.

That finger wiggle at the end , though, is straight out of the 20s. LOL I love Lupe. Old soul from the beginning.

This is the definition of a hip hop love song! I gotcha!

This song is way ahead of its time

Haha Its crazyy.. Lupe literally made me inpspired to study international relations in college with paris tokyo, and leaped froged right to a battle with eminem for my GOAT with just two Albums haha!

Who watching in 2019?

It’s Chad Hugo behind these beats 🔥

Refreshing song and video

There was this beautiful remix of this I heard many years ago on here with the Ahmad Jamal’s “I love music” sample and it sound way better than the original. still can’t believe they deleted it over copyright smh

Been listening to Lupe literally my entire life...how have I not heard this song until now😭 damn Lupe...he was fly

Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor

Lupe is a gamer? How does he feel about Skyrim I wonder🤔.
Playing this on repeat on my mp3 flash player Saturday 11-3-18.
Keep doing what you do.

Still bumping this song like it just came out yesterday.

This is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges, my ivory's and my doves my leverz and my zests it takes half of ya bubble bath to match the freshness. The belly of the beast you know I'm from it, I wrap it in a towel here go my pal in a stomach. And I be on my green like Irish spring and I Coast fudge with it with a mouth full o soap it's mean.

I wanted to be on a HBCU campus so bad when this dropped

Classic. Lupe one of the best to do it.

I thought Lupe was from NYC for some reason 😅

Pharrell at his best

0:35-0:45 sick flow

The goat Lupe!!

Baaarsss

From Lupe to.... Chief Kief.... SMH

The Neptunes on production!

They Call Me Lupe I'll Be Your New Day
They Wanna Smell Like Me They Want My Bouquet
But They Cant They They Accented Like The UK
Turn That Ude Lupe To Pepe Le Peu Spray
Flagrantly Fragrant And They Can't Escape It
My Perfume Pursued Them Anywhere That They Went
You Don't Want A Loan Leave My Cologne Alone
It's A Little Too Strong For You To Be Putting On
Trust Me I Say This Justly
I Went From Musty To Musky And You all Can't Mush Me
I Warned You all Cornballs I Hush Puppies
The Swans In The Pond Called My Duck Ugly
But Now They Hug Me Because It's Lovely
They Love The Aroma Of A Roamer The World
Got The Shakers And The Skaters And The Player And The Girls
Keep The Fakers And The Flakers And The Haters In A Twirl

[Hook:]
You Want The Flavor Ma
HEY! I Gotcha
You Want The Realness
WELL! I Gotcha
I Know You Sick Of Them Players Big Car And Watch Ya
Either They Pimps Or They Macks Or They Mobsters
You Want The Real Sh*t
HEY! I Gotcha
You See My Peoples Here
You Know We Proper
You We Do It
Right, Right, Right, Right, Right, Right, Right, Right

[Verse:]
And I'm From Chi-Town Thats Where I Flies 'Round
Keep Some Cartier Frames Over my Eyes Now
We Used To Gangbang A Lot Of That Done Died Down
Children Of The Hat Tiltin' Keeping Hope Alive Now
All With No High I Do It So Fly
Banksy's attack Helicopter With The Bow Tie
I Love My City Really Hope That God Bless It
Have My Mind Moving Faster Than That Hog In The Hedges
Welcome All Of You all To My Dark Recesses
This Is Where I Keep The Bars Like Bathtub Edges
My IVORIES And My DOVES My LEVERS AND MY ZEST'S
It Takes Half Of Your Bubble Bath To Match The Freshness
The Belly Of The Beast You Know I'm From It
I Wrap It In A Towel Here Go My Pal In The Stomach
And I Be On My Green Like IRISH SPRING And I COAST
Fudge Wit It And Get A Mouth Full Of Soap

[Hook]

[Verse:]
And So To Sign Off This Beat I Rhyme Off
Is From The Looniest P And Hugo Mind Boss
You Feel It In The Air Its Such A Fine Force
But You Don't Hear Me Though Just Like A Mime's *Thoughts*
That's Cause I'm In Europe Me And My Friends Tour'a
I'm On My Pimp My Temperature Is tem-pura
I Take It Easy On My Watch I'm Watching TV
Am I As Clean As Maharishi See The Hare Is Tryna Beat Me
As I Continue To Do Lu's Pace
They Say Him Got Two Heads And Four Eyes Just Like Screwface
But See My Secret's Safe Its In My Secret Safe
That's In My Secret Room On My Secret Base
So From The Runner Of The FNF Crew
Come In Hip Hop We've Come To Resurrect You
You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You, You

2018 and Lupe is still one of the most underrated musicians 😢

2018 Lupe is trash

timeless.

This song will always be cool...i miss this era of hip hop a decade ago

F.R.E.S.H hip hop classic

Never gets old! Food & liquor one of the best!

Still kicking and pushing this in 2018!

Classic

FLY SHIT ONLY!!! 💦✈️✈️✈️

Still underrated.

This song better be on 2k19 next year

Still trying my hardest to get lupe out of the underrated section

I like this one from him and paris tokyo

They either pimps,macs, or mobster. 💭

Pharell is one of the absolute at producing beats

John Doe him and Hugo you mean?

This one's all Pharrell. Despite the fact that Lupe name dropped Hugo, only Lupe and Pharrell had the songwriting credits of this song in the BMI repertoire.

@Phil A writing credits and production credits aren't mutually exclusive though

Phil A lol how naive of you my friend. The entire melody was all Chad. Literally. 😉

Yea I know Pharrell 🔥🔥🔥

This is my song

My first and favorite Lupe track. He snapped.

I’m so glad to finally have lupe’s videos back on YouTube

I remember when MTV did a behind the scenes for this video and Lupe’s sister was talking about how smart he really is. He was reading encyclopedias for fun! I wish we could get this shit back! The music, the fashion... everything!!!

Only the Neptunes can make an accordion sound 🔥🔥🔥 on a beat

Steven Castillo IT SOUNDS WICKED!!!

MF DOOM?

Nah madlib too

damn I love how u can tell it's a 2000s type video by the vibe of it

This song takes back to when I was in 4th Grade back in Fall of 2006. I remember listening to this whole album on my Batman CD Player going to school. 2006 was a good year for Hip Hop !!! DJ Drama had the mixtape game on lock, Nas started the whole Hip Hop Is Dead theory and had a lot of rappers in their feelings,The Game vs 50 Cent was still entertaining, and Lil Wayne was even starting to get big once Dedication 2 came out, T.I had one of the best albums/movies of the year plus a lot of great albums dropped that year.

Mack Vell on BD💯 Real Shit💯

vince staples at 3:09

2006 was a simple time

If only I can get a classic from Eminem, Lupe and Royce Da 5'9. Three of the illest lyracists imo

This was the first song I heard from Lupe and I was instantly hooked

The enitre first verse is an extended metaphor for how he smells. Only Lupe can do shit like that.

B-Mint1994 facts. timeless

Big facts

Lupe Fiasco 🔥🔥🔥 this song Still Ride

Anybody know that amazing remix with the girl singing in the background?! It was amazing! Can't find it

This song is so fire

Not even a million views yet smh 😑

The contrast of how good the song aged and how terribly the video did is hilarious to me.

Pharrel Williams the hero for making this instrumental

Well Neptune's

This beat and lyrics 🔥🔥

I'm mad I didn't know this song when I was little

Kanye and Jay z type shit

WHERE CAN I GET A FOOD & LIQUOR JACKET OMGGG THAT JOINT FLAMEEEEE