Twilight Zone Lyrics

[Talking]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, 1-5 who's more crooked than One-Time?
Say 1-5 who's more crooked than One-Time?

Yeah, yeah check is my mic on? As I twilight zone?

[Pre-verse]
My mindstate rewinds wakes
And fast-forwards bullets makin'a B-line for my face
My mindstate
My mindstate

My mindstate rewinds wakes
And fast-forwards bullets makin'a B-line for my face


1-5 who's more crooked than One-Time?
Say 1-5 who's more crooked than One-Time?
Check it, is my mic on, as I twilight zone?

[Verse:]
My mindstate rewinds wakes
And fast-forwards bullets makin'a B-line for my face
Then they stop like Neo

Laugh at me throw some cash at me then fly pass me
But one ricochets off the wall to come back and ask me
Am I scared of him or the "nigga that blast me"
Or maybe just the hammer that goes to be a hole in an innocent bystander

My eye's a camera my ear's a microphone
My mind is Pro Tools my head is a stool
Whats recorded in my dome gets reported when I zone
My mouth is a speaker I'm anchoring the misery

There's no friends the enemy of my enemy is my enemy
Beakers and test tubes full of memories
In my labatory I create stories

Doze off then wake up surrounded by Forties
Wit Glocks tucked in they labels
And they caps is baseball hats

Playin poker at a table
Cigarettes massage they shoulders in belly tops showin off they navels
A dime sack side bets, a tech is runnin' for president
Jesus pieces walk around with niggas hangin' from they necks
Monopoly is playin' chess
I just picked up an obituary of a bullet proof vest
Put the headphone on my mouth speak into my ears

Yea microphone check, check, check, check, check
Check, a pair of Air Forces told me Rims've been extinct for years
Been ethnic cleansed by Jersey's tryna take over the set

And Television is on deathrow for killing BET and MTV over a dice game
And paralyizing CNN by knifing him in the neck

I hear Clear Channel's been fightin' him in the rec
Who's in for givin' grape Kool-Aid laced with strychnine to mixtapes and arm robbin' cassettes
Dope told me Weed was a crack fiend but Crack told me that Dope was a base head
Hi-hats told police he was just a soldier he did what the Bass said
The Snare and the Kick didn't make it out alive
The Sample made it out with some money but he died in the ride
The 808 got caught wit some work (He ain't never comin' home)
So the MPC's and the MP3's is fightin over his turf

Sean Don just gave birth
But she's thinkin' bout leavin it on the doorstep of a church
Cristal can't have kids she plottin' to kidnap it that she orchestrated with a purse
But Gucci told Fendi and Fendi turned and around and told Henny
And Henny is Moets baby's father
But she tried it anyway disguised as a nurse

In the newspapers it says "Hip-Hop called Rock n Roll racist"
The Six ripped the Five and the Maybach taped it
A Hundred dollar bill just signed a record deal
But he blew all his money on the Braceletes
And givin' the Gold Dollar a face lift

A Button Up just drove by in a 6-4 Impalla
All the Rolex's is hatin' you see the smirks on they faces

The Havatampas is defending the Dutchess they keep catchin cases
But the judge is a Swisha he just give em iBonds and community service with the Papers

So the Newport's is gettin mad at the ZigZags then out come the razors
See the Kool's is killers on the creep
Rush up on the Philly, leave his guts spillin on the street

Some Gold Grills burned down the building of some teeth
Some Sharpened Tooth Brushes is holding the trampoline cuz some children finna to leap

I just seen Rocawear rock Sean John to sleep with the same heat that Baby Phat carried
Sprint is pimpin Nextel she just gave head to a Black Berry
I heard she go two-ways
But he was skeetin on her face as it was beepin on my waist

This is the mind of Lupe
Just make sure my mic's on when I Twilight Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone

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Genius Annotation

Perhaps the famed Lupe Fiasco’s first song off his first mixtape, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part 1 (The Truth is Among Us). This song is essentially, like many of the mixtape pieces, an exercise in virtuosity, in particular the examination of what it means to be a rap virtuoso, a Lupe Fiasco. The mindstate of Lupe Fiasco is here the subject.

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Release Date
2005
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