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[Verse 1]
I was about as uncool as a niece's mother's biggest brother
But now it's all butter

Now I'm bout as uncool as some cover to a pool from a puddle
Like a monsoon but subtler

Slowly pull up my pants
A sagger to a flooder
Now you need a submarine
the way I'm cuffin' my jeans
Like I'm arrestin' my dress code
The dress clothes and the dress toes
So let's roll

Ghetto Lambda Lambda's how I address those
Niggas might peep and think geek

But you need that when you knee-deep goin' on waist-high
Get up to your neck just like a great tie
I finally got the Windsor
Like on my eighth try

Your shirt's still soakin' wet
Your slacks ain't dry
And I have yet to even fall from the sky

I'm hotter than red with a head full of lye
Better run and get Spike, tell him I'm on fire


[Verse 2]
Hell, I don't wanna see you like a male stripper
As you picture yourself lookin' at pictures of male strippers
That's how that I don't wanna go to hell nigga
Wish you well like a wishin' well wisher wish itself
It fell at first so now I sail with you
If it happen to sink
I pitch in with pails
And pitchers, bucket, and cup it back to the river

Then cover the leak with Garbage Pail Kid stickers
{dynamite} and first aid the way your saviors
Now your flow look like my bedroom door when I was four
No rockin that boat, or you be swimmin', fo sho
Oh, I stay ship-shape all aboard
That's just how I roll
When I try and keep the run afloat

Hating's a disease
And it's deadly if you catch it
Crabs in the bucket
Always tryna pull me backwards

Position rarely change so they don't really matter
If not the same then similar like Asher and Mathers

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Genius Annotation

Lupe recorded this in response to being left off of MTV’s Hottest Artists of 2009 list.

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