PRECIOUS THINGS
(专辑: DRILL MUSIC IN ZION - 2022)
[Nayirah:] These precious things All these things that we love All these precious things How they turn, how they turn All these precious things All these things that we love All these precious things How they turn, how they turn On me [Lupe Fiasco:] Never bite the
hands that feed But when those same hands grab the
gats and up their sleeves They gather traps and apparatus for your grave They catch you lacking, rap around yo' hatch and squeeze I
swear my hands were pure, I
gave 'em manicures Became my adversaries, became my sabateurs I
put karats on them just like rabbit lures My middle finger's like, "Fuck this nigga, what happened to us?" Used to be clapping for us, thumbs up and then snapping poets Now they be dapping fo's and grabbing Moet And they know that I
don't drank At least I
don't think I
asked for peace signs, they gave me Leon Spinks I
asked for "Okays", I
got, "Uh, yours" and "Go aways" Shoe gestures and throat slicers, the
motion's made Give me a
sign when we can talk through a
plan But my hands was like "Fam, you can talk to the
hand," damn [Nayirah:] And these precious things All these things that we love All these precious things How they turn, how they turn All these precious things All these things that we love All these precious things How they turn, how they turn On me [Lupe Fiasco:] Who put the
arms in arms? I
put arms in palms We was hand in hand, Allstate Pinky speaker, thumb receiver how we used to call make All shakes Now it's fingers crossed over small stakes No taller than the
crawl space Give scissors to my paper, we not on the
same page We was back catcher and pitcher, now you don't even wave We used to throw the
shock at Honolulu from the
stage Now you just wanna throw hands and technicals on my plays (Goddamn) [Nayirah:] And these precious things (Yeah, yeah) All these things that we love All these precious things (These precious little things) How they turn, how they turn All these precious things (Yeah, yeah) All these things that we love All these precious things How they turn, how they turn On me [Lupe Fiasco:] It's like you could've done more to try and keep us out those handcuffs It's like we only matter when fans is putting they hands up You got popular, treated us like the
Yakuza You was Vampire Hunter D, now you Alukah See that's the
thing 'cause we was praying for you Air guitar and playing for you You turned a
deaf ear to what we was saying to you We was here, can't go back to before The
problem is you don't use us to right the
raps anymore [Nayirah:] Yeah (Yeah) Precious, precious, precious, precious Things that we love They love, they love Yeah, yeah Precious things Love, love