Skate On

## Song by The Game featuring Lupe Fiasco

"**Skate On**" is a song by The Game featuring Lupe Fiasco. On June 13, 2011, Game revealed the collaboration, which was slated to be released from *The R.E.D. Album*. However, it did not make the final cut and was instead released as the 14th track from his 2012 mixtape, *California Republic*. For the Apple Music version, it was condensed and released as the eighth track.

## Background

In an interview with *Rap-Up*, The Game noted, "The Lupe track, I forget who it's produced by, I just know I got it from Fabian who mixes most of the Neptunes stuff. Lupe was in the studio with me and Pharrell and he got on it, and it's called 'Skate On.' You know the skateboard community, like everybody skates. Lupe skates, and I thought it would be cool to take that and make it reverse psychology. You know, like when some bullshit's about to jump off, you're like, 'I think we should skate.' It's kind of like that, that world meets 'get the fuck out of there because some drama's coming,' and you know the drama's coming from my side."

Regarding Fiasco's comments about the president at the time, he said, "Yeah, to each his own. I know Lupe, and I know he's a good dude. I didn't hear it and I don't know what he said, but I don't give a fuck 'cause Obama's our president, and I ain't never met him yet, but he's a cool guy evidently. And Lupe's my homeboy, so to each his own. So whatever he said, I'm pretty sure he can stand up behind. That's him."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro: The Game]

Lupe and me, red Ferrari

2010 infinity

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Where the Almighty know, well alrighty then

I'm all mighty ho call me mighty Joe Quinn

With Josephine Baker in the Benz

On them shiny toes, glass slipper n\*\*\*as with your Cinderalla chins

I'm a shark in the water, you see my flippers and my fins

The pool is my palace, go and send them n\*\*\*as in

Rockstar, lets take the Bentley for a swim

I run the world take your hood to the gym

Stretch it all out, get it all thin

Back on my fat shit get it all again

Rap on my back bitch, hip hop on my brim

You think you're high now

Well thy style's no higher than my eyebrows, this should be a sin

Cleanse, flow clear kinda like how air look

Or like a Cinderella pair look

Or like Cinderella barefoot

No matter how many ankles of crews

The moral of the story, you can't fill my shoes

Lu!

[Verse 2: The Game]

(Mass murderer!)

And in the last verse from Lupe, touché

Ferrari drop top, but it came with a toupee

N\*\*\*as say they got cars like us, but do they?

Rap Phantoms, pack tannoms and strippers from Atlanta

Ménage à trois let 'em fuck, I watch

Stay on my J-O, Rolie when I'm punching the clock

Up on the block, everything mine, I stay on my grind

Chasing dollar signs, bumping Nas, it's halftime

And I'm the G-A, money signs, easy n\*\*\*a

Don't want shit for free but weezy n\*\*\*a

Load the Glock up, cops pop up

You can go to Iraq, take all the straps, come back and couldn't stop us

Aston with the top kush, paint job rock dust

Hand what I got in the trunk and get us all locked up

So fuck n\*\*\*as and I'm talking from behind the trigger

Now come get a n\*\*\*a, cause I'm sick of n\*\*\*as

[Chorus: The Game]

Hatin' on me, you wastin' your time

N\*\*\*a wanna kill me? Then go and stand in that line

Kill that shit, I ain't tryna hear that shit

I know you hear that shit, so n\*\*\*a

Skate on, skate on (with your bullshit)

Skate on, skate on (Lupe tell em n\*\*\*a)

S-S-Skate on, skate on

Me and my n\*\*\*as tryna stay on, skate on

[Verse 3: The Game]

Usually wake up early like them Philly n\*\*\*as

In the weed spot rolling kush A-R go get a Philly n\*\*\*a

First smoke a not, we swimming it hard rock

We push it out all spots 'till they get us up off blocks

Straight for the bout pots, then bag it in in Banglocks

Watch for the top cops cus we nourish our own crops

Smoke it like blood clops, inside of the drug spot

Will take em to Van Gundy, big man on the block

Don't worry bout my residentials or my credentials

My flow a cocktail through a Def Jam window

That's for Shekyan, I'm the rapper n\*\*\*as fear

No need for Craig Mack to kick the flava in ya ear

Keep the Lambo in fifth gear, catch me on a sunny day

Paint drippin' like Lil Weezy in Baby tears

King of LA I think I made it clear

Ain't nobody outselling 5 except Eminem and Dre this year

[Chorus: The Game]

Hatin' on me, you wastin' your time

N\*\*\*a wanna kill me? Then go and stand in that line

Kill that shit, I ain't tryna hear that shit

I know you hear that shit, so n\*\*\*a

Skate on, skate on (with your bullshit)

Skate on, skate on (Lupe tell em n\*\*\*a)

S-S-Skate on, skate on

Me and my n\*\*\*as tryna stay on, skate on

[Verse 4: The Game]

Now I've been rappin' for 9 years, 4 months

45, 46, 47 seconds, I was Doctor Dre's weapon

Had the option to stay and kept swerving

Made some rookie mistakes but so did Kyrie Irving

If Fifty was Lebron on a bad night

Or Floyd Mayweather when Manny Pacquiao did his jab right

I fucked a bad bitch but that was last night

And I ain't gon' say no names but she be singing, and her ass tight

This year I'm gettin' my cash right, 30 years old

Let Drake or Soulja Boy live fast life

Who ever said The Game wack, change that 'fore the thing clap

N\*\*\*as fucked up rap, I bought the flame back

Couple albums later, still the same cat

And my P-O, only motherfucker thinkin' that I ain't strapped

Next time you doubt me, I'mma have my accountant down south me

You can do this rap shit without me

I'm out G in a 2011 Audi, 22' Pirellis oiled up like the Saudi's

About to pick Lupe up from the hotel

Yo Pharrell, let 'em know

## References

1. ↑ "Rap-Up TV: Game Skates with Lupe Fiasco on 'R.E.D. Album'". *Rap-Up*. June 13, 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011.
2. ↑ Horowitz, Steven (June 13, 2011). "Game Reveals "Skate On" Collaboration with Lupe Fiasco for "R.E.D. Album"". *HipHopDX*.