Gold Watch

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Poo Bear and Snoop Dogg

"**Gold Watch**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the eighth track from his second studio album, *Lupe Fiasco's The Cool* (2007). It samples The Proposition's "Do What Ever Turns You On, Pt. 2". Fiasco said that it was Chilly's favorite beat. The track is about what the rapper personally believes is "cool".

In 2022, he reflected to *XXL* that it was kind of "bullshit" due to its lyrics that promotes materialism. His track "Kiosk" will critique this.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Break]

(Oh, give the drummer some, yeah, yeah)

(Oh, give the drummer some, yeah, yeah)

(Oh, give the drummer some, yeah, yeah)

(Oh, give the drummer some, yeah, yeah)

[Intro]

Let's peruse the essentials of Cool

A brief study on the things so instrumental to Lu

That make me feel flyer than lobbies of Ws

A disclaimer, just a rhymer, no credentials from a school (now)

Let's peruse the essentials of Cool

A brief study on the things so instrumental to Lu

That make me feel flyer than lobbies of Ws

A disclaimer, just a rhymer, no credentials from a school

[Verse 1]

In my Fall of Rome jeans, my Head Porter wallet

My Neighborhood shirt and my Eddie Chen CLOT

Shit might not go to college but my street smart polished

Like the black fingernails of that punk rock logic

Do the knowledge: man, you can't be punk from projects

Firm disbeliever in your punch clock promise

Was trading off my comics, I was taking them to school

One of Jay-Z boys, now I'm skating in your pool

Not to be rude, I'm just hating on your rules

Like a young 50, I'm on my world tour

Good morning, Singapore, I'm bringing the sun with me

From the Robert Taylor homes to Africa's slum cities

I am American mentally with Japanese tendencies

Parisian sensibility, so stay out the vicinity of...

[Chorus 1]

Yeah, yeah, them n\*\*\*as over there, it's just

Yeah, yeah, now look at what I wear

Got my gold watch and my gold chain

With my fancy car and my diamond ring

With my fancy broad and she foreign

So it's no words and it's no slang

And I'm no trick and I'm no lame

It's just so slick that she's so game, and it's

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, and it's

[Verse 2]

I like Diptyque candles and Maharishi sandals and

Dita sunglasses, Purple Murder Service samples

I like False T-shirts Dover Street is off the handle

Such a good designer, Junya Watanabe, god damn you

I like Yohji Yamamoto and a Max Roach solo

Leather Gucci belts and Guilty Brotherhood polos

I like Montblanc pens and Moleskine paper

I like Goyard bags and green Now & Laters

Monocle magazine and Japanese manga

Futura Nosferatus and HTM trainers

I love Street Fighter 2, I just really hate Zangief

Only Ken and Ryu, I find it hard to beat Blanka

Keep a Wee Ninja hanging and an UNKLE album banging

If you negative in energy, then stay out the vicinity of...

[Chorus 2]

Yeah, yeah, them n\*\*\*as over there, it's just

Yeah, yeah, now look at what I wear

Got my gold watch and my gold chain

With my fancy car and my diamond ring

With my ghetto broad and she's so plain

Got a couple scars and one of those long names

She-a fight a n\*\*\*a and cusses with no shame

And her ex-man had her baggin' up cocaine, but she

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, and it's

[Verse 3]

But my most coveted thing is a high self-esteem

And a low tolerance for them telling me how to lean

See, the most important parts are the ones that are unseen

The wings don't make you fly and the crown don't make you king

Now, God don't like ugly, ain't too happy 'bout pretty

I am ignorance's enemy so stay out the vicinity of...

[Chorus 2]

Yeah, yeah, them n\*\*\*as over there, it's just

Yeah, yeah, now look at what I wear

Got my gold watch and my gold chain

With my fancy car and my diamond ring

With my ghetto broad and she's so plain

Got a couple scars and one of those long names

She-a fight a n\*\*\*a and cusses with no shame

And her ex-man had her baggin' up cocaine, but she

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, it's just

Yeah, yeah, she love it over here, and it's

## References

1. ↑ "Track by Track for Lupe Fiasco's The Cool". *YouTube*. May 11, 2015.
2. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco Interview - New Album, Martial Arts, Music Business Danger and More". *YouTube*. July 14, 2022.