SLR 3 (Round of Applause)

"**SLR 3 (Round of Applause)**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released on August 18, 2013. It follows after "SLR (Super Lupe Rap)" and "SLR 2."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus]

Welcome everybody, SLR 3

Moment of silence for them, round of applause for me

[Verse 1]

I pause to put a round in the palms of thieves

And then clap for 'em, bring it back to 'em

Soundtrakk I bring my back to 'em

'Cause they ain't ready for the front, fax to 'em

Like my n\*\*\*a Mickey Factz to 'em

Aye Mickey what the wicky-wicky wack doin'?

They ain't from us but they're claiming they're Columbus

Their raps come off flat 'cause they ain't in circumference

They ain't in the cypher of some lifers

Them n\*\*\*as probation, soon to be leavin' Rikers

They ain't see us as the circle of my peers

Sir cool but he ain't spheres

That means he ain't fierce as this

Sailboat wouldn't survive in the ocean of my tears

Bring it back to the peekhole, that's the circle of my peers

The back is what I said

Ready for the front, I rap it out the back of my head

Know it like the back of my hand

Cowboy, you calf like the back of my leg, you ain't seein' what I said

That's 'cause it's comin' out the back of my dreads

You ain't see it, gotta watch what I say

Wash a n\*\*\*a away or dock a n\*\*\*a pay

I bring it back to the piers

And if you ready for that, you've just received the deadliest catch

That you've seen in years

Match, and if you think I'm playin'

Back when you were sayin' "What in the world was that?"

When I was sayin' 'bout the world

I was talkin' 'bout when the fuckin' world was flat

[Chorus]

Welcome everybody, SLR 3

Moment of silence for them, round of applause for me

[Verse 2]

So what we got here? Some Top Ramen talkin' 'bout some top tier

Some top rhymin' to some boxed ears

Such a waste of my timin', that's why I'm not here

This recite is just a sight of the

The real me is out droppin' crop circles all over Iowa

You're witnessin' a one man cypher-a

One hand's a gun, the other hand's a silencer

If I cock the thumb, you gotta take a hike to the

Hitch, cock, psychotic, did you get that plot?

If you ain't get the words then just make a little bird

So you can hear what the fist don't stop, this shit don't stop

Let you debate whether it's birds tellin' or motellin'

Those fingernail shells come out my pistol top

I wear a Rollie so my wrist don't watch

'Cause he don't like to see it, ain't that a bitch?

The same wrist I shoot the three with, game winnin' remix

Revisit the ship, upon which n\*\*\*as seasick

Floatin' on the water out the eyes that I see with

Burnin' on the fire out the eyes that I see with

So as we heat seekin' the seen heater sea-seein'

But fuck it, it's too far off the deep end

I don't need a reason, I ain't talkin' to 'em

I just CC'd 'em Tetsuo season

[Outro]

SLR 3, Round of Applause

Silencer on my hand so my rounds won't sound at all

Now how that sound to y'all?

Maybe how dog whistles sound to dogs

Tetsuo season

Album comin' out, super soon

That's right, so I'm gon' ride this wave

And n\*\*\*as poppin' shit, it ain't got nothin' to do with me

And just capitalize off all the free press

Because my publicist charges a lot to do the same shit

As these n\*\*\*as doin' it for free

And I can just rap, because really

Shit don't mean nothin' to me

I can rap all day, pop shit all day

And you n\*\*\*as just soak it up

Believe it, if I stop, still gets headlines even though my Twitter locked

And ain't that a bitch?

## References

1. ↑ Goddard, Kevin (August 18, 2013). "SLR 3 (Round Of Applause)". *HotNewHipHop*.