Crack

"**Crack**" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco featuring vocals from American singer Chris Brown. It was slated to be released as a single from his upcoming fifth album, *Tetsuo & Youth* (2015), though remains unreleased. The song is about smoking crack cocaine.

## Background

Fiasco performed the first verse on August 24, 2013 at American University in Washington, D.C. It was included as part of his set for the Tetsuo & Youth Preview Tour.

He told Los Angeles radio station Power 106, "People are like, 'How could you make a song about smoking crack?' I'm like, 'Well, why not?' People smoke crack. It's a problem. It's not a problem. Some people love it. Some people hate it. I'm just going to present it to you in a format where, hey this song is about smoking crack. How you deal with it is how you deal with it. Does it make you go fight a anti-drug campaign? Does it make you want to smoke crack? Does it build you up as a crack dealer? Does it tear you down as a crack dealer? I don't know. I don't really care. But I'm going to make a song about smoking crack called, 'Crack.'"

On September 3, 2020, he addressed, "Crack is never coming out."

## Gallery

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* June 5, 2023
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## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Ayy, killer shit

Villainous, hero, don't give a shit

Hancock, Will Smith

Adrenaline, with a twist

Take pride that I'm so Chi

These young bucks just a nuisance

To my sidekicks

This shit here like magic

Yeah, this here like magic

Abracadabra, rabbits

No hook but so hooked

Take crack at my habits

Neutron but too bomb

Did it all with no tablets

It's a write off if it costs right

Get your light blue

Then the off white

[Chorus: Chris Brown]

I ain't fucking with your drama, no

Baby, all you wanna do is hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it

Make me lose my mind, girl, I can see it

I ain't fucking with your drama, no, yeah, yeah

Baby, all you wanna do is hit it, hit it

Get it, bang, bang, bang

Fuck me real good, tell me that you'll never let me go

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

No fares, dope fiends

Don't try that nose sting

Police rushed in

And they red lights, they got rocks and

Code D, codeine

On that James Dean, call it James Dean

Say watch that, watch that

You might die driving the same thing

Same thing, same thing

Whoop whoop, see that shit?

Triple entendre no accident

Might crash tryna catch this shit

Contact if you catch a whiff

All contact that I catch adrift

That I kick-block

Then stop, on ken dot

Tryna stack of bricks

Like 10 rocks crush it up and don't touch it up

While you uppercut

Shoryuken fuck it up

N\*\*\*a, let 'em hit it raw

Send it through your system through a car antenna

N\*\*\*a, how she feelin' when it lands deeply in her jaw

[Chorus: Chris Brown]

I ain't fucking with your drama, no

Baby, all you wanna do is hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it

Make me lose my mind, girl, I can see it

I ain't fucking with your drama, no, yeah, yeah

Baby, all you wanna do is hit it, hit it

Get it, bang, bang, bang

Fuck me real good, tell me that you'll never let me go

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

Higher from the back, fire from the top

Fire to the buyer to the tryer of the rock

Supplier to the buyer to the drivers of the drop

Lighter to the higher, to the writer to the cops

Lighter to the pipe or set fire to the crops

Freebase, crack, rock

Supply it worldwide when they fire at the box

Police raid, trap hot

Police state, black plot

Drier than the fire so there's violence a lot

Price is going higher so they're firing the shots

Die or survive, it's survival of the block

That's your girl, I could X that, by any means, I get it clean

One last hit, and that's it, she won't act it, can't intervene

[Chorus: Chris Brown]

I ain't fucking with your drama, no

Baby, all you wanna do is hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it

Make me lose my mind, girl, I can see it

I ain't fucking with your drama, no, yeah, yeah

Baby, all you wanna do is hit it, hit it

Get it, bang, bang, bang

Fuck me real good, tell me that you'll never let me go

## References

1. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco Talks About Kendrick, Yeezus and Falling Off". *YouTube*. November 15, 2013.
2. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". *Twitter*. October 12, 2013.
3. ↑ Meara, Paul (November 16, 2013). "Lupe Fiasco Discusses New Song "Crack" & "1234" Video". *HipHopDX*.
4. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". *Twitter*. September 3, 2020.