Armpits

"**Armpits**" is a song by Da Pak, released as a promotional single by Epic Records in 2000. It samples the 1970 song "I Think I Love You" by The Partridge Family. The collective comprised of Lupe Fiasco, Sosa Quran, Delow, and Nahvee, where they shortly split after the record.

Fiasco confessed that he felt like a "hypocrite" where he explained, "We had a song out about cocaine, guns, and women, and I would go to a record store and look at it and think, 'What are you doing?' [...] I had to destroy that guy. Because what Lupe Fiasco says on this microphone is going to come back to Wasalu Jaco. When the music cuts off, you have to go home and live with what you say."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Hook: Da Pak]

N\*\*\*as, bitches, pimps, tricks

Whoever you with, let me see them armpits

Musty or dusty, ashy or nasty

When your paths meet, let me see them armpits

Hey, yo

Hit somethin', pop somethin', move somethin', rock somethin'

Spit somethin', cop somethin', do somethin', lock somethin'

You want your life? Then lift your arms up!

N\*\*\*a put your palms up, get them guns up!

[Verse 1]

Come on over ho, we got weed in the Rover

If you don't get your hands up, you can bleed in your shoulders

I'm the holy ghost ask them Jehovahs

I leave no witness, nobody but the chauffeur

You might see me on the sofa with Oprah

Nope, you gon' see me on the screen

For catchin' a 3 to 15 for this cream

Next time, get 'em [?] pristine

I'm doing hit-runs with my hit-team

Somebody get shot, nobody get seen

Girl you a party ho, but that fit look nice on your body though

I don't party though...

Bitch! I'd rather stick n\*\*\*as for their money

And baby, this ain't a party song

But I'll hit hoes with the Bacardi long

Dick stroking, pussy bust that shit open

Big pimping, big scoping, your tip closing

[Hook: Da Pak]

N\*\*\*as, bitches, pimps, tricks

Whoever you with, let me see them armpits

Musty or dusty, ashy or nasty

When your paths meet, let me see them armpits

Hey, yo

Hit somethin', pop somethin', move somethin', rock somethin'

Spit somethin', cop somethin', do somethin', lock somethin'

You want your life? Then lift your arms up!

N\*\*\*a put your palms up, get them guns up!

[Verse 2]

We backed up in this Expo

Drugged, gats up

Time ticks to conflict, the bomb hit

Explosion, blows with yo neck slow drips, holes

Get 'em up are you finna win or what?

Hands, get 'em up

It's too clutch, by the guts, send 'em up

As far as them blocks go, we got those, hit 'em up!

Popped a mo', let's go henny in the cup

Optimal, make 'em stop, drop and roll

With the hot flows, spot clothes, gotcha dough

Shot ya ho, dragged her out the hospital

Unlock the door, pop the trunk, lock the fo'

Ridin' in the drop-top slow, copped the dro

Spot the popos but they only obstacles

Jump from the pot smoke, won't stop the show

Got the dough, lash out, they got the blow

Can't stop my flow, c'mon!

Yeah, yeah, uh, what? Yeah n\*\*\*as, what? What? What? Uh, What?

[Hook: Da Pak]

N\*\*\*as, bitches, pimps, tricks

Whoever you with, let me see them armpits

Musty or dusty, ashy or nasty

When your paths meet, let me see them armpits

Hey, yo

Hit somethin', pop somethin', move somethin', rock somethin'

Spit somethin', cop somethin', do somethin', lock somethin'

You want your life? Then lift your arms up!

N\*\*\*a put your palms up, get them guns up!

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

Hey, yo

I pop something, write for a little; drop nothing

Unarmed? Nuh-uh, lights on 'em pistols, stop frontin'

While y'all chase birds like Road Runner for phone numbers

I be in the back with bone crushers and known hustlers

Big bill n\*\*\*as, big deal n\*\*\*as

One call you're killed, all ill n\*\*\*as

You want beef? Better be extra sure

My n\*\*\*as be under your floors

So stay on your toes like pedicures

My 16s make other rappers quit dreams

Try to sing, enlist in the marines

Zero tolerance, I leave heroes hollerin'

You better have Shapiro and Cochran or you can ring it up like Jostens

Feel me? 'Course not

Still be on top

On the rock, bill me for your spot, for real B

Honor that 18, longer gat, corner cat, stronger raps

When Lu on, who gon' be stopping that?

[Hook: Da Pak]

N\*\*\*as, bitches, pimps, tricks

Whoever you with, let me see them armpits

Musty or dusty, ashy or nasty

When your paths meet, let me see them armpits

Hey, yo

Hit somethin', pop somethin', move somethin', rock somethin'

Spit somethin', cop somethin', do somethin', lock somethin'

You want your life? Then lift your arms up!

N\*\*\*a put your palms up, get them guns up!

N\*\*\*as, bitches, pimps, tricks

Whoever you with, let me see them armpits

Musty or dusty, ashy or nasty

When your paths meet, let me see them armpits

Hey, yo

Hit somethin', pop somethin', move somethin', rock somethin'

Spit somethin', cop somethin', do somethin', lock somethin'

You want your life? Then lift your arms up!

N\*\*\*a put your palms up, get them guns up!

N\*\*\*as, bitches, pimps, tricks

Whoever you with, let me see them armpits

Musty or dusty, ashy or nasty

When your paths meet, let me see them armpits

## References

1. ↑ Thompson, Paul (May 2, 2019). "The brilliant ambiguity of Lupe Fiasco's 'The Truth Is Among Us'". *The Fader*.
2. ↑ *Biography Today*, pp. 61–62