Boss Playa

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Bishop G and GemStones

"**Boss Playa**" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, released as the seventh track from his mixtape, *Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us* (2004). It features fellow 1st & 15th Entertainment artists, Bishop G and GemStones, with production handled by Prolyfic.

## Cultural references

* Harley-Davidson is an American motorcycle manufacturer.
* Mr. Miyagi is a fictional character from the *Karate Kid* franchise, who mentors Daniel LaRusso.
* *Dirty Harry* is a 1971 film, where Clint Eastwood plays the protagonist, Inspector Harry Callahan.
* Ferrari is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer.
* Atari is a company founded in 1972, one of the pioneers in arcade games.
* Charley horse is a leg cramp.

## Lyrics

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

FNF up all day (all day)

Young Pro is on the cut always (Always)

If you represent your set when you're rolling through the jets

Take your fingers off your triggers keep your hands of your Tecs. Check it

I'm really gnarly

Really harder than tryna wheely Harleys

I will leave hardly, life of the party

Hotter than Saudis in furs in the Mojave

Don't make me catch a body

FNF up all day (All day)

Young Pro is on the cut always (Always)

If you represent your set when you're rolling through the jets

Take your fingers off your triggers keep your hands of your techs, check it

I'm really gnarly

Really harder than tryna wheely Harleys

I will leave hardly, life of the party

Hotter than Saudis in furs in the Mojave

Don't make me catch a body

1st and 15th probably

Playa don't trip when the clique's in the party

You trip, then it kick, like Mr. Miyagi

I brought an extra clip in event of a robbery

You flinch then it click like Clint, *Dirty Harry*

Don't think that my money gettin' spent on Ferraris

This game that was told is old as Ataris

You sold into slavery

The system I pimps, I limps like a Charley horse

Bring the chorus!

[Hook]

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie, don't it be like that

When it be like that

When it's G like that?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie you can't leave like that

When you bleed like that

You won't be right back

Ain't it boss, playa?

What, you think we freeze right up

When you breeze right up?

Don't you bleed like us?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Paper makin' on top

Playa hatin' won't stop

Percolatin' on lock

Ain't it boss, playa?

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

If it's getting too hot

Better go'on out the galley

I'm a top cat, homes

Got a phone in the alley

And I locks that down

When I zone, understand me

And I drop rap poems

Like domes on the Caddy

When the top back

Go'on better stop that

Like cops when you clock that

Brougham goin' over the speed limit

You spot that

Somethin's been thrown like bones

And you combin' for baggies

And you see it's weed in his seat

Me an' my man G

Had a home in the valley

And I just left New York

And I'm goin' back to Cali

Where I chop that, yup

Gotta bone me a sal'ry

And I'm back in the cut

Still hungry as Shaggy

Like I need that

So free that the fee that

See that keep it copasetic

Don't do nothin' sudden

Push the button

Hustlin' to keep my leverage, uh!

You can't destroy me

Know who them boys be?

I ain't no employee!

I'm the boss, playa!

[Hook]

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie, don't it be like that

When it be like that

When it's G like that?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie you can't leave like that

When you bleed like that

You won't be right back

Ain't it boss, playa?

What, you think we freeze right up

When you breeze right up?

Don't you bleed like us?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Paper makin' on top

Playa hatin' won't stop

Percolatin' on lock

Ain't it boss, playa?

[Verse 3: Gemstones]

I'm pimpin' with playas that be pimpin'

I'm pimpin' this broad

But how could one man be so pimpin'?

Shit—if pimpin' is hard

'Cause goofies kill for that nookie even clap at they dogs

Givin' they heart to these chickens, I'm unstrappin' they bras

Lendin' they cars to these chickens even platinum cards

All in the mall with these chickens puttin' carats on arms

I have 'em posin' in pictures with my shaft in they jaws

Laughin' 'cause dro in my system plus I'm havin' a ball

Coulda been somewhere with open liquor drivin' the Porsche

Ain't too many rich as flows as this in Robber Report

Properties bought believe I seen that watch in the sauce

Hot but his force, monopoly's my hobby and yours'

Probably sports!

It's obvious you saw me, get lost!

Give me some privacy, see how many rocks in that cross

You think of robbin' me but you don't want no problems, young boy

You wanna ride with me, make a choice the option is yours

Ain't it boss, playa?

[Hook]

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie, don't it be like that

When it be like that

When it's G like that?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie you can't leave like that

When you bleed like that

You won't be right back

Ain't it boss, playa?

What, you think we freeze right up

When you breeze right up?

Don't you bleed like us?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Paper makin' on top

Playa hatin' won't stop

Percolatin' on lock

Ain't it boss, playa?

[Verse 4: Bishop G]

Man, the game ain't the same since the 'caine done stopped

DEA's done slowed up the game 'round near Brainerd Park

'Bout the same time Greg got shot in the head

N\*\*\*a Pack got his momma's house, took by the Feds

But of course what you expect

When you pitchin' where you rest

Holdin' rocks beneath your tongue

Wearin' slippers on your steps

But for what? A couple pennies

Not enough to by a semi

So the corners of the dean was racin' n\*\*\*as yellin 'Gimmie'

That reminds me little Kenny got shot three months ago (Damn)

Fresh out the hospital; shot three weeks ago (Damn!)

Come to find out only difference from the first

Was the n\*\*\*as that just got him ain't no different from the first

And I wonder whatta happened to his crazy brother Spider

Used to be my 'lil roadie back in 1995 so

Last I heard he's doin' robbin'

Shot some n\*\*\*a in the Gardens

He sat in the body cast behind the glass next to the sergeant

[Hook]

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie, don't it be like that

When it be like that

When it's G like that?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Homie you can't leave like that

When you bleed like that

You won't be right back

Ain't it boss, playa?

What, you think we freeze right up

When you breeze right up?

Don't you bleed like us?

Ain't it boss, playa?

Paper makin' on top

Playa hatin' won't stop

Percolatin' on lock

Ain't it boss, playa?