Jump

* Single
* Remix

## Single by Lupe Fiasco featuring Gizzle

"**Jump**" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, released as the third single from his sixth studio album *Drogas Light*. It debuted on Zane Lowe's weekly radio show Beats 1 on January 10, 2017, and was instantly available to those who pre-ordered the album on iTunes. It features guest vocals from American rapper-songwriter Gizzle with production handled by Soundtrakk, and samples vocals from the 1999 song "Bla Bla Bla" by Gigi D'Agostino. A remix version entitled "Jump (Vingo Slang Club Mix)" was released on September 1, 2017.

The song details him meeting a drug dealer named Suzy Uzi who wants him to ghostwrite raps for her. This observes rappers who have started drug dealing and shifted into the gansta rap scene. Fiasco and Gizzle performed it live on *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert* on February 23, 2017.

Fiasco's own thoughts on ghostwriting has been previously published as an open letter in 2015, amid the controversy between Meek Mill and Drake.

## Music video

The accompanying music video was uploaded to YouTube on April 10, 2017, directed by Djay Brawner. *Rap-Up* summarized, "Standing in front of pastel-colored backdrops, Lupe and Gizzle point imaginary guns at the camera, while telling the story of an intergalactic takeover. Rhyming beside one another, the duo explains how one can transition from 'a trapper to a rapper.'" Fiasco remarked on Twitter of how he looked like a "young MJG."

## Lyrics

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

Gold medals, them my role models

Rollin' old models lowered old schools, flowin' cold

And goin' gold follows

Flower bearin', call it petals to the floor

Power sharin', call it devils to the door

Power, power, 'til ain't no devils anymore

Flower-flowers, they be droppin' at the feet of my sun

Move a thousand miles per hour down the street of my slum

And who do I meet, to the beat of my drum?

It was little Suzy Uzi, she sold crack and was a killer

All-bitch dope tip, wasn't trappin' with no n\*\*\*as

Had a long money minor, do that action for them figures

Her influence fully automatic, crackin' off the Richter, yeah!

Walked up to my ride, asked me "Could she get inside?"

She pointed at her pistol so I properly replied

Told me, out here in the streets, she ain't have no competition

And with me up on them beats

Then we shared the same description

With a blunt between her lips, she said

"Now here's my proposition:

You just write a bunch of raps for me and I'ma go and spit 'em

Then we take 'em to the radio, the DJ better spin 'em

Then we take 'em to the record store

And sell a couple million," woo!

[Chorus: Gizzle, *Lupe Fiasco*]

I already got the money, already got the bitches

I see these other n\*\*\*as, I'ma do it how they did it

From a trapper to a rapper, trapper to a rapper

*We gotta gon' do it*

Trapper to a rapper, now n\*\*\*a, make it happen

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Ugh, told me call up Soundtrakk, have him send a couple beats

Not that "Superstar" shit, she wanted somethin' for the streets

Said it might take like a month, she said, "It better take a week"

Gave my arm a little punch and then she pointed at her heat

Said, "I saw that thing the first time, you don't gotta do it twice

But I need a lil' more info on exactly what I write

Some details 'bout a female, 'bout your life and what you like"

She said, "My life is like a bitch, and I'm just like my life"

Then pow-pow-pow-pow-pow! Yeah, them n\*\*\*as started bustin'

Like that boycott was over and that "we" had overcome it

She said, "N\*\*\*a, hit the gas," went from zero to a hundred

Now we runnin' from some killers, I was so sick to my stomach

She was hangin' out the window, with that thumper she was dumpin'

Had a look upon her face that made me think that she was cummin'

We was swervin', jumped the curb, and ditched the whip and started runnin'

Tried to jump over a wall, but it was a little tall

So we ducked behind a bush and that's how we got overlooked

I was shook and breathin' hard and she was sittin' there smokin' kush

Then we both started to glow, we looked around like, "What is this?"

And then we looked up and a light

Came down and pulled us to a ship like, "What the fuck?"

[Chorus: Gizzle]

I already got the money, already got the bitches

I see these other n\*\*\*as, I'ma do it how they did it

From a trapper to a rapper, trapper to a rapper

Trapper to a rapper, now n\*\*\*a, make it happen (Shit!)

[Verse 3: Gizzle]

Well, now, this the shit I'm talkin' 'bout, the shit that I've been on

Yeah, lightyears outer space, but still a bitch feel right at home

Now where the bitches? Get them intergalactic asses to clappin'

Break down some of that candy and roll it up in a wrapper for a rapper

Nah, I could never go back to trappin'

And who needs Atlanta when you're on Saturn gettin' a lap dance

With a lit match in your left hand and your right hand is a gas can

And at any given moment, I could burn this shit up

Why you standin' there just lookin', n\*\*\*a? Turn that shit up

Hop in some of this alien pussy, let me know how it work

I'm just sayin', I'm gon' be there and I ain't in no rush

(Nah n\*\*\*a!) Nah n\*\*\*a, I ain't in no rush

[Verse 4: Lupe Fiasco]

Ayy, I thought you couldn't rap, when you learn how to do that?

Then what you need me for, if you already know how to flow?

Ayy, fuck that, we gotta go, we'ldn't be in this hoe

If you told me from the jump we wouldn't be on this UFO

But I think that I can fly us, stole a key so I can try it

Never thought that I would ever be a flyin' saucer pilot

But first thing's gon' be first, when we get back to that earth

I'ma go back to them raps and you can go back to that work, n\*\*\*a

[Chorus: Gizzle, *Lupe Fiasco*]

I already got the money, already got the bitches

I see these other n\*\*\*as, I'ma do it how they did it

*N\*\*\*a we're goin' home, home!*

From a trapper to a rapper, trapper to a rapper

Trapper to a rapper, now n\*\*\*a, make it happen

*You can kill me, I don't care—no!*

[Outro: Gizzle, *Lupe Fiasco*]

Ayy, look, the basic thing is

You can do whatever you wanna do

Like I ain't 'bout to pass up on all this shit, you see this?

Like we time jumpin' and shit

You wanna go back and do what, just rap?

You can rap up here!

*Yeah n\*\*\*a, just rap*

*No, you can't, n\*\*\*a, this is Space*

*You can't, fuck that, we goin' home*

*DROGAS!*

## Gallery

* Vingo Slang Club Mix
* The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
* Boston Cannabis Week

## References

1. ↑ Lamarre, Carl (January 10, 2017). "Lupe Fiasco Flexes His Storytelling Skills on 'Jump' Featuring Gizzle: Listen". *Billboard*.
2. ↑ Goddard, Kevin (February 24, 2017). "Watch Lupe Fiasco & Gizzle Perform "Jump" on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"". *HotNewHipHop*.
3. ↑ Hamilton, Tiffany (January 10, 2017). "Lupe Fiasco Drops New Single, "Jump" Featured Gizzle [Listen]". *The Source*.
4. ↑ Ivey, Justin (April 10, 2017). "Lupe Fiasco Enlists Gizzle for "Jump" Video". *XXL*.
5. ↑ "Video: Lupe Fiasco Feat. Gizzle - 'Jump'". *Rap-Up*. April 10, 2017.