Fast Money

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Guitar Wayne

"**Fast Money**" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, released as the sixth track from his mixtape, *Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds* (2005). It features guest vocals from Guitar Wayne.

## Cultural references

* David and Goliath is a story of when the Israelites and Philistines face each other. David, a shepherd, volunteers to fight the Philistine giant Goliath. Despite his size, David slingshots a stone and successfully knocks down Goliath.
* "Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the first line of a historical quatrain, famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk."
* Air Jordans are a line of basketball shoes produced by Nike.
* Liposuction is a fat-removal procedure used in surgery.
* Cadillac is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) that designs and builds luxury vehicles.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

Hey now

What down joe?

What down what down

Hey now

I'm saying what's the deal on that though

Hey now

I'm saying wh-what

Hey now

I'm saying man you want me to lay down or what man

Hey now

Hey now

Hey listen c'mon man

Hey now

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Uh

Sneakers beep a heater underneath the seam

On the jeans every time I hit the scene

Like Mira

Look at me crook I be

Like ya neck when you slept wrong the American dream

Don't step on the block that I run

Block that I brung the first beamer that they'd ever seen on these

Wit with the rocks I sling like David

Fee-fi-fo-fum

By nature I'm a hustla

Move pack like I move and I'm packing

Y'all n\*\*\*as move back on the come up like elevator action

Welcome to the action-packed world of trapping

Where we tip into Chi-Town if you cook a key you will see

If you chop the nickels that you can get a drop and a box of pistols

Have to get it cooked so you can not get little

Fast (Fast)

Money (Money)

'Cause all my habits important

I kept the illest hoopers in high school and Jordans

Kept the illest rappers in the hood recording

See I keep it real no I no bluffin'

I got money but I no puff them

I re-up, remove weight like liposuction

Now follow a playa as I go hustling

For that fast

[Hook: Guitar Wayne]

Fast money baby

Money (Money)

Fast as it comes, the faster it go

When the closet close

Then you're on your own check

Can you dig it baby?

Woooohooo!

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Uh

Now let's see what happens when a little mackin and a little Cadillacin' get it crackalackin on the scene like shush

Rings gators on seen the suits when I swoop

Man, I pack shit for a king

Such as I

Uh, uh you try

See, haters try to touch they uh, uh deny

This is not for the weak of heart like John Q

You're just a John, too, that blonde who want you

I'm cut from a finer cloth

See it's pimpin' in my blood

Know how much that vagina costs

If a playa suspect the game gon' reject him

Welcome to the world's oldest profession

We running game in the Chi-Town

Most n\*\*\*as lame 'cause they can't accept it

They can never understand so they can't respect it

They can never feel my pain 'cause they can't connect with

Fast (Fast)

Money (Money)

Pimp some hoes down

Why you trying to get that ho to swallow

If you get a brain then the hoes will follow

Uh, I keep it real see I know simpin'

I tell them what they want 'cause I know women

They better have my cash, or I go tripping

Now follow a playa as I go hustling

For that fast

[Hook]

Fast money baby

Money (Money)

Fast as it comes, the faster it go

When the closet close

Then you're on your own check

Can you dig it baby?

Woooohooo!