Hi-Definition

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Poo Bear and Snoop Dogg

"**Hi-Definition**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the seventh track from his second studio album, *Lupe Fiasco's The Cool* (2007). It features Poo Bear and Snoop Dogg on the chorus, where Snoop also provides the third verse.

*The Guardian* wrote in their review, "its best track may be Hi-Definition, a poppy confection that manages to cover most of Fiasco's social and political bugbears and feature a guest appearance from that legendary advocate of feminism and rigorous anti-materialism Snoop Dogg." *IGN* said, "a bugged out futuro R&B number that has Fiasco sounding an awful lot like West, in terms of cadence" and added its appeal to those who liked "easy listening grooves."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus: Pooh Bear, *Snoop Dogg*]

Gather 'round, go a-head and stare

*You street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition*

Listen with your eyes follow with your ears

*I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition*

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

And my return (yeah!) is more like a re-up

I hold a whole like a tea-cup

World in one hand, while the other hand throw the peace up

My other hand throwing "We" without the e up (Westside)

I got like five more, man, I'm something like Shiva

In that Fall of Rome Number Four Deluxe

See, I've been around the world like the gnome

But I come from a zone where the homes are beat up

The folks, unknowns, and the stones all meet up

Police tap my phone, got my songs on speaker

Say he spat the poems, got their domes all geeked up

To get up on they thrones and become young leaders

Oprah put it on my culture, now, if that ain't wrong

Imus got it from the rhymers, now, if that ain't blown

They gave my man forty-four, now, if that ain't long

I put it all on my shoulders, now, if that ain't strong

I made it out alive from the streets of the west side C-H-I

Now, if that ain't home, you better tell 'em

[Chorus: Pooh Bear, *Snoop Dogg*]

Gather 'round, go a-head and stare

*You street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition*

Listen with your eyes follow with your ears

*I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition*

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

And in my flyness, I've become the hero and the sidekick

The rider and the n\*\*\*a that'll ride with

In your ear like the maker of the "Vivrant"

Assalamu Alaikum to the maker of the "Vivrant"

Them other n\*\*\*as I don't vibe with

Now I was 'bout three when the eyes went

But I could see everything that you trying to be

You can't hide it

While you coming out your throat like a Heimlich

I came up out the belly like an Hype script

Only my circumstance revised it

Hijacked the role and went and shot the pilot

I'm trying to go public so I can get to private

Then send Busy to go and get the pirates

Then hit Africa, try to fix the virus

Go back to the hood, tell Huggy, "Open the hydrants"

R.I.P Stack B., I'ma keep you alive, kid

Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful

F-N-F and S-N double O-P

[Chorus: Pooh Bear, *Snoop Dogg*]

Gather 'round, go a-head and stare

*You street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition*

Listen with your eyes follow with your ears

*I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition*

[Verse 3: Snoop Dogg]

Lupey it's Snoopy, let's go wild

Tiptoe through the door, do it doggystyle

And tell all my chicks in Chi-i-cago

Lupey hit the Lotto, Snoopy hit the bottle

Dolemite tight, they bite, they might follow

Take this chill pill, lil n\*\*\*a swallow

Recital is very homicidal

The big screen will capture it, 'cause it's high-definition

Listen, cooking collard greens in the kitchen

Them alphabet boys on a mission

If you ever get cash, you better get it quick fast

'Cause nowadays, n\*\*\*as get to snitchin on yo' bitch ass

Even your boys best believe in them toys, out your game

Specially when a n\*\*\*a know your real name

Blam blam with the blammer

Smile nephew, you on candid camera, film at eleven

Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful

F-N-F and S-N double O-P

[Chorus: Pooh Bear, *Snoop Dogg*]

Gather 'round, go a-head and stare

*You street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition*

Listen with your eyes follow with your ears

*I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition*

## References

1. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (January 18, 2008). "Lupe Fiasco, The Cool". *The Guardian*.
2. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco - The Cool". *IGN*. January 10, 2008.