Animal Pharm

"**Animal Pharm**" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco that samples the 2013 song "Ingenue" by Atoms for Peace. The title itself alludes to George Orwell's 1945 novel, *Animal Farm*, that centers on the theme of rebellion against totalitarianism, class oppression, and exploitation. When asked of any accompanying visuals, Fiasco responded, "Possibly..." In August 2013, he implied an upcoming video for the track with the headline, "FNF Films x WOLF Studio."

*Exclaim!* noted, "While tipping his hat to George Orwell's political allegory *Animal Farm*, the socially conscious track also has Lupe talking A.A. Milne via lines referencing Tigger, Pooh and Christopher Robin, too." Notably the lead vocalist of Atoms, Thom Yorke, was also sampled for the 2007 song "Us Placers" by Child Rebel Soldier.

## Lyrics

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

Quiet as a kitten

Reply as silent as a Raphael-given instrument for stickin'

Or maybe riot as a lion

Would he tie in tiger for attention?

Tiggers and Poohs, n\*\*\*as and jews

Mr. Opulent Christopher Robinson too

Reversal like

When that predetermined term expires on a turtle's knife

What of Korea, are you scared?

Or is something not there, like a Welsh rabbit full of hares

Animal farms and imaginary bears

The body is a house like a kangaroo pouch

Or an oyster-hoisted cow over crescent moons as it looms low in the night sky

Platoons of coons stand ready for the drive-by

Steady as the medley booms from the Akai

Affirm as in "Aye aye"

Like it the second

Like a junior, like a third, like a eye

Like a observe from the view of a bird as it fly high

Sitting heavy like spaghetti in the belly of a wise guy

Who let these G's out the PI\_STY?

Seems they taking cues from The Wire

Okay decorum, and keeping you from wanting to buy it

But you still buy it like you never left its sight

And like a slow gunfighter gun: unfired

Cow dung walls, hermit crabs in the mall, sting ray from the stars and barnyard laws

These are

[Hook: Atoms for Peace]

Hey hey, just cause I got thumbs, that don't mean everybody is dumb, huh huh?

Just cause I got one, that don't mean that they not dumb, what what?

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Quiet as a mouse in the House of God

In the Jah's, like tyrants in the mouths of mobs

Ripping it to pieces like a picture and a preacher

If a cricket was a speaker, it's its own chicken bones on the garbage can top

Ugly mother freakers is predator, opposite, on top of it, to make it fox

So if similar appeal, administer the seal to make it real

Elephantine but never mind

Half-ton gorillas in a midst, they'll never find

Hungry as a hippopotamus, gobble it 'til your bottom and your body is as wobbly as Skrillex

Eeyores and Piglets, blind bats nailing tails to a riblet

Time only limited(ed) if you make it

Blind rat's nails hold tales of Unseeing Eye selves

Out is out, so they only seeing thy shells

Ghost Dog

Oh lawd

These are

[Hook 2: Atoms for Peace]

Hey they not dumb

I ain't smart just cause I got thumbs, what, say what?

Hey hey, just cause I got one

That don't mean I'm better cause they got none, say what, say what say what?

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

The butcher says to the bovines

You're all just pastrami when it's showtime

Cowboy co-signs, attack the cat samples

Own worst enemies

Chop down the trees, we need the axe handles

Like a heel in a sandal saying "hell no"

Or you trapped like the yells of a nail in the shell-toe

Clever as a fishbowl on a sailboat

Landlocked as a ham hock on a railroad

Sandbox by the swimming pool

Two times as clever as a fishing school

Pills for the pressure

Broken seals on the pills for the pleasure

If you feeling ill, whatever

Animal farm, you're all dumb

Tickle 'em with your articulated thumb

A tapeworm will never play the drums, but um

These are

These are

[Hook 3: Atoms for Peace]

Hey hey, just cause I got one

That don't mean I'm smart cause they got none

W-what, w-what

Am I not an animal cause I got thumbs?

That don't make me smart cause they got none, say what?

W-what, w-what

Here we come

Am I not an animal cause I got thumbs, say what?

Say what, say what?

## References

1. ↑ Goddard, Kevin (May 21, 2013). "Animal Pharm". *HotNewHipHop*.
2. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco – Animal Pharm". *Hypebeast*. May 21, 2013.
3. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". *Twitter*. July 19, 2013.
4. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". *Twitter*. August 4, 2013.
5. ↑ Adams, Gregory (May 21, 2013). "Lupe Fiasco - "Animal Pharm"". *Exclaim!*.