We All Want the Same Thing

## Single by Kevin Michael featuring Lupe Fiasco

"**We All Want the Same Thing**" is a song by Kevin Michael, released as the lead single and track from his eponymous album, *Kevin Michael* (2007). It features vocals from Lupe Fiasco and interpolates the 2003 song "Stripper Friends" by Aimee Allen. Production was handled by duo Bloodshy & Avant, composed of Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. An acoustic version featuring Akil Dasan was released, omitting Fiasco's parts.

## Personnel

* Aimee Allen – writer
* Andrew Wyatt – writer
* Christian Karlsson – writer, producer
* Josh Deutsch – writer, executive producer
* Ken Joseph – executive producer
* Kevin Michael Seward – vocals, writer
* Henrik Jonback – writer
* Pontus Winnberg – writer, producer
* Samuel Vaughan Merrick – engineer
* Tony Maserati – mixer
* Wasalu "Lupe Fiasco" Jaco – vocals, writer
* Zach Hancock – assistant mixing engineer

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]

Kevin! Michael... Lupe... Fiasco...

*Hey, little girl, don't cry, dry your eyes*

*I wrote this song for you*

Now, it goes down

[Verse 1: Kevin Michael]

In an imaginary world

Every boy, and every girl

They'd all get the same things

They'd all get the same things

A little dough, a lot of love

With a mom, and dad to hug

They'd all get the same things

But out here, the world is real

And it don't matter how you feel

Because we don't get the same things

We don't get the same things

You got to work to stay alive

Forty hours, from 9 to 5

We don't get the same things, no

[Hook: Kevin Michael, *Lupe Fiasco*]

All my gangster friends (*Yeah*)

And all my skater friends (*What they want*)

We all want the same thing (*What they want now*)

We all want the same thing (*Yeah*)

DJ's in the clubs (*In the clubs*)

Jesus freaks and thugs (*And thugs*)

We all want the same thing (*Same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing now*)

[Verse 2: Kevin Michael, *Lupe Fiasco*]

And I think about the way

All the politicians say (*What they say now*)

Say they want to change things

Say they want to change things

Every year, they take some more

And I don't know what it's for

Though they never change things (*They don't change nothing*)

But if you want to make it stop (Stop)

Well, first, you got to start

Making some big, old changes

Doing some different things, yeah

Get up out your bed (*Out your bed*)

Think outside your head (*Out your head*)

And you won't get the same things (*Same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing now*)

[Hook: Kevin Michael]

All my gangster friends

And all my skater friends (*What they want now*)

We all want the same thing (*What they want now*)

I say we all want the same thing

DJ's in the clubs (*In the clubs*)

Jesus freaks and thugs (*And thugs*)

We all want the same thing (*Same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing now*)

All my ex-girlfriends

And all their new boyfriends (*What they do now*)

They all want the same thing (*What they want now*)

I say all want the same thing (*Yeah*)

From Wall Street to the hood (*To the hood*)

New York and Hollywood (*Hollywood*)

We all want the same thing (*What they say, what they say*)

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

Uh, yeah!

First empire to the people

The have's, and the have not's

Are we willing to give up all the hours

Just to make it all equal

And make players out the mascots

Because right now we don't see you like the Sasquatch

Unless the root of all evil is what you have got

You're even more visible if your hair is lots

If not banging from the beach

Then banish you to the sand box

With no lifeguard to come after you

No amount and you don't count like Dracula

Your body drown like a Titanic passenger

Or a Haitian refugee trafficker

They come and get you off the island that you crashed into

They take a yacht and send the slave ship back for you

Money matters, don't let it master you

Pressing on the answer till they give you what you're asking for

It's like that

*This is a message to remind you*

*There's just one true coast love*

Take them to church, Kevin!

[Hook: Kevin Michael]

All my gangster friends (*What they want now*)

And all my skater friends

We all want the same thing (*Same thing*)

We all want the same thing (*Yeah*)

DJ's in the clubs (*In the clubs*)

Jesus freaks and thugs

We all want the same thing (*Same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing yeah*)

All my ex-girlfriends (*What they want now*)

And all their new boyfriends

They all want the same thing (*Same thing*)

I say they all want the same thing (*Yeah*)

From Wall Street, to the hood (*To the hood*)

New York and Hollywood

We all want the same thing

We all want the same thing

## References

1. ↑ "Kevin Michael f. Lupe Fiasco - We All Want the Same Thing". *HipHopDX*. September 21, 2007.