Kick, Push II

## Song by Lupe Fiasco

"**Kick, Push II**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the 15th and penultimate track from his debut studio album, *Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor* (2006). He told *A.V. Club* that it began as a mixtape record for MySpace, the sequel to his single "Kick, Push," which delves deeper into the characters. He continued, "It gives you more of an understanding of why. You just got this blank story of the one character and what he goes through, and you're introduced to his girlfriend and his crew, and then 'Kick, Push II' gives you more of a personal understanding of who those people are. It wasn't meant for the album. It just turned out we should put this on the album at the end of the day."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

Look at what we did

Came a long way from dirty ghetto kids, ugh

Yeah, look at what we did

We came a long way from dirty ghetto kids, yeah

You know what it is

Haha

Ugh, ugh

C'mon

[Verse 1]

Well, the cops didn't fine 'em for grindin', no

They kinda blew the vibe, figured it was time to go

Plus, he had to be at home a long time ago

And he had made like ten dollars off the sign he wrote

It read: "A lil hungry, and need a lil money

It's for my lil sister and her lil tummy"

Wasn't lyin', though—he didn't go buy hydro

Went to the restaurant and bought two gyros

Cause he knew they wasn't cookin' where he live

The "kunk, ka-kunk, ka-kunk"s now took him to the crib

A lil' hurt from the rail he took into the ribs

Right past the pushers who couldn't under-dig

"What's the use of pushin', you ain't pushin' none of this?"

"If I kick it with y'all, I'm just pushin' for a bid"

But what was on his mind and pushed him to the lid

They best customer wasn't cookin' for her kids

[Hook]

Yes, sir, pa-punp, so, he kick, push

Over his shoulders, he swore he'd never look

'Cause wasn't nothing back there but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive, yeah

Ugh, and so he kick, push

Over his shoulders, he swore he'd never look

'Cause wasn't nothing back there but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive, yeah

[Verse 2]

You see, his mom was a crackhead

And his father couldn't be contacted

He lived with being different, was combatted

Amongst the other things on his young, black head

And see, his girl was a white girl

But just 'cause she was white, see, her life wasn't light-world

She, too, had the drama thick

Had a daddy and a mama, but her daddy used to mama-hit

Daddy caught something chasin' fatties, made her mama sick

Couldn't afford the medicine, pimped her to the pharmacist

Had suicidal feelings

But riding switch over the transitions help her conquer it

Pays for her mama's pills with a sponsorship

Her cell phone bill and a Honda kit, uh-huh

And that's why she skates with he

Someone to feel her pain and a place to be

[Hook]

That's why, that's why, that's why, she kick, push

Over her shoulders she swore she'd never look

'Cause wasn't nothing back there but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive, yeah

Ugh, that's why she kick, push

Over her shoulders, she swore she'd never look

'Cause wasn't nothing back there but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive, yeah

[Verse 3]

A traveling band of misfits and outcasts (Outcasts)

Nod they heads from Misfits to OutKast (OutKast)

A lot of scars, they did this without pads

A lot of hearts who did this without dads

One's father was filthy rich

Two was middle-class, and one was homeless (Ugh)

Add in the paralyzed girl in the wheelchair who just liked to watch

And that was the whole clique

I think about 'em every time I see this old flick

That was taken in the park in front of this old bench

They wrote on the back, "You thank for 'Push, Kick'

Hope you make a video, the beat is so sick"

Well, I did—I hope you seen it

It's on MTV, Soundtrakk's a genius

Love from Tony Hawk, beef from the Ice Creamaz

Before we put it out, had to pay the Filipinas

Just to show 'em how you

[Hook 3]

Just to show 'em how you kick, push

Over your shoulders, you swore you'd never look

'Cause wasn't nothing back there but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive, yeah

Ugh, that's why you kick, push

Over your shoulders, you swore you'd never look

'Cause wasn't nothing back there but the blackness

Life wasn't too attractive, yeah

## References

1. ↑ Rabin, Nathan (October 31, 2006). "Lupe Fiasco". *A.V. Club*.