Mazinger

## Single by Lupe Fiasco featuring PJ

"**Mazinger**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released on October 31, 2014, as the third track from his mixtape *Lost in the Atlantic* (2014). It samples Ichirō Mizuki's "Mazinger Z" and features Paris "PJ" Jones on the hook. The track was co-written with and produced by Sam "S-X" Gumbley. It references to the manga series of similar title by Go Nagai, which centers on a super robot made out of metal. The song itself explores good and evil ('become a God or a Devil') with the power one has.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

I had to complete Mazinger Z. I had to, I had to

*Why did you have to Grandfather?*

To wreck all of Dr Hell's evil plans. Mazinger Z is clad in ultra alloy Z and is operated by photo atomic energy. It contains mighty weapons of all kinds. That robot is perfect. There is nothing to correct or adjust. Koji, Shiro, that robot is all yours. My only regret is that I cannot stay alive to watch you boys operate that robot. With Mazinger Z you can either become a God or a Devil. You'll be known as a super being. Now go!

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Sinister times, pacific the rims so I live in the mind

Sit in the head of the shit I design

Position it bent so I sit in recline

But never I sleep

Tears out the eyes is the weather I weep

Give cheddar to beggars to better my keep

Don't turn a back and never a cheek

Won't be here forever, we sever, we cease

A liar who said that we never release

Nooses surroundin' the neck of the beast

Loosing they pounds on the treasure beneath

200 pounds under pressure decrease

Reducing the sound to a set of beliefs

Devil's a trick like they sent the police

Is it or nah's (Nas) like wedded Kelis

So not the same like a Jet and a Jeep

One in the clouds, the other up under him running around

Unlike the one never touching the ground

Some like the one cause it doesn't come down

Unlike the oven that's under the town

Liquor the fire they jump in and drown

Wait till they die it's for something profound

Head is so dreaded for clutching the crown

And keeping it standing when jumping around

Feeding the animals, touching the hounds

Eating with cannibals, lunch in the lounge

Keeping it manual, clutch in announced

Eating the actual, reaping the benefits

Repeat the annual, bleeping the fouls

Something about (Something about)

Reaching the valuable, touching the down

[Hook: PJ]

You came by yourself my darling

But you know we're not alone

Oh get yourself in order

Before they're calling you home

It could be wonderful

So tell me what is it you're waiting for?

No don't you go too far

'Cause soon they'll be calling you home

They calling you home

(Either become a God or a Devil)

(Either be-, either become a God or a Devil)

Yeah you know they calling home

(God or a Devil, either be-, either become a God or a Devil)

Yeah you know they calling home

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Lovin' the Lord

Covet the lovers of governor or

Dozen in love with the covets or more

In concerts with converts-who-cover galore

Wash off they feet and then cover the floor

Mother the ships so come hover aboard

To raptures and ruptures start flooding the shore

Pushing and shoving and punching with oars

Thuggin' and judging, no plugging the holes

Sink to the bottom like sex in the kitchen, no food in the fridge but it's nut on the stove

It's what on the what?

Like Monica sucking and bust right on her clothes

Dishonoring Monica, what is it for?

Monitor Monica, what does she know?

Finding the evidence, answering the questions

Did you and the president fuck on the low?

Room full of elephants, elegant elements, breaking it down she touching her toe

Triple A coming to give her a jump and her engine construction don't function no more

It's killing her options to live in a box when they filling their stockings with lumps of the coal

Finding the diamonds with dynamite, fighting the fire is hiding while wiping the pole

Sliding off slightly to siphon the go

She biting her neck like she vampire-like, ain't no lighten her load

With the tide and a bleach at the laundromat black trying to whiten her clothes

So maybe she can sneak into heaven, hmm yeah

[Hook]

You came by yourself my darling

But you know we're not alone

Oh get yourself in order

Before they're calling you home

It could be wonderful

So tell me what is it you're waiting for?

No don't you go too far

Cause soon they'll be calling you home

They calling you home

(Either become a God or a Devil)

(Either be-, either become a God or a Devil)

Yeah you know they calling home

(God or a Devil, either be-, either become a God or a Devil)

Yeah you know they calling home

[Outro]

## References

1. ↑ Josephs, Brian (October 31, 2014). "Lupe Fiasco "Mazinger"". *XXL*.