Down

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Nikki Jean

"**Down**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the 14th track from his seventh studio album, *Drogas Wave* (2018). It features guest vocals from Nikki Jean on the chorus.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus: Nikki Jean & Lupe Fiasco]

Fish is my friends and the whales is my homies

Octopuses my people, the shrimp, they all know me

The sharks is my n\*\*\*as, the dolphins is with us

The crabs is my comrades, the seahorse be holdin' us down

Jellyfish, they just be rollin' around

Lobsters is cool, they are not food

They part of the crew

And that mean they down (That mean they down)

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Life Aquatic, product of the passage, ooh

Stay there with me, lookin' like Atlantis (Ayy)

We're off to build another planet (Ayy)

See a ship and then we're really goin' savage (Ayy)

From the home, we was lost in the Atlantic

I wouldn't make it, but we'll find a way to manage (Ayy)

Titanic when we're breakin' off the damage

I ain't gotta say it man, that wave is automatic

Me and my partnas, say your life is a beach, no

But life is a beach though

Yeah, it's down here on the sea floor (Yeah)

And now we're really gettin' deep though

I feel I'm golden (No)

I don't take shit from no one (No)

I just be floatin'

We're down in the ocean

[Chorus: Nikki Jean & Lupe Fiasco]

Fish is my friends and the whales is my homies

Octopuses my people, the shrimp, they all know me

The sharks is my n\*\*\*as, the dolphins is with us

The crabs is my comrades, the seahorse be holdin' us down

Jellyfish, they just be rollin' around

Lobsters is cool, they are not food

They part of the crew

And that mean they down (That mean they down)

And that mean they down, that mean they down

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Throw us in the water, execution

We really thought we wasn't gonna do nothin'

But the sharks and the dolphins gonna do somethin'

Walked up out that water, evolution

Ayy, ayy, revolution

Pass the plate, you should make a contribution

If you ain't got it then you gotta go and get it

Climate change, chain flooded, call it sleepin' with the fishes

Tired of all these bitches, in my net it's just fishes

In my net it's just swishes, boom

And you know I'm a floater, ballin'

Coachin' from the ark, Doc Rivers, call Flipper my n\*\*\*a

Say you got it for the low (Low)

Say you got it by the boat (By the boat)

When you whip it in the water (Whip it, whip it)

If it's real, it'll float

[Chorus: Nikki Jean & Lupe Fiasco]

Fish is my friends and the whales is my homies

Octopuses my people, the shrimp, they all know me

The sharks is my n\*\*\*as, the dolphins is with us

The crabs is my comrades, the seahorse be holdin' us down

Jellyfish, they just be rollin' around

Lobsters is cool, they are not food

They part of the crew (They part of the)

And that mean they down (That mean they down)

And down, and down, and that mean they down

[Bridge: Lupe Fiasco]

One time for my homies at the bottom

Told some lies, keep it real for the bottom

Some of y'all ain't allowed at the bottom

9th Ward, it was down at the bottom

Katrina had it down at the bottom

Pine Ridge, it be feelin' like the bottom

Gaza Strip, baby, tough at the bottom

So you gotta give it up to the bottom

Some only really talk about the top

But I wanna talk about the bottom

I know everything got a lot

But I want them to know that I got 'em, yeah, yeah

[Chorus: Nikki Jean & Lupe Fiasco]

Fish is my friends and the whales is my homies

Octopuses my people, the shrimp, they all know me

The sharks is my n\*\*\*as, the dolphins is with us

The crabs is my comrades, the seahorse be holdin' us down

Jellyfish, they just be rollin' around

Lobsters is cool, they are not food

They part of the crew (They part of the crew)

And that mean they down (That mean they down)

[Instrumental Outro]