Hurt Me Soul Lyrics - Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco

Now I ain't tryna be the greatest 

I used to hate hip-hop... yup, because the women degraded 

But Too $hort made me laugh, like a hypocrite I played it 

A hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half 

Omittin the word "bitch," cursin I wouldn't say it 

Me and dog couldn't relate, til a bitch I dated 

Forgive my favorite word for hers and hers alike 

But I learnt it from a song I heard and sorta liked 

Yeah, for the icin, glamorized drug dealin was appealin 

But the block club kept it from in front of our buildin 

Gangsta rap-based filmings became the buildin blocks 

For children with leakin ceilings catchin drippins with pots 

Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written" 

In the mix with my realities and feelings 

Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision 

I began to jot, tap the world and listen, it drop 

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My mom can't feed me, my boyfriend beats me 

I have sex for money, the hood don't love me 

The cops wanna kill me, this nonsense built me 

And I got noooo place to gooo 

They bomb my village, they call us killers 

Took me off they welfare, can't afford they health care 

My teacher won't teach me, my master beats me 

And it huuurts meee soooul 

I had a ghetto boy bop, a Jay-Z boycott 

'Cause he said that he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti 

I'm thinkin golly, God guard me from the ungodly 

But by my 30th watchin of "Streets is Watchin" 

I was back to givin props again and that was botherin 

By this uncomfortable as a untouchable touchin you 

The theme songs that niggas hustle to seem wrong but these songs was comin true 

And it was all becoming cool 

I found a condom on the ground that Johns would cum into and thought 

What constitutes a prostitute is the pursuit of profit then they drop it 

The homie in a suit pat her on the butt, then rock it 

It seems I was seein the same scene adopted 

Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it 

They said don't knock it, mind ya business 

His business isn't mine and that nigga pimpin got it 

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They took my daughter, we ain't got no water 

I can't get hired, they cross on fire 

We all got suspended, I just got sentenced 

So I got noooo place to gooo 

They threw down my gang sign, I ain't got no hang time 

They talk about my sneakers, poisoned our leader 

My father ain't seen me, turn off my TV 

'Cause it huuurts meee soooul 

So through the Grim Reaper sickle sharpening 

Macintosh marketing 

Oil field augering 

Brazilian adolescent disarmament 

Israeli occupation 

Islamic martyrdom, precise 

Yeah, laser guided targeting 

Oil for food barterin, terrorist organization harborin 

Sand camouflage army men 

CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin 

Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin 

String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin 

Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them 

They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and 

Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and 

All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that 

They say I'm infected, this is why I injected 

I had it aborted, we got deported 

My laptop got spyware, they say that I can't lie here 

But I got noooo place to gooo 

I can't stop eatin, my best friend's leavin 

My pastor touched me, I love this country 

I lost my earpiece, I hope y'all hear me 

'Cause it huuurts meee soooul