SHOES(feat. Virgil Abloh) (Explicit)-Lupe Fiasco

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[00:00.00]SHOES(feat. Virgil Abloh) (Explicit) - Lupe Fiasco/Kaelin Ellis/Virgil Abloh
[00:05.39]Composed by：Virgil Abloh/Kaelin Ellis/Wasalu Jaco p/k/a: Lupe Fisaco
[00:10.79]Been standing in line since Thursday
[00:12.78]I heard a rumor they might be dropping them early
[00:15.71]Should have 'em just in time for your birthday
[00:18.04]Irrelevant holiday affair
[00:19.89]Got one of those three-leg folding chairs
[00:21.79]I am what you call prepared for the campout
[00:25.06]Evening brings the battery-powered lamps out
[00:27.85]Warm clothes but blanket 'case it get cold
[00:30.84]Corn chips and basic staples to hold
[00:33.46]Hunger over till Uber Eats is ordered
[00:36.12]Maybe pizza or quesadillas and sopa
[00:38.70]Got a little cooler with assorted waters and sodas
[00:41.27]Cinnamon sugar-coated malassada the odor
[00:44.05]Makes me the envy of the line
[00:45.85]If not the enemy not my energy
[00:47.58]I'll be spending plenty of time
[00:49.72]Inside the books that I bought
[00:51.35]Got audios and regulars
[00:52.96]Quite the party goer and reveler
[00:57.52]So on today's to-do list is to design a pair of running shoes
[01:07.18]The goal is as always in my work
[01:10.97]Is to add emotion to inanimate objects so
[01:16.23]Release day is finally upon us
[01:17.98]More celebratory than the former
[01:20.82]But mixed with bittersweet vibes most certainly switched to different beats
[01:24.17]More policed than Justinian's Byzantinian Christian beliefs
[01:27.28]There's a risen rhythm you can feel it all in the streets
[01:30.07]Like a marathon or a parade
[01:33.32]Poets might wanna pull they pens out like grenades
[01:35.40]Or that model for a year and a half
[01:38.85]And write down all the tears and the laughs
[01:41.19]A shot across the bow of the tyrannous class
[01:44.24]Quote from man standing on float
[01:46.70]The whole event is just biggest-fan-channeling d**e
[01:48.91]I mean one just feels privileged and esteemed
[01:52.26]Inwardly serene and spiritually clean
[01:55.73]Even the line feels like a team
[01:57.51]In stark opposition to a competition for things
[02:01.78]With that these shoes that we are about to design with words
[02:09.34]Starts with a sole
[02:12.06]Not a sole but soul you know what touches you to earth
[02:16.50]That's floating in nowhere the soul
[02:22.30]With touching signs of equality to match
[02:24.95]White kid at the front let me go first cause I was black
[02:28.86]Said it was only right
[02:30.61]He was used to having head starts his entire life
[02:33.18]Maybe it was time to step aside like trilobites
[02:35.89]Touching I never forget it like riding bikes
[02:38.42]The ordeal starts to spring feelings like guiding light
[02:41.08]Permanent villains go about chilling they psychic fights
[02:44.08]Nice and to a buyer's delight
[02:46.70]You're limited to two so that means I'm buying them twice
[02:49.51]One pair to wear one pair on ice
[02:52.13]Aftermarket speculation will surely hike up the price
[02:55.74]Call that all in the plans
[02:57.78]Feeling like Mike with the ball in my hands
[03:00.42]Swear to God it's like the best game he ever played
[03:02.53]I get to wear the first pair possibly ever made
[03:05.73]What does that sole look like
[03:08.26]It's soft to run on
[03:11.39]But tough enough to withstand the reality of the ground
[03:16.97]Or the reality of the context we're living in
[03:20.01]That's the soul
[03:23.27]Let's just call it black
[03:27.47]I get applause as I step outside the pop-up
[03:30.03]The shop resembles the unfinished house he was in before they shot us
[03:33.83]We fell down then we got up
[03:36.30]Pick Pac up pick Nip up
[03:39.11]This is the type of tripping that scuff kicks up
[03:41.13]Traditionally creases was a style to refuse
[03:44.11]But now they represent every mile in your shoes
[03:46.62]Any mud on your sole gets toweled and removed
[03:49.57]It's like I'm retracing every trial know it took strength
[03:52.47]Giant steps flowers growing out of the footprints
[03:55.18]Liberation here's your invitation
[03:58.16]It's a relay race continuation
[04:00.84]Get the baton and keep bringing it back
[04:03.07]That string theory means we'll keep being attached
[04:05.33]Last thing this is something of a sight
[04:08.25]Even when you take 'em off they keep running for your life
[04:12.69]You know can withstand multiple beatings by the ground
[04:19.13]But it's tough enough to continue on that's the sole
[04:24.31]Now there's an upper on top of that sole
[04:27.91]The upper is made of leather
[04:31.60]Or maybe or maybe both you know
[04:38.14]That sole and that upper combined by stitches
[04:44.68]Leaves for a dynamic enclosure around the foot
[04:49.59]There's a tongue there's even shoelaces
[04:53.23]You know those shoelaces they are literally as elastic as a leather band
[05:04.50]But as tough as links of steel let's call it chain links
[05:10.89]So here we have the shoe taking shape
[05:15.74]There's a logo on the side fill in the blank with your favorite one
[05:20.30]They're all man-made it's all good
[05:23.91]But this shoe these Air Ahmauds or these Air Arberys
[05:30.93]Are starting to take shape now you know
[05:36.32]They connect man and earth they allow you to run
[05:44.46]That running is freedom accelerated heart rate by design through design
[05:53.93]Air Ahmaud Air Arbery
[06:01.48]What color are these shoes
[06:05.47]The upper of these shoes
[06:07.86]Maybe white maybe black pick your favorite
[06:12.99]But you know the world's black and white anyways
[06:17.60]So might as well limit the whole color palette to that
[06:21.39]Signed Virgil Abloh in quotes of course
[06:27.12]Oh yeah there's a red zip-tie on this thing it makes it our own
[06:34.26]It's tied into a history of art that's now
[06:38.32]Copyright 2020