Lupe Fiasco - SOS

Song of the Day

Minnesota Public Radio

Music Commentary, Music

4.5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Song of the Day is “SOS” from Lupe Fiasco’s album Samurai DX, out now.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:03.5	All out in the place to be, yeah, feel me?
0:06.2	Uh-huh.
0:08.0	You know what I'm talking about?
0:09.6	Ain't nothing to it.
0:14.5	Separate the wheat from the ops a leap.
0:18.9	Who say mobsters don't prosper.
0:20.6	Waser.
0:21.6	I foresee a place in time.
0:23.6	Monumental like they making dimes like Willemina.
0:26.6	I foresee like it's mace and mines.
0:29.6	On the M-I-C, like I be making mines.
0:32.6	All it take is spine like a snake design just to take your time and wait in line like my latest rhyme
0:38.2	it produces like a mousse but reduces like it's made of wine in the face to shine made it out
0:43.3	the latest bind in the shape of crime i can't take it like it's made a swine but can't break it like
0:48.6	an agent mine without the torture waterboard it to it turn into reporter. Uber mentioned 10. I treat these sneakers
0:55.5	like a tour bus. And we walk the streets like they are sure of us. The wishing well failed.
1:00.4	Just watch the park and pick the quarters up. And why be satisfied with quarters they be counting.
1:04.8	They be wishing more fools a couple quarters in the fountain I foresee. Like I live next door to
1:10.0	4B. Going to be hardcore like the next war, my sword seat. Try to lock me foresee like I live next door to 4B gonna be hardcore like the next war my sword see try to lock me out like I'm Jason Voorhees I just use my sword as the door key
1:18.6	ah I'm doing this for a while holding down the face left now we gonna flip it upside down Molecular
1:29.3	We're doing this for a while
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