"A Bathing Harry" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, released as the sixth track from his mixtape Fahrenheit 1/15 Part III: A Rhyming Ape (2005). It samples the 2005 song "Dirty Harry" by the Gorillaz.
Cultural references[]
- Spalding is a sports equipment manufacturing company. It was initially founded as a baseball manufacturer before expanding to producing balls for other sports.
- Rawlings is a sports equipment manufacturing company. It specializes in baseball equipment.
- GNC is a retail company that sells nutrition supplements.
- Country Music Television (CMT) launched in 1983 as a channel dedicated to country music.
- Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) is a music company based in Berlin, Germany.
- Cash Money Brothers (CMB) was a street gang from the film New Jack City.
- Ice-T played an undercover cop in New Jack City.
- Cinderella is a folk tale with many variations. Usually it centers on a young girl who marries a male royal. In European versions, she typically has a cruel stepmother and stepsisters. When attending the ball, she is dressed in finer clothing that they do not recognize her and she dances with the prince.
Lyrics[]
[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
Yeah that's right, that's right
Green Lantern, what up?
Y'all know me out there (Woo), I go by the name of Lupe Fiasco
And I'm from a little city in the Midwest
Y'all might've heard of it
It's called Chicago mayne, ha
And I'm from the Westside of that city, you know what I'm talkin' 'bout?
And I roll with a crew by the name of FNF—first and fifteenth
So I guess I gotta do my little, little thing right
Right about—
[Verse: Lupe Fiasco]
Catch me I'm balling, catch me I'm balling
Catch me like Spalding, catch me like Rawlings
If he indeed the MC, vitamin like GNC
Can't see me like Big on CMT
Did a little bit of time on BMG
But this right here homie, this all me
Can you be down, nah, n***a CMB
That's cold, that ain't nice G
So what though, little homie remind me of Ice-T
By the way we share the same birthday
The word play is work but pimping is easy
So catch me I'm balling
I'm sick too if you ain't catch me like coughing
Back when I said you should catch me like Rawlings
It's cool, 'cause most cats that I bump into can't catch me that often
Most times they just end up falling
Ball for a few then end up walking
Catch me in the ball with a Cinderella waltzing
And I do it until it's no longer exclusive
Might go once, might go twice
But never three times like an auction to it
See I, walk into it, I do my thang
And tell a homie that it's cool to let y'all into it