"All Caps Flavor" (stylized in all caps) is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco and MIT List Visual Arts Center, released from their joint musical art project Ghotiing MIT: Public Art (2025). The recording took place during Summer 2022, at the Hayden Memorial Library on the MIT campus. Fiasco was inspired by the 1963 bronze sculpture Elmo-MIT by Dimitri Hadzi.
Lyrics[]
[Verse]
Yeah, yeah
Protect your head piece, so that it doesn't hurt
Though he was born to kill, we do construction work
A full metal jacket, but for your upper turf
A bulletproof vest, call that a Southern shirt
But for your North, we need forts
When they resort to reports
Like the fourth and try to force
A Trojan Horse in your thoughts
Haberdasher thwart, fedoras getting talked
Treated like a cork sticky from pouring out the port
Or find yourself descending from the war end of a fork
Gotta have a men in this mental candle, sport
And I am firmly convinced
That the future of this nation
And of the world, for that matter
Depends in no small part upon
A young men of the United States of America
And that if they receive proper training
In boyhood and youth through education
Mental recreation, wholesome educational
Entertainment, and coordinated
Physical training, and more than all
If in addition
They'd be fostered and encouraged
In a manner of right and proper living
And the principles thereof
Properly inculcated
To the end, that they may be kept from evil environments
And guarded against baneful influence
We shall rear a nobler race of men who will make better and more enlightened citizens
To the ultimate benefit of mankind