"Funhouse Flavor" 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). It was written and recorded during Winter 2025, at Ray and Maria Stata Center (Building 32G). Fiasco was inspired by the 2010 sculpture Non-Object (Plane) by Anish Kapoor, which stands at sixteen feet.
Lyrics[]
[Intro]
Uh-huh
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Drop it, you know
Raps, raps, raps
Sa and da.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah
And they say and they say and they say and they say
They say
They say and they say
They say
[Verse 1]
Yeah, uh
You ever reflect on your surface
Dissect what your purpose is
And curve whatever you can't work with?
That don't mean that it's worthless
Just ain't deserving of your workbench is
Yeah, and whatever emerges from your workmanship
Is it immersive enough to get him to search inside?
A person may be purchased see it?
Can they see their self inside it enough to keep it as a sidekick
Or be as distant as a difference inconsistent and defensive to committing
Like defendants to your ventures?
Like a bad pitch
Magic mirror on the wall, who throws the ball the fastest?
Just a narcissistic glass myth
Is it vanity, or just a fan of me?
Is it fantasy reflecting what I cannot be
Projecting to my truest self?
Hope it bounces back like trampolines, yeah
[Hook]
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Yeah, whoa
Yeah, uh
[Verse 2]
These burns all on my shoulder
Search through all my photos
It's blurry on your first peek
But get clearer when you get closer
Experiment with your focus
From far away I see upside
In bigger pictures get noticed
We all bound to have fall downs and experiences with Octobers
Put all that in your rear view and fill a funhouse with your trophies
Eyes always on the prize
Don't put your energy in a hypnosis
If they fall for you, never turn your back on the memory of your soldiers
Yeah
[Hook]
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa