Tokyo Freeze

"Tokyo Freeze"Song by Lupe Fiasco
Released	March 19 – March 29, 2020
Genre	Hip hop
Songwriter(s)	Wasalu Jaco
Producer(s)	Lupe Fiaco Robert Glasper

Tokyo Freeze is a series of songs by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, uploaded to his Instagram account from March 19-March 29, 2020.

Tokyo Freeze 1

"Tokyo Freeze"

[Intro Skit/Sample: Robert Glasper]
Konnichiwa
Casey Benjamin saxophone vocals, tanktop! (*applause*)
Burniss Travis on the bass and being very ugly (*applause*)
Mark Colemburg on the drums (*applause*)
Where's Colemburg? (*laughter*)
Yo, where's Colemburg?
What song is that? (*laughter*)
Yo, where's Colemburg? (*laughter*)
What song is that?

[Pre-Verse: Lupe Fiasco]
Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, uh

[Verse: Lupe Fiasco, Frank Ocean Sample]
Elegant dust falls like water off tall cliffs
What starts as icebergs and small drips
Gangs up in what you can call crips
(Human beings in a mob) Uh, yeah
(What's a mob to a king?
What's a king to a god?) What's that
(What's a god to a non-believer
Who don't believe in anything?) Uh-huh, uh-uh, let me get that
Blue seas, slipping like skis over the top like T's
Camouflage-colored chamomile on the battlefield
I relax and chill, yeah
Dapper Dan daffodils
Two G's worth of recording gear to make reports for your ears
I'm a little teapot, short and stout
But I'm a little ski shop, sports and routes
(Human beings in a mob
What's a mob to a king?
What's a king to a god?
What's a god to a non-believer
Who don't believe in anything?)
Let me get that, [?] is double black diamond
Took that shop to a resort, now I'm shining
Don't get a bullet lodged
I'm just here to lift 'em up, I didn't duck
Figure the flow icy so get a puck
Go, go [?]
[?]homie is sick as fuck
Look at it closely, but do it anti-socially
It's a winter wonderland but it's toasty
Two slots I work with both days
Two shots, dapper pants
Niagara used to fall on my pair
Step outside, hear the voice of Creasy Bear
All up in the air like, "Yeah"
Shit's the bomb, come talk to the derrière
Take every care, go blind stare in that glare
The air, Kool-Aid and Perrier
Three cheers 'til they get him to cheer
I be blessed, sports and routes
I play with paths like Professor X
Me on IG, that means you can snort the house
Tokyo freeze, look all this powder about, ha

Tokyo Freeze 2

"Tokyo Freeze"

[Intro]
Uh, thank you Tokyo, 'ppreciate it
You know how it goes?
Indeed, indeed
Not my first time here
Always a pleasure to be back amongst you
Konnichiwa—that's how you say it
Ohayo gozaimasu
Welcome Tokyo Freeze, Freeze
Over Tokyo, you know?
And as we say, okay, uh, yeah

[Verse 1]
What is glory? Other side of the story
Lose your morals to be number 5 in the 40
But you're still trapped in the category
Shattered if you dapper poorly, surely your average habit forming
Havoc-wreaking attitude is half performing in this aftermath
For the bowing cast, casket closing, classic, cornerstoning is my forte
Paid for the foreplay, you might as well stay for the orgy
[?], that's gold in the panties
There goes the goals, more rose into fannings
Another chop-chop, what's the fast and furious to a chop shop?
Turn a jalop sob to a drop-top
Good as galop jamming to a Pakistani
I cop the first stone, thrown by the bone
Picky gavel handling
I love to judge misunderstandings
Throw it back at 'em like a javelin
They got me banned from the bar
When you can't stand like a man in the car
Gotta stand back, put your hand in your heart
You kicked off the force, gotta hand in your star
Like a ninja jobless
Or Kermit the Frog is
Referring to his puppeteer
Your noodles soba but you really love a beer, what a year

[Outro]
Ah, what a year, what a year, what a year

[Ron Isley]
I wash my hands, I said my grace, what more do you want from me?
Tears of a clown, guess I'm not all what is meant to be
Shades of grey will never change if I condone
Turn this page, help me change, to right my wrongs

Tokyo Freeze 3

"Tokyo Freeze"

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Scenery, man replacing machinery
Letting my phone sing to me
Sinking art, what it seems to me
Like a teenager taking the senior seats
We give so much to these devices
Life inside the lifeless, find a likeness, hope it likes us
Even plants fight, a weed would choke a ficus
A barely swallowed pecan chokes a vegan
To death right before the weekend, now
Will test fate testify on behalf of the victim?
On what he witnessed at cafe gratitude
And incriminate the kitchen?
Maybe implicate with snitchin'
But chef
Point is, nothing ever lacks a side effect
You could buy a vest and die from stress
Sometimes life may feel like one brick with 5 connects
But only you know if you really tried your best
Yes, yes, yes

[Interlude: Robert Glasper]
Casey Benjamin, saxophone and vocal, Casey Benjamin
Burniss Travis on the bass (*applause*)
Mark Colenburg on the drums (*applause*)
I'm Robert Glasper, arigato gozaimasu (*applause*)
Arigato, arigato, arigato

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Uh, yeah, I'm just an author
Trying to optimize my ideals like Warby Parker
Kinda like Harvey's Harlot
When the game gets going, you gotta Atari harder
How you gonna deal with these eyes without the skills to survive?
How I lyrically take liberties
Paint literature of the walls of the embassy, yeah
I hope you find sense in the asymmetries, uh
Hands up, Tokyo freeze

[Piano Outro]

[Skit: Japanese Announcer]
[?] mashite [?] arigato gozamashita
Tadai mo [?] mashite
Ichibun no koen wa [?] itashi mashita
[?] koen wa...

Tokyo Freeze 4

"Tokyo Freeze"

[Intro]
Yeah
Kore wa, nan desu ka? Hai
Uh

[Verse]
Father was a DJ, so he grew up in the clubs
Learned it from his father, plus he had it in his blood
Played a private gig for the dealers of the drugs
Daughter of the boss loved his grooves and fell in love
Wanted by another whose jealousy increases
He burns his turntables, smashed his records into pieces
Cuts his hands off before he shoots him in the head
Dropped off in the limousinе and leaves him therе for dead
Voice in the darkness said, "I'll fix this for the price
There's spirits that appear only if the music's tight
And if I get 'em all, I'll be ruler of the world
And you'll get your revenge, and your hands, and your girl"
What's up now?
Uh, yeah, what's up now?

[Outro]
Uh, uh, Tokyo Freeze all day, uh

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