"Up to Me" is a song by American R&B singer-songwriter Kev Samples featuring American rapper Lupe Fiasco. It was released as the eighth track from the former's debut studio album The Rush (2007).
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1: Kev Samples]
If the world was in the palm of my hands
Everybody pushing drop-top [?]
No more living from check to check
Everybody rocking diamonds on their necks
No more last call for alcohol
Drank [?] all night until you fall
No more limits on the ATM
So you can floss all day and re-up again
[Chorus: Kev Samples]
If it was up to me
The whole hood will live in luxury
Everybody rockin' [?] on their feet
That's the way it's supposed to be
If it was up to me
The [?] will close at two
All the cake that you make multiplied by two
That's just the way it's supposed to be
[Verse 2: Kev Samples]
And if somebody left it up to me
I'll make it rain a hundred dollar bill every week
Wouldn't be no more pills to play
All the shooters getting dropped since the NBA
I'd turning prisons into colleges
I'd turn [?] into dermatologists
No more gold diggers trying to suck you dry
Nothing
At least that's down too right
[Chorus: Kev Samples]
If it was up to me
The whole hood will live in luxury
Everybody rockin' [?] on their feet
That's the way it's supposed to be
If it was up to me
The [?] will close at two
All the cake that you make multiplied by two
That's just the way it's supposed to be
Lupe—
[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
Yeah, if I was in charge of it
I'd stop feeding all of the nonsense
I'd starve all of it
I'd have them put the black experience on Mount Rushmore
I make them carve all of it
And then film my movie title "We Made It"
And it stars all of us
I'd write the theme song, then we'd all cut it
Give us a deal, then ball on the budget
Then start a magazine and put us all on the cover
I'd give all the awards to the single baby mothers
I'd resurrect Malcolm, have him talk to the hustlers
Resurrect the slaves and I'd give them all butlers
Chi-town Riviera, F-N-F upwards (Yeah!)
[Chorus: Kev Samples]
If it was up to me
The whole hood will live in luxury
Everybody rockin' [?] on their feet
That's the way it's supposed to be
If it was up to me
The [?] will close at two
All the cake that you make multiplied by two
That's just the way it's supposed to be