Gold Watch

Oh, give the drummer some yea, yea Let's peruse the essentials of Cool A brief study on the things so instrumental to Lu That make me feel flyer than lobby's of W's A disclaimer just a rhymer no credentials from a school Let's peruse the essentials of Cool A brief study on the things so instrumental to Lu That make me feel flyer than lobby's of W's A disclaimer just a rhymer no credentials from a school In my Fall of Rome jeans, my Head Porter wallet My Neighborhood shirt and my Eddie Chen CLOT Shit might not go to college but my street smart polished Like the black fingernails of that punk rock logic Do the knowledge, man you can't be punk from projects Firm disbeliever in your punch clock promise Was trading off my comics I was taking them to school One of Jay-Z boys now I'm skating in your pool Not to be rude I'm just hating on your rules Like a young 50 I'm on my world tour Good morning Singapore I'm bringin' the sun with me From the Robert Taylor homes to Africa's slum cities I am American mentally with Japanese tendencies Parisian sensibility so stay out the vicinity of Yea, yea them niggas over there its just Yea, yea now look at what I wear Got my, gold watch and my, gold chain With my fancy car and my diamond ring With my fancy broad and she foreign So its no words and its no slang And I'm no trick and I'm no lame Its just so slick that she's so game, and its Yea, yea she love it over here Its just yea, yea she love it over here I like Diptyque candles and Maharishi sandals and Dita sunglasses, Purple Murder Service samples I like False T-shirts Dover Street is off the handle Such a good designer Junya Watanabe got damn you I like Yohji Yamamoto and a Max Roach solo Leather Gucci belts and Guilty Brotherhood polo's I like Montblanc pens and Moleskine paper I like Goyard bags and green Now-or-laters Monocle magazine and Japanese manga Futura Nosferatus and HTM trainers I love Street Fighter 2, I just really hate Zangief Only Ken and Ryu I find it hard to beat Blanka Keep a Wee Ninja hanging and an Unkle album banging If you negative in energy then stay out the vicinity of Yea, yea them niggas over there its just Yea, yea now look at what I wear Got my, gold watch and my, gold chain With my fancy car and my diamond ring With my, ghetto broad and she So plain got couple scars and one of those long names She a fight a nigga and cusses with no shame And her ex-man had her baggin' up cocaine but she Yea, yea she love it over here Its just yea, yea she love it over here But my most coveted thing is a high self-esteem And a low tolerance for them telling me how to lean See the most important parts are the ones that are unseen The wings don't make you fly and the crown don't make you king Now God don't like ugly ain't too happy bout pretty I am ignorance's enemy so stay out the vicinity of Yea, yea them niggas over there its just Yea, yea now look at what I wear --- Gold Watch - Lupe Fiasco