“Life ain't meant to come around twice, that's why I gotta get it right. They said I gotta
get it honest, now I gotta give them light, but sleep on it, that's why God gave you night”

—  Lupe Fiasco

"Real"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

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