Search results for 'Artists Residents Chicago'

It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)

Common

Be

2005

they status on the streets
License plates that say they, motto 
This is Chicago in the heyday
Similar to Good Times, I guess that I was JJ
A skinny

gone, that home is where the art is,  
where the klan and their new black faces, where 
past residents and former pre-presidents of the  
general chicago

I'm 17
From the south of the city we call it Chicago
A place where an artist can live out they dream
Just pray you can make it with action gon take you

then it's time to clock in
I'll read the script off queue
It goes
I'm just another kid in Chicago
Work a 9 to 5 for life far as I know
Hit the gym just

education

And I’m sure this will end up online
So I don’t want to diss anyone at
The American Academy, I’m sure it’s equal to
The Art Institute of Chicago by

MCQUEEN: You've been on the
Scene as an artist
Now for 10 years, which is impressive
Given the level of interest and
Artistry that you've managed

of the School
Of the Arts Institute of Chicago
And the Board of
Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago
I now confer upon you the degree of Honorary
Doctorate

I am a pop artist so my medium is
Public opinion and the world is my canvas

'I’m sorry' is something that you can
Use a lot it gives
You

Yo, I go by the name of Fadah man. I'm an artist from Chicago
And if you don't know shit about me, you should know that I'm a

Made nigga
Spade nigga

teachers (ya heard!), Mr. K
All of the artists my fellow artist in the game that hold me down and help me out
Talib Kweli, (Mike Sanders), The Roots shout

Every motherfucker has a story
Every motherfucker's been somewhere that you will never go
Every motherfucker here's an artist
Every motherfucker here

My skill set through my
Skills– I’m an artist five years
Old, art school PhD
Art Institute of Chicago i am an artist
I have a condition called

18 years spent as resident 
Here in Chicago where we love to represent 
To fullest extent yes we do it with intent 
From the north side to the south

like the president)
We gone leave you homeless, nigga we robbing yo resident(We robbing yo resident)
On my momma you get locked up when you telling

Yeah
Yeah
I feel like Kanye West
And I
And I
I feel like Kanye West (Kanye West) (I feel like Ye)
I said I'm from Chicago and I'm the best (Chi town)

I become the head corner stone
I'm the same stone that the builders refuse
Now look, I become the head corner stone

I'm the artist that your DJs

Lightfoot

The Guess Who

Wheatfield Soul

1968

the image of Alberta
The side street near Chicago
The grim beauty of Toronto

He is an artist
He is an artist
He is an artist painting sistine

Light Foot

The Guess Who

The Ultimate Collection

1997

the image of Alberta
The side street near Chicago
The grim beauty of Toronto

He is an artist
He is an artist
He is an artist painting Sistine

to an artist with a focus
I had niggas try to son me at my solstice
I be milling on they grave when they soul split
Heart froze like the ice in Chicago
Burb

Cruising in a lowkey whip like I'm the president
I'm thuggin' in the burbs I'm tryna hide it from the residents
Them people say I'm drug dealing

Last Call

Kanye West

The College Dropout

2004

stayin' in Chicago, I had my own apartment
I be doin' like just beats for local acts just to try to keep the lights on
And then to go out and buy, get

make it quick
My mind is the home I'm the resident
And according to the precedents I'm the shit
Why my head stutter like the president
Feeling like

to Mar-a-Lago
I even went on stage that night in
Chicago when I was having a miscarriage
I mean, I pied the piper, I put on a diaper
And sang out my spleen

the whole thing off

I know you'll love Chicago
And you will stay up all night
I know you'll love Chicago
I know
I know
I know
I know
I know you'll love