Kick, Push
| "Kick, Push" | ||||
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| Single by Lupe Fiasco | ||||
| from the album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor | ||||
| Released | April 18, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 4:15 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Soundtrakk | |||
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| "Kick, Push" on YouTube | ||||
"Kick, Push" is the first single released from Lupe Fiasco's debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. It was written by Lupe Fiasco and Soundtrakk, who also produced the song. It describes a love story between a male and a female misfit skateboarders. It has been referred to as "a needle in hip hop's haystack of complacent songs."
Lupe Fiasco has clarified, "...I'm not a skater and I don't want to keep putting on the faces of people who've been skating for 20 years and actually lived out "Kick, Push".
The song's backing track is built around a sample of the instrumental intro of the 1982 song "Bolero Medley" by Filipina singer Celeste Legaspi.
The song appears in video games NBA Live 07, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, MLB The Show 25 and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4. Lupe performed this song (among others) live in 2025 as part of the latter game's first-ever THPS Fest in Los Angeles.