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The Show Goes On (song)

2010 single by Lupe Fiasco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"The Show Goes On" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, released by Atlantic Records on October 26, 2010, as the lead single from his third studio album Lasers. The song was produced by Kane Beatz and features an uncredited guest appearance from JR Get Money, who performs the hook — which is melodically interpolative of the 2004 song "Float On" by indie rock band Modest Mouse; as a result, band members Isaac Brock, Eric Judy and Benjamin Weikel are credited as co-writers, alongside Dustin Brower, as well as Lupe Fiasco, Kane Beatz and JR Get Money themselves.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Show Goes On (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.