1. |
Give The Kids The Music
02:30
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[Verse 1]
Less a flex more a self affirmation
I’m still nice like your folks’ finished basement
Must be nice when you don’t have to pay rent
Broke zoomers are allowed to be ageist
That’s my first decree
Five finger discount that’s a spending spree
Trust those who were kleptos when they were nineteen
No endorsement I’m just sayin how it seems to me
How it is, tell me how it look like
Bust my ass walking fast on some black ice
Need ass, not enough to do mad swipes
But somehow expect different results
Start my own mini cult
Hope and pray they don’t sue me
Met these girls at this party and they already knew me
From my music granted it was all from 2017
But that was enough inspiration for the current me
This kid in Germany just sent a batch of loops
My friends in Arizona said it’s you I listen to
And I got some fans in Texas
And we message cuz we’re homies
And my man’s out in Japan
Can’t wait to see where this is going
[Chorus]
I said give the kids the music like it’s afterschool
I said give the kids the music don’t you act a fool
I said dude we don’t care what is on the way
Can you play it right now or do we have to wait?
I said give the kids the music like it’s afterschool
I said give the kids the music I don’t make the rules
I said dude we don’t care what is on the way
Can we play it right now or do we have to wait?
[Verse 2]
This the overture
Quick! You might lose em
Tryna never have to say
I wish I’d done it sooner
Famous last words
Only me is at fault
Cuz the kids can’t dance to your jams in the vault
Snippets be like modern day torture
Shit’s piling up, we need an episode of hoarders
Starring you, Mr. Song’s Not Done
Gotta make it all perfect for your audience of one
Just drop it!
Talkin to myself here
Really just….
Lookin at the man in the mirror
uh
I said, I said
[Chorus]
I said give the kids the music like it’s afterschool
I said give the kids the music don’t you act a fool
I said dude we don’t care what is on the way
Can you play it right now or do we have to wait?
I said give the kids the music like it’s afterschool
I said give the kids the music I don’t make the rules
I said dude we don’t care what is on the way
Can we play it right now or do we have to wait?
[Outro: Antonio]
You still a broke music teacher
But he’s still teachin these kids how to make beats
He’s still tryna make it out here in the music industry
Teaches twenty-seven kids a day and still gettin nothin out of it
This class is so easy
Y’all shouldn’t be over there failin’
He the best teacher you ever gonna have in the day
Coolest one
Bring the Nintendo Switch
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2. |
Stomachaches
02:18
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[Chorus]
I be getting stomachaches
When i gotta go to work like that
Hurts like that
Feeling like the fuckin worst like that
Every morning I wake up and I be
Getting stomachaches
When i gotta go to work like that
Hurts like that
Feeling like the fuckin worst like that
Staring into space berserk like that
[Verse]
Say right about now
I don’t wanna act cute
Wanna bitch and moan
Bout my commute
Feels like a death sentence
Call me Barbara walters
Cuz I host sixty minute drives
To and from
Fuckin gas bill cost just as much
As a new pair of dunks every month
Just so I can work
At a place I don’t like that much
That’s an understatement
Got my stomach achin'
Thinkin’ how I’ll be ground down
Right into pavement
Not just once but many times repeated daily
For a check that gets chopped off for transportation
Fuck the government and city planner
Bout to build a train from here to Alabama
I’m way too handsome
But I’ll throw a tantrum
I’ll hold big auto by the neck for ransom
You know something like that
I can’t really fight back
Like I could move closer
But I don’t wanna do that
Sick of this spat
Might put on a podcast
It’s better than music
Makes the time go fast
[Bridge]
Oh, say right about now
Won’t you drive a little faster?
Gotta go, gotta move
Gotta go, gotta move
Gotta go, gotta move
Gotta….
Oh, say right about now
Won’t you drive a little faster?
Gotta go, gotta move
Gotta go, gotta move
Gotta go, gotta…..
[Chorus]
Getting stomachaches
When i gotta go to work like that
Hurts like that
Feeling like the fuckin worst like that
Every morning I wake up and I be
Getting stomachaches
When i gotta go to work like that
Hurts like that
Feeling like the fuckin worst like that
Staring into space berserk like that
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3. |
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[Verse 1: Davis]
Lil lispy but the ebony maw still get jiggy
If it hits me I contort the words to what they need to be
No three square meals a day
He sustained himself off squares top ramen and yerba mates
I make music for niggas who sip grand marnier on warm winter days
To wash down they shrimp etouffee
And those that face blunts and sell runts between carts on the train
Kick it with niggas ain’t got no FOID
But still keep that hammer on em like they masons
Ain’t no false flagging niggas ain’t hood adjacent
Local g station know me
Shit a block away from grannys
And when i step into hanna’s i’m treated as if i’m family
Mrs whitaker selling scratch offs
Fiends craving that mineral and i ain’t talking bath salts
Don’t roam in some expensive kicks
Begging to be a lick
Five niggas in a coup ride down on you with the stick
No words uttered
They rather let the pole talk
You on thin ice mister
Stretch you
Strong arm you
Then lance you like a blister
Soul exit ya mouth as soft as a whisper
[Verse 2: Pink Navel]
There is a particular practice called being shackled
Down by the weight of my energy-losing stature
My stamina is dwindling
Eat a citrus fruit and use the juice like it’s the kindling
To fire up my synergy
Right around the time I’m supposed to be um excited
Is when I start to yawn and move on to sinister idling
What’s another way to battle daily dose of lazy bones
Submit to being crazy dull but in appropriate hours?
Tired in the day but at night I feel like I’m flower
Blooming to accrue a new acquired stance called power
I could do it for hours
Till my baggy eyes drag me by
And sadly I do flounder fish up on the comforter
Dream of being Dumbledore and casting a spell called rap
Send it off to Bill like watchu think did Devin snap?
Watchu think did Devin snap?
[Verse 3: Big Bil]
It’s 5 pm and I’m tired
Debunking myths that you can do
Any hobby you desire
With enough grit and determination
Put up a fight against your human body’s
Natural inclinations to rest and recharge
Yea I know it’s so hard
I barely sunk into the couch
And I’m at work again
I’m feeling stretched like some butter over too much bread
When I bitch like this you people say be grateful
There’s people who don’t have a job
With no food on the table
Well I’ll take a hungry day
If it means doing what I say so
I’m waiting for the day
Where after making dinner. doing dishes, exercising
Oh and yea I just remembered
Feed the cat and scoop it’s shit
So I don’t stink up the whole lobby
After doin all of that
I chip away at my lil hobbies
That’s the dream like my number one desire
But as for now it’s 5 PM
And I am very tired
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[Intro: Big Bill]
I say the rest is uncertain
Enemies want me in jeopardy
Levar Burton
Big shoes to fill like my first name was Kerwin
I’m not perfect, I’m just daily learning
This my sermon like
[Verse 1: GBMystical]
Don't know where i'm going yet
Uncertainty is so complex
I know it’s more than i have met
So far I’m tangled in the net
Tryna build my net worth cause
I’m not even worth my weight in silver yet
Coach when I ride a jet
Bars don't come as easy as they used to
Maybe cause I’m wired into bluetooth
Usage constant abusive behavior on myself
With the smoke all in my mouth back on the train heading south
[Verse 2: Big Bill]
No doubt I’ll smack you if you say “quarter life crisis”
But that’s exactly what it is
An accurate indictment of my situation
I’ll only go to grad school if I get a wide-eyed ovation
By Pharrell in a NYU masterclass
Anything less I will have to pass
Wanna move to New York but need double cash
And it would triple my sorrows
Maybe I should finally just plant my feet in Chicago
Yo I don’t know
[Verse 3: GBMystical]
On the back porch where i scorch another torch
On the back of my tongue is where my words were
In the pit of my stomach when im tortured
In the light of the morning when i'm sober
Hoping that the order that i ordered gets delivered
Nervous just to go into the store because im tweaking
I’m afraid i might fuck up my life like every weekend
But I just smoke this dope because it seems to do the treatment
[Verse 4: Big Bill]
At least when
I got the evening brews in me
I can settle down maybe write a little tune
Any thoughts as to why my hits materialize
In twenty minutes after alley pissing Thursday night?
That’s not regular, slowly get ahead of it like bi-monthly
Get a streak then restart but I’m proud of me
Like half the time cuz I change my mind
At what age it’s okay to consider my prime
Yo I don’t know
[Verse 5: GBMystical]
My life is so caught up in the niceness
I just started talking to someone about my crisis
If you acting fishy that’s a pisces
See me eating Reese’s Pieces at recess was timeless
Cause i can transport now to a memory
I’m not done making new ones cause of entropy
If time is a circle then it's meant to be
Meant to stump a little take a little extra time
I got too much on my mind so i can't find the time
Doin simple shit that people half my age are doin fine
I got too much on my mind so i can't find the time
Doin simple shit that people half my age are doin fine
[Verse 6: Big Bill]
Top half of hourglass full of sand left
Unwritten like what Natasha Bedingfield said
Or my homies finish it like Mozart's Requiem
I get further if i don't concern myself
If I’m ahead of him
Comparison robs me of my delight
Me and my band's daily affirmation is "oh we nice"
Like to see heights that's higher than the present day
If I never do then i'll bemoan it in my later days
Might provide at least a little inspiration
I'll blow up when i'm 65
A time bomb with no expiration
I'm certain I got hella patience
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5. |
Putzing
01:09
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[Verse]
I condone hella putzing
On my way to this but I had to do that one thing
Take my time might scroll on the couch
I’ll be fashionably late
To her and so-and-so’s house
In my own time zone, comfiest in my home
Will the club play the songs off my iPhone?
I go where I go when I please
That’s why I be late to my job most morning
You see is I be watchin Shaq and Charles Barkley
Soon as I get sick of them I’m in attendance at your party
Could be never, could be five seconds
Imma trust my instincts like I’m listening to Peppy
(trust your instincts!)
Pro side quest
I could never rock a clock face like a Timex
I’m a putz but in reality I’m stressed
That’s my best guess
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[Chorus]
I don’t fuck bad bitches
I fuck women with jobs
Show me your W-2
Before you slob on my knob
If you in school that’s cool
It just might be a prob
So Imma keep it to a wave and a nod
[Verse 1]
If you’re in school it might be a problem
I don’t know if people tell you this that often
I only mess around with women with professions
You could call it a kink, you could call it an obsession
Lil baby
I need to err on the side of caution
You’re twenty-three
Need to be makin a little profit
It’s exhausting to explain this to a child
Not into baby-talkin that ain’t my style
[Chorus]
I don’t fuck bad bitches
I fuck women with jobs
Show me your W-2
Before you slob on my knob
If you in school that’s cool
It just might be a prob
So Imma keep it to a wave and a nod
[Verse 2]
I don’t need no Rosie the Riveter
And please don’t be insecure
If I gotta bring out the wallet for dinner
This ain’t classist
I just wanna say you ain’t gettin no ass
If you ain’t got no regular cash
From a source that ain’t your procreators
I know it’s hard to find a place that pays for your labor
For what it’s worth it can be like an incentive
First paystub I see, we fuckin, it’s predestined
It’s a damn good investment
No I never lay eighteen bombshells with no Roth IRA
That’s a damn issue
Don’t call daddy when the rent’s due
I fuck adults that’s what I’m into
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7. |
Doom Is Like Jazz
01:36
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Doom is like jazz
How you learn how to blow through those changes like that?
Got a BFG but I only count three
And I got a couple choruses of demons round me
I might move smoothly like my man Kenny G
With the plasma rifle
Till it runs out of ammo or the chain gun idles
I’m liable to shotgun everything
Might shoot one, charge up, shoot a sequence of three
Boom boom boom like the Black Eyed Peas
I see how some of you blast way faster
But I got the patience to figure out the patterns
We in hell anyways so fuck your last words, bastards
And if you’re coming to the end of your solo
And you need some help
You can chainsaw people in half and then steal their health
I said what I said
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[Chorus: Mike Space]
Oh why today?
I’ve seen it all wash away
And that’s okay
Sandcastles aren’t meant to stay
[Verse 1: Big Bill]
Something bout the passage of time
Something bout a younger-looking old person
Aging like a fine wine or cabernet
My back aches more like every day
I need a tempurpedic like i need a
Macy’s Day Parade if my profession was floating
My profession is telling young people that they owe things
Subtracting years off my life
Puffing like koffing, I mean puffin like
Rare birds on cereal boxes
I thought once i got old i might feel like hot shit
But I still can't boil correct amounts of pasta
What I thought I had i know that I surely lost it
Imma hop out as soon as you thought i hopped in
[Verse 2: Sagar]
I hop over the turnstile life
Oh wow you be like
“I don’t think this thing works right”
I laugh, the scenic route gaffe
I’ve seen it all and summed it up to bout a paragraph
My greatest fear is losing faith
Second is being second on a Big Bill drum break
I’m at the bar building heartache
Or maybe belly
Maybe Makaveli listening to Nelly
I was in New Delhi I was hella sweaty
No confetti, boo-hoo grandma died
I wasn’t ready
That’s neither here nor there
All things end up as much so I hear
Only one sound in this atmosphere
And that’s the sigh of the deer as the headlights clear
Only one sound in this atmosphere
And that’s the sigh of the deer as the headlights clear
[Chorus: Mike Space]
Oh why today?
I’ve seen it all wash away
And that’s okay
Sandcastles aren’t meant to stay
I’ve seen it all crashing down
And that’s okay
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9. |
Dogs In Cities
01:04
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[Verse]
I don’t fuck with dogs in cities
Because they don’t fuck with me
I see em barkin at my presence
When I’m walking down the street
I’m like this sidewalk wasn’t yours
When it was poured into the ground
Now you be actin like you own the shit
I’ll send you to the pound
Nah I’m kidding that was harsh
But your unleashed mutt will bite me
I don’t care how much you trust it
It don’t motherfuckin like me
I am huge and unfamiliar to your yappy little pup
It’s lived in cities its whole life
But cannot keep its jowls shut
Around the strangers and the passerby
Oh my dog is chill
It just don’t like you because you’re a guy
I would advise you keep a wide berth
Cuz it don’t fuck with half the humans on the planet earth
Uhhhhhh
I don’t fuck with dogs in cities
Because they don’t fuck with me
I see em barkin at my presence
When I’m walking down the street
I’m like this sidewalk wasn’t yours
When it was poured into the ground
Now you be actin like you own the shit
I’ll send you to the pound
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10. |
Cold Calls
02:54
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[Kurt Vonnegut quote]
“I have this disease
Late at night sometimes
Involving alcohol and the telephone
I get drunk, and I drive my wife away
With a breath like mustard gas and roses
And then,
Speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone
I ask the telephone operators
To connect me with this friend or that one
From whom I have not heard in years”
[Intro]
Haven’t talked to you in a long time
Like I’ve never talked to you before
[Verse 1]
Cold calls sponsored by Yellow Tail riesling
Big Bill on caller ID, did you miss me?
Wish we, maybe lived close together
Or just check in every year
To be honest that might be better like
High school motherfuckers keep at arm’s distance
Call you bi-yearly I be spilling my business
Toast to the overshare, see you at Christmas
Or maybe not
That’s where our friendship probably stops
But I will tell you things that I’d rather not
Tell my real-life friends
That could get dicey
Down a couple brews
I’ll call and tell you who I fucked, when, where, how
At high speed
I’ll make your head spin
You got answers, I got questions
If you zone out, no I never take it personal
Telephone ted talk, and u my fuckin sounding board
But I still love you
[Bridge - Skit]
Bill: Dan
Dan: Sup will?
Bill: Hey Dan sorry so….this song…actually…I’m gonna send it to you
Dan: Okay
Bill: But it’s about…um…it’s about like just calling people on the phone after you drank too much. There’s like a little bridge part of it that’s like 10 seconds and it just needs you know…something in there, you know? Like a Chris Rock skit.
Dan: Okay, I wanna hear it
Bill: Yea Imma send it to you
[Verse 2]
I’ll tell you more than my digi shrink
I don’t even pay you
Only copay is chardonnay
Bring a bottle or two
More than ten dollars I don’t even wanna holler
Down it in one sitting
Talk to you like you’re my father
Spill all your tea we’ll have an overshare party
I won’t remember shit
And if I do remember hardly
Motherfuckers ask “really how close are we?”
If I called you I’ll die for you in a heartbeat
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11. |
Work Friend
02:44
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[Chorus]
I’m at work again
Not easier this time
I’m finding it so hard to play pretend
But when I wanna die
Or my credit card declines
It will be hard to say goodbye to my work friend
[Verse 1]
First year in the hole
Had no sense for crowd control
Pick me up, throw me around
Star student just cussed me out
It was bad and it got worse, felt like the
Worst teacher in the universe
You said “no matter how much it hurts
They don’t give a fuck about you”
When they leave go about their lives
You’re the last thing in their mind
You’re the fourth adult they cussed out today
Not to oversimplify
Nobody cares and that’s just fine
And if you’re really pissed off you go and call their parents
[Chorus]
I’m at work again
Not easier this time
I’m finding it so hard to play pretend
But when I wanna die
Or my credit card declines
It will be hard to say goodbye to my work friend
[Verse 2]
You used to make tea
During the periods we were free
It was discount therapy for me
(And a lotta other people)
I don’t really fuck with tea like that but
I like to shit talk behind their back
They being anybody would piss us the fuck off
Same time you had the whole floor walking
Around the auditorium we all talking
Reminiscing, it made my week
You were tryna get fit for Hawaii
You’re the only one of us who followed thru
With the goals that we pledged we'd do
I hope wherever you end up there's more people like you
[Chorus]
I’m at work again
Not easier this time
I’m finding it so hard to play pretend
But when I wanna die
Or my credit card declines
It will be hard to say goodbye to my work friend
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