[Verse 1]
Turn the bass up, turn the lights down/ turn my mic up, you fucks pipe down/ It’s a new day, same shit, so treat it like a Bill Murray flick and get the chick by the credits/ You can put em up like Reddit/ Anything you’re thinking, I already said it/ this town is so old hat like racks on racks, no thrift store fetish/”Indie Rock?” Naw, these kids need an anthem/ so underground the commercials’ll pass em/ “Who’s gonna make that?”, well look who’s askin/ off of the cuff, “but he’s so fuckin handsome.”/ the city’s too big for the rumor mill/ moved to an industrial-God-complex and still/ comes with the goods/ now choke on that pill like a good child should/ Naw, I wanna build something dope out the ashes/ put the record on, make the shit sound classic/ nothing big ever been done being passive/ so come and rip these walls down, do it with passion!//
[Bridge]
Hey girl, tonight’s the night,
“Have you heard the news?”
Yea we wrote the book/
Hey girl, tonight’s the night.
“Has anybody ever said you look good in soot?”//
[Hook]
We’re gonna burn this city, burn burn this city,
Burn this city, burn burn this city,
Burn this city, burn burn this city,
(Heeey-hooo, heeey-hoooo)/
burn this city, burn burn this city,
Burn this city, burn burn this city,
Burn this city, burn burn this city,
(ashes to ashes and dust to dust)//
[Verse 2]
Everbody talkin this and that/ but when the chips are down they ain’t sayin jack/ I don’t wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy…I wake up in the morning like my name is Shaft/
(Excerpt from Shaft theme song)
Turn my theme song up, put my keys in my pants/ Then I’m rollin down the street like I’m 70’s advanced/ so please save the last dance/ (we can dougie on the rubble of the billboards, man)/ yea, another one bites the dust/ I used to think that one was the loneliest number, til I hit high school and forgot about a thing called trust/ you remember the moment the house went bust/ got introduced to greed and lust/ weed and freedom, devious/ and the feeling sucks, til you graduate like “The witch is dead, everybody get buck!”//
[Bridge]
[Hook]
[Outro]
Variations on “Hey” (a bunch of fuggin times)/
Burn, burn, yes you’re gonna burn (a bunch of times toward the end. This is a play on Rage Against the Machine if you didn’t notice haha)//
Jae is Hip Hop artist from Rochester, Minnesota that learned how to shape a song from start to finish in a way that was his
own. He devoted himself to this passion by learning to write, produce, engineer, and distribute his music.
Jae has also been behind mixes and instrumentals for artists like buzzworthy up-and-coming Seattle artist Brakebill and Twin Cities-based artist Sam Phoenix....more
Sharp commentary, big hooks, and stunning melodies make the Minneapolis rapper, poet, and songwriter's latest solo LP a triumph. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 8, 2023