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In “Big Shot,” Kendrick Lamar and Travis Scott describe their prestigious status and the perks of being rich and famous.
Travis and Kendrick have a relationship that goes beyond music, and an interview with Billboard Travis said (on Kendrick):
I met him at the [MTV Video Music Awards] one year and...
[Intro]
Wakanda, welcome
[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
Big shot (Hol' up, wait), peanut butter insides (No)
Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)
Emotional, 'motional, 'motional, 'motional
Why you emotional? Why you emotional?
Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah
Big shot (Big shot, hol' on, hol' on), peanut butter insides (Hol' on)
Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)
Emotional, 'motional, 'motional, 'motional
Why you emotional? Why you emotional?
Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah
[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]
Sir Duckworth or Kung-Fu Kenny?
Got juice, got work, got weight, got plenty
Got them, got her, got more, got Benji, yeah
Top off, gettin' topped off in the city
Big Top Dawg and I dance on 'em like Diddy
Pop off and I pop back like Fiddy, yeah
I hit the ceilin' and forgot about the floor, yeah
Brand so big, got my haters on the ropes, yeah
This be the wave plus I live on the coast, yeah
When I touch a bag, young nigga do the most, yeah
Mmm, woo, and I Wakanda flex (Yeah)
And you know what time it is (Yeah)
But don't know what grindin' is (Yeah)
Baby, I care, baby, I swear
Only one real nigga here, only two real niggas here, yeah
[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
Big shot (Hol' up, wait), peanut butter insides (No)
Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)
Emotional, 'motional, 'motional, 'motional
Why you emotional? Why you emotional?
Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah
Big shot (Big shot, hol' on, hol' on), peanut butter insides (Hol' on)
Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)
Emotional, 'motional, 'motional, 'motional
Why you emotional? Why you emotional?
Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah
[Verse 2: Travis Scott & Kendrick Lamar]
Big shots (Yeah), purped up, syruped up, nigga, like Pimp C
Flight suit, 'bout to slide down Space City
Top down, she down under like Iggy, yeah (It's lit)
Lockjaw when the night call too litty
Knockoff, get your rocks off, got plenty
Got rocks, got Jay's, got 'Ye, got Lenny, yeah
I need my engine, she need extensions (Yeah)
Don't be the center, attention, just play your position (Straight up)
Got my life on a yacht mission 'cause they been a vision (Yeah, yeah)
Runnin' through these waves like I'm Moses out the booth
Hop out the trees (Skrrt, skrrt), whippin' a frog and it leap
Foggy, can't breathe, Vacheron over Philippe (Alright)
Out in the street (Yeah), chill with the gang, make it sweet
Big shots (Yeah, doo-doo-doo-doo), forget your name like I'm Steve (Yeah)
[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
Big shot (Hol' up, wait), peanut butter insides (No)
Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)
Emotional, 'motional, 'motional, 'motional
Why you emotional? Why you emotional?
Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah
Big shot (Big shot, hol' on, hol' on), peanut butter insides (Hol' on)
Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)
Emotional, 'motional, 'motional, 'motional
Why you emotional? Why you emotional?
Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah
Big Shot was written by Matt Schaeffer & Tim Gomringer & Kevin Gomringer & Cardo & Ice Cube & OZ & Sounwave & Brock Korsan & Travis Scott & Kendrick Lamar.
Big Shot was produced by Matt Schaeffer & Sounwave & CuBeatz & Cardo.
Kendrick Lamar & Travis Scott released Big Shot on Fri Feb 09 2018.
Kendrick Lamar is featured on Travis’ prominent song, “goosebumps”, off Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight.
In an interview with HipHopNMore, producer Cardo stated,
That record is a banger. It’s hard to describe. It’s one of those records that as soon as you hear it in the club you’re like, “Oh shit. This is going up.” It got that bounce to it. Of course Kendrick Lamar and Travis coming in and doing what...
Producer Ludwig Göransson broke down the use of the talking drum (an instrument from West Africa) in one of Genius’s “Deconstructed” videos:
This sound also appears at the end of “Bloody Waters” for an extended outro that transitions seamlessly into “King’s Dead.”
“Big Shot” debuted at #71 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of February 24, 2018.