“Freeze” is the first single from Yizzy’s EP Welcome to Grime Street. With a feature from Birmingham legend Devilman, Yizzy takes his usual hardcore Jamaican Patois style and uses it to get across one thing—his opponents should never freeze.
[Verse 1: Yizzy]
Dem ah chat 'bout weed, dem ah chat ’bout me
Call dem mandem and fight, call dem mandem and leave
Dem boy fi know that a man don't freeze
I don't wanna hear no "Sorry" or "Please" (Huh?)
Might take ’way your gyal and give her the D, okay you chief
If you're gonna beef don't talk, just beef, and don't freeze
Cuh man ah take lip like ChapStick, dem boy fi know all dem I ramp with
I don't deal with him for my tactic, I just deal with the gyal, do a madness
Then tell gyaldem, "Sit upon da matchstick", me, me mek da gyaldem do a backflip
Fling upon a mattress, she can't act this, big life, certain man ah try catfish
Big mouth, suttin' dem ah try chat with, big ting, suttin' dem ah get slapped with
Dem ah try chat, dem ah try chat chat, all of my bruddas dem you don’t wanna ramp with
You don’t wanna war with dem, war with dem, try bar with dem, bar with dem
You will get parred with dem, parred with dem, so gwarn if you wan' war with dem
[Pre-Chorus: Yizzy]
I don’t wanna hear no greeze if a man pull up and you freeze
Brudda, you know I have two foot, man stand your ground or just breeze
Cuh now they'll have you 'pon lack, tryna put you down on your knees
All of your man was shook, but you're the only one that did freeze
[Chorus: Yizzy]
I don’t wanna hear no greeze if all of your mandem freeze
I don't wanna hear no greeze if all of your mandem freeze
I don't wanna hear no greeze if all of your mandem freeze
If all of your mandem wha'? If all of your mandem freeze
[Verse 2: Devilman]
I don't wanna hear no talk 'bout gunman, I don't wanna hear no talk 'bout straps
You will get—you will get a wung mai lung sun den jung wun sen to your head back
I don't know 'bout anybody else but when I jump on the track, it's a wrap
I do Grime, I don't do Drill, and I ain't done Afrobeats or Trap
(Yeah, yeah, yeah) You know like that? Did you ever think I was gonna blow like that?
Counting up big stacks, I know like that
You can't just come in the game and start acting bad, trust me, it don't go like that
Like trying to grow cannabis with a bedroom light, it ain't gonna grow like that
I don't wanna hear it, better you don't say nuttin' and leave it (Leave it)
If you owe me money, better pay your debt blud, you better clear it (Clear it)
I don't know what's wrong with them, wrong with them
Everything's long with them, long with them
What the fuck's going on with them?
[Pre-Chorus: Yizzy]
I don't wanna hear no greeze if a man pull up and you freeze
Brudda, you know I have two foot, man stand your ground or just breeze
Cuh now they'll have you 'pon lack, tryna put you down on your knees
All of your man was shook, but you're the only one that did freeze
[Chorus: Yizzy]
I don't wanna hear no greeze if all of your mandem freeze
I don't wanna hear no greeze if all of your mandem freeze
I don't wanna hear no greeze if all of your mandem freeze
If all of your mandem wha'? If all of your mandem freeze
Freeze was produced by Terror Danjah.
Yizzy announced the single on his Twitter page:
When speaking to Backseaft Mafia, he said:
Terror Danjah [the producer] sent me the riddim one afternoon and all he said was “I got one”—from then I knew the track was gonna be mad. I sat on the riddim for a while tryna work out how to approach it because it doesn’t exactly sound like your typical...