On “Ground Zero,” Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ reflects on his own mortality in his triumphant return to hip hop. Bada$$ reflects on his own come-up in the rap game and juxtaposes his difficult upbringing to the lavish lifestyle he currently lives.
On July 24, 2019, Joey debuted the track during a c...
[Intro]
Yeah, yeah
[Chorus]
I lay my head down on my pillow
Contemplate my jumping out the window
Now I'm Hell bound and I feel low
It is super fast until ground zero
I lay my head down on my pillow
Contemplate my jumping out the window
Now I'm Hell bound and I feel low
It is super fast until ground zero
[Verse 1]
Yeah, okay, hop in the Porsche and I do my own stunts
Took a ride back to the slumps
Never forget about where you from
I remember when I never had nothing
Now I got a lil something, nigga all about love
Tell me why I'm feeling so numb
Tell me why I'm feeling like it still ain't won
Tell me why I'm feeling so down in the dumps
Tell me why the fuck I'm gripping this gun
Tell me why I can't stop thinking about death
Tell me why I wake up every night in cold sweat
Tell me why my wrist so heavy and my chest
Tell me why I can't find peace when I rest
Sick and tired of feeling this way
Six million ways to die, you don't say?
God knows why I'm gonna go a long way
Man, I swear I think about it every day
[Chorus]
I lay my head down on my pillow
Contemplate my jumping out the window
Now I'm Hell bound and I feel low
It is super fast until ground zero
I lay my head down on my pillow
Contemplate my jumping out the window
Now I'm Hell bound and I feel low
It is super fast until ground zero
[Verse 2]
Yeah, okay, hop in the 911
Knew that this time would come
I got everything that I want
Now I can't- now I can't front
Still put my pain in that blunt
Smoke, cooked his elbow
Feeling an impressional joke
All this dressing even a nigga don't owe
This is my confession man, I just can't go
Want a suicide note, man somebody get the rope
Hold up, man I'm on a slippery slope
So a man, feeling that gas
Whole gas, straight dash
Stay on this path and I just might-
Like this and my head in the glass
Dashboard fucked, and win all of this cash
Just going up, going to the deep land
Like another black man and I
[Chorus]
I lay my head down on my pillow
Contemplate my jumping out the window
Now I'm Hell bound and I feel low
It is super fast until ground zero
I lay my head down on my pillow
Contemplate my jumping out the window
Now I'm Hell bound and I feel low
It is super fast until ground zero
[Outro]
It is super fast until ground zero
It is super fast until ground zero
It is super fast until ground zero
It is super fast until ground zero
Ground Zero was written by Joey Bada$$.