[Intro - ???]
Basically, it was two of our neighbors like... we had this one guy named Jimmy to the right, and one guy named Jimmy to the left of us in our apartment, so we called them Jimmy Left and Jimmy Right
[Verse 1 - SHIRT]
We made a pact: the plan was to keep pushing
You was gon' hold Queens, I'll branch off to Brooklyn
Brook' turned to Switzerland, some impossible shit
I was an imposter in it, I been dying to spit
I'd be honest if it was a move you should follow as a kid
This not the art to make
This not how you do it, don't listen to this kind of music
There's things better suited, this not the revolution
This more retribution, this more meta-human
This more peacе, bro, check out this set that I'm doing
This more "Nah, wе don't give a fuck what you doing"
I don't give a fuck what Kanye West is doing
Talking smack
In the era, run your mouth, gotta walk it back
SHIRT still talking shit like he don't know the deal
I seek out architects like I'm trying to build
Brown skin, you should see my ass behind the wheel
Of something nice, sitting on about a mil
I got memories of the 90's, I wrestle with IV's
Twin brothers that might as well be Siamese
Raised by wolves and poor kids in lobbies
And the forces inside me and outside of me
Nurses a side of me, driven to rivalry
Pit against my brothers till we killed or they cuff us
Nah, get the fuck from us
[Bridge - SHIRT]
Fuck from us!
I know guys'll knock you upside your head like...
Golf ball sized lump on your forehead like...
B, what's up?
[Verse 2 - SHIRT]
Why beef with me?
There too many ones we should team up to beat
You plotting up the street, I could come over
If we have to fight, maybe touch shoulders
You never know who I rub shoulders with, drink club sodas with
We could've been brothers, we don't have to like each other
But we can combine our power, build government
We can even let each other build and not fuck with it
But we should respect people with how they wanna come with it
I'm curious about the documentaries on this
Are people needing to watch this getting to watch this?
Where the priorities at, even from the best of us?
Elon Musk a madman, I still need four 'slas
I did donuts in the parking lot by Toys "R" Us
I'm sorry, momma, I'm not coming home by dusk
Greatest country on Earth with no one to trust
Thought we were loud, neighbors make more noise than us
So together, so together
So together who the fuck could make more noise than us?
Fuck the old marks and oligarchs
While we at it, fuck your old boss and all the cops
I'm the type rather go to march than go to Mars
That's more Maya Angelou mixed with Rosa Parks
Mixed with Angela Davis
Open jails, take the statues down from all the parks
[Outro - Toro y Moi]
Man this vision got me startin' up a biz
Why you think I got a space this big?
Now I come off arrogant
Said too much like you my therapist
Hold Queens was written by Toro y Moi & SHIRT.
Hold Queens was produced by Toro y Moi & KAYTRANADA & BADBADNOTGOOD.
SHIRT released Hold Queens on Tue Oct 20 2020.