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Icon by Jaden
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Performed by
JadenProduced by
Mel “Chaos” Lewis & OmArrAbout
Jaden Smith first debuted this song along with the visuals on the Fall Out Boy Tour on October 20th which he opened.
He then teased a one minute snippet of it in the SYRE (Album Trailer) on October 24th 2017.
He released the song on November 17th, 2017 along with a music video.
The song centers a...
Icon Lyrics
[Intro]
(Woo)
Woah (Woo)
Yo, woah
[Verse 1]
What you call an icon livin'?
Start a record label, MSFTS just did it (woo)
Nylon cover, five minutes, woah
We up too hot in the business (woo)
'Bout to make a movie independent (woo)
Need new trucks, Independent (woo)
I need you to listen to the vision (woo)
All your verses sound like dirty dishes (gross)
I'm about to clean 'em in the kitchen (woo)
And we making money by the minute (woo)
I'm about to do it way different (godly)
[Chorus]
I am just an icon living
I am just an icon living, living
I-I-Icon living (woo)
I am just an icon living, living
I am just an i-i-icon (woo)
[Verse 2]
I am not a Mayan, I'm a menace (menace)
It's wild, you can lie like a professor
I don't got the time to put you on the stretcher (stretcher)
I am here and I'm still flexing (flexing)
I am just an icon living
Start a record label, MSFTS just did it, woah
I'm Highsnob, cover five minutes, woah
We are so hot in the business (woo)
Last verse was before the award show (what?)
Icon tatted on my torso (huh?)
Me and Moi dipping in the Porsche, so what?
I ain't even take it on tour, so what?
Uh, damn—last girl signed the divorce, so what?
Now I'm focused and we 'bout to all blow up
We just tryna make the whole crowd go nuts (what?)
Look, we don't know no one like you (huh?)
Gold grills and you dance like Michael (what?)
No I's, MSFTS; no typos (woo)
Look, wait—we just wanna make you go psycho (go psycho)
Put a hundred thousand dollars in a Bible (woo)
I took the game with my eyes closed
Last verse was before the award show (what?)
Icon tatted on my torso (huh?)
Me and Moi dipping in a Porsche, so what?
I ain't even take it on tour, so what?
Your shit is fire, I'm more so, what?
Young Jaden dyin' on the floor, so what?
She broke my heart to the core, so what?
I guess we all gotta grow up
I am just an icon living
Start a record label, MSFTS just did it (woo)
Interview cover five minutes (woo)
We are too hot in the business (woo)
I'm going straight to the top with the crew
We should just chill and maybe take it slow
'Fore we get up there with nowhere to go
And we can chill and just look at the view (woo)
Damn, load a yellow rose into a rifle (ooh)
Me and Harry 'bout to go psycho (psycho!)
Put a hundred thousand in a bible (Bible!)
Damn, wait—gold teeth, dance like Michael (Michael!)
Man, this nigga on like a lightbulb (lightbulb!)
Owe it all to Cudi and to Tycho (damn)
'Bout to make a movie independent (woo)
Need new trucks, Independent (woo)
I need you to listen to the vision (woo)
All your verses sound like dirty dishes (gross)
I'm about to clean them in the kitchen (woo)
And we making money by the minute (woo)
I'm about to do it way different (godly)
[Chorus]
I am just an icon living
I am just an icon living, living
I-i-icon living (woo)
I am just an icon living, living
I am just an i-i-icon
I am just an icon living, living
I am just an i-i-icon
Icon Q&A
Who wrote Icon's ?
Icon was written by Jack Palmer & Buster Harding & Cab Calloway & Melvin “Chaos” Lewis & OmArr & Jaden.
Who produced Icon's ?
Icon was produced by Mel “Chaos” Lewis & OmArr.
What was the last verse before the award show?
On a Verified Commentary for this song, Jaden said:
The main A&R for all my projects, OmAar, told me that we should make a song called “Icon.” I was like “Alright, let’s make a song called ‘Icon’. I’m down.” Then we started working on the first verse, and I was like “Eh…”. And it kinda went awa...
What was the inspiration behind this song?
The main A&R for all my projects, OmAar, told me that we should make a song called “Icon.” I was like “Alright, let’s make a song called ‘Icon’. I’m down.” Then we started working on the first verse, and I was like “Eh…”. And it kinda went away. Then I went to London, to the British Fashion Awar...
Why does Jaden play with song structure so much on this song?
The reason I did that was because the song is called “Icon.” I have to do things in the song that are really not normal. That are not average things that people do in songs. So that’s why I focus really hard on being very lyrical, very understandable, and very punctual with the things I was saying....
How does "Icon" fit into the story of the Syre album?
The album is mostly very sad, ‘cause it’s like the boy chase the sunset and the whole thing. So it’s like I have to bring that alter ego of Erys on “Icon”, and I have to be like “Boom!” with a message, because if not, then I will just get abused by the world. If you play the weak position all the ti...
Is there a sample in this song?
Yes, this song samples Cab Calloway’s Hi de Ho Man.
What RIAA certificates has the single received?
Jaden Smith’s “Icon” was certified gold on the 9th of May 2018. It marks Smith’s first-ever plaque received.
It was later certified 2x platinum by the RIAA on November 29, 2021.