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This track was first announced in a March 2022 interview with Loud and Quiet. On the track, Denzel delves into his process of dealing with and overcoming suicidal thoughts.
[Chorus: Bridget Perez & Denzel Curry]
It's all in your mental
It's all in your mental
It's all in your mental (Yeah)
[Verse: Denzel Curry]
Let me take you higher than herbalists climbin' tree tops
This is not rap, my nigga, this more like bebop
Class of Freddy Hubbard, these words are uttered like dairy cattle
Makin' sure the rain last forever, I'm slip-less in Seattle
Foot to gravel, I travel across the nation for ages
Even as I start to get older, this music is bathin'
Inside the fountain of youth, surroundin' the booth is water
My mind is flooded with these flows, so get thе recorder
My mental statе is, "Whatever happens, happen"
Yeah, I'm makin' it happen rappin'
If I was back in the '40s, I would've been gassin', scattin'
Different practice created a different habit for passion
I find it harder to make an action, yet—
[Chorus: Bridget Perez & Denzel Curry]
It's all in your mental (It's all in my mind, but I'ma feel fine once I'm meltin' my eyes, because—)
It's all in your mental (It's all in my mind, but I'ma feel fine once I'm meltin' my eyes, because—)
It's all in your mental (It's all in my mind, but I'ma feel fine once I'm meltin' my eyes, because—)
It's all in your mental (It's all in my mind, but I'ma feel fine once I'm meltin' my eyes because it's all in my—)
[Post-Chorus: Bridget Perez]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
[Outro: Saul Williams]
Born of the resistance that birthed me
Made music of everything
Is somebody recording these cries?
Bodies blown through concrete, nobody based in that
Bombs, buildings crumbling
Repetitive gunfire got bass in it, but the cries drowned it out
Sampled bomb blast in the Pacific and let it run to the earthquake on the other side, looped it
Below screams was fire
Harpoons and everything
Radiation make it sound analog
Needed somethin' death could dance to
Changed my whole style up, so used to the slickness
Sorrow streamlined into story
Dancing alone in front of speakers my whole life
Mental was written by J Gramm & Mike Hector & Elijah Fox & Bridget Perez & Saul Williams & Denzel Curry.
Mental was produced by Elijah Fox & Mike Hector & J Gramm.
Denzel Curry released Mental on Fri Mar 25 2022.
On the topic of his struggles with mental health from 2016 to 2019, the topic of this song, Denzel said this in a March 2022 interview with Loud and Quiet:
I was having suicidal thoughts, and I just didn’t want to live[…] My girl is actually the reason I got into therapy. I didn’t realise there is...
Yes! Bridget Perez’s background vocals can be heard on the singles for Melt My Eyez, See Your Future, “Zatoichi” and “Walkin.” However, this track marks the first formal collaboration between any of the artists on the song.