Vance-Law explains on his personal website that “STAT. RAP.” is “arguably the album’s most contentious track, [and] challenges assumptions about the age of consent.”
He elaborates further, saying that
It’s about coming to terms with lives other than our own, and if that provokes controversy it sho...
I was fifteen going on fourteen and a half
He was twenty-five pushing thirty
He was a lawyer
But i wasn’t so dumb myself
I had a B+ in math
He was in the park
Walking his golden retriever
I was eating a big mac
I went to the nearest public toilet to piss
He followed me
Yes we’re in love
I turned twenty-two yesterday
And we live together now
Though it was hard
His parents love me as a son
And they helped put me through college
No i don’t know where this is going
And for now that’s alright
All that i can hope
Is that we’ll be together
Till the day i die
I was fifteen going on fourteen and a half
He was twenty-five pushing thirty
And all that i can hope
Is that we’ll be together
Till the day i die
Till the day i die
Till the day i die
Sam Vance-Law released Stat. Rap. on Fri Mar 02 2018.