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“Sweepstakes” is the twelfth track on Gorillaz’s third studio album Plastic Beach. The track doesn’t incorporate a lot of lead vocals by 2D, but instead uses a spoken word part by rapper Mos Def.
[Verse 1: Yasiin Bey]
Pay day, you're a winner...
Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool form a line
Scared money, broke money
Bold money, mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound maker, wave runner
Wild wonder, funky drummer
You can get it how you wanna
There's math and there's dealers and players and me
They say that they winners, okay, well, let's see
You pay or you play
The rules of the trade
The math of the days
The times and the age
Whatcha want? How you like?
Aim high, man, why not?
Sun, moon, and starryarrs
Each and all of y'alls
Mathematics and dealers and players and me
They say that they winners, okay, well, let's see...
[Chorus: Yasiin Bey]
Sweepstakes!
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! (Sweepstakes!) You're a winner (You're a winner)
[Verse 2: Yasiin Bey]
Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool, form a line
Scared money, broke money
Bold money, mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound maker, wave runner
Wild wonder, funky drummer
You can get it how you wanna
"Who's the winner?" said the dealer
Every player: "Yeah, me!"
So you say, we will see
Pay or play, a-okay
What's it roll? How you like?
Aim high, why not?
Sun, moon, and starryarrs
Each and every all of y'alls
Who's the winner? "Yeah, me!"
So you say, we will see
Cloud breaker, danger beach!
Big fleets!
Ha! Okay, let's eat!
[Chorus: Yasiin Bey]
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Ahahahahahaha
[Verse 3: Yasiin Bey]
Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool, form a line
Scared money, broke money
Bold money, mo' money (Uh)
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound maker, wave runner
Wild wonder and (funky) drummer
You can get at it how you wanna
There's math and there's dealers and players and killers and me
They say that they winners, okay, well, let's see
You pay or you play
The rules of the trade
The math of the days
The times of the age
Whatcha want? How you like?
Aim high, man, why not?
Sun moon and starryarrs
Each and every all of y'alls
There's math and there's dealers and players and me (Sweepstakes!)
They say that they winners
Okay, well, let's see! (You're a winner)
[Chorus: Yasiin Bey]
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
[Verse 4: Yasiin Bey]
Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool, form a line
Scared money, broke money
Bold money, mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound maker, wave runner
Wild wonder, funky drummer
You can get it like (how) you wanna
"Who's the winner?" said the dealer
Every player: "Yeah, me!"
So you say, we will see
Pay or play, a-okay
What's it roll? How you like?
Aim high, why not?
Sun, moon, and starryarrs
Each and every all of y'alls
Who's the winner? "Yeah me!"
So you say, we will see
Cloud breaker, danger beach!
Fresh fleets!
Let's eat!
[Chorus: Yasiin Bey]
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Sweepstakes! You're a winner
Ha, ow!
[Outro Yasiin Bey]
Keep cool, form a line
Scared money, broke money
Bold money, mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound maker, wave runner
Wild wonder, funky drummer
You can get it how you wanna
There's math and there's dealers and players and me
They say that they winners, okay, well, let's see
You pay or you play
The rules of the trade
The math of the days
The times of the age
Whatcha want? How you like?
Aim high, man, why not?
Sun, moon, starryarrs
Each and allayalls
There's math and there's dealers and players and me
Sweepstakes was written by Damon Albarn & Yasiin Bey.
Sweepstakes was produced by Gorillaz.
Gorillaz released Sweepstakes on Wed Mar 03 2010.
“The Hypnotic Brass brothers give us that full-on Chicago brass muscle, turning this track out into a ‘Quincy Jones’ version of hip hop, MC’ed superlatively by Mos Def. An absolute gent. I first met him in The Box club on the Lower East side of NYC. I like his rap work, and I saw him in Be Kind Rewi...