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MACKLEMORE - DRUG DEALER (FEAT. ARIANA DEBOO) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
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LYRICS:
No bad days, yeah
I think that I’m lucky, I don’t got it made
Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah
They could try to make me quit, yeah
Stay in your lane, you ain’t on my road trip and
It’s kind of funny, people throwing shade
I’m just doing me, I don’t got no bad days, yeah
They could try to make me quit, yeah
Stay in your lane, yeah we off that bullshit
Top back, ‘85, that’s the way we like to drive
Doing donuts all the neighbors know us, yeah we outside
Look alive, the freaks of the city
They come out at night
Fuck a line, fab five Freddy 1989
Time to show off
I’m so Warhol
So sophisticated
Life is bitching baby
Velvet rope I’m ducking
Looking regal when I come in
And the peacoat it’s so London I’ll be
Leaving with a dutchess
New city, fuck it up
Yeah yeah yeah
Here for one night, stay a month
Yeah yeah yeah
Spent my whole life on a bus
Yeah yeah yeah
Show time, run it up
Nobody want to say goodbye
We just want to stay up, that’s right
Don’t got to say goodnight
If you never wake up
Yeah yeah yeah
I think that I’m lucky, I don’t got it made
Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah
They could try to make me quit, yeah
Stay in your lane, you ain’t on my road trip and
It’s kind of funny, people throwing shade
I’m just doing me, I don’t got no bad days, yeah
They could try to make me quit, yeah
Stay in your lane, yeah we off that bullshit
Truck stop, gas station, always up to something
Highway 99 and we getting money
Desk job, cubical, nah it wasn’t for me
Rather crash and burn
Go hella hard and live to tell my story
Bon fires, running around the woods you know we pulling all nighters
And I’m a dreamer with my people, bunch of songwriters
Oh yeah we up now
Sun down
Karaoke singing oldies out at some lounge
Nobody want to say goodbye
We just want to stay up, that’s right
Don’t got to say goodnight
If you never wake up
Yeah yeah yeah
I think that I’m lucky, I don’t got it made
Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah
They could try to make me quit, yeah
Stay in your lane, you ain’t on my road trip and
It’s kind of funny, people throwing shade
I’m just doing me, I don’t got no bad days, yeah
They could try to make me quit, yeah
Stay in your lane, yeah we off that bullshit
Wee ohh
Wee ohh
Wee ohh
Wee ohh
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DIRECTED BY:
Sloane Haggerty
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY:
Sloane Haggerty
Jake Magraw
Charles Boonsu
EDITED BY:
Macklemore
Jake Magraw
Charles Boonsu
PRODUCED BY:
Honna Kimmerer
1st AC: Ethan Scoma
AUDIO: Brian Sloss
STUNT COORD: Jeff McKracken
PA: Marcus Lee
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Tricia Davis, Ben Secord, Lizzie Hardy, Seattle Kraken, Motion State, Go4Nuge, Koerner Camera, Victory Studios, Sarah Sullivan & Freedom Run Equestrian Center, Late Night Vintage Market, Art Primo, Bang, Kelli Bielema & AirScream, Jaida Kimmerer, Scotty Hameister, Vanessa Resler
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SONG CREDITS:
Performed By: Macklemore, Collett
Produced by: Budo
WRITTEN BY:
Ben Haggerty
Joshua “Budo” Karp
Chloe Gasparini
Dave Dalton
Tyler Andrews
MIXED BY:
Jordan Santana
Mastering Engineer: Dale Becker
Mastered At: Becker Mastering
Mastering Assistant: Noah McCorkle, Katie Harvey
Immersive Mix Engineer: Jon Castelli and Mike Miller - Mixed at The Atmosphere (Los Angeles, CA)
Immersive Mix Assistant: Brad Lauchert and Tyler Smith
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Tyler Andrews, Joshua Rawlings, Ryan Lewis
Produced by: Budo
Mixed By: Jon Castelli
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
I need two bad bitches and a bag of good weed
Need an 80 inch screen, that’s a big TV
I need Addies to stay up, I need Xannies to get sleep
God give me drugs, all the lean that I can drink
All my haters, suck a dick, rest in peace
And to all the opposition you can come and get me
When I finally do some good I need everyone to see
But please, I need you to pray for me
Had two whips, put them on gold D’s
Saw Lil Baby’s, I went and bought 3
Can’t fly commercial, that shit ain’t luxury
I need duffles, duffles, Louis, Gucci, and Balency
I need shoes, shoes, all 23
Fill the closet, buy them all
I don’t even wear these
I need a necklace, I need watches, I need bezels, I need wallets
Need my diamonds to be flawless, matching no canaries
I need more, more
I’ll pay whatever fee
Put me on a billboard
Face on every magazine
I want it all, run it up
What the fuck is wrong with me?
Because I got everything
And I still ain’t happy
I got everything I need
So why am I falling to my knees?
I got racks on me money ain’t a thing
All I really want is to be free
Look at me
I got everything I need
So why am I falling to my knees?
I got racks on me money ain’t a thing
All I really want is to be free
Look at me
Look at me
I need a new hairline, I need better abs
My girl a Burkin bag, then BBL her ass
All the homies jealous, I can’t trust none of them
So I cut my day ones off like fuck it, keep them coming
I need all new friends, they gotta be famous
Showing everybody that I really fucking made it
I need a new girl, she gotta be a model
Or a rapper or a actor, or a fucking TikTok-er
But we need to breakup, we need to make it public
I’m going to call her a slut, make a track
“Fuck that dumb bitch”
And I need to rent a yacht, need to go to Miami
Move to Calabasas, get a private bowling alley
And I don’t even bowl but I’m going to make a statement
Fuck you mean? I’m going to say it
I need to be the favorite
Saw the NBA players and I’m on Obama’s playlist
Fuck a top 5, fuck them all
Yep, I’m the greatest
I need love, love, I’m making history
I need paparazzi popping pictures every place I be
I want it all, want it all
The American dream
I got everything
And I still ain’t happy
I got everything I need
So why am I falling to my knees?
I got racks on me money ain’t a thing
All I really want is to be free
Look at me
I got everything I need
So why am I falling to my knees?
I got racks on me money ain’t a thing
All I really want is to be free
Look at me
Look at me
I want to be seen, I want to be loved
I want to be felt, don’t want to be judged
I need some healing because I cannot feel it
So pour up another double cup of mud
I do not know who the hell I am
Done so many drugs I lost who I was
Every person I let in my circle is secretly lurking and out for blood
I got 40 thousand tucked under my mattress
And a ratchet in case anyone will figure out the address
Security system in my attic, staring at it
I’m still flexing on the ‘gram just to show them that I have it
That’s the fucking price of fame
Ain’t never going backwards
But none of this is working
What’s the purpose in this palace?
Pop a perc, 30 girls twerking, just another purchase
Spiritually sick, I didn’t even know I was malnourished
Everything is desolate
Botox my forehead, they can’t see how stressed I am
Everything I ever wanted, the trinity:
Money, power, respect
In the end were the three things that lead me to death
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Daniel Hackett, Charlie Finch, Sasha Sloan
Produced by: Budo, Kid Culture
Mixed By: Jordan Santana
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
I know, my mama always told me I should drive slow
But I been bending corners with my eyes closed
Feel like I been sleeping on a tightrope
But it’s my time though
Run that back again I would throw it away
One-way ticket I’m going to go M.I.A.
Ain’t no bottle big enough to hold all this pain
The world’s going to know my name
They told me don’t spend too much time looking back
Stare at the future too long the present’s what you’re looking past
Mistakes can be hard to face in that looking glass
But I wouldn’t be who I am if I took them back, nah
Just a kid in the back of the bus in his headphones
Trying to crack at a bad one and not get left off in the friend zone
Put my name at the top in Helvetica where the letterhead goes
I’m rounding 3rd and finally got that go ahead to head home
This is grandma’s cornbread flow
When the album’s finished, I’m taking the fam to Venice
And I ain’t going to club Med though
I’m not well read, no quoting Shakespeare off the head
But the mouthpieces always trend and a little more Detroit red though
The talk, Pellegrino, Arrowhead, no
All my dawgs with me like I bought some stock in Petco
Off the leash, all their bark is cheap
I finally cut the strings
I didn’t want to have to dance and sing and answer to Geppetto
Life’s too short, whether I like it or not
I don’t exist in the dimensions they put round my box
Just me, myself, a ceiling, a couple of thoughts
No one on their deathbed regrets the things that they should’ve bought
The greatest resource is time and you can’t buy back the clock
You can’t rewind the tape and dub over the thing’s I’ve watched
Only a matter of time before they pass the rock, give me a shot
I promised my mama I’m going to show the world what I got
I know, my mama always told me I should drive slow
But I been bending corners with my eyes closed
Feel like I been sleeping on a tightrope
But it’s my time though
Run that back again I would throw it away
One-way ticket I’m going to go M.I.A.
Ain’t no bottle big enough to hold all this pain
The world’s going to know my name
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Drake Livingston, Sasha Sloan
Produced by: Budo
Mixed By: Jon Castelli
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
It’s too late to get the past back
But I’m stuck in the sandtraps
And I thought that I was past that
My eyelids live in a flashback
And I can’t heal your trauma
I even said sorry to your mama
But am I the type
The type of man that I want for my daughters?
Don’t lose me now
Hold my hand like the first time outside my house
When life was just a couple miles
Me and you, the world was ours
I never meant to steal your smile
Fill your heart with fear and doubt
I rerun those empty vows
I play the tape and I watch for hours
I won’t give up on you
If you won’t give up on we
I can’t live without you
I hope that you feel the same about me
And I feel lost, I feel safe, all at once
And I’m so tired, feel so angry at the world
Oh, oh
Do the best I can and when I mess it up
I say “I’m sorry”
Oh, oh
When I lose control and make you feel so bad
I say “I’m sorry”
I made a list of all the reasons why I think that you should stay
And at the top I said, “I promise I’ll get better someday,” yeah
But all these Sundays turn to Mondays
Empty promises grow cold
What if someday turns to one day
You get sick of me and go
I won’t give up on you
If you won’t give up on we
I can’t live without you
I hope that you feel the same about me
And I feel lost, I feel safe, all at once
And I’m so tired, feel so angry at the world
Oh, oh
Do the best I can and when I mess it up
I say “I’m sorry”
Oh, oh
When I lose control and make you feel so bad
I say “I’m sorry”
Oh, oh
Do the best I can and when I mess it up
I say “I’m sorry”
Oh, oh
When I lose control and make you feel so bad
I say “I’m sorry”
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Tyler Andrews, Sam Wishowski, Tyler Dopps
Produced by: Budo, Tyler Dopps, Sam Wish
Mixed By: Jon Castelli
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
Standing in line (standing in line)
As we wait outside (waiting outside)
The rush, the high
The dance floor’s open waiting for us to collide
We are king, we are queen (we are king, we are queen)
We are living a dream (living a dream)
This is not what it seems
This is ours for the taking
You are the lady for me
And we’ve seen it all before
Sweat falls down to the floor
Tonight I’m all yours
Let’s live like it’s 1984
Baby give me the green light
Don’t you break my heart
Your love is a freeway
I want to ride it to the stars
I want to do this forever
You dancing in my arms
Always be yours
Just me and you on the floor
Like it’s 1984
Pretty woman in a white dress
Feel like I’m drowning, need a life vest
Overdramatic, overreactive, nah nah
You make me manic, you make me panic
And I said, “Big hair, don’t care”
Dance like nobody else here, hell yeah
You’re mine tonight
Heaven in those eyes
We won’t die
Let the DJ guide the night
And we’ve seen it all before
Sweat falls down to the floor
Tonight I’m all yours
Let’s live like it’s 1984
Baby give me the green light
Don’t you break my heart
Your love is a freeway
I want to ride it to the stars
I want to do this forever
You dancing in my arms
Always be yours
Just me and you on the floor
Like it’s 1984
Like it’s 1984
Like it’s 1984
Fire burning in my soul
I don’t want to be alone tonight
Meet me in the sky
I want to take you home
Or anywhere you want to go tonight
We’re running out of time
1984
Baby give me the green light
Don’t you break my heart
Your love is a freeway
I want to ride it to the stars
I want to do this forever
You dancing in my arms
Always be yours
Just me and you on the floor
Like it’s 1984
Like it’s 1984
Like it’s 1984
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Jackson Morgan, Tyler Andrews
Produced by: Budo
Mixed By: Jordan Santana
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
I wonder what celebrities will tweet “R.I.P.”
When it’s announced that I’m dead on TMZ
Bury me with a million likes
And put me in the algorithm like a million times
Across the table from my girl and don’t look in her eyes
She’s got to compete with me looking at these other lies
Uh oh
What I would trade for the dollar sign
Tag me so I can be happy, get a follow
Guys, like and subscribe
I don’t need bomb flex to drop a bomb on this
I need some influencers on TikTok you bitch
I made a whole ass album, I worked hard on it
15 tracks, we don’t last 15 seconds
We got A.D.D. and if it’s passed that we exit
We just stare at memes, laugh, and we hit the next one
And our self esteem is so messed up and threatened
By other people’s means and their perceived successes
The likes ain’t hitting like they used to
Texting while I’m driving and I can’t connect to Bluetooth
Tell me to engage, post more to get the views
Dude, keep up with the new dudes
You really need a news crew just to trend on YouTube
We’re obsessed with our public image
More than staying connected to our fucking spirit
And if you listen nowadays, you can fucking hear it
Same drums, same melodies, and fuck the lyrics
Scroll (scroll)
Refresh (refresh)
Turn it off (yep)
Now do it again
That’s the dance now
Scroll (scroll)
Refresh (refresh)
Turn it off (yep)
Now do it again
That’s the dance now
Lost bum bum ba dum bum
Lost bum bum ba dum bum
Lost bum bum ba dum bum
Lost bum bum ba dum bum
Scroll (scroll)
Refresh (refresh)
Turn it off (yep)
Now do it again
That’s the dance now
Scroll (scroll)
Refresh (refresh)
Turn it off (yep)
Now do it again
That’s the dance now
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It’s getting darker outside
These insomnia nights
So call me in the morning when the light wakes up
Let me know I’m alright
My million mile an hour mind
Lets my insecurities drive
So call me in the morning when the light wakes up
Let me know I’m alright
Been trying to fill that void
I been trying to purchase joy
I been trying to fill the space inside
Quiet the noise
My friends dying off those opioids
So say a couple Hail Marys for my friends
The ones reaching for Heaven but never got in
I wake up and say a couple prayers under my breath
And then I get on my phone and check all my DMs
Like, what kind of life is this?
Looking up the ladder and I’m wondering how high it is
If I only had this and that I’d be alright again
Social status and all of the power in the fight against
Feeling like my life ain’t shit
Looking in the mirror like, what happened to us?
Got distracted acting like, maybe I could buy love
The lies the mind weaves as we run through the mud
Thinking that who I am today isn’t enough, fill the void
It’s getting darker outside
These insomnia nights
So call me in the morning when the light wakes up
Let me know I’m alright
My million mile an hour mind
Lets my insecurities drive
So call me in the morning when the light wakes up
Let me know I’m alright
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh I’m alright
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh I’m alright
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Tyler Dopss, Naz
Produced by: Tyler Dopps, Naz
Mixed By: Jon Castelli
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
It’s like
I met you at my parent’s house when I was 14
Seen you my whole life but never got to me
You’d always post in the kitchen, I knew the shelf you lived in
Above where the fridge is, but we never kicked it
Finally I decided to pull you down
Had Pac in the background, pulled the shot glasses out
Grabbed you by your neck even though we just met
Held you close, felt the fire burn my throat
Warmth like the Holy Ghost
I remember thinking, “is this real life?”
I had two and wondered what four more would feel like
Predisposed to having an obsession
Codependent before we even had a friendship
Had a dozen of you, already loved you, I couldn’t stop
Got on the metro stumbling to 3rd and Pine block
Hit the Micky D’s, puked all over the restaurant
Our first date was already running from the cops
I ride with you, lie for you
My tried and true, love I never knew
It kills me to think of a life without you
But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too
In highschool our relationship was abusive
Addicted to being together, couldn’t control my usage
We pass out together on a stranger’s lawn
Woke up in a random car too gone to make it to my own prom
But I had to have you even though we’d pass out in bathrooms
Take a month off to show myself
I know myself, don’t need no help
Forget the pain, pouring rain
Brown bag full of guilt and shame
Mistress controlling my head
Getting arrested, not remembering anything that I said
And I knew then that I should’ve left
And I could see if I didn’t leave
You’d lead me to death but
I ride with you, lie for you
My tried and true, love I never knew
It kills me to think of a life without you
But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too
Bitch, you killed my uncle, you’re fucking trouble
Socially acceptable and oh, so subtle
You ruined my life and I fucking loved you
Promised relief and left me with a rusty shovel and some busted rubble
Pieces of my life that you destroyed was once freedom and joy
Was now depression, being unemployed
And I knew I had to change it and face it
And checked into rehab
And 28 days later I remembered who I really was
I remembered where I’m really from
I remembered the beauty of the present moment
That you only get when you connect to the Creator
And the breath inside the chest that fully fills your lungs
I found the people with the same allergy
And what I thought was love was really just my disease
I always thought the problem was you and couldn’t believe
When I learned that the whole time my issue was me
I ride with you, lie for you
My tried and true, love I never knew
It kills me to think of a life without you
But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too
I ride with you, lie for you
My tried and true, love I never knew
It kills me to think of a life without you
But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Sarah Barthel
Produced by: Budo
Mixed By: Jon Castelli
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
If you knew the day that you would die
Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye
Would you give up all the blame?
Would you fuck and fight the same?
If you knew the day that you would die
I made some mistakes, some mistakes, yeah
Fuck it, those ones made me great, made me great
When I kick the bucket, yeah
Know I might be late, might be late
But I’m coming
Walk through Heaven’s gate with a tux
Like, “wussupers?”
I was left feeling unusual
They going to have some stories at my funeral
Never got accepted into music school
But look what I did with music fool
Aye, we’re all going to die, all going to die
Left some ripples in the tide
I had a pitbull in my mind
And I trained them over time
Take off the fucking leash and go and walk around outside
And realize nothing’s permanent
Except birth and death and find some gratitude
Between the two of them, a Gemini, two sides
Cadillac two-tone hearse pulls me down I-5
God calling me home, I can’t leave nothing behind
Life, one hell of a ride, we ain’t getting out alive
If you knew the day that you would die
Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye
Would you give up all the blame?
Would you fuck and fight the same?
If you knew the day that you would die
Bright lights, big city dreams
Sunglasses at night, I’m going to wear them to sleep
Climb the highrise, hang from the scaffolding
If I fall then I fall
Fuck it, they’ll remember me
I got 30 thousand steps until my death (until my death)
Less than 20 thousand breaths in me left (in me left)
And if this the last night that I get (that I get)
Then I already spent my regrets (no regrets)
Run that motherfucking tab, tell the teller fill the bag
Fuck a mask, I’m going to throw all of this cash on the ave
Give my Mercedes’ keys, put them in a stranger’s hands
Whisper to him “live fast and enjoy it while you can”
This is now, screaming from my lungs
You can hear my howl
Taste the blood dripping off my tongue
Yeah, it’s going down
Headed up loved ones only got a couple hours
To the world “bon voyage”
Say my vows and I’m out like
If you knew the day that you would die
Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye
Would you give up all the blame?
Would you fuck and fight the same?
If you knew the day that you would die
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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Tyler Andrews
Produced by: Budo
Mixed By: Jordan Santana
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
Ah nah nah
Ah nah nah
Well I’m an alleycat, some say a dirty rat
On my side is my gat but I’m lying about that
Still bumping Buckshot
Trench coat all in matte black
Hat with the curls banging right out the back
Facts
I dive in
Open eyelids, fuck a silence
Big pharma rest in piss
And get the Heisman
Look in my iris, see the trips where I’ve been
Anti pill bottle, pro psilocybin
Still buying bootleg Gucci from China
Donate most but still throw it on consignment
Red carpet, Jeff Goldblum’s behind us
And they ain’t got a clue that these ain’t real diamonds
Don’t turn me back to the old me
Backpack, rapping and battling back in Oly
I was studying the Carter one right after ‘03
Marinara brick oven on the terrace with the goat cheese
You flatbread from Panera, don’t approach me
Coasting
David Blaine on that beat, floating
OGs, don’t make a motherfucker OD
That outfit, that’s a no for me
If you’re going to do drugs I can suggest some
But I wouldn’t spend that much of your money on Codeine
I ain’t judging, enjoy your life
But that shit is killing people and it’s overpriced
Hit the club, get the bag
Man I know that’s right
But let me teach you youngbloods how to hold the mic
I’m older right
Never had a poltergeist
And still slap a rapper like a white Dolemite, ah
Black out, stage dive right into the crowd
I never tap out and I ain’t working for a fucking suit so don’t ask now
That’s why I always speak my mind and never back down
Since Pac was behind Shock up in the background
Shh, shh, shh, watch the cops
Started to rap because I cannot pop and lock
Went from selling nicks in a knot in my sock
To selling out arenas where the Knicks throw up shots
Goddamn, that’s a hell of a come up
European festival money, that’s a hell of a summer
I remember they were saying I’d be a one-hit wonder
40 platinum later boy they were wrong about the number
Nah nah
I’m so focused, the pen is so potent
The beachfront look like I own the whole ocean
Pull up in that, skrrt skrrt, the door opens
The mint coat dragging on the floor I ain’t even notice
These rappers so emotive
Grown men emoji
Face crying all on their socials
And I ain’t hating, I guess I’m just old school
We suppress feelings and scrapped right after homeroom
Old gold, OJ, and some cold shrooms
20oz of Faygo to go with the soul food
Look what I made off of Protools
Still remind pops “Aw man yeah I told you”
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LYRICS:
Never turn my back on my birthplace
Leave it to my city making sure that the dirts straight
Leave my kids just enough cause I’ll fail them the worst way
If I raised some rich spoiled white girls in the first place, yeah
Leave a legacy, one worth remembering
In my robe looking out on Rome on the mezzanine like
Why creators are the last one with some equity
Put myself in a position to pass it to my people
And that’s why I’m not settling, more Capital than Beverly
Before my grandma died she saw me on Jeopardy
Still think PJs are too expensive
Still don’t make music with people I ain’t friends with
Still fuck the industry and no I don’t mess with
People that my mama wouldn’t want to have for breakfast
That’s right
The suits, the streams, the snakes, the schemes, the steady
Pursuit of paper over truth and dreams
Loyal to my soil, never change the oil
Kept the motor running, kept my foot up on the gas
And push to start the button
Everything I thought I always wanted, everything it wasn’t
Never know that God is everything until you lose sight of Him, yeah
Never know that God is everything until you lose sight of Him
Said it’s written on my face, I can’t play it off
I got so much on my plate, I can’t shake it off
But I’m built for this, I’m built for this
I been staying in my lane, keep my head down
I was losing my faith but I’m blessed now
God told me, “you built for this”
I know I’m built for this
You weren’t supposed to die here
You were supposed to fly here
Look what you built off your imagination
Could’ve never imagined the places you would’ve been taken because your ideas
This is in your veins like where the IV is
My mama’s Dodge minivan became my own at 16
Before sixteen ever got you a phone
Maybe when I was 13, 12, 11, who knows
But I was in the back of that motherfucker writing my poems
On shrooms with the busted boombox
Thinking that this special brew and beater I was Tupac, nah
If I could go back and give that motherfucker advice
I’d say it was already written, boy
Keep living your life
Put everything you got into your truth
That instrument you carry around, that is a tool
The most precious one you’ll ever have
There’s no shortcuts in the craft
Because the craft is actually just a path to discover you
It can get you pussy, respect, money, fame and
They love to call it the game but please do not get it confused
Cause that’s just the temptation that God is going to put in front of your face
To see how bad you really want the jewel
And you don’t run this shit, these are God’s words
And when you catch the Holy Spirit thank God first
Kill the ego, kill the need to keep on pleasing people
Self-centeredness and self-will isn’t how God works
We only here for a blink and it’s gone
So what you going to do with the ink you use in your songs?
Regardless of your deal or the label that you’re on
When you die, the universe already owns them all
That’s God’s will
It’s all God’s will
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Produced by: Budo
Mixed By: Jon Castelli
Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS:
I see a fork in the road
I don’t know what path I’m taking
But my compass is broke
And I don’t know if I’m going to make it
Yeee yeeee
Told a lot of lies, pushed the love aside
Tried to drive away but my hands are tied
Never giving up, always stay and fight for me
I been driving this road
I been driving this road
Uh huh, fork in the middle, got two choices to go
Give the kids a kiss for me if I don’t make it home
When I was growing up, we didn’t have a diagnosis
We just kept taking more to get the serotonin
Got older and all of my homies overdosing, and therapy
Wasn’t an option to process our emotions
Mama always said, “What you afraid of, boy?”
“Everything’s good, you got angels, boy”
“Closed mouths go hungry, better raise your voice”
God-sized hole, no replacing the void
We create out of chaos, the music is a seance
The land that our ancestors’ grave’s on
My favorite artists are my two little girls
I see freedom first hand in what they make with their crayons
The light, it was always on glow
When I was lost I was on the right road
Tail lights ahead as I drive slow
Just a right turn then I find my way home
I see a fork in the road
I don’t know what path I’m taking
But my compass is broke
And I don’t know if I’m going to make it
Yeee yeeee
Told a lot of lies, pushed the love aside
Tried to drive away but my hands are tied
Never giving up, always stay and fight for me
I’ll follow your tail lights
To wherever they may lead
I’ll follow your tail lights
I’ll try and match your speed
Virgil said that when you make it to the penthouse
It’s your duty to send the elevator back down
Somewhere along the highway I got lost
And I realized God was ahead of me all along
My mind on my business, grind my only mission
Most High, the messenger wasn’t quiet enough to listen
My time was occupied, when even dining with my children
It’s like me, myself, and I, and I lost sight of the vision
On borrowed time, living in extra innings
Industry survives, I’m glorifying the millions
The playlists and the streams, the album bundles and tees
But they cannot manufacture what resides in the spirit
The Phantom ain’t enough if you don’t remember all of the countless rides in the Civic
The moments of failure that proceeded this
Not giving a fuck about other people’s perception
That’s what freedom is and that’s what I’m going to teach my kids
Any moment, peace is available
You just gotta remember to breathe it in
And finally I can breathe again
Anyway, man, I’m going to roll the dice
God got the wheel regardless of where I go in life
I know tonight, it was always on glow
And when I was lost, I was on the right road
Tail lights ahead as I drive slow
Just a right turn then I find my way home
I see a fork in the road
I don’t know what path I’m taking
But my compass is broke
And I don’t know if I’m going to make it
Yeee yeeee
Told a lot of lies, pushed the love aside
Tried to drive away but my hands are tied
Never giving up, always stay and fight for me
I’ll follow your tail lights
To wherever they may lead
I’ll follow your tail lights
I’ll try and match your speed
I don’t use turn signals
Windows tinted, got a perfect view
World’s ending, I’m going to burn with you
Sun going down gotta turn in soon, oh yeah
Looking in my rear view glass
Learning from the past with a beautiful crash
Write my name in the dust on the dash
It fades but the memories last
Tail lights
Tail lights
Tail lights
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“When I grew up, criminals were my heroes.” With an intro line that could be applied to the Henry Hill coming-of-age montage in ‘Goodfellas,’ Macklemore summarizes “HEROES.” Over an extremely boom extremely bap DJ Premier beat, the Seattle rhymer breaks down his complicated relationship with the MCs he looked up to as a kid, and the culture that allured him. Kicks from Eastbay, drinking Mad Dog, loitering at 7-Eleven, and yes, even a De Niro reference, the detailed litany of relatable touchstones goes on. It’s also yet another sly track from the dude who’s famous for hiding acerbic cultural criticisms behind frivolous references and fun beats. Macklemore has promised that his ‘BEN’ album (arriving Friday) is a moodier project than previous, in part because of his well-publicized 2020 relapse. But “HEROES” is a sign that the “Thrift Shop” rapper is gonna be looking inward from some very unique perspectives, that wry grin never far from his face.
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BEN. THE ALBUM. 3.3.23.
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[INTERLUDE]
Can’t call it, don’t know where my head is
Reflecting on Malcolm, and the shit I thought but never said it
To Peter, Robin, to Kevin... all my other friendships
That could have, would have, should have and then they ended
I isolate between happiness and hopeless
Know what makes it worse? Still wanna get loaded
Sometimes I feel like I can’t control my choices
And something takes over and I can’t turn off the voices
Sitting with these thoughts can’t escape ‘em, can’t run
Got some bullets in the dresser as I polish my… gun
They say that a day clean is a day won
But I’m holding on, praying to a God abandoned
Zoning on the couch, staring at my daughters
Know there’s a pill in this house that I’m obsessing about popping
Reservations talking, the push and pull of the conscience
Should probably pick up the phone and call my sponsor but don’t wanna
When the percs don’t work, zannys won’t calm you down
Not enough liquor in the bar weed grown in the ground
Trapped by these walls where my brain can’t get out
Wondering if my mama have to put her son in the ground
We still going when the day break
Me and the homies on the same page
Find me in the whip, that’s my safe place
Feel like I’m getting weak, I need some AA
Need someone to pray for my soul right now
Everything’s looking gray, and there’s no white clouds
I don’t what to say, I got nothing to write down
On my knees questioning God, like why now?
I’m lost, but I’m found again
CHORUS
I’m up all night, I toss and turn
I love my life, I got concerns
I’ve been through hell, on some FML
It’s just as well, I might lose it
I need some light, I need some air
I might be broken, I need repair
Don't got the answers, think I’m confused
I ask myself: who are you?
[NLE CHOPPA]
I need you right now Mack to wake up more than ever
Ain’t no more weed, alcohol, and popping pills, et cetera
I know these days gettin rough but they get better
It’s a cold world, let’s go to the Gucci store for a sweater
Feel it deeply in my heart you need this letter
So I pour my feelings out to you before I go and mail it
I don’t know what I’m sensing, but I can smell it
When you write me back just tell it
Ima soak it up, inhale it
Heard you got a daughter, well I got one too
And she too beautiful, barely see her too
Do you hug her and tie her shoes?
Is she reflecting of you?
And got a smile that bloom?
Before you load that gun and shoot
Just know that she be needing you
The best version of you too
I would write more but my day about to break
We can meet up face to face
Just let me know if that’s ok
[CHORUS]
STARRING: Macklemore & NLE Choppa
DIRECTED BY: John Peterson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Tricia Davis
PRODUCED BY: Honna Kimmerer & Tricia Davis
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Peter Hou
EDITED BY: John Peterson, Jake Magraw & Macklemore
ART DIRECTOR: Tricia Davis
PROP MASTER: Sara Greene
STYLISTS: Miquelle West (NLE Choppa) / Tricia Davis (Macklemore & Cast)
HMU: Ty Mosby (NLE Choppa)
CAMERA DEPT
Drone Op - Ethan Scoma
1st AC - Nick Kelling
1st & 2nd AC - Ethan Scoma
DIT - Thatcher Kelley
COLORIST: Zachary Hetlage
VFX: Felix Thedeby
GRIP & ELECTRIC
Gaffer - Lucas Chapel
Key Grip - Paul Lindstrom
SFX: Brandon Davis
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Marcus Lee & Davis Lonergan
2ND UNIT CREW (ATL):
Production Coord - Shelly Andrews
Casting - Brian Beegle
1st AC - Grey Paul
2nd AC - Mark McClintock
Gaffer - Brian Stansfield
Key Grip - Carlos Valdes-Lora
Swing - Juan Cordero
Location Manager - Dodd Vickers
Location Assist - Brandon WIgley
PA - Justin Washington
Police - Tyler Cooper
BTS: Charles Johnson & Jake Magraw
CAST: Seth McDonald, Jake Magraw, Emma Saffel, Autumn Read, Rachel Read, Ben Bladon
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Ben Secord, Frank Hendler, Split Second Management, Izvor Zivkovic, Lizzie Hardy, Nick Beeba, NLE Choppa Management, Momma Choppa, Tricky Montgomery, Paul Riordan, Cheryl Higbee & Olympic National Park, Tasso Costarides, Luke Bevil & Majestic Diner, Ryan Haug & Motion State, Ryan Brien, Chris Ratcliff & Koerner Camera, Mike Farkas, Amanda Ornelas, Nicole Fina, Esther Minitser & AFX Creative, Joseph Nixon, Jacob Nixon, 159 Film Permitting & Production Services, Officer Robert Porter, Jeremiah Drueke, Robert Wales, Michael Brown & Eastman Kodak Company, Northwest Grip, Pacific Grip & Lighting, PC&E, Jessica Hernandez, Jaida Kimmerer, Lake Crescent Lodge
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