Hoodie Allen

Songwriter: Hoodie Allen

Producer: Obey City

[Intro]
Aiyyo! My name is Steve Witz
We got Obey on the beat
Go by the name of Hoodie
Uhn, It's Hoodie Allen
Yeah, yeah, It's Hoodie Allen
Aiyyo, let me get serious for a second right now

[Verse 1]
Aiyyo, I made myself some promises
Some New Years resolution shit
Try to patience in my life but I be losing it
There's no confusing it, I kinda got so nervous
Community service man, I still think that it's worth it
But I want to show my younger brother just how he should live
I hope Amanda's lying, I'm too young to have a kid
What a trick, so now I’m frying up potato latkes
Arrested for seduction, you say I'm Frank Sinatra

[Hook](2x)
And I wanna go back to the 50's
I wanna be down, acting shifty
And we could be the talk of the town
Everybody get on the ground
I wanna go

Aiyyo, I made myself some promises
Just had to acknowledge it
I became a college kid, too lazy to follow this
I'm being honest cause truth just ain't a commodity
Let's go and pretend to be who we wanna be, gotta be
Honestly, I got this drama in the worse way
Wrote this on my birthday, the minute I heard play
Those were the worse days, Big even said it
Cause when I get on tracks you know I'm big headed
But sooner or later, we will be super stars
Get girls with super bras and tell them to take it off
Inside of my suped up car, I couldn't assume this
This wasn't the reason we was making this music
Do this as a rebel because my cause on the scene
I wanna be a young James Dean, know what I mean
Ironically, we become icons, ladies pull your Nikons
Say "cheese" with the lights on, I'm gone

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
I wanna go back to that place where we used to be
Michael J. Fox, in to the future B
And where we're going, we don't need to feel it mutually
I just be Fonzarelli cool, so the cool you see
She just needing jewelry, then I'ma need a exit quick
Cause I don't spend shit unless you excellent
Get it? You got the best of it, now lets go

[Hook]

Hoodie Allen (born August 19, 1988) is a rapper from Long Island, NY. His real life name is Steven Markowitz – the stage name Hoodie Allen came from his youth nickname “Hoodie” and is a wordplay with actor Woody Allen.

He would gain first success with several mixtapes and EPs such as Leap Year, All American and Crew Cuts, before going on to release his first studio album People Keep Talking in 2014. Hoodie went on to release Happy Camper in 2016, The Hype in 2017, and Whatever USA in 2019.

His style is a mixture of rap and pop – catchy hooks are often embedded in two or three fast spoken verses. His lyrics mostly deal with fame, girls and parties and are very reference-heavy.

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