Watsky

Released: December 5, 2016

Songwriter: Watsky

Producer: Watsky

Don't ask me if I am an assassin
If you have to unmask me
Baby you are now in peril
Every aspect of me counts as an asset
Homie even my ass sweat goes for 20 thou a barrel

You're scowlin' and then throwing the towel in
While I enter the tao inside a temple in Shaolin bitch
You're now listening in to a loud citizen
Shouting devout discipline up on a mountain
Low key I'm a shape shifter like Loki
Locally known loco, vocally home G
Taking the A-train and I'm swinging like Duke E
Calling me Duke Smellington cause I'm a dookey
Dip like Houdini
Dick like zucchini
Sicker than leukemia
Pitiful dudes leave me alone
I get Bruce Lee'd while I sip on a brewski
And I flip through some Bukowski and kick till the brutes bleed

I don't think they really like it when I come around
But I don't think they really like it when I come around
They don't like it when I come around
They don't really like it when I come around
Like it when I come around
I don't think they really like it when I come around
I don't think they really like it when I come around
They don't really like it when I try to come around
Like it when I come around
Like it when I come around

A successful slam poet turned rapper, Watsky first gained attention through ‘Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry,’ and a later burst of viral success for his fast rapping. At every turn, Watsky has refused to be pigeonholed, following up his speed rap success with 2013 LP Cardboard Castles, an eccentric ode to creativity, and 2014’s Anderson. Paak-produced All You Can Do. After a hiatus to work on new material, Watsky pivots again, this time to prose, returning simultaneously with the essay collection How To Ruin Everything, published by Plume/Penguin-Random House, of which Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda writes, “funny, subversive […] you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition.” How To Ruin Everything debuted in the New York Times best-selling list. In total, he has created five studio albums and two live albums. Watsky released his fifth album, x INFINITY August 2016, describing it as his most ambitious project yet. Most recently, in January of 2019, he released a short album called Complaint.

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