Watsky

Released: August 19, 2016

Featuring: Chaos Chaos

Songwriter: Kush Mody Watsky

Producer: Kush Mody

[Intro]
Veneficia!
Veneficia!
Seven trumpets!
Veneficia!

[Verse 1]
Easy, with a ballot, we can put a reality TV personality in DC
Speak free if you can see how this delicate fucking matter developed but, man, it beats me! (Oh my Gooood!)
Two fleets keep peace on the mean streets
One treats brown people like they’re beastly
Nothing like the force that police me (That’s so oooodd!)
What’s the fate of the species?
Get a metal plate and then mate with the PCs
Or retreat back to a monkey chucking feces?
(What’s the deeeeal?) Wanna ease this pain
Different than the BC years
Now we BCC Jesus on the email chain
Way too many threats to flee
Way too many heads to feed
Not too many beds to sleep
Chief said that it was best you leave
"F you, please" to the refugees
And it’s seeming like it’s every other day that I been tugging at my collar, thinking, “Damn, it’s toasty!”
Where did all the people at the supermarket go
That used to scan my groceries? Vanished mostly
And wassup with all the homies with the camo and the ammo in the rifles on their shoulder
Walking through the city, thinking that they’re Annie Oakley?
That’s quite enough
But this shit is fucking unbelievable
I swear you couldn’t write this stuff

[Chorus]
Everywhere that I stare (Veneficia!)
You couldn’t write this shit, no
Every minute, deeper in it (Veneficia!)
Another fantasy is brought to life
Everywhere that I stare (Science Fiction!)
You couldn’t write this shit, no
Every minute, deeper in it (Veneficia!)
And now I never get surprised

[Verse 2]
Young George Jetson stepping up in this motherfucker
Gripping a butcher knife, hoping I can cut the chord
Where the horde is plugged to the motherboard
That is not a legitimate hoverboard (Shit’s got wheels!)
I Iook at the sky, saying “My God, run!”
Life’s heavier than an iPod one
My Twitter ain’t gonna matter when the tripods come
(Let’s get real!) From the hieroglyphs to the crowded malls
Never mind the if, but the how it falls
I’m vibing out watching Ow! My Balls (Oh yeaaaah)
Core defects tend to wreck my sleep
The quest to be more perfect than Ford Prefect
While I’m dreaming of Electric Sheep
‘Cause Soylent Green is people, resistance is just futile
Pop a red pill and a blue pill and I dilate my pupils
Moving light speed, we all got vile needs
Living is a violent deed
Spread my soul like Wild Seed
Why would it be any wonder I act weird?
I’m trying to find out who the fuck I am
While looking in a cracked Black Mirror
You got a finish what you thought about?
How this is gotta bottom out?
You wanna flee the reaper, but they’re bombing the city
And the single haven to creep in is the slaughterhouse

[Chorus]
Everywhere that I stare (Veneficia!)
You couldn’t write this shit, no
Every minute, deeper in it (Veneficia!)
Another fantasy is brought to life
Everywhere that I stare (Seven trumpets!)
You couldn’t write this shit, no
Every minute, deeper in it (Veneficia!)
And now I never get surprised
Everywhere that I stare (Veneficia!)
You couldn’t write this shit, no
Every minute, deeper in it (Veneficia!)
Another fantasy is brought to life
Everywhere that I stare (Veneficia!)
You couldn’t write this shit, no
Every minute, deeper in it (Veneficia!)
And now I never get surprised

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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