Watsky

Released: December 2, 2016

Featuring: ShockWave

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: ShockWave Bill Sherman

[Intro: Watsky]
An open letter to the fat, arrogant, anti-charismatic
National embarrassment known as President John Adams
Shiiiiiit!

[Verse 1: Watsky]
The man's irrational, he claims that I'm in league
With Britain in some vast international intrigue
Trick, please! You wouldn't know what I'm doin'
You're always goin' berserk, but you never show up to work
Give my regards to Abigail
Next time you write about my lack of moral compass
At least I do my job up in this rumpus! (OH!)
The line is behind me, I crossed it again
Ooh, the president lost it again
Aw, such a rough life, better run to your wife
"Yo, the boss is in Boston again"
Let me ask you a question: who sits...
At your desk when you're in Massachusetts?
They were calling you a dick back in '76
And you really haven't done anything new since
You're a nuisance with no sense, you would die of irrelevance
Go ahead, you aspire to my level, you aspire to malevolence
Say hi to the Jeffersons!
And the spies all around me, maybe they can confirm
I don't care if I kill my career with this letter
I'm confining you to one term
Sit down, John, you fat motherfucker!

[Outro: Watsky]
Do do-do-DO do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Cool

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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