Turn It Black 🖤

Lyrics

[INTRO - 0:00 | WHISPERED MALE VOX, EERIE FEMALE AD-LIBS, LOW SUB RUMBLE]

Yeah...
Shh...
Turn it black.

No light in the room, let the shadows talk back,
808 in the chest, got the whole floor cracked,
Crispy hi-hats hiss like a blade in a sack,
And the truth stay ugly when it comes through the track.

No halos, no rescue, no hand from above,
Just wolves in the alley and the cold kind of love,
Female echo in the dark like a prayer gone bad,
“Keep moving, keep moving,” that’s all that I had.

[BEAT DROP - HEAVY TRAP KICK, DISTORTED 808 SLIDE, FULL ENERGY]

Yeah.
Let’s go.

[VERSE 1 - 0:35 | COLD, CONTROLLED MALE FLOW, DRY AD-LIBS, MINIMAL PIANO STABS]

I came from a block where the nights don’t end,
Where the sun feel fake and the smiles pretend,
Where a good soul fold if he trust too fast,
And a wrong move haunt you like a gunshot blast.

I learned real quick, keep my mouth on lock,
Keep my circle small, let the fake ones rot,
Seen love turn poison, seen brothers turn shade,
Seen a friend sell the whole damn soul he made.

I was young with rage and a head full of smoke,
Had a dream in my fist and a hole in my coat,
Had to sleep with the fear and wake with the grind,
Had to drag my own name through the mud to shine.

Now the scars on my skin got a rhythm to them,
Every cut tell a story when I spit through them,
I don’t brag about pain, I just live with it,
Turned trauma to a pulse, now the beat got hit.

They want me to soften, want me to fold,
Want me smiling for cameras, want me bought and sold,
But I know what it cost just to make it this far,
So I talk from the dark like a busted guitar.

[PRE-CHORUS - 1:20 | RISING SYNTHS, LAYERED HARMONIES, TENSION BUILD]

If the night keep calling, I’m answering back,
If the world go silent, I’m making it crack,
If they bury the truth, I’m digging it up,
If they feed me the lie, I’m spitting it up.

[FEMALE VOCAL HOOK - 1:38 | ETHEREAL, HAUNTING, WIDE REVERB]

No light, no light, only the cold we know,
No trust, no trust, let the dead things go,
No light, no light, when the street wind blow,
I survived that dark, now they all wanna know.

[CHORUS - 1:55 | ANTHEMIC, HEAVY 808, STACKED MALE/FEMALE VOCALS, BIG SNARE]

I came out the dark where the cold hearts live,
Where the pain cut deep and the whole world give,
No light on my path, but I still run through,
If the night want war, then I’m built for you.

No trust, no love, keep it low, keep it locked,
I walked through hell with my jawline cocked,
I don’t fold, I don’t break, I don’t bow, I don’t freeze,
I’m a ghost with a pulse in the middle of these streets.

No light, no light, but I still see red,
Every lie that they told keep ringing in my head,
No peace, no sleep, but I still stay strong,
If I came from the dark, then I’m where I belong.

[POST-CHORUS - 2:30 | FEMALE AD-LIBS, BASS PULSING, HALF-TIME DRUMS]

No light...
No light...
Still here...
Still here...

[VERSE 2 - 2:45 | AGGRESSIVE, RAPID-FIRE MALE FLOW, HARD KICKS, TRAP ROLLS]

They was laughing when I had a hole in my jeans,
Now they asking for favor, acting clean on the scene,
Funny how the hunger make a face look strange,
Funny how the same ones switch when you change.

Where was you at when the rent got due?
When the fridge went dry and the rent came through?
When my phone stayed dead and my pride got thin,
When I knocked on a door and nobody let me in?

I remember them nights, I remember that cold,
I remember the voice say “don’t trust these fools,”
I remember the look in my mama’s eyes,
Like she knew I was headed through a field of lies.

So I sharpen my stare, I quiet my