CENTIPEDE — amindi

september 9, 2022

per ushe, click the gif to stream. see this page for a lil rant about this rollout. the following is my ~ obligatory single write-up ~ for CENTIPEDE (with KENNY MASON).

i went to atlanta for the first time last september and i looooved it. i had a couple of sessions scheduled out there with Julian Cruz (i love that guy) and at the first one, he was like, “hey can kenny mason come?” and i was like “yeah are u dumb of course kenny mason can come.” he was one of my most played artists on spotify last year. he is a genius. & he knew who i was too, so that was cool. that’s my dawg, man. anyways, we’re making CENTIPEDE, right? & we agreed on a subject to kinda loosely write about (i’ll omit what the subject was just cuz i think it’s so much cooler if u interpret the song how u want.) then kenny writes this crazy, cryptic hook, then i write a verse and record, then he writes a verse mirroring the structure of mine, and it honestly all felt so effortless and sounded sooo cool. like, CENTIPEDE is so lyrically and conceptually and melodically fire——just fire on all counts. and it’s the first thing we made together, the first time we met each other. isn’t that insane? imagine what our other shit sounds like.

big thanks to juno avalon for making this very cool n trippy lyric visualizer!

kenny n me n cruz after making CENTIPEDE.

CENTIPEDE (prod. julian cruz & kel777 & lido) lyrics

09/27/21 5:10 pm (EST)

(me and kenny):

i been fornicating w da enemy

i was born adjacent to da killers seen sum chilling things

you get won’t butterfly from centipedes

i would give up all da arms i got fa inner peace

tell em send sum sticky if dey send fa me

i can’t see da damages i tend to leave

when i leave

u won’t see me for a few infinities what da point of an

apology if u won’t show me sympathy?

(me):

i’m willing and able

work until i’m stable

i could just be paranoid

they watching me like cable

my niggas on my payroll

their loyalty is fatal

throw acetone in evil eyes

i’m walkin wit a halo

okay

baby fuck a break

i’ma vegetarian wit way too much at steak

screaming fuck a aryan; i mastered the race

i’m pickin up the pace

ok ok

i been short on patience wit the tendencies

niggas acting sweet and they pretending to be friends to me

i guess they know better than to send for me

my reputation still precedes my entity

i go up

i’m so tough

it’s fuck luck

sweat, blood, guts

u know what?

it’s no rush

but they stuck

in the dust

(kenny):

act yo age

not yo wage

blocked yo page

one i’m on

is not the same

i’ll explain but not complain

jus skate

i been orchestrating building symphonies

every time i dip u give an energy u sick of me

how can i get rid of all my tendencies?

when dey da only reason dat u still wit me, silly me