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Aminé

Becky

Release date: 7th August 2020

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About This Track

Aminé builds 'Becky' around the weight of parental expectation and the friction of an interracial relationship navigating a world that resists it. His parents warn him away; her family locks doors when he arrives. The song doesn't resolve these tensions so much as catalogue them, moving through the small humiliations of public space (the restaurant stares, the mall visits) and the larger impossibility of changing a system designed to keep them apart. What makes the track work is its refusal to soften. Aminé doesn't plead or perform; he states the problem plainly. "I'm fed up with a world that I know I can't change" becomes a kind of exhausted mantra, less a cry for help than an acknowledgment of defeat. The production sits somewhere between R&B warmth and hip-hop clarity, letting the lyric breathe without gilding it. It's a glittering meditation on race relations that holds its shape precisely because it doesn't reach for easy answers.

"Becky" is a track by Aminé, from the album Limbo, released 7th August 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

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Aminé

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Becky

[Verse 1]

Mama said, "Don't ever bring a white girl home to me"

Papa said, "Niggas catchin' cases every week

So you best stay on your feet"

Crazy (Crazy)

You can't seem to find why you phase me (Phase me)

And I just don't know why you're clingy (Clingy)

She's blind and doesn't understand the feeling

So I've had enough

[Chorus]

I'm fed up with the mall, I'm fed up with my dogs

I'm fed up with the looks that we get in restaurants

And no, it's not a law, but you know we ain't the same

I'm fed up with a world that I know I can't change

I'm fed up with your fam, you fed up with my fam

We try and tell 'em, but they try and tell us that we can't

And no, it's not a law, but you know we ain't the same

I'm fed up with a world that I know I can't change

[Verse 2]

Now I'm fighting the ways in enlight'ing you

And your friends clench their purse

Lock their doors when I'm around

And we both know how that sounds

And your parents, your parents

They don't know about me

I say, "Let's leave town," but I feel like I'd get shot down

And I'm tired, so this ain't worth the risk

[Chorus]

Yeah, I'm fed up with the mall, I'm fed up with my dogs

I'm fed up with the looks that we get in restaurants

And no, it's not a law, but you know we ain't the same

I'm fed up with a world that I know I can't change

I'm fed up with your fam, you fed up with my fam

We try and tell 'em, but they try and tell us that we can't

And no, it's not a law, but you know we ain't the same

I'm fed up with a world that I know I can't change

[Bridge]

Mama said, "Don't ever bring a white girl home to me"

Papa said, "Niggas catchin' cases every week

So you best stay on your feet"

Crazy (Crazy)

You can't seem to find why you phase me (Phase me)

And I just don't know why you're clingy (Clingy)

She's blind and doesn't understand the feeling (Feeling)

So I've had enough

[Outro]

La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

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Track details

From Limbo

2020
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2020
  1. —Pressure In My Palms
  2. —Burden
  3. —Fetus
  4. —Easy
  5. —Kobe
  6. —Becky
  7. —Woodlawn
  8. —My Reality
  9. —Can’t Decide
  10. —Mama
  11. —Compensating
  12. —Fetus (feat. Injury Reserve)
    3:52
  13. —Roots
  14. —Burden
    3:31

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Aminé, Charlie Brown (OR), MadisonLST, Pasqué
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