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Aminé

Compensating

Release date: 6th July 2020

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About This Track

'Compensating' arrives as the third single from Aminé's album Limbo, built on a cross-blend of G-funk and hyphy production. Young Thug joins the track, which finds Aminé navigating the push and pull of a relationship marked by repeated mistakes and attempts at repair. The chorus circles around a simple, painful logic: trying things you think will help only deepens the feeling you're trying to escape. Aminé's verses move between confession and bravado, owning his failings whilst also asserting his worth. There's a tension in the song between vulnerability and swagger that mirrors the emotional tug-of-war at its heart. Young Thug's contribution leans harder into the latter, his verse a flash of material confidence that sits uneasily against Aminé's more conflicted tone. The track captures something true about how people sometimes try to fix broken things by throwing money, attention, or status at them, only to find the damage runs deeper than any of those gestures can reach.

"Compensating" is a track by Aminé, from the album Limbo, released 6th July 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Aminé

Aminé

Lyrics

Compensating

[Chorus: Aminé & J. Cole]

Compensatin' for your feelings

And you know the feelin'

This is what you thought would heal it

But it makes you feel it

Tryin' things you thought would cheer it

But you grow to fear it

Times, they come and go like spirits (You good, T-Minus?)

I see these signs the clearest

[Verse 1: Aminé]

And you, and you, and you know why (Yuh)

You've been fuckin' with me since I was a small fry (True)

And your ex-man (Yuh), that's my lil' guy (Yuh)

I know some niggas that'll kick 'em to the coast lines (True)

I'm a West Side nigga, we don't show signs (No)

You got some fake friends, they just toe lines (Yeah)

Text, I reply, baby, 'til my phone die (Yeah)

You know he lied if a nigga said he don't lie (Ayy)

[Refrain: Aminé]

I fucked up once again (Yeah)

And you know that I'm never too proud to beg (No)

It's hard to admit that I've made my bed (Yeah)

And you know I'ma always wish you the best (True)

Look, bitch, roll inside the Benz (Yeah)

I fucked up once and I got you bent (Uh-huh)

It's hard to admit that I've made my bed (Uh-huh)

But you know I'ma always wish you the best (Limbo)

[Chorus: Aminé]

Compensatin' for your feelings

And you know the feelin'

This is what you thought would heal it

But it makes you feel it

Tryin' things you thought would cheer it

But you grow to fear it

Times, they come and go like spirits

I see these signs the clearest

[Verse 2: Young Thug & Aminé]

Bad, baby, from the back, baby (Let's go)

I hope her heart experiencing the crash, baby

I toast it up and pour it out the glass, baby (Pour)

I tripled up, I doubled up, I ranned it up, that fucked it up

The black and orange Aventador like Daffy Duck (Skrrt)

I swerve Mercedes Benz 'cause my credentials up (Yeah)

I told her I got my millions up, these racks, baby (Racks)

This song is hard as goosebumps, rash, baby (Racks)

I'm scorin' by the three, Steve Nash, baby (Yeah)

A couple million fee, all cash, baby (Yeah)

I eat all of your cheese and racks, baby (Ayy)

I eat a lil' cheese like a snack, baby (Yeah)

The orange and black seats, Daffy Duck (Ayy, ayy)

Five-leaf clover, better luck

Don't you ask, "Do I know you?" Never, yuh (Yeah, mmm)

I've been flyer than a pelican, yeah (Let's go)

[Chorus: Aminé]

Compensatin' for your feelings

And you know the feelin'

This is what you thought would heal it

But it makes you feel it

Tryin' things you thought would cheer it

But you grow to fear it

Times, they come and go like spirits

I see these signs the clearest

[Bridge: Young Thug & Aminé]

You've been givin' niggas surgical head (You've been)

You've been eatin' out a young nigga flesh (You've been)

You might win the key to my chest (You've been)

You might win, give a young nigga head (You've been)

You might win the key to my chest

You might win the key to my chest

You might win the key to my chest

You might win the key to my chest (Ayy)

[Refrain: Aminé]

I fucked up once again

And you know that I'm never too proud to beg

It's hard to admit that I've made my bed

And you know I'ma always wish you the best

Look, bitch, roll inside the Benz

I fucked up once and I got you bent

It's hard to admit that I've made my bed

But you know I'ma always wish you the best (Yeah)

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Track details

From Limbo

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

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Aminé, Pasqué, T-Minus, Young Thug
Producer
T-Minus
Assistant Recording Engineer
Milan Beker
Mixing Engineer
Bainz, David Nakaji
Programmer
Pasqué
Recording Engineer
Bainz, Morning Estrada, Phil Hotz
Video 1st Assistant Director
Kenneth Taylor
Video 2nd Assistant Director
Del Lightcsy
Video Art Director
Jevon Dismuke
Video Assistant Wardrobe Stylist
Ashely Sipos-Phelan
Video Camera Crew
Genevieve Evans
Video Clapper Loader
Mason Harrelson
Video Concept Illustrator
Zoe Hazlett
Video Director
Aminé, Jack Begert
Video Director Of Photography
Chris Ripley
Video Editor
Will Tooke
Video Executive Producer
Sam Canter
Video Focus Puller
Jacob Perry, Parker Brooks
Video Gaffer
Greg Loebell
Video Hair Stylist
Julie Dinh
Video Key Grip
Charles Tae
Video Makeup Artist
Julie Dinh
Video Producer
Geenah Krisht
Video Production Assistant
Deji Bankole, Eric Mootz, Jason Solomon
Video Production Company
Psycho Films
Video Production Designer
Andre Taylor
Video Set Dresser
Jereme Wood
Video Set Medic
Caitlyn Ward
Video Sound Mixer
Jack Goodman
Video VFX Artist
David Baker, Justin Johnson, Max Goodrich, Will Tooke
Video Wardrobe Stylist
Lisa Li
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