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Bas

Lit

Release date: 17th June 2013

From Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. II
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About This Track

A collaboration from Bas's mixtape 'Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. II', featuring J. Cole and KQuick. The track samples Miguel's 2012 single 'Do You…', looping the opening question about love and drugs as a frame for Bas's account of a night with a woman he describes as a centrefold. The production, handled by Ced, stays smooth and unhurried whilst Bas moves through two verses of blunt-rolling and fleeting intimacy, the tone more amused than invested. KQuick provides the bridge, echoing the sample's question, before J. Cole arrives for a closing verse that begins with a half-joking interlude about which intro take to use. The song premiered with a video in July 2014, courtesy of Interscope Records, and remains one of the more frequently cited tracks from the mixtape.

"Lit" is a track by Bas, from the album Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. II, released 17th June 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Bas

Bas

Lyrics

Lit

[Intro: Sample]

Do you still believe in love?

Or do you like drugs?

[Verse 1: Bas]

Ran into a night owl rollin' White Owls

Girl it's been awhile since I hit a White Owl

I'm with it though, she a centerfold

Big ol' blunt look like tentacles

She strip in Europe, Interpol

Don't remember her in her clothes

I fucked her friend, damn they was close

Let's reunite, let's get em close

Hit 'em twice in a row, hit a flight, and I'm ghost

That's the last time I seen her though

She be gettin' too eager, ho

Stamp it like it's my visa

Cheefin' off of these berries

When the world gets heavy and it hurts to carry

I'm her Midnight Mercenary, Fiend

[Chorus: Bas]

It's lit, feel the buzz?

That's a half? Shit it was

It's lit, feel the buzz?

It's lit, feel the buzz?

[Verse 2: Bas]

She take me to a place that I never would discover

Might never have another, so I had to fuck her

Reach into my pockets, damn I ain't got a rubber

See my nigga Ron like L. Ron Hubbard, he be outta space

Say he got a case of straps at the back of the hotel cupboard

Room 508, check by the safe, she say "Boy you got it made

Do you got a cape?", I ain't with the games ma, do I gotta wait?

I'm quite impatient, intoxication got me feelin' like procreating

Girl I'm the baker, you surely caking

Stand back, catch my amazing graces

Photo finish and fornication

Photo finish and fornication, fiend

[Chorus: Bas]

It's lit, feel the buzz?

That's a half? Shit it was

It's lit, feel the buzz?

It's lit, feel the buzz?

[Bridge: KQuick]

Feel the buzz

Can you feel the buzz?

Feel the buzz, ohh-whoa, yeah

Do you believe in love?

What's your drug? What's your drug?

Ohh-whoa

[Interlude: J. Cole]

Take it all the way from the beginning

Yea, yea, yea

Now comes the question of which intro do you use?

Do you use this intro or the other intro I was talkin' on?

But, then that lets people know I had more than one take

So maybe we should just not use this and use the other intro

So people would think I just took it straight through

Yea, let's do that...

[Verse 3: J. Cole]

You'd be surprised how many truths you can hide in flows

I'm listenin' to this beat with my eyelids closed

Thoughts keep flashin' and I keep laughin

I never thought that I would fuck Irish hoes

Maybe Asian bitches or Caucasian bitches

Remember when I got to New York I was lost

Because all I ever saw was Jamaican bitches

I ain't barely know what Jamrock was

Lil' country nigga God damn I was

To you niggas talkin online until you make it this high

Then you could never understand this buzz, well

Maybe if you put yourself in the shoes

Of a nigga comin' straight out the South

No gold grill just a east coast feel

And a set of crooked teeth in his mouth

Make them hoes bounce, that can't get enough

Niggas say I made it I ain't make it enough

Man hang that nigga, you a real lame ass nigga

If you ain't got my tape in your truck

Cole, um world don't you forget that

I think I lost my mind round the same time I lost my six pack

But no sit-ups for me, long as my dick still get up for me

Long as a ho still give up for me

She usually charge but she get us for free

Woah, that's TMI, lil' something like TMZ

Scared of the days you'll be seeing me

Cause my girl do not play, coach DNP

That's something for the hoop fans

Just copped her the coupe man

No drop top but a slot on the roof that can slide out

And get a little sun while you ride out

Ced on the beat let me vibe out

We was 15 with a ASR up in my house

Writin' rhymes out, momma made it happen

Could've been a lawyer but I made it rappin'

He made it rappin', now at the shows he the main attraction

Another shot of Henny so I'm faded askin'

How long do this drug called fame be lastin'?

(It's lit, feel the buzz?)

Another shot of Henny so I'm faded askin'

How long do this drug called fame be lastin'?

That's deep

[Outro: Bas]

Feel the buzz?

It's lit, feel the buzz?

Feel the buzz?

Track details

From Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. II

2013
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Bas, Cedric Brown, J. Cole, Jerry Duplessis, KQuick, Miguel, Paul Pesco, Ron Gilmore
    Producer
    Cedric Brown, Ron Gilmore
    Mastering Engineer
    Chris Gehringer
    Mixing Engineer
    KQuick, Ron Gilmore
    Recording Engineer
    Ron Gilmore