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C1

Hide & Seek

Release date: 9th September 2018

From Tulse Hill Slums
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About This Track

'Hide & Seek' frames street violence as a game of cat and mouse, the title a darkly literal metaphor for evading rivals and law enforcement. C1 adopts a matter-of-fact tone across the track, cataloguing confrontation and territorial conflict with the kind of casual precision that makes the subject matter land harder than any amount of shouting could. The production keeps things sparse and propulsive, letting the narrative breathe. The chorus locks onto a single image: "we play hide and seek with the cops", a refrain that collapses the distinction between dodging police and dodging street rivals into one continuous state of motion and threat. Verses layer in specifics of crew loyalty, weaponry, and the casual brutality of the world C1 inhabits, each line adding texture without sentiment. It's the sound of someone reporting from inside a situation rather than performing outrage about it from outside.

"Hide & Seek" is a track by C1, from the album Tulse Hill Slums, released 9th September 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

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C1

C1

Lyrics

Hide & Seek

[Intro: C1]

IC

What do you want?

I want to play hide and seek

Prod Collective

What?

We play hide and seek with the cops

Traphouse Mob

30 seconds

MoneyEvery on the track

Mom, MoneyEvery's making beats again

We play hide and seek with the cops

We play hide and seek with the cops

30 seconds, go! Go!

We play hide and seek with the cops

Ready or not, here we come

Here we come

[Chorus]

We play hide and seek with the cops

Play it with the opps

It is what it is, put shanks in tops

We get round there, tryna turn man off

Bruck down dinger, of course

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops (Shook)

And I ain't seen the opps in a fortnight, jump out the ride; duos or squads (Jump out)

We play hide and seek with the cops

Play it with the opps

It is what it is, put shanks in tops

We get round there, tryna turn man off

Bruck down dinger, of course

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops (Shook)

And I ain't seen the opps in a fortnight, jump out the ride; duos or squads (Jump out)

[Verse 1]

The way they hate on us

True say we ain't from dem man's block

Run a man down with the Rambo

I'm not ST, this won't drop (Niggas know)

Dem man there left their video shoot

True say we got that drop (That drop)

They got saved by the fucking cops (By the cops)

At least four man would've got-got (Splash)

We got Rambos, Glocks and dots (Gang)

It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block (Turn off)

Every trap line turn off, and we know some man that are washed (Gang)

School days, me and YR had opps

But it's nuttin' like me and S on a three-double-0 when we skrr through the notch (Skrr)

I know a rusty one that fucks

And I know a rusty one that bops (Uckers)

Talk on my name, get touched

You can get dipped like Ronaldo's shots

Free MJ out of the box, slap corn right out of the dots (Bow)

And I ain't got time for no thots

They can drown like Ronnie and Rox (Dead up)

Two bells in the shotgun ting, hands down both barrels can pop

If you know us, we ride out non-stop (Ride-out)

Ask best ones how — got chinged, then ask my girl how shh got dropped (Shh-shh)

Ain't got nuttin' to do 'bout braggin'

Niggas know that we bang on these opps (Bang)

If we ain't on the ends out trappin'

Then we're out on the ride for the opps

[Chorus]

We play hide and seek with the cops

Play it with the opps (Opps)

It is what it is, put shanks in tops

We get round there, tryna turn man off

Bruck down dinger, of course

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops (Shook)

And I ain't seen the opps in a fortnight, jump out the ride; duos or squads (Jump out)

We play hide and seek with the cops

Play it with the opps (Opps)

It is what it is, put shanks in tops

We get round there, tryna turn man off

Bruck down dinger, of course

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops (Shook)

And I ain't seen the opps in a fortnight, jump out the ride; duos or squads (Jump out)

[Verse 2]

If we do drillings and you do drillings, I swear, someone's fibbin' (Liar)

Ride out with the windows tinted, hop out the ride with the stainless kitchen (With the kitch')

JaySlapIt ain't my latest victim (Pussy)

The opps are nerds, they ain't on piss

S had two man sprintin' (Runners)

How many guys have we made do dash?

Done it with Slims and Caps, facts, we could never lie about that

Five rambos up in the ride, max (Max)

Life ain't the same without Chak, it's mad

Niggas ain't on piss, how many guys have dashed? (Ran)

Hands on waps, bro double tap, LTH to the world and back (Back)

[Chorus]

We play hide and seek with the cops

Play it with the opps (Opps)

It is what it is, put shanks in tops

We get round there, tryna turn man off (Crash)

Bruck down dinger, of course

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops (Shook)

And I ain't seen the opps in a fortnight, jump out the ride; duos or squads (Jump out)

We play hide and seek with the cops (Hide and seek)

Play it with the opps

It is what it is, put shanks in tops (Crash)

We get round there, tryna turn man off

Bruck down dinger, of course

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops (Shook)

And I ain't seen the opps in a fortnight, jump out the ride; duos or squads (Jump out)

[Outro: C1]

What game are you playing?

Hide and seek

We play hide and seek with the cops

He's hiding

Who's hiding?

Prod Collective

We play hide and seek with the cops

Traphouse Mob

Ready or not, here we come

Heartbeat stops when four-door pops

Come out, come out, wherever you are

Track details

From Tulse Hill Slums

2018
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