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Rivals by Codefendants

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Codefendants

Rivals

Release date: 2nd April 2026

From LIFERS
Track 2
2:41
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"Rivals" is a single by Codefendants, from the album LIFERS, released 2nd April 2026. The track is 2:41 long. It's filed under Punk. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Codefendants

Codefendants

Lyrics

Rivals

[Intro]

Lotta, lotta time-time, times only end up be-be-be-being Codefendants

[Verse 1]

Born in a war, take shots until the swarms stop

Pace my grave until the horde turns a doorknob

Then let 'em step in and see how effortlessly

We unleash hellish weaponry upon the heads of any enemy

Better be ready for anything, we said it until the ending

Never settling for petty trending on and on

Got a throat that bleeds all thеse songs

Willing to scream to forty kids 'til I'm dead and gonе

Haunt every one of these dim-lit nitwits

Sun down, wrist slit, strung out, blood drip, drip

Split a bitch rapper's lip quick, we living for this shit

These little pricks pulling tricks will never fucking win

[Verse 2]

Yeah, Blood Cousin, I don't love cussin'

Sex, drugs, and them thugs bustin'

Young punks on twelve, black and whites like a dirty dozen

I fuckin' ride on percussion

Killin' this shit, appetite for destruction

Gun to his chest, actin' like it ain't nothin'

Cops showin' out, the fuckin' change is comin'

When Punk Hop mix and my people start dumpin', blaow

[Chorus]

We will never fix everything that we've broken

But we keep on hoping

This isn't how we die

[Verse 3]

Still got no patience for fashionista industry rapists

Cut a snake tongue out from the mouth of a tastemaker

Celebrity puppeteering, everybody so shameless

Lost track of the fact that we never rapped to become famous

Blaze every rotting, ivory tower to the ground now

Fuck your definition of punk, we got ours

Fat Mike and D.O.C., OGs with heart

Codef 'til we stop, for the love of the pure art

[Verse 4]

FTP, motherfucker

Gang of killers who walk free, motherfucker

Bloods and Crips, the whole zip full of rivals

Like L.A. Death Squad, they're fucking suicidal

Bang for the right, it's all the same fight

Same damn cell, we all living in hell

Me and my motherfucking boys doing it right

Taking the pipe to the pipeline in jail

[Verse 5]

Dirty concrete, secreting blood stains

Reverberated rebar [?] bring out echoes off the storm drains

Rain pours upon [?] dreams

Can't stand a chance, run up with the cat-biting vagrants

Dance and dance and dance in a land where nothing's left

Gets in its breath when the cats are wrecked

I don't chat back with desire, empty pockets with the ballads

I'll be finding all the cover in the park

[Verse 6]

We all in the same gang

Street life combination like a G-thing

A billion dollar business like it's cocaine

Left in the White House back where the shit came

It's like "Nevermind" mixed with some "Maggot Brain"

'Cause they don't wanna see the people integrate

But that's the bullshit we should really hate

Put it in they face 'til the whole world celebrate

[Chorus]

We will never fix everything that we've broken

But we keep on hoping

This isn't how we die

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Track details

From LIFERS

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LIFERS
LIFERS
Codefendants
3rd April 2026
Track number
2
Release year
2026
  1. 1What You Get
  2. 2Rivals
    2:41
  3. 3Lonely Life
    2:43
  4. 4Art of Protest

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