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Verdansk by Dave

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Dave

Verdansk

Release date: 22nd July 2021

From We're All Alone In This Together
Track 2
3:02
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'Verdansk' takes its title from the battle-royale map in Call of Duty: Warzone, and Dave uses the game's vocabulary to frame a track about street conflict and status. The opening bars set a loose, conversational tone, studio interruption, a friend's aphorism about truth and fiction, before the song pivots into a catalogue of rental cars, third-party ambushes, and the logistics of moving through South London with caution and cash. The lyrics toggle between boasts and tactical thinking. Dave name-checks Brick Lane over Shoreditch, describes a three-car convoy in Sutton, and recounts a trip to Hollywood Hills with a white Rolls-Royce and a partner from Compton. The Warzone metaphor recurs: a line about coming in as a third party, another about a Bouncing Betty mine. The closing verse lands on a punchline about booking an Airbnb under someone else's name and refusing to drop into Verdansk itself, the virtual battlefield left behind for real-world manoeuvres. Released in July 2021 as the second single from 'We're All Alone In This Together', the track arrived a year after Dave first previewed it on Instagram. The album version runs just over three minutes; a music video released in September 2021 featured an additional verse.

"Verdansk" is a track by Dave, from the album We're All Alone In This Together, released 22nd July 2021. The track is 3:02 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about Dave.

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Dave

Dave

Lyrics

Verdansk

Just had to kick a chick out of the studio, shit's nuts, fam
(Hahahaha)
Nah, like, in Kyle's words, fam, the truth is madder than fiction, fam
It's nuts out here
(Oi, ayy, write that shit down)
Look

I see a ting that I touched, tell me about talkin' stage,
Gotta tell her, "Don't force it"
Beef man, pepper and salt it, me and RJ gotta pull up, no talkin'
Trap, you ain't got a rack to your name
My bro Brick Lane, we don't know 'bout Shoreditch
Rental, I never insured it, M25, gotta whip that calmly

Man try beef with my dargy, Warzone ting how I come third party
My little nigga can't lose that cash, I drop YGs, do it like Kehlani
I don't rock Gucci or Armani, ST from ST, I can't
Squash that beef like fruit and barley
Still got a one black star like Kwame

Three car convoy in Sutton, my mum got matching whips with Yungen
Should've made Shanei hold on suttin'
But it never would've worked 'cause the girl too stubborn
Young G's talking my name in the Ends
Gotta' tell a man, "Please don't risk it"
On a right day, man ah just frisk him
On a wrong day, I'm gettin' man airlifted

I'm in Hollywood Hills with a white Rolls-Royce
In the one brownin' from Compton
The Lambo parked just in front
Man pull up to the bumper and do it like Konshens
She wanna go LV, no problem
Went for the cheapest bag, that's nonsense
I took a hundred bags from Barclays bank
No cap, you can go and ask Ellie

That one mine, Bouncing Betty
The bag 4K, like a HD telly
Best believe that I'm back like Nelly
Chest petite with a back like jelly
I'm seein' man send indirects
If you wanna war man then you better be vocal
My right hand got a semi, that's local
And this Brownin' I can't post on socials

My girl gotta be far from social
I don't wanna see her at Carni'
Four-double-eight in the party, LBC how I nicked the Ferrari
Girls say we're the littiest batch in South London and bro, it's a fact
Airport, we're going for bants, I hopped out the plane, I ain't going Verdansk
What you know about telling a 10/10 to keep her clothes on and moving good?
I ain't on beating or misogyny, it's mahogany, I got bougie wood
Look, Airbnb with the guys, it's a white mans face that I use to book
Chill with the stupid looks, or it's gonna be a kettle that I use to cook

I see a ting that I touched, tell me about talkin' stage
Gotta tell her, "Don't force it"
Beef man, pepper and salt it, me and RJ gotta pull up, no talkin'
Trap, you ain't got a rack to your name
My bro Brick Lane, we don't know 'bout Shoreditch
Rental, I never insured it, M25, gotta whip that calmly

Man try beef with my dargy, Warzone ting how I come third party
My little nigga can't lose that cash, I drop YGs, do it like Kehlani
I don't rock Gucci or Armani, ST from ST, I can't
Squash that beef like fruit and barley
Still got a one black star like-

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Track details

From We're All Alone In This Together

3:022021
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Album
We're All Alone In This Together
We're All Alone In This Together
Dave
23rd July 2021
Track number
2
Release year
2021
  1. 1We're All Alone
    4:40
  2. 2Verdansk
    3:02
  3. 3Clash
    4:12
  4. 4In The Fire
    7:04

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    Writer
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    Engineer
    Jonny Leslie
    Additional Sound Design
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    Art Direction
    Hristina Hristova
    Artwork
    Tyler Remikie
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Ana Bejarano
    Executive Producer
    Mike Heath
    Flute
    Nana Rogues
    Mastering Engineer
    Colin Leonard
    Mixing Engineer
    Leandro “Dro” Hidalgo
    Production Manager (Management)
    XZ/C
    Video 1st Assistant Director
    Yana Aleksieva
    Video Assistant Director
    Stephanie Okereafor
    Video Colorist
    Paul Harrison (Video)
    Video Director
    Dave, Nathan James Tettey
    Video Director Of Photography
    Fredrik Bäckar
    Video Editor
    Toby Dashwood
    Video Producer
    Daniel Vasev
    Video Production Company
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    ZarkoVFX
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