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AUTOMATIC by Denzel Curry

TRACK

Denzel Curry

AUTOMATIC

Release date: 30th May 2019

From ZUU
Track 5
3:03
Hip-Hop/RapMusic
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About This Track

Denzel Curry and producer Tay Keith join forces on 'AUTOMATIC', a track built on propulsive momentum and boastful certainty. Curry moves through the beat with assured control, cycling between declarations of status and reflections on his rise from hardship. The production drives forward without pause, matching his refusal to slow down or look back. The song trades in the familiar currency of trap braggadocio, but Curry anchors it in specificity. He recalls poverty, the early days of struggle, and the shift that comes when success arrives. There's a sharpness to how he positions himself against those who doubted him or disappeared when opportunity wasn't yet visible. The repetition of the hook, with its insistent "gotta have it", becomes less about material hunger and more about an unstoppable forward motion.

"AUTOMATIC" is a track by Denzel Curry, from the album ZUU, released 30th May 2019. The track is 3:03 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about Denzel Curry.

About the Artist

Denzel Curry

Denzel Curry

Lyrics

AUTOMATIC

Tay Keith, fuck these niggas up
Tay Keith, hey

Automatic (Automatic)
Gotta have it (Gotta have it)
All my niggas run this shit like it was Madden
(Like it was Madden)
Automatic (Automatic)
I gotta have it (I gotta have it)
I just took a nigga bitch 'cause it's a habit
('Cause it's a habit)
Oh you mad? Now you amped, huh
Fade but you can't, huh
Word around town you a lick like a stamp, huh
You don't wanna go round for round with the champ, huh
Niggas throwing shade on my light
That's a lamp, huh

Way back then I wasn't fresh, wasn't so clean
I ain't had no dope
I was broke, I had no green (No)
It's my time to blow
Now I got me a whole team
Don't sleep on me, ho (Yeah, ho)
Guarantee it be a bad dream
I don't wanna go back bein' broke
'Cause mama need a crib (Okay)
I got a gold plaque (Yeah)
Shit I came from dodgin' hollow tips (Ooh)
Used to be on LSD but now my life is all a trip
Never went to college, at my shows I make a scholarship
P Diddy making bands
See fifties in my hands (Mhm)
I remember walking 'round the hood in some holy Vans (Woo)
Step inside the club, you in the line, like, I know the man
Way back in the day, you would say that I don't know the man

Automatic (Automatic)
Gotta have it (Gotta have it)
All my niggas run this shit like it was Madden
(Like it was Madden)
Automatic (Automatic)
I gotta have it (I gotta have it)
I just took a nigga bitch 'cause it's a habit
('Cause it's a habit)
Oh you mad? Now you amped, huh
Fade but you can't, huh
Word around town you a lick like a stamp, huh
You don't wanna go round for round with the champ, huh
Niggas throwing shade on my light
That's a lamp, huh

On the road to riches, gotta look out for the serpents (Uh)
Watch them slither to the surface
When they see your plan is working (Uh)
When I started, they deserted
Now they back because I'm earning (Uh)
My response: "Where the fuck was you when Tree was CD burning?" (Yeah)
You ain't Shane, you ain't Mook (Yeah)
You ain't gang, you ain't crew (Yeah)
See my ways hella strange
'Cause I'm raised in the Zuu
We don't bang red or blue (No)
And Zone Four niggas, yeah, woo, woo (Uh)
All camo to the head, to the shoe
Way back at Z3 when the shots got loose
All I heard when they shooting out
Now I'm moving out
Use a pen, what I knew about
To make a newer route (Skrr)
See, the gutter was the sewer route
Made a new account (Yeah)
All this paper, I can't do without
So give me large amounts

Automatic (Automatic)
Gotta have it (Gotta have it)
All my niggas run this shit like it was Madden
(Like it was Madden)
Automatic (Automatic)
I gotta have it (I gotta have it)
I just took a nigga bitch 'cause it's a habit
('Cause it's a habit)
Oh you mad? Now you amped, huh
Fade but you can't, huh
Word around town you a lick like a stamp, huh
You don't wanna go round for round with the champ, huh
Niggas throwing shade on my light
That's a lamp, huh

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Track details

From ZUU

3:032019
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Album
ZUU
ZUU
Denzel Curry
31st May 2019
Track number
5
Release year
2019
  1. 1ZUU
    2:06
  2. 2RICKY
    2:28
  3. 3WISH (feat. Kiddo Marv)
    3:12
  4. 4BIRDZ (feat. Rick Ross)
    3:24

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Denzel Curry, MarkMC9, Tay Keith
    Writer
    Denzel Curry, Mark Maturah
    Producer
    Tay Keith
    Producer
    Tay Keith
    Featured Artist
    Tay Keith
    Mastering Engineer
    Joe LaPorta
    Mixing Engineer
    Nathan Burgess
    Recording Engineer
    Ammar (FRA)
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