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  3. Is He Real?
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TRACK

.idk.

Digital

Release date: 24th May 2019

From Is He Real?
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About This Track

'Digital' traces the arc of a life shaped by circumstance and survival. The track follows a figure caught between past and present, someone who once moved through the streets with a gun and a mask, taking what he could, now attempting to be better. It's a story told without judgment, acknowledging how trauma and loss can narrow a person's options until crime becomes the only visible path. idk. builds the song around a hypnotic hook that collapses past and future into a single phrase: "now he a good boy, used to be bad". The verses unfold with precision, mapping the logic of desperation, a child with a pure heart who becomes something else when his parents die, when the only education available is the street, when a bounty on his head makes every interaction with law enforcement a threat. The post-chorus settles into a rhythm of acceptance, cataloguing the weight of running, the cost of survival, the choices that calcify into a life sentence..idk. has described the song as an expression of emotional honesty, a record that holds particular weight for him.

"Digital" is a track by .idk., from the album Is He Real?, released 24th May 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

.idk.

.idk.

Lyrics

Digital

[Intro]

I like that

Uh, uh, uh, uh

Uh-huh, uh, uh, uh

Ooh, uh, yeah, uh, uh

[Chorus]

Flashback, digital dash

He used to run with a gun and a mask

He used to take all your shit and then stash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

Go on a run if it's 12 on his ass

Load up the chopper if they tryna clash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

He used to run with a gun and a mask

He used to take all your shit and then stash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

[Verse 1]

Huh, shit

Nine times out of ten

He gon' die or he gon' go to jail

Let's not pretend

Huh, look, everybody starts as a kid with a pure heart

Then they turn to him

Papa died, mama died, all the nigga know is sin

Traumatized, freedom jeopardized, he just wanna win

What's a smile when you dodging strikes, dodging every pen'?

Fifteen on his head, he ain't tryna go in

Fifteen on his head, make the po-po grin

Five years later, all that po-po talk is just a...

[Chorus]

Flashback, digital dash

He used to run with a gun and a mask

He used to take all your shit and then stash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

Go on a run if it's 12 on his ass

Load up the chopper if they tryna clash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

He used to run with a gun and a mask

He used to take all your shit and then stash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

[Post-Chorus]

I've been sending away all the feelings inside

I'm feeling defeat, I'm feeling demise

Running the streets, dodging the sirens

Run from the heat, stay with the iron

Cop killing me, that's not a crime

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I've been sending away all the feelings inside

I'm feeling defeat, I'm feeling demise

Running the streets, dodging the sirens

Run from the heat, stay with the iron

Cop killing me, that's not a crime

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

[Verse 2]

Fully auto with the chopper, make an opper drop up (Brrt)

That's the same shit that send a nigga straight to lock up (Brrt)

That's the system put in place they use to try to stop us (Brrt)

The same system put in place that niggas always fall for

Far from where I was, guns, drugs, 12 come, run

But I'm still a felon, if I fuck up then I'm done

Where I'm from, niggas that don't tough up get stomped on

And niggas that get looked at as a target get locked on (Uh)

I ain't going back to jail, that's a dub

Five years later, all that jail talk is just a...

[Chorus]

Flashback, digital dash

He used to run with a gun and a mask

He used to take all your shit and then stash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

Go on a run if it's 12 on his ass

Load up the chopper if they tryna clash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

He used to run with a gun and a mask

He used to take all your shit and then stash

Now he a good boy, used to be bad

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

Flashback, digital dash

[Post-Chorus]

I've been sending away all the feelings inside

I'm feeling defeat, I'm feeling demise

Running the streets, dodging the sirens

Run from the heat, stay with the iron

Cop killing me, that's not a crime

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I've been sending away all the feelings inside

I'm feeling defeat, I'm feeling demise

Running the streets, dodging the sirens

Run from the heat, stay with the iron

Cop killing me, that's not a crime

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

I sell the weed, I'm doing five

[Outro]

PG County Police! Get your hands above your fuckin' heads!

Stick–

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Track details

From Is He Real?

2019
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Is He Real?
Is He Real?
.idk.
Release year
2019
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  2. —Porno
  3. —No Cable
  4. —Michael What TF
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  6. —I Do Me . . . You Do You
  7. —European Skies
  8. —December
  9. —The "E" in Blue
  10. —Lilly
  11. —Alone
  12. —Digital
  13. —Cloud Blu
  14. —24

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
.idk., Eden Eliah Nagar, Kal Banx
Producer
Kal Banx
Co-Producer
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Additional Mixing
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Additional Production
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Additional Vocals
Alainna Edwards, Charniece Edwards, Gabrielle Henderson
Mastering Engineer
Andrew Dawson
Mixing Engineer
Andrew Dawson, Santiago Salazar
Piano
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Programmer
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Recording Engineer
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Video Director
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Video Director Of Photography
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Video Producer
Daniel Yaro, Keith “Big Wax” Johnson
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