
iann dior has shared new single 'thought it was', featuring Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker
It's the latest taster of Dior's forthcoming album 'On To Better Things', set to arrive on Friday (20th January)
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'Oz.' is a track built on the premise of a young man caught between petty criminality and the fantasy of escape. The intro sets the scene: a panicked scramble to hide drugs before police arrive, the dialogue raw and unvarnished. MGK moves through the verses with a kind of breathless momentum, cataloguing small humiliations and small victories in equal measure, from stealing meals to sitting courtside, the narrative arc compressed into boasts that feel half-earned and half-desperate. The production leans on a sample from Crucial Conflict's 'Hay', a classic smoking track that grounds the song in a specific lineage of Cleveland rap. MGK's delivery is loose and conversational, the rhyme schemes occasionally slack but purposeful, as though precision would undercut the authenticity he's after. The chorus is simple and repetitive, the hook turning on the contradiction between ducking the law and getting high at the top, a tension the song never quite resolves. What emerges is less a celebration of drug culture than a portrait of someone still caught in it, still hungry, still proving something.
"Oz." is a track by mgk, from the album General Admission, released 16th October 2015. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about mgk.
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