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Skepta

Redrum

Release date: 31st May 2019

From Ignorance Is Bliss
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About This Track

Skepta and KEY! trade warnings and boasts over a track built on repetition and threat. The chorus locks into a single idea, delivered with the force of a mantra: pull up anywhere, and it's trouble. Skepta moves through the verses with the confidence of someone who has already won the argument, name-checking chart success and dismissing rivals as jealous hangers-on. The production sits spare and heavy, letting the voices and the concept do the work. The song is a showcase of dominance dressed as a simple threat. Skepta raps about women, money, and the cost of his time, but the real subject is presence itself. To show up is to win. The Ike Turner reference in the chorus lands as crude boasting, a moment where the track's aggression tips into something less defensible, but it passes quickly. What lingers is the repetition, the weight of the hook, and the sense that this is a song designed to be heard in a crowd, where the message matters more than the nuance.

"Redrum" is a track by Skepta, from the album Ignorance Is Bliss, released 31st May 2019. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Skepta.

About the Artist

Skepta

Skepta

Lyrics

Redrum

[Intro: Skepta]

If I, you get me

Pull up with a stick, it's a murder

Anything I do

Grease, I’m blessed

Yeah

[Chorus: Skepta]

If I pull up on the strip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up in the whip, it’s murder (It's murder)

Pull up on your chick, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up with a stick, it's murder (Greaze)

Don't give me that, burner

I'll slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like Ike Turner

Pull up on the strip, it's murder (It’s murder)

Pull up in the whip, it’s murder (It's murder)

Pull up on your chick, it’s murder (It's murder)

Pull up with a stick, it's murder (Greaze)

Don't give me that, burner

I’ll slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like Ike Turner

[Verse 1: Skepta]

Touch down in the city, now she don't wanna go work, she's tryna call in sick (Sick)

Everybody wanna clash, when they see me on the stage, MC's want to call it quits (Go on then, go on)

We ain't watchin' no Screwface, dem man are two-face, definitely ain't with the shits (Greaze)

And my SK's fresher than toothpaste, lord of the mics and lord of the kicks (Ice)

I did nine weeks on the Billboard, now they wanna show interest

This year, manna tryna cash more checks

Can't have beef on an iPhone X

Can't waste time 'cause my time's expensive

Everybody wanna be my arch-nemesis

Don't care what the time on your kettle is

It's my time, when I said it, I meant it

Back with another album, told my accountant I'm gonna clean up

Business flight, so I got my feet up

Ten out of ten, so she want to meet up

Now the boyfriend tryna get me beat up

Ask about me, they will tell you, "He's sus"

'Cause I don't beg friend

I can see they're jealous, you can try, but you can't keep up

And if I

[Chorus: Skepta]

If I pull up on the strip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up in the whip, it's murder (In the whip)

Pull up on your chick, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up with a stick, it's murder (Greaze)

Don't give me that burner

I'll slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like Ike Turner

Pull up on the strip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up in the whip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up on your chick, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up with a stick, it's murder (Greaze)

Don't give me that burner

I'll slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like Ike Turner

[Verse 2: Skepta & KEY!]

6 million ways to murder

Every day check another one off

It's not everyday guns and shanks

More success piss everyone off

We came a long way, fam, I was the Pacman

With a mouth full of dots

Serving the fiends outside by the shops

With the .38 by the side of my crotch

The feds wanted my whole crew locked up

Either that or a tag on their ankle

Had to come back with a different angle

Leaving the house was a gamble

Mum scared that I wouldn't make it back

'Cause I was on the high road chasing cats

Said they want the old Skepta (Ayy, yeah, uh)

But they don't really wanna see me take it back

[Verse 3: KEY!]

Back, back, back, to the nicks, hey (Woah)

Back selling bricks, ayy

Porzingis shots, ayy (Woah, woah, woah, woah), ayy, uh

Your bitch end up missing, ayy (Yeah)

Then you started bitching, ayy (Woah)

AK with extension, ayy (AK with a woah, woah, woah, woah)

I wasn't even wishing, ayy

Tell 'em that I died, ayy (Woah)

But a nigga died, hey (Woah)

Why your mama crying? Hey (Why your mama cryin'?)

I laugh, hey

Swoosh with the Glock, ayy (With a Glock)

Carti in the spot (Carti in the spot)

You was actin' like a groupie, you got robbed for your block

"KEY! what's a block?" Hey

That's you, you, and him, hey

Sharks in the water but I know how to swim, hello?

Back to the trap shit, back to the conflict (Open up that moshpit)

.45 bust, better act like you don't know shit (Yeah)

[Chorus: Skepta]

If I pull up on the strip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up in the whip, it's murder (In the whip)

Pull up on your chick, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up with a stick, it's murder (Greaze)

Don't give me that burner

I'll slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like Ike Turner

Pull up on the strip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up in the whip, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up on your chick, it's murder (It's murder)

Pull up with a stick, it's murder (Greaze)

Don't give me that burner

I'll slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like what? Slap you like who?

Slap you like Ike Turner

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Track details

From Ignorance Is Bliss

2019
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Album
Ignorance Is Bliss
Ignorance Is Bliss
Skepta
31st May 2019
Release year
2019
  1. 1Bullet from a Gun
    2:51
  2. 2Greaze Mode
    2:48
  3. 3Redrum (feat. Key)
    3:56
  4. 4No Sleep
    3:12
  5. 5What Do You Mean? (feat. J Hus)
    3:31
  6. 6Going Through It
    3:15
  7. 7Same Old Story
    3:21
  8. 8Love Me Not (feat. Cheb Rabi & B Live)
    3:24
  9. 9Animal Instinct (feat. Lancey Foux)
    3:09
  10. 10Glow In The Dark (feat. Lay-Z & Wizkid)
    2:55
  11. 11You Wish
    2:47
  12. 12Gangsta (feat. Boy Better Know)
    3:19
  13. 13Pure Water
    3:11
  14. —Gangsta
  15. —Redrum
  16. —Animal Instinct
  17. —Love Me Not
  18. —What Do You Mean?
  19. —Glow in the Dark

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