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Lowkey by Sleepy Hallow

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Sleepy Hallow

Lowkey

Release date: 2nd June 2021

From Still Sleep?
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About This Track

'Lowkey' opens with a philosophical distinction: loyalty and love are not the same thing, and most people have forgotten what either means. Sleepy Hallow builds the track around this fracture, examining a relationship caught between public performance and private doubt. The chorus pivots on exposure, the shift from secrecy to spectacle, from a connection that existed in shadow to one now broadcast to friends. There is a cost to that visibility, and the song measures it in suspicion and erosion. The verses move through the specific debris of that erosion. Sleepy Hallow owns his own damage, bad luck with love, trust issues, the weight of external pressures, but he also tracks how those fractures spread across the relationship itself. The push and pull between them becomes a kind of dance: she loves when he arrives, hates when he leaves; he runs toward money and status whilst she demands commitment. By the final verse, the relationship has weathered enough cycles of rupture and repair that the question of whether they can survive another break feels genuinely open. What remains is the memory of something simpler, before the world knew.

"Lowkey" is a track by Sleepy Hallow, from the album Still Sleep?, released 2nd June 2021. Full lyrics are available below.

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Sleepy Hallow

Sleepy Hallow

Lyrics

Lowkey

[Intro]

Great John on the beat, by the way

Nah, loyalty and love is different

Loyalty is some shit, like, you gotta see

Love, people throw that shit around a lot

People throw that shit around

I don't think nobody even knows what that shit means no more

Hm, look

[Chorus]

I liked it better when we was low-key

Now you tellin' all your friends that I'm different, ain't the old me

Takin' these drugs, I'm 'bout to O.D. 

Can't tell me that you're loyal or you love, gotta show me

Locked up in pain and you my co-D

For all the time that we waste, we gon' need some matching Rollies

Girl, would you ride if it's a stoley?

Girl, would you ride if it's a— look

[Verse 1]

Girl, I got some bad luck with love, so don't judge

You say you the one, so that makes two of us

You know I got some problems, I don't really trust

Took a lil' minute for my heart to adjust

I know you got some problems, you don't really trust

You don't wanna be the one to fall for a scrub

But it ain't what it was, it is what it is

Love it when I pull up, but you hate it when I dip

So you mad when I dip, we gon' take a trip

Vacation, thousand miles from the crib

'Member when you told me that you wish you would've quit?

Said you wasn't fuckin' with me, threw a whole fit

I was runnin' to a bag, told me stay up out the mix

She know I be stressin' 'cause my brothers in the bricks

You know how I'm livin', so I gotta take risks

Think I'm with some bitch, but I'm probably makin' hits

[Chorus]

I liked it better when we was low-key

Now you tellin' all your friends that I'm different, ain't the old me

Takin' these drugs, I'm 'bout to O.D. 

Can't tell me that you're loyal or you love, gotta show me

Locked up in pain and you my co-D

For all the time that we waste, we gon' need some matching Rollies

Girl, would you ride if it's a stoley?

Girl, would you ride if it's a— look

[Verse 2]

Every time I'm in a jam, you the one that I call

Pass my assist on the court, we gon' ball

Got a call from the gang, said they finna break the law

Know I gotta go, know I gotta get involved

Break up, make up, we done been through it all

Crawl 'fore I walk, stood ten toes tall

Even if we fall apart, both left a mark

Last one I'm lovin', after that it's fuck 'em all

I'm the best in the league, Mike Jordan

She gon' make it bounce like Spalding

I know what she need, ice water

Cool it down, she been actin' out of order

Actin' like she leavin', but she can't

Said her heart won't let her take the chance

She be actin' like she leavin', but she can't

Nuh-uh, won't let her take the chance, look

[Chorus]

I liked it better when we was low-key

Now you tellin' all your friends that I'm different, ain't the old me

Takin' these drugs, I'm 'bout to O.D. 

Can't tell me that you're loyal or you love, gotta show me

Locked up in pain and you my co-D

For all the time that we waste, we gon' need some matching Rollies

Girl, would you ride if it's a stoley?

Girl, would you ride if it's a—

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Track details

From Still Sleep?

2021
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Album
Still Sleep?
Still Sleep?
Sleepy Hallow
Release year
2021
  1. —Scrub
  2. —Sleepy Freestyle
  3. —Lowkey
  4. —4or Daze
  5. —Make You (Snake Proof)
  6. —Murda She Wrote
  7. —2 Sauce
  8. —Equal
  9. —Mi No Sabe
  10. —Basketball Dreams (Intro)
  11. —1999
  12. —Chicken

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Great John, Karel Jorge, Saiful Hakim Bin Shamscni, Sleepy Hallow
Lyricist
Sleepy Hallow
Composer
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Producer
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Engineer
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Artwork
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Mastering Engineer
Boone McElroy
Mixing Engineer
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