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Token

YouTube Rapper

Release date: 7th December 2018

From Between Somewhere
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About This Track

Token and Tech N9ne trade verses over a beat built for pure technical display, each rapper stacking syllables and internal rhymes with the kind of density that rewards repeated listening. The track moves between boasts about lyrical superiority and a recurring chorus that frames the whole thing as a form of controlled violence, a way to "kill 'em to enjoy the silence". Token's verses are sharp and competitive; Tech N9ne matches that energy with his own brand of rapid-fire wordplay. The song sits somewhere between a cipher and a challenge, two rappers testing their facility against each other and against the listener's ability to keep up. There's no pretence at depth here, just the straightforward pleasure of hearing two skilled performers demonstrate why they've earned their reputations. It's a bonus track that justifies its inclusion, the kind of collaboration that makes the album feel complete.

"YouTube Rapper" is a track by Token, from the album Between Somewhere, released 7th December 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Token

Token

Lyrics

YouTube Rapper

[Verse 1: Token]

Yeah

When I was younger, I didn't know what to do with myself

Freestyle to freestyle, proving myself

Started focusing on the mission more than spitting

But the feeling that I was missing was the one to kill everybody else

And I'm not violent, I just need to be protected now (Yeah)

My boy just got himself a little pistol, he might shoot it at you

Who am I after? Anyone I gotta stick or put on my pupu platter

Used to chatter but I get way too much pussy to be a YouTube rapper

[Verse 2: Tech N9ne]

Shoot you actors

Not with the way Hulu captures what a Jew crew mastered

Thoo-thoo, blast your block with the K

Cuckoo clappers from a SooWoo chapter (Yeah)

Tell me how you wanna do it, should I nuke you bastards?

Or, should I go and get 'em with a Count Dooku slasher, do you faster?

[Verse 3: Token]

Who'd you rather go against?

I control the web like a computer hacker

I been abusin' rappers since animal crackers and Chutes and Ladders

Put 'em in a comatose and I'm goin' ghost, feel like I'm cool with Casper

Torture everybody

Put 'em in a group on camera like it's a ooVoo gather

[Verse 4: Tech N9ne]

Why they gotta choose me to try to hoot to Mathers?

Guess I'm the truth and a boost to Zeus, who's gasser

But beaucoup flashers on social media said I drew truth backwards

Fuck your poots loose with a dook' chute smasher, I'm solid

[Verse 5: Token]

I just demolish, please tell the pilot I switch the climate

I'm way too cold, I'm two degrees, it's like I'm switching college

But ain't no need for school if guns can teach you trigonomics (Bah, bah)

Curb stomp the only way I'm kickin' knowledge

I don't preach, ladies say, "I love you," when you sort of poppin' (Haha)

You take them for their word and then they take you for your wallet (Thank you)

How many syllables can he fit within a second with no content?

Use your own logic, no comment (Ahaha)

[Chorus: Token]

No more violence

I just kill 'em to enjoy the silence

I got my hand on the button still

Don't know why I'm runnin', but I'm runnin' still

No more violence

I just kill 'em to enjoy the silence

I got my hand on the button still

Don't know why I'm runnin', but I'm runnin' still

[Verse 6: Token and Tech N9ne]

Jesus Lord, relieve me more of stress, I need some more revenge

Distort your neck and force a stretch, like prehistoric Rex

And don't ask me to be your guest feature, more or less

Your new song got four play like a tease before the sex, you need some more success

I'm still a teen of course, I need endorsement checks

Tech? (What up?)

I heard you made the Forbes, I need you for some bread

And I don't treat my girls like queens

I treat 'em more like kings in chess

I keep the whores in check

I feel like Jesus when you leave me bored to death

[Verse 7: Tech N9ne]

Ayy

I don't know why anybody wanna come and get it from Donte (Donte)

That thinking is dubious, I am Vesuvius, partner, you're Pompeii (Hot)

Calling me coward, I'm coming as crazy, calamitous Kanye (Whoa)

Got a gargantuan gun, I'ma get the grown-up gropin' Grande

Blah blah, chuggin' agua after rap beef

Why they pause? I'm the faja, bah-bah, black sheep

Nigga, that's weak, fucking raw in the car back seats

Where they take their rah-rah rap sheets

Ha-ha, caca, cats keep, crack peeps

Pipes, pips, and I'm glad it's night

Grammatic geist gets status wiped

Coming against me is bad advice

You don't wanna lay up in a poison predicament

Gone away just in a sort of maleficent

Dorm of sadists, I'm the opposite, people say I'm a Deus (Wait)

I been on my Rambo

Killing 'em off in my camo

And I be coming equipped with the ammo

Pulling 'em out of the bando

Never your rhyming no can handle

No more violence from your Sambo

And a big silence of the Lambo

[Verse 8: Token]

I'ma need silence from the panel whenever my mic is handled

Ain't no match, you can't light the candle

One of a kind, I'm the prime example

Talking about me, be slightly careful

Comin' to my city is quite the gamble

Better hope that your flight is canceled

Make you scream 'cause I like the sample, wait

This man'll dismantle

Put your head on this mantle

I see BS on your channel

Get outshined by my shadow

I don't battle, I do not pretend

Don't even rap like this if I'm not with Tech

Tech, I got your back, a back architect

The way I built this shit from the YouTube, kid

I'm done, fuck

[Chorus: Token]

No more violence

I just kill 'em to enjoy the silence

I got my hand on the button still

Don't know why I'm runnin', but I'm- go

[Outro: Token]

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

Look at all that hate I generate

I don't feel a punch from featherweights

Maybe try when you in better shape

Oh you fuck that cup up every day?

Oh you drink that cup up every day?

Got me thinkin', hold up, anyways

What the fuck you got to celebrate?

How many losses do you tend to take?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

Nine, ten, eleven, maybe twelve a day

That's so sad but gee, what can I say?

Cry me a river like the Everglades

I might swim that bitch and get away

I got the whole world to penetrate

No more YouTube rap, goodbye

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2018
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    Credits

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    Writer
    Nox Beatz, Tech N9ne, Token
    Producer
    Nox Beatz
    Video Camera Operator
    Ben Proulx
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