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TWENTY88

Selfish

Release date: 1st April 2016

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Big Sean and Jhené Aiko trade accusations across 'Selfish', a track built on the wreckage of a relationship where neither party can quite admit their own role in its collapse. Sean opens with grievance: unanswered calls, broken promises, the small sacrifices that curdle into resentment. Jhené responds with her own inventory of betrayals, her verses a mirror held up to his complaints. The chorus loops the central complaint like a stuck record, each voice layering the same question until it becomes almost abstract. What makes the song work is its refusal to pick a side. Sean's account of emotional labour and neglect carries weight; so does Jhené's charge that he's rewriting history, that his hurt is selective. They're both right, and both wrong. The production sits in that grey space too, minimal and tense, letting the voices do the work of untangling who hurt whom first and whether it matters anymore. By the outro, the song has worn itself down to its core complaint: late-night texts, phones off, the small cruelties of modern distance.

"Selfish" is a track by TWENTY88, from the album TWENTY88, released 1st April 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

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Selfish

[Verse 1: Big Sean]

You know I ain't having that shit

(Got you Bitch)

How could you be so selfish

Phone off, careless

You ain't drinking no more that's bullshit

I heard you're taking more shots than a full clip

No call, no text, huh?

That's how you feel when you stressed, huh?

You know I'm from a tribe called questions

I need them answers now like it's test time

Do you realize how many good girls I lost

When I changed the number for you

When I needed that peaceful sleep and still cuddled for you

You ain't even know when times got hard I bent up the budget

I kept it subtle

Might as well put jackets over the puddles for you

You’re acting irreplaceable, pfft, hardly

I shoulda took the warning signs on nights I hit you and you ain’t get back to me

The morning time, you got me on the borderline

I used to want to put the work in now I feel like overtime

[Chorus: Big Sean & Jhené Aiko]

When I hit you late night, texting

Phone off, no stressing

How could you be so selfish, selfish, so selfish?

Phone off, no texting

No pics, no calls, no sexting

How could you be so selfish, selfish, so selfish?

I can't help it

I can't help it

I can't help it

I can't help it

So, so selfish

[Verse 2: Jhené Aiko]

Why would you just play with the one

Who been there with you when no one would come

Can't believe I stayed faithful

To somebody so ungrateful

Don't you know there’s a line for my love?

And you be out here lying on us

Ain't that some shit?

Ain't that a bitch?

And you wonder why the past has changed us

Wonder why it ain't the same for us

You keep fuckin' up, it’s all on you

You just made it so hard for you

[Chorus: Big Sean, Jhené Aiko, Both]

Late night, texting

Phone off, no stressing

How could you be so selfish, selfish, selfish?

Phone off, texting

No pics, no calls, no sexting

How could you be so selfish, selfish, so selfish?

I can't help it

I can't help it

I can't help it

I can't help it

So, so selfish

[Outro: Big Sean & Jhené Aiko]

Breakdown

I think it's time to break down

Late night, texting

Phone off, stressing

Testing me now

Stressing me out, out, out

How could you be so—

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Selfish
  • —Memories Faded
  • —2 Minute Warning
  • —Push It
  • —On the Way
  • —London Bridge
  • —Talk Show
  • —Déjà Vu
    • TWENTY88
  • Déjà VuTWENTY88
  • Push It
    2:35
  • Déjà vu
    4:12
  • London Bridge
    4:29
  • On The Way
    3:23
  • Déjà vuTWENTY88
    4:12
  • On The WayTWENTY88
    3:23
  • Talk Show
    3:49

    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Big Sean, Ernest Clark, Flippa, Jan-ai El-Goni, Jhené Aiko, JProof, Kosine, Mat Zo, Steve Lacy
    Producer
    Da Internz, Flippa, JProof, Steve Lacy
    Assistant Engineer
    David Pizzimenti
    Mixing Engineer
    Jaycen Joshua
    Recording Engineer
    Gregg Rominiecki, Jim Caruana, Maximilian Jaeger
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