TRACK

Young Thug

Beast

Release date: 31st October 2015

About This Track

A stripped-down showcase for Young Thug's rhythmic invention and swagger, 'Beast' rides a minimal Wheezy production that lets his voice become the primary instrument. The track is built around a simple, repetitive hook that stakes out its territory with blunt confidence, whilst the verses layer in rapid-fire boasts and sexual braggadocio delivered with characteristic melodic unpredictability. Thug's flow fractures and reforms across the bars, his cadence refusing to settle into any obvious pattern. The song operates in the register of pure attitude. There's no narrative arc, no particular vulnerability, just the repeated assertion of dominance over a beat that knows when to get out of the way. The production's restraint means every vocal inflection, every pause and rush, becomes audible. It's the kind of track that works best in the context of the album's larger landscape, a moment of unadorned confidence amid the project's varied textures.

"Beast" is a track by Young Thug, released 31st October 2015. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Beast

[Intro]

Thugger

Ayy (Uh)

Uh, uh, uh

Thugger, uh

(Wheezy beats)

[Chorus]

I, I need a freak (What?)

'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Beast, ayy, what you be?)

Yeah, I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga (What you be?)

I'm in the street

Why? 'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Ah)

I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga

Ah (Sheesh, sheesh)

[Verse 1]

Rollie pollie ollie, nigga (Sheesh, sheesh)

No gold card, I use a Trojan, nigga (Sheesh, sheesh)

Drinking red, ravioli, nigga (Sheesh, sheesh, ayy)

Fucked her in store 'til they was closing, nigga (Sheesh, woo)

Head and pussy feed my motion, nigga (Sheesh, sheesh, What?)

I found her phone and I didn't scroll through, nigga (Sheesh, sheesh, on God)

Green slime ball, bases loaded, nigga (Sheesh, sheesh, What?)

I think they jumped on my pockets 'cause they swollen, nigga (Blatt, sheesh, sheesh)

Drophead, it's a drophead (Sheesh, sheesh, skrrt)

Haiti boy, I leave 'em shot dead (Sheesh, sheesh)

You ain't no gangster, nigga, stop that (Sheesh, sheesh)

I fucked that bitch before she gave me head (Sheesh, shees, what?)

Telling me you gon' win (What?), that's some shit I don't know about (I don't know it)

Fucked her in the deep end, that's some shit you gon' know about (Skrrt, skrrt)

Big B, Willy B

Still smoking gas, eyes low as a Chinese (Ayy)

Still wearing flags, bitch, I'll bleed 'til I'm deceased (Ayy)

I ain't talking guns, but I smoke the head of Khalif' (Woah)

Call thot Keisha, she got the head of the week (Brrt)

This ho beatin', mamacita no Wheezy (Ayy)

Nigga tatted her with nut and she ain't sleeveless

She want every drop that come out the penis (Sheesh, sheesh)

[Chorus]

I, I need a freak (Why?)

'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Beast, what you be?)

Yeah, I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga (What you be?)

I'm in the street

Why? 'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Ah)

I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga

Ah (Sheesh, sheesh)

[Verse 2]

First to pull up, I'm up, yes, sir, I know (I know)

He know, she know, we know, take that, Deebo (Take it)

Leave a fuck boy leaking 'bout a kilo (Ah)

I will pull up, S-L-I-M-E, my steelo (Slatt)

He see me kickin' shit, now he wanna send me that moto (Brrt)

Plus he know a nigga got stripes like Ochocinco (Ocho)

Yeah, he know a young nigga lionhearted, no Bengal (Ayy)

The world could think I'm dreaming, but I swear to God, he know (He know)

What your mama tell you about playing with that fire? (What?)

Didn't God tell you if you livin', you gon' die? (Yeah, ayy)

When you shot 'em up, you know that pressure was applied (Pew pew pew)

My nephew saw his daddy get sent out home to the sky (Ayy)

If he knew any better, he would've said, "Don't break rules" (Yeah)

If I didn't know better, I would've stayed in the school (Yeah)

If that bitch didn't know better, I would've played in her too (Yeah, yeah)

If I didn't know better, I would've crossed out God and went Vodou (What?)

[Chorus]

I, I need a freak (What?)

'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Beast, what you be?)

Yeah, I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga (What you be?)

I'm in the street

Why? 'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Ah)

I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga

Ah

I, I need a freak (What?)

'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Beast, what you be?)

Yeah, I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga (What you be?)

I'm in the street

Why? 'Cause I'm a motherfucking beast (Ah)

I'm a motherfucking beast, nigga

Ah

Track details

Beast

2015