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Josh One - What's Going On? (feat. Demetrius Rhymes & Eighty Bugg)

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Josh One releases “What’s Going On?” lead single and title track off his forthcoming EP featuring Demetrius Rhymes, formerly Chicago-based MC ADaD and Eighty Bugg. “Current and concurrent, the song is about what’s going on and ongoing,” Josh One says of the present-day turmoil and shifting tides of the country. The track’s dark and powerful undertone takes listeners on a cinematic journey challenging contemporary themes of complacency and collective hardship from a now more-than-ever broken system.

The defining Rhodes theme gives way to haunting vocals under Demetrius' precise lyricism confronting today’s headlines that beg the song title’s question. Offering one of the best verses in his heralded career, “What’s Going On?” addresses “these troubling times,” set to the award-winning producer/DJ’s genre-blurring production packed with intricate layers of head nodding MPC drum programming, electric guitar riffs and powerful synth lines backed by live instrumentation and scratching.

lyrics

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Listen.....
What’s going on....
Listen...:
What’s going on....

DEMETRIUS (RAP)

Tell me how you take a crack at the capital
They ain’t clap it you
It’s Demons in the door way
Savages acting animal
Reality is role play
Everything real
Abandoned you
Your avatar can take those scars
When they slander you
Cuz you don’t have to have no heart
To push the panic through
Energies epidemic
Poison is in the air now
All you did was bother to breath
And it’s man down
Heavy is the headline
Why they have to flat line
I don’t blame the government
love is not the covenant
My bloodline was built from a slave
Why would they care now
look at they got us behaved
how we stand down
Clicking into zoom calls
Morning time to moon fall
Brain full of blue light
Spirit in a true fog
Cuz how is you supposed to eat
If you log off
What are you supposed to feel
If you sign out
How is you supposed to live
If you got no clout
It’s sorta of tragic
Life is digital magic
Reinvented augmented
And Reduced to a status
Shopping for your food
Through a plastic apparatus
Rats in a maze
Apes wit bananas
Water full death
On a dying ass planet
And I was born black
That’s another batch of static
But imma leave wave
Deeper than the trans Atlantic
Do the knowledge on the chapters
Go beyond the middle passage
Know that I was once a king
Even though I’m looking tattered
Tired from the daily grind
Of getting up and getting mine
Tryna learn the angles
When only know a crooked line
Lost in the struggle
Of these troubling times

Listen...
What’s going on...

SCRATCHES (OUTRO)

Trying to travel on
Bleak as Babylon

Heed the warning signs
Listen to the to the siren song

Dark as double night
Fight what you know is wrong

Or you can step inside
And hide what’s going on

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from Josh One - What's Going On? (feat. Demetrius Rhymes & Eighty Bugg), track released April 2, 2021
Produced/Arranged/Mixed: Josh One
Vocals: Demetrius Rhymes & Eighty Bugg
Bass & Guitar: James Bautista
Strings: Cyrus Melchor
Piano: Gene Bautista
Mastered by: Shawn Hatfield
Artwork: Swank One

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Founded in 2005 by producer/DJ Josh One, Boomnote Music is a boutique record label renowned for its genre blurring sound of alternative hip hop, trip hop and downtempo.

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