Learnt to live with all my strikes
Guess I’ll never change my stripes
I been up and I been down
I survived through all these nights
I’ve got no one left to thank
It’s just me myself and I
I feel calm amongst the noise
But learnt that clarity is nice
I got some money in my pockets
It ain’t much but it’ll do
I found peace within myself
I bit more than I could chew
You got time for fun and games
Still I got better shit to do
I guess we ain’t kids no more...
That kinda hurts but that’s the truth
Still ain’t shit changed but a few things in the grand scheme that I’m best without
I just checked my bank account, what the fuck I’ve got Savings now?
Artists sign their entire life and still forget to try pay themselves
Took my share of a few L’s, but they manifest as blessings now
Most of you love to talk shit
Most of you seem to flame out
Most of you got instagrams
With fake friends in a fake house
I hung it up for a couple months
Music shit nearly broke my heart
Watched you all from a distance
I guess being real is a lost art, I’m gone
Chorus:
Cos it’s just me myself and I, I, I, I
I can’t vouch for no one else
Who’s around when all this dies
Learnt to filter out the fakes
Cut my losses and my ties
Bitch I’m gone
It’s just me myself and I, I, I, I
I can’t vouch for no one else
Who’s around when all this dies
Learnt to filter out the fakes
Cut my losses and my ties
That’s the code, yeah
Cos I’m just doing me
That’s the code, yeah
As long as I can breathe
That’s the code, ay
I guess I’m doing what I want now
That’s the code, look
Who been here from the jump
That’s the code
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Verse 2:
Rest In Peace to my old friend
Should have sorted it like men
Too much pride to work it out
Still too young to know it ends
I remember our first shows
Where we barely made a cent
Nowadays I’d fuckin kill
Just so I feel that thrill again
Nowadays I’m saying less
Nowadays I’m watching more
I guess now I check myself
Left my ego at the door
I lost money by myself
I lost money with my friends
Remember nights I drove this Uber
Just to pay my album debts
Look, I been humbled so many times that most of you would of hung it up
If you knew what I been through, then most of you wouldn’t even start
But you got so many jokes about my career I forgot the punch
And I’m still doing what I really love thats the last laugh that kinda sums it up
Most of you try play it cool
Most of you don’t even sell
Most of you are still stuck in deals
Then beg for ways to try make it out
Most of you are barely paying rent
But your A&R still owns a house?
I seen people that are on tour
Just to feed someone else’s mouth? That’s wrong
Chorus:
Cos it’s just me myself and I, I, I, I
I can’t vouch for no one else
Who’s around when all this dies
Learnt to filter out the fakes
Cut my losses and my ties
Bitch I’m gone
It’s just me myself and I, I, I, I
I can’t vouch for no one else
Who’s around when all this dies
Learnt to filter out the fakes
Cut my losses and my ties
That’s the code, yeah
Cos I’m just doing me
That’s the code, yeah
As long as I can breathe
That’s the code, ay
I guess I’m doing what I want now
That’s the code, look
Who been here from the jump
That’s the code
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