This track is kind of a joke. When it was first released on Sunday 8/12/2012, it had been about two years in the making, perhaps three. The lyrics ended up capturing an incredibly bitter, jealous and negative anti-hipster frame of mind that I was in and turned that all of that negative energy into a club banger to be reckoned with. The lyrics contain many of my homegrown catchphrases/lingo that most of my friends are familiar with. The ad-lib lyric "I make my own tastes, hoe" is a reference to Northeastern University's Tastemakers music magazine, and it is followed by the irreverent inclusion of the line "Don't tase me, bro", of YouTube/meme fame, originally from the University of Florida Taser incident that occurred on Monday 9/17/2007. The chorus is a joke that I had been repeating to the tune of the chorus to Mariah Carey's 2009 hit song "Obsessed" off of her album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel for a couple years, and a friend of mine said I should turn it into a full song. The production is clearly inspired by the period in popular music preceding the current dance music period, where crunk-influenced songs with handclaps instead of snares were regularly making appearances in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Production-wise, I generally prefer hypnotic to hyphy. If you are offended in some way, I can only quote Theophilus London and say that I make music without anyone's permission. A clean version with the expletives warped is included on the EP it was originally released on on Sunday 8/12/2012. I only added it to be the opening track on Distillery when I was adding my music to ASCAP and noticed that when it was originally released I wrote that it was the first single from Distillery, so naturally that would mean it would be included in the album. The musical style in this song was improved upon in later Distillery tracks.
lyrics
Reuben Walton: We in this mufuckah...
Verse 1: Errbody in the back of the club/sippin' mad Grey Goose™, gettin' real fucked up/smokin' mad bowls, rollin' up a couple blunts/gettin' real swole? tell me when you had enough/matter of fact, fuck that, we gon' sip that grain/got all your jaws dropped 'cause you ain't half as chain/you hipsters think you party? bitch you're wack and lame/we're here to represent the fuckin' 9-7-8, hoe
Chorus: Ain't nobody got it like me, ain't nobody swole/poppin' off the chain like me, y'all ain't really know (2x)
Verse 2: And we don't give a fuck how you feel/steady tellin' all you bitches just how to deal/you don't pop bottles? then go and pop a pill/either way, keep it movin', fuck up out my grill/I don't need your opinion and I don't need your reviews/So take it to the pulpit and quit preachin' from the pews/Damn, dead to rights, I'm an outsider/and we gonna see which one of these whores' mouth's wider/I'm speakin' for my people, not some muthafuckin' elitists/you actin' all righteous, but you bitches ain't even Jesus/It's plain for me to see that y'all the fuckin' lamest of heathens/what I be smokin' on, man, that's the dankest of species/and I don't need approval, 'cause I say it and mean it/many left the race 'cause this industry's plainly misleading/and I ain't hatin' on the classics, man I still bump the Beatles/so you can keep your tastemaking 'cause my niggas ain't need it
Chorus
Outro: (Vocalizing) I make my own tastes, hoe/don't taze me, bro/muthafucka, don't taze me, hoe/whatever gender you is, yo
credits
from Distillery,
released August 9, 2013
Vocals by Reuben Walton
Lyrics written by Reuben Walton
Composed by Reuben Walton
Produced by Reuben Walton
Programming by Reuben Walton
Recorded by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in
Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
In 2019 he put out a self-titled EP working with producer AVLI Music and is now regularly releasing new music....more
Super dreamy and spacey, just the way I like it. Beautiful music, recommended for fans of Best Coast, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, and other bands. Check 'em out! "D'Arrest" is my favorite! Reuben Walton
