The lights and the drugs and the girls finally drives me crazy

đŸŽ” Kaytranada — Drive Me Crazy ft. Vic Mensa

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3 min readJul 3, 2018

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I’m here and y’all know they’ve been waitin’ for me
Since I was 15, now I’m Yella, a hundred miles and runnin’
Easy come and easy go, that’s why I work ’til midnight
I’m out of town, shorty very, dirty on the turnpike
My piss clean, I caught a case of happens to the best
The lawyer said don’t smoke
I’m like, “Good lord, buddha keep me blessed”
I’m buyin’ Nike stock when I see these checks
Motivated by niggas because it’s bigger than me
I know that, I might go back to my old shit
Bring the fro back, that’s a throwback, yeah
Watch your mouth, why you tryna talk like you know somethin’?
My competition is myself, therefore I ain’t worried ‘bout no one
Not a soul, pot of gold
Lookin’ like a stain, niggas’ll wet your mug
Leave you behind yourself, you’re playin’ catch up
Boy is that your blood?
Cause I done blew inside my mind since I first wrote a rhyme
Y’all all late, rappers be stuck in the booth, I’m All State
They’re imposters, steak and lobster
Surf my turf, better wear your chopper
Next to Oprah at the opera, okay
If you had


If you had everything you’d ever wanted
Right in front of me, what’s it gonna be?
The lights and the drugs and the girls finally drives me crazy
Drives me crazy

Gotta love it though, they hatin’ homie
I be on Sunset still go back to 68th and Stony
Cooked out my basement
Dropped my tape and got my homies’ placements
I’ll play the keys in my sleep on the beach, that’s a dream vacation
Say you ain’t heard, I’ll let you lie, just know you digged your grave
No turnin’ back once you done found that that’s the hand you played
Game over, on the drivin’ range in the Range Rover
Halfway sober with my middle finger up, fuck these hoes
I’m a tiger in the jungle
In the middle of the summer with the wood on me and a fiend for the snow
(White girl?) She a fiend for the blow, I’m a G, to the code
You know me, I need Keke Palmer off TLC for that T.O.P
Keys to the Jeep and the deed to the boat
Y’all cruisin’, y’all losin’
Yeah I make pop music but I’m still king with the flow
This just the shit I’ve been thinkin’ about

Picture everything you ever want, want, want, want
Right in front of you
The lights and the drugs and the girls finally drives me crazy
Drives me crazy

Producer Kaytranada arrived during the early 2010s with ear-perking remixes and an array of sounds that veered from J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats to woozy house grooves. Born Louis Kevin Celestin in Haiti, the Montreal-raised artist, a voracious listener, got hooked on DJ’ing and production during his early teen years. Early on, as Kaytradamus, he issued a series of digital EPs, albums, and remix compilations. Around 2013, he began to operate as Kaytranada with the EP Todo and three-track 10" At All. In 2014, he remixed Disclosure’s “January,” produced “My Block” for personal heroes Mobb Deep, and made his XL label debut that August with “Leave Me Alone,” a collaboration with vocalist and fellow Montreal native Shay Lia. During the next two years, Kaytranada’s profile steadily rose with additional XL material (“Drive Me Crazy,” featuring Vic Mensa) and outside productions highlighted by “Girl” (from the Internet’s Grammy-nominated Ego Death), “Lite Weight” (Anderson Paak), “Love” (Rome Fortune), and “Honey” (Katy B). 99.9%, his proper debut album, was released in 2016 with guest appearances from Phonte, Little Dragon, and a few of his prior collaborators. It won that year’s Polaris Music Prize.

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