Mahalia – In The Club (Audio, Lyrics, Video)

Mahalia unveils the music video for the new song, “In The Club”, which was produced by JD. Reid. Listen, stream, buy, read the lyrics, mp3 download.

Mahalia In The Club

Mahalia is gearing up for something, following a string of singles, including “Simon Says” and “Letter To Ur Ex,” the singer returns once more with “In the Club.” Mahalia hasn’t released an album since 2019’s breakthrough Love & Compromise, although she did deliver a quarantine-friendly EP, Isolation Tapes in May 2020.

“In the Club” is inevitably nostalgic, thanks not only to Mahalia’s interpolation of 50 Cent’s iconic 2003 hit “In Da Club,” but the laid-back, simplicity of the acoustic guitar. Mahalia flips 50 Cent’s hook into an “I choose me” break-up anthem, singing, “I’m into making friends, I ain’t into making up / You can take your hugs, you can take it / But don’t come find me in the club, bottle full of bub / Look, baby, you made a mess again, it can’t be undone / I’m into making M’s, I ain’t into making up / You can take your hugs, you can take your love.”

Mahalia released a statement on the new record in a press release, saying,”‘In the club’ is a song about letting go of people who are just plain and simply bad for you. I grew up in a small town in Leicester and most people didn’t believe that I could make it as an artist. I had a super small group of friends and a lot of people weren’t really ever interested in talking to me or being friends with me and mine… until I started doing well. I’d come home for Christmas and people would start acting like we’d been friends forever. They’d ask about London and my life as if we’d been close since kids. I always found that very bizarre. As a person who has never measured someone’s likability by their success, I always hated that type of behaviour and so wanted to write about it. It also applied to people I met later in life. Who only stuck around for the good bits and left for the bad.”

Mahalia – In The Club (prod. JD. Reid)

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Lyrics

[Intro]
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah
Hey

[Verse 1]
I’m done with livin’ in places where I recognise
Too many faces I’d rather leave behind (Huh)
People who would see me in the street and not say, “Hi”
But then they see some success, so they call me
Tell me that they impressed, they want a part of it
Huh, you want a part of it?
Well, I don’t want your number or your company

[Chorus]
That’s why I’m gon’ be the first one to leave your party for the club
Bottle full of bub’
That’s because you made a mess and it cannot be undone
I’m into makin’ friends, I ain’t into makin’ up
You can take your hugs, you can take it
But don’t come find me in the club, bottle full of bub’
Look, baby, you made a mess again, it can’t be undone
I’m into makin’ M’s, I ain’t into makin’ up
You can take your hugs, you can take your love

[Verse 2]
You can’t pick and choose when you’re on my side (On my side)
Leave through the lows and try stay for the highs
Love to the people who are steady in my life (Steady in my life)
And you are not them, beg friend, no
Real ones don’t come and go like trend, no
Pick me up, then drop me off like rental
You decided before that you ain’t a part of it

[Chorus]
That’s why I’m gon’ be the first one to leave your party for the club
Bottle full of bub’
That’s because you made a mess and it cannot be undone
I’m into makin’ friends, I ain’t into makin’ up
You can take your hugs, you can take it
But don’t come find me in the club, bottle full of bub’
Look, baby, you made a mess again, it can’t be undone
I’m into makin’ M’s, I ain’t into makin’ up
You can take your hugs, you can take your love

[Post-Chorus]
You can take it away, huh
Please don’t kill my buzz
Baby, please don’t kill my buzz, yeah

[Bridge]
Leave you, leave you, I don’t believe you
No matter what you say, that don’t make us equal
Treat you, treat you, I never mistreated you
No matter how you say it, that don’t make us equal
Leave you, leave you, I don’t believe you
No matter what you say, there ain’t ever gonna be a sequel
That means you escape all your evil, no

[Chorus]
So don’t come find me in the club, bottle full of bub’
That’s because you made a mess and it cannot be undone
I’m into makin’ friends, I ain’t into makin’ up
You can take your hugs, you can take it
But don’t come find me in the club, bottle full of bub’
Look, baby, you made a mess again, it can’t be undone (Mess again, mess again)
I’m into makin’ M’s, I ain’t into makin’ up
You can take your hugs, you can take your love

[Outro]
You can take your love, yeah, huh
Don’t come find me in the club
Don’t come find me in the—
Don’t come find me in the, baby, don’t come, don’t kill my buzz
Haha, yeah