Date 2020-06-18
Category Lyrics, Music Video, New Music
Hip-hop is global. The language barriers have been broken, in a sense, with several non-English speaking countries housing thriving hip-hop scenes. Italy is no different. Hip-hop has found space to thrive since the 80s in Italy, though their influence is deeply entrenched in their migration to America. Mafia-themes have seeped so deeply into rap music that it became its own sub-genre that has recently been revived, in a way.
The Griselda clique have played a role in the renaissance of mafioso rap in recent times but Westside Gunn further solidifies this with his new collaboration with rising Italian rapper Emis Killa. Over a haunting trap instrumental hinged on UK drill 808s, Emis and Westside Gunn detail a crime-filled lifestyle with luxury taste acquired from these devious deeds.
Though it is interesting to hear Westside Gunn touch international turf, the trap production doesn’t really allow him to paint these vivid images of a decadent way of life in the way spacious, sample-based beats allow him to. Nonetheless, Westside Gunn handles business as usual.
Emis Killa – Andale (ft. Westside Gunn) (prod. 2nd Roof)
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[Text by “Andale” ft. Westside Gunn]
[Intro: Emis Killa]
Ah
[Verse 1: Emis Killa]
I don’t go back in overalls on that truck, yah
Mo who shines like Tutankhamun (Bling), yeh
She sends me random naked pictures, ah
I saved her “puta” on my iPhone (Ah, ah, ah, ah), yah
As kids running away on that Typhoon (Uoh), eh
While they ate Cheerios (Cheerios)
I see that you act like Tyson, yah
But you’re half man like Tyrion (Tyrion) You
better obey like the Minions
I am good because I made the millions (Good)
But for two grams of grass my brother shoots you in the feet
Leave the holes on the ground like minigolf (You-you-you-you)
Luxury cars, faces from Favelas (Paw)
Here I have all that quieras (Todo)
Do it and don’t post it on social media
What happens here, remains here as in Las Vegas (Ahahah)
[Bridge: Emis Killa]
In the shadow of ‘ sti palazzoni (Ah)
I can still hear the voices of the bro (Uh)
Guilty of being born lions
In the cage of innocents as in a zoo (Ah)
Twists suffered, no, the cars I have in the box don’t cancel them (No, no, no)
I think about the fucking face you have
While I vent on a punching bag (Puh, puh, puh, puh)
[Chorus: Emis Killa]
(Uh) When the moon lights up (Uh)
Send them, send them (Uh)
If the chaff passes the street
Andale, andale, andale, andale (Uh)
When the moon goes out (Bling, uh)
Stop and stand on one (Uh)
If the mule is missing in the house
Andale, andale, andale, andale
[Verse 2: Westiside Gunn]
Hey, yoh
Spinned around the block (Spinned around the block, skrrt)
All you heard was shot (All you heard was shot, boom-boom-boom)
Somebody mama gotta dead son
Jesus couldn’t stop it (Jesus couldn’t stop it)
Top of the C8 (Skrrt)
Whipped a whole one, great
Low top Louis, no lace
Breath smellin ‘like ace
So much money on your head
You’ll be dead in three hours (Doot-doot-doot-doot-doot)
Body in the beamer trunk
Smellin’ all sour (Smellin ‘all sour )
Murakami flowers (Murakami flowers)
Champagne showers (Champagne showers)
Learned from the OG’s that
Dope money give you power (Ah)
Thousand dollars per shoe nigga
Hit up Virgil I need the fur too nigga
Westside is smooth, nigga
Throwin up b’s you a bool nigga
Cock back two nigga (Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow)
Gun to your face, what the fuck you gon ‘do nigga
You a fool, nigga
Look at my neck, look at the jewels, nigga
[Chorus: Emis Killa]
(Uh) When the moon lights up (Uh)
Send them, send them (Uh)
If the chaff passes the street
Andale, andale, andale, andale (Uh)
When the moon goes out (Bling, uh)
Stop and stand on one (Uh)
If the mule is missing in the house
Andale, andale, andale, andale
[Post-Chorus: Emis Killa]
(Uh) When the moon lights up (Uh)
Send, send one (Uh)
If on the street the chaff passes
Andale, andale, andale, andale (Uh)
When the moon goes out (Bling, uh)
Stop and make it on one (Uh)
If the mule
Andale, andale, andale, andale is missing in the house