Listen to KEY! and Tony Shhnow’s “You Need God”

KEY! releases the “You Need God” piece of music with Tony Shhnow on this new track produced by DJ Marc B. Listen, stream, read the lyrics, buy the song.

You Need God was first previewed to the public in a live concert, with Tony Shhnow, on May 27, 2023. On May 11, 2023, in an interview with Our Generation Music, KEY! revealed he has an entire album recorded with You Need God’s producer DJ Marc B, and had high praise for DJ Marc B’s musical abilities and synergy to KEY!’s own raps.

KEY! has dropped the first taste of his upcoming new album. After debuting the song at his last Late Night Church Service show it dropped this week. The track is a hard-hitting trap banger with subtle gospel touches in the instrumental. It also sports a guest spot from fellow Atlanta rapper Tony Shhnow. KEY!’s new album Marquis doesn’t have a release date yet but it’s expected to arrive later this summer. The song is KEY!’s first new single of the year so far, though he has appeared on some other tracks including one with Thundercat.

The album will join a massive discography of mixtapes and albums KEY! has been grinding out for years. His most recent full-length release came out late last year with S.B.I. The project was a 7-track collaboration with El Jubo. His most substantial recent release was 2021’s The Alpha Jerk. The record is a collaboration with Tony Seltzer which featured one of Key!’s biggest songs “My Puppy.” His biggest album is 2018’s 777 a full-length collaboration with Kenny Beats. Since the project was released though, the pair seem to have gotten caught up in some beef.

KEY! has made some high-profile appearances in the past. He’s made appearances on songs on both of the A$AP Mob’s Cozy Tapes series. Similarly, he appears on Dreamville’s Revenge Of The Dreamers III compilation. He was praised by fans for his standout verse on Skepta’s “Redrum” from his 2019 album Ignorance Is Bliss. He’s also appeared on albums from ILOVEMAKONNEN, Raury, 03 Greedo, Guapdad 4000, and many more.

One of KEY!’s most poetic moments as an artist came on his 2019 song “When X Died.” In the lyrics of the track, he imagines how big XXXTENTACION could have been if he wasn’t tragically murdered. It came right after he took on the beat from Ski Mash The Slump God’s “Foot Fungus” with his own freestyle.

KEY! – You Need God (ft. Tony Shhnow) (prod. DJ Marc B)

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7 June 2023
1 Song, 3 minutes
℗ 2023 Third & Hayden

Lyrics

[Intro: KEY!]
Ya know, yeah
Ya know, yeah
Ya know, yeah
Aye

[Verse 1: KEY!]
Life’s a trip, ain’t it?
If you can trip off life, I need a hit, ain’t it?
If you got more than one life, is you a cat, nigga?
I don’t know who they is, but I am that nigga
Okay, I popped me a whatcha call it, need more water
Okay, shut up sons, I got one daughter
Okay, chin up, hun, cause you can do better
Okay, I ain’t seen nothin’ heard nothin’ just like I’m Helen Keller
Okay, I’m talkin’ sugar bread
Ever since I ate it, I can’t get it out my fuckin’ head
And I ain’t talk and tell
Whole fam on my back just like some fuckin’ [?]
My girl she talk in runway pieces now
I’m from the A where [?]
I’m from the A where all my bitches thick
We all players, baby, take your fuckin’ pick
Damn, I want everything like the Once-ler
I got one young niggas smackin’ shit like the Cucumbas
I just went to church, and they was harmonizing
Plus I got it on me like I’m advertising
Damn, roll the weed, dog
Damn this [?]
Damn, I need the Bentley, I’m a big dog
Damn, roll the weed, dog

[Verse 2; Tony Shhnow]
I told the bitch she will never understand me
I hijack like a pilot, first class I just landed
[?] cost a key
I Africaned my diamonds, and my hoodie Japanese
My bitch [?], I don’t like the model hoes
I’m indecisive I can’t pick, so I need both of those
I look like I serve crack, diamonds white, this stripper black
Used to eat McDonald’s, now, when hungry, I just grab the Mac
It’s just me and you, and I ain’t goin’, so that’s gon’ be that
You try to be me, you should try to be realistic
All the guns got switches, we ain’t trippin’, we trip with it
Bitch so bad that I had to put my dick in it
Every time I’m in the traphouse, nigga, it’s a lick in it
I told the jeweler I’m a plug, put a brick in it
Car automatic, but I got a stick in it
This bitch so bad, I had to let my bitch hit it
Call the coupe royal flush cause I got that shit in it

[Outro: KEY!]
Ya know, yeah
Ya know, yeah
Ya know, yeah
Aye