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Watch Me (Prod. Max Kane)

from Gross by TOPR

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They Watch your boy Lord Top posted up on the block mayne

Razor on a glass coffee table - lets chop game

Were not the same, I stash cash in the box frame

And you’re a J cat who never ran when the cops came

these net-bangers really be about computer beef

That concepts hella new to me - like a losing streak

All up in the comments talking bout you gonna shoot at me?

Bitch if I saw on the street you wouldn’t shoot the breeze

Ease up kiddo, yall peanut brittle

Get stuck in ya teeth, all your buddies can get beat up with you

Hot rounds out the chrome chamber? Need us continue?

I’m right outside your door hanging like a Pizza Hut menu

Columbine sequel, geeks tucking the pistol

I read the writing on the wall like we in a punk venue

Ricochet from a slug can leave pieces stuck in you

but one punch’ll make ya feel like a diesel truck hit you

I feel them watching from a distance its surreal

Living in this strange world of voyuers and exhibitionists

The lonely, desperate, insecure and ignorant

trolling on an infinite fishing trip for significance

none of thy citizens shall cry innocence,

we give them permission to amplify our differences

through algorithmic echo chambers, turned up in the mix

where cynical businesses lift our digital fingerprints



They watch me, because I’ve always been a wild card

They watch me from ghost accounts hating on my style dog

They watch me, and I feel like a rock star

But I don't Rock the Vote - I throw bottles at cop cars

They watch me, and its got me feeling paranoid

They watch me, with phones out always ready to press record

They watch me, with a camera on every corner store

Constantly collecting ammunition for the culture war



What this ain’t a war?

"Alexa set my timer for 1984"

What you think they want your information for anyway?

we're just food in the belly of the surveillance state

everyday they innovate ways to infiltrate

a tap for every cellphone, GPS Track and trace

Facial recognition software able to integrate

Information provided by a national database

The worlds a stage set by the Devil's henchman

and everybody wants to be the center of attention

blatant displays of artificial introspection

Are transparent facsimiles of honest intentions

Never called into question by white knights

And platforms that ignored the rise of the far right

they filmed themselves committing federal crimes for likes

Fucked around and got themselves federal time for life

We protest against actual killers

They take flicks at the capitol with fascist militias

Meanwhile our kids dream of getting plastic surgery

To look like the person they see in a snap chat filter

I stand for my beliefs and I do not bend

And its all eyes on me - word to Tupac when

you see Hip hop thru the lens of these Tic Toc trends

I must be the musical equivalent of Hitchcock then


They watch me, because I’ve always been a wild card

They watch me from ghost accounts hating on my style dog

They watch me, and I feel like a rock star

But I don't Rock the Vote - I throw bottles at cop cars

They watch me, and its got me feeling paranoid

They watch me, with phones out always ready to press record

They watch me, with a camera on every corner store

Constantly collecting ammunition for the culture war

credits

from Gross, released July 1, 2022
Written and performed by Topper Holiday
Produced by Max Kane
Recorded and Mixed by Elliot Lanam at Hidden City Studios
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield for Audible Oddities
Album art by Lord Mesngr

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TOPR Asheville, North Carolina

TOPR - aka Top Ramen or Topr Holiday - is a rapper and graffiti artist from San Francisco, CA who has been a larger than life character in the bay area underground music scene since the early 90s. Known for his legendary freestyle ability and party animal persona, TOPR writes songs that are equal parts humorous braggadocio and heartfelt musings about the fragile absurdity of the human condition. ... more

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