Us VS. Them

By Gremlin

Released on September 15, 2023

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[Intro: GremlinRaps]


So I recently had a big label exec tell me they wanted to sign me for a lot of money

But if I did, they needed to change my style, my sound, everything about me

Fuck that

What happened to real music?

What happened to talkin about real issues and not just about money

If they're not gonna let us in the game

We're gonna kick the fucking door in


[Verse 1: GremlinRaps]

Every artist has started to sound the same nowadays

I don't even know who's to blame nowadays

The radio is playing all the same sound waves

But you people eat it up every day, how strange

Remember when music was all about change?

Now it's all about chains, swerving in and out of lanes

Fucking every ho that you know, trying to clout chase

That is 'til you're dead, broke and you're left with a pout face, uh


We have interference, what happened to lyrics

Man we should be caring more about rap than appearance

All these sata nic rappers always tapping into spirits

I only tap into God and you can actually hear it

The best part of it is it's not a façade

I'm a man and I'm flawed but I'm far from a fraud

So I pray and continue beating all of the odds

With the hopes that one day God gives me a nod, yah

But the industries' insidious, manipulating idiots

It's obvious but people are oblivious

You're the target audience and you're giving them millions

And they're giving you shit in return, man it's brilliant

They don't want me to preach and it's hideous

They want me to speak on guns, weed and affiliates

Also which girl in my sheets is the prettiest

But lucky for me I have resilience, uh

I ain't trying to hear about a ass shake

And how you're sucking on a dick before a handshake

And how you're fucking everyone like it's a mandate

What happened to morals, can somebody elaborate?


[Pre-Chorus 1: GremlinRaps]

Uh, the industry is in bad shape

But the women aren't so it all balances

They buy a body that you can't even exaggerate

Just to make up for the fact that they're talentless


[Chorus 1: GremlinRaps]

Tell me what happened to killing a beat and just flipping the syllables, syllabus

Pivotal, pivoting people away who are critical crippling critics who thought you were typical typically

And even a little bit gimmicky till you hit 'em with a dope [writ?] that's so vivid they all consider it digital imagery


[Verse 2: GremlinRaps]

Uh, I'ma wreak havoc

And I ain't gonna speak on selling drugs to the planet

When I grew up with a mom who was a motherfucking addict

Which is why I've been coming for the world cause I never fucking had it, uh

Yeah, with real art you can feel heart

And it can be a beacon to hope when it feels dark

And remind you there's a fire inside that you can still spark

But it's to you to make that shit start


[Pre-Chorus 2: GremlinRaps]

Uh, that's what real music is supposed to do

And that's exactly what I'm gonna move it closer to

So why would I need a label to sign me when I got the "Broken People Family" behind me uh


[Chorus 2: GremlinRaps]

I'm running a fever, spitting up all of this ether, eager even when no ego, fecal matter is all you speak though

I'm for the people preaching peace but please don't think we won't get lethal

Killing an evil beast, a heathen is easy, give me a reason yeah


[Outro: GremlinRaps]

Uh, I don't need a co-sign from no man

I built this with my own mind and own hands, uh

Shoutout to the old and to the new fans

We're making history together they have no chance

“What happened to real music? What happened to talkin about real issues and not just about money”
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“The radio doesn’t wanna hear about real issues”, Gremlin wrote in the description of the Us VS. Them Official music video on YouTube.

“Big label exec”
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Referring to a big record company executive

“Exec” is short/slang for “executive”.

Record company executives work in senior management at record labels, where they make high-level business and creative decisions concerning the company’s strategy, vision, administration, and operations, as well as decisions about the careers of artists on the label’s roster.

“Change my style, my sound, everything about me”
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Very often labels signing artists try to alter their “style” a bit to make the artist more marketable.
Which basically means that they possibly want to change sound and style, so that it is “radio friendly”.
Most often and I quote: (GremlinRaps from the video description of the song)
“Because the radio doesn’t wanna hear about real issues, they wanna hear about partying & money”.