Vanity - Intellectual

[Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar]

Look at me

Vanity

Moving me like the academy

Groupie on me like a fantasy

Look at me

Vanity

Painting the town like a canopy

They mad at me

Mad at me

[Verse 1: Utkarsh Ambudkar]

Look at me

Vanity

Feel the humanity, ah

Pain is the canopy, ah

Blood is the canvas

Egos that brush that I paint with

Feel the sound of the bass hit

While I drown in the fake shit

Oooh Weee

Sweet smell of the validation

Meet me down in hell with the ovation

Who am I?

Just a man with an obligation to sell every bit of insecurity for the compensation

Ayo that image is my alter

It’s my concentration

Those filters never falter

Join the congregation

Yeah this bodies what I offer

Yeah I’m ready for slaughter

Make me what you wanna

Come and lead me to water

Give you all that I have for the bag

Make it so heavy it drags

Make it so heavy that it breaks my back

Make it so heavy that it breaks my fucking back

Yeah, this is my life

And I’m a ruin it

But they gon say that I looked fucking mighty fine doin’ it

[Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar]

Look at me

Vanity

Movie me like the academy

Groupie on me like a fantasy

Look at me

Vanity

Painting the town like a canopy

They mad at me

Mad at me

[Verse 2: Rafael Casal]

Yeah

Look at me

Oh man I’m cheffin' I must have a cook in me

Was complicated now accommodated

I guess I’m inpatient that’s the crook in me

I catch a feeling a week

Drop all the pills in the sink

I spin my wheels on the brink

Skid off and think they get someone else in the mink and it’s gone in a blink

Vanity

Somebody gotta be shining

When it’s you, you feel like a giant

Take it away and I’m violent

I feel like I’m faded to silent

Apathy

My mind is a divided calamity

Fuck what you askin' me

Where is my addy

My gun is untucked and I’m hunting for casualties

That’s what happens when you come from hood shit

You wonder who got the audacity

Fuck with my family try to unravel me

Hand me the gavel I’m judging them so fucking happily

Ugh

And who could say I’m eating so pardon my souffle yeah

I’ve combed down like tupé when I read up like I’m Pusé

Get it poppin' like I’m on a crusade

Mobbin’ like it’s Friday on a Tuesday

Some choose between what you should do and you could do but I always choose to do it the two ways

Yeah

[Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar]

Look at me

Vanity

Movie me like the academy

Groupie on me like a fantasy

Look at me

Vanity

Painting the town like a canopy

They mad at me

Mad at me

[Verse 3: Daveed Diggs]

Look at me

God only knows what is living done took from me

Moments of modesty stolen the crook in me up on the stage got ‘em cookin' and jukin' and Millie rockin'

Fill me pockets with pennies

The panties dropping pussy popping

Got plenty of pretty options I process no Pentium

Here I’m a mac, get it crackin' for anyone who ever doubted I

Hop on this bandwagon and take a ride

I’m a pied piper these kids hyphy

They likes on my Twitter be feeding my

Vanity

Let me talk candidly been buying jackets like kids buying candy

My sanity gone but God damn it I’m fly and the man in the mirror clearer than he ever been

Loving the shine in my skin

Loving the sheen on the jewels

Loving the weight of the watch

Loving the way that the fools

Who used to be reaching for tools now holler for high fives

Then talk beef like Five Guys

Then see they girl with eyes wide fantasizing I’m spreading her thighs wide and why not?

I feel death in my blindspot

Just like every brown body outlined on the sidewalk

So while mine walk

I'ma drape it in the best

So everyone look at the armor and ignore the hole in my chest (uh)

[Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar]

Hey, look at me

Look at me

Vanity

Movie me like the academy

Groupie on me like a fantasy

Look at me

Vanity

Painting the town like a canopy

They mad at me

Mad at me

[Repeat of Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar & Rafael Casal]

Look at me

Vanity

Movie me like the academy

Groupie on me like a fantasy

Look at me

Vanity

Painting the town like a canopy

They mad at me

Mad at me