MLS is a track from the deluxe edition of Gorillaz' seventh studio album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez. The song features American rapper JPEGMafia and a Japanese pop band CHAI.
Background[]
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~ CHAI, Song Machine With Friendz |
MLS is one of the tracks made during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020. MLS went through a lot of changes during its development. At first JPEGMafia had one more verse in the song but it wasn't used in the final version because the contributions from CHAI gave the song a very different feeling than the original demo of the track had.[1]
MLS was eventually released on the deluxe edition of the Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.
Lyrics[]
[Chorus: CHAI]
Do you know what a beautiful creature
How happy you look?
Ah, oh
Do you know what a lazy culture gorilla?
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It's so funk
ććććć beautiful day (ć”ćć£ćØććć )
Itās so funk
ććććć beautiful day
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[Verse 1: JPEGMAFIA & CHAI]
How you gon' tell me how to do and how to do it? (Yeah)
Maneuver with this Ruger, these bullets is for the hoopers
You n****s is stupid, Peggy been broke for a long time (For real)
Only dirty n****s around me like my own kind (Grr)
I feel like Tom Jones, (Huh) I feel like Dev Hynes (Yeah)
I got a fresh Gat', I test the new iron
Hold me, chains on my neck like a slave
Fuck a will, better bury me with a hole in my grave
(*ć¹ć¼ćć¼ć“ćŖć©*)
I got too much to say, labels tried docking my pay
Iām like, "Ooh"
Compress me or check me, I am Peggy Bae
Divine, feel like I'm blessed but I never pray
Twisting at my shows, n****s think I'm doing ballet, uh
I wish a n***a wouldn't claim that I'm a phase,
I'm a wave, (Wave) sayin' that shit that you scared to say (Shit)
(It's nasty)
[Break: CHAI]
(Gorilla)
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[Verse 2: JPEGMAFIA & CHAI]
Clean house, clean bathwater, and clean mind
I'm such a positive n***a, throw up a peace sign
Get to the bridge, give āem lead time
They be gunning for me! (Gunning for me!)
Put on a face for the critics ācause they beneath me (Oh, oh, facts)
Never met an A&R that I wanted to be
(*It's so funk, ććććć beautiful day*)
Begging for plus ones drink tickets and VIP
These n****s get fat blow money, and lose beefs (Super gorilla)
Itās tragic, shake my head when I hit the ballot (Yeah)
Shake my head, n****s got more money than talent
Mmmm, n****s know I shoot above the average (Pssht)
Young Peggy keep whippin' wiggas till I kick the casket
(*ć¹ć¼ćć¼ć“ćŖć©*)
They think I'm fixing matches, the scope came with attachments (YEE!)
We at your house, we staking out, we eating rations
Expensive habits, it's gas
I told that bitch to jump the ship, only room for the captain
(Itās nasty)
[Chorus: CHAI]
ć¹ć¼ćć¼ć“ćŖć©
It's so funk
ććććć beautiful day
ć¹ć¼ćć¼ć“ćŖć©
Ha, ha, ha, ha-ha-ha-ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha-ha-ha-ha
ć¹ć¼ćć¼ć“ćŖć©
[Break: JPEGMAFIA & CHAI]
Ooh
Thinkin' bout ooh
Thinkin' bout ooh
Thinkin' bout ooh, Thinkin' bout ooh
Thinkin' bout ooh
Thinkin' bout ooh
Thinkin' bout ooh
(ć¹ć¼ćć¼ć“ćŖć©)
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Trivia[]
- MLS is one of the two deluxe tracks from Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez that was played on Song Machine Live, the other one being Opium.
- CHAI sing parts of the track in Japanese.
References[]
- ā Gorillaz. "A Gorillaz Conversation w/ Co-Creator Damon Albarn & Anthony Fantano". YouTube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 5 November 2020.