Everybody's Something
2013 · Not On Label · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- Chance the Rapper
- Title
- Everybody's Something
- Release
- Acid Rap
- Year
- 2013
- Label
- Not On Label
- Format
- Digital · Mixtape
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · Pop Rap · Conscious Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Draft Songs
Chance the Rapper, Pop Rap artist, born Chancelor Johnathan Bennett on 16 April 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, released the song "Everybody's Something" - the verse performed by Saba - Conscious Hip Hop artist, born Tahj Malik Chandler on 17 July 1994 in Chicago, Illinois, USA - contained a reference to Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay), avoiding the Vietnam War draft: "like Cassius ducking the draft and now the fight is over".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Like Cassius ducking the draft and now the fight is over / The type to love from a distance, not the type that told her / Spent three days on the rap, trash it and type it over / With babies on the block underarms like fighting odors / Coppers and quotas, hold ya head like 2Pac had taught / Obviously, they are on a come up / With better chances tobogganing in the fucking summer / Concoctions for the bad days and a condom for the good ones / All odds against us, we tryna get lucky, doper than Lucky / You're ending happy, that's only a tugging / Like Satan masturbating, shit come hot, but y'all still love me / Ugh, how Father Time a deadbeat? Maybe I'm adopted / That'll explain why all of my shit been so timeless, igh
About the artist
Chance the Rapper, Pop Rap artist, born Chancelor Johnathan Bennett on 16 April 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Themes
Muhammad Ali · Draft · Draft Dodger · Draft Resistance · Protest Analogy