Cover art for Hectic by A$AP Ferg

Hectic

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Hectic Lyrics

[Intro: Diddy]
Ayo, I got one question for you
I don't care if you're white
I don't care if you're black (One, two, ooh)
Who's side you on? (Oh)

[Verse 1: A$AP Ferg]
Wrote this while I was in quarantine
From the hood, I'm used to horrid things
Back to the basic, no diamond rings
Just you and God when the drama rings
Street clear, no sirens
It's a war goin' on, just stay clean (Wipe that shit down)
No Corona, just Heineken
What ever happened to American Dream?
What ever happened to the car life?
And the star life and the heaven it bring?
When it all goеs down, that's down the drain
Give it to the most high, Hе devour pain
Hard for a rapper to say these things (Yeah)
Spray these things, left 'em in the Maybelline (Ooh)
I let my lyrics heal the pandemic 'til it's finished
TGUT, let the angels sing

[Interlude: Diddy & A$AP Ferg]
Ayo, turn this up
Y'all mothafuckers have left us no choice
We have exhausted all options
(This ain't the time to be scared)
You've left us with nothing else to do (Strength 'em up)
But to fight back
By any means motherfuckin' necessary
(And make sure you strap up just in case it get—)
[Refrain: Diddy]
As we proceed (Get hectic)
To give you what you need (Get hectic)
We are (Get hectic)
God's children (Get hectic)


[Verse 2: A$AP Ferg]
We built waves up in the water, huh (Get hectic)
Know one day he gon' call us, huh (Get hectic)
Took my team to Angola, huh (Get hectic)
I got queens and their dollar, huh (Get hectic)
We can't breathe, no ventilation, huh (Get hectic)
They act racist to our faces, huh (Get hectic)
Feel oppressed and won't say shit, huh (Get hectic)
Am I silent? Audacious (Get hectic)
I lost battles for my peace (Get hectic)
Take those shackles off our feet (Get hectic)
And we got diamonds in our teeth (Get hectic)
But we're still a nigga to the police (Get hectic)
And while they savage all week (Let's go)
Shit get havoc and they talkin' 'bout peace
Treat us like a dog on a long leash
Geez

[Interlude: A$AP Ferg]
Diamond, diamond on my necklace (Get hectic)
Why do we seem to act so reckless? (Get hectic)
Bust down on my ring (Get hectic)
Crowdsurf, moshpit, mmm (Get hectic)
Diamond, diamond on my necklace (Get hectic)
Why do we seem to act so reckless? (Get hectic)
Bust down on my ring (Get hectic)
Crowdsurf, moshpit, mmm (Get hectic)
[Outro: Diddy]
You gotta do what you gotta do (Get hectic)
To preserve yourself (Get hectic)
One of the fundamental things in life (Get hectic)
Is self-preservation (Get hectic)
You know? (Get hectic)
Feelin' like shit's about to get hectic (Get hectic)
(Get hectic)
(Get hectic) As I said, y'all left us no choice

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Genius Annotation

On “Hectic” A$AP Ferg unites with Diddy. Throughout the song, Ferg and Diddy describe their experiences that seem too good to be true.

This track marks the first collaboration between the two artists.

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What has Ferg said about the track?
Genius Answer

So what’s crazy about it is before the whole George Floyd situation happened and they killed him, I was already making this song. I already made it, I already wrote my verse. Everything, like I was already on the topic of police brutality, like, they ain’t letting us breathe, this that and the third because it happened before. So, you know, history repeats itself and all of a sudden that’s when the George Floyd shit happened and I was like, ‘Oh, shit, I made this song two months ago and Puff was like going crazy on his Instagram, like, about Black Lives Matter and everything that was happening and I thought it would be dope to get, like, him talking on it because he had a lot of things to say and his energy, we was just like, we was linking and we was doing podiums for Revolt and just talking about the state of the world and this is around the time the whole pandemic was happening. Like, in the thick of it. So, like the first half of the song I’m talking about the pandemic. Second half I’m talking about like 'Hectic’ with, you know, everything that’s going on with black people. My boy, TGUT, he did the first part of the beat. Before it was just ‘Hectic’ by itself. Like, I produced that myself. I produced ‘Hectic’. I produced that in Australia. That was around the time I did the video with ONEFOUR and I was in Australia touring and then the pandemic just hit. We had Idris Elba saying he had the COVID and Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks was the first one and he was in Australia when he said it. I was just going home so like, I was already on topic with the Black Lives Matter because that was happening already but I just wanted to make it even more current with the pandemic talk because I was driving to the studio and there was nobody outside. That was crazy. It was like a movie.

[Ferg to Apple Music]

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September 25, 2020
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