#moshing and drinking is always dope

[liberty-spiked]

hrrrgh i need tickets to that Waving The Guns concert in basel in march :I i deserve to see them i drove 13h through 2/3 of germany for them specifically and got injured like 20min before they went live. still dope ass festival but hsgshrb i need to see milli dance in person <3

[satoshi-mochida]

‘High tension adventure game’ ULTRA MUSHROOM announced for PC

From Gematsu

Publishers and developers TRY GAMES and room6, and NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD developer xemono have announced “high tension adventure game” ULTRA MUSHROOM for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2025.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Welcome to the outdoor festival “Ultra Mushroom” at the foot of the mountain. There was once a man who made a billion yen in just three days by running a curry stall here. Our protagonist, inspired by this news, comes to the festival with the ambition of making it big with a mushroom stall (with zero cost mushrooms!). Note: The mushrooms in this game are delicious, wholesome, and full of vitality. They’re also very healthy.

Gather Mushrooms in the Mountains

Search for mushrooms with your pig, Buta, in the hills behind the festival. Your zero-cost dream relies on your mushroom knowledge and dedication. There might be precious ultra mushrooms deep in the mountains, but going too far could make you late for the festival!

Sell Like Crazy at the Music Festival!

The key to success at your stall is to hype up the customers! Choose a stage, match the rhythm of the dope music, and keep the energy high with your banter. The more you excite the crowd, the more orders you’ll get, bringing you closer to your big break. Feed them ultra mushrooms, and they might even start sharing unheard stories in their excitement! Some customers might even help you run the stall if you become friends. Invest your earnings into upgrading your stall, making cooking and customer service more high-tech.

The Crowd

Kinoko – The protagonist of the game, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Buta – Always curious about the taste of new mushrooms.

Mosh – Enjoys moshing. Came to the festival with a guy she met on a dating app. He ran away after her wild antics, but she’s having too much fun to care.

Goggle – Believes the best sound is right in front of the PA system.

Juice – Constantly drinking juice through a tube from his backpack. Values hydration to keep dancing.

Candy – Only eats grape-flavored candy. Travels from festival to festival.

Dr. Mushroom – Shares intriguing and valuable mushroom information.

Security Guard – Barely hides his hostility towards couples.

Gal and Gal Boy – Not actually dating.

Excited Old Man – A retired legendary DJ searching for excitement.

Key Features

Rumors.

Even pigs can gain enlightenment.

Virtual mushrooms can make billions.

There’s a hidden, super ultra happy fourth day of the festival.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

[lilacskyent-blog]

Breakfast with The Wicked Lady

Every day we see social media influencers, as well as anyone with a social media account, talk about how fake everything is. They rant about how everything is curated, modified with photoshop or facetune, and how no one is showing who they really are. This stance has always frustrated me because the way we present ourselves on social media is often times the same way we present ourselves in the real world when we want to make a good impression. This idea of trying to be our best selves, or even something as ill-conceived as “fake it ‘till you make it” was not born on social media, it’s something nearly everyone on the world does, while simultaneously craving something real. Michelle, a.k.a thewickedlady is one of the most real influencers I’ve ever encountered. Sitting with her via video chat, I feel immediately at ease because she’s normal. There’s no performance, no hyped up mess, just a really cool girl.

 Where did Wicked Lady come from?

Growing up watching Anime and Sailor Moon, I felt like I related very closely to the character Chibiusa, who is Usagi’s daughter who comes to visit Usagi from the Future. There’s a part in Sailor Moon R, where Chibiusa is convinced she is unloved by her friends and family, and she’s told that she is alone. This puts her in a really dark place and Wise Man turns her into the Wicked Lady. Growing up, I had a hard time finding myself and feeling very alone. I felt really unloved and I was in a dark place. But light was shed on me eventually and I realized that all these negative thoughts were not necessary and I should live my life to the fullest and be happy, and that’s also what helped Chibiusa return to her small lady self.

What got you into modeling?

It really wasn’t my initial plan to get into modeling, but I started when I was 18 and got serious when I was 20. I just started taking pictures when I had my pink hair, and my favorite hair dying brands started working with me. I started taking more pictures with my friends who were photographers and I grew from there. I did not do this on my own, I had a lot of help from my friends who helped me grow as an influencer and as a model and a person. I wouldn’t be anywhere without them.

Despite her modesty, Michelle is an amazing model. From the outfits she puts together to the poses the photographers capture there is pure magic in every image, even the silly ones that may or may not have been accidents. In my own personal modeling career, I pull inspiration from her work, because it’s not only beautiful but also carry an oddly perfect balance of elegance along with badass. Though from what I’ve gathered I’d say greatness with modesty is a fairly accurate way to describe Michelle. She’s absolutely incredible but doesn’t use her energy demanding you to tell her, or even acknowledge it. She’s just herself, just a girl with dreams, goals, and gifts like every other human being.

So along with everything else you have going on, you’re also a college student, what are you studying?

Currently studying Psychology, on route to receiving my bachelors, and eventually my PH.D. PSY.D in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  Psychology has always been my favorite subject, especially growing up in an unstable home environment, I felt it would be best to learn more about mental health to help myself and my loved ones. People tend to forget that mental health is extremely important in living a healthy, and happy life. But because we can’t physically “cure” mental illness as we do with the common flu, I feel like it’s left unattended, or not taken seriously. We’ve all heard the term, “It’s a phase”, and in some cases, it really isn’t and leaves us more bruised and broken.

Mental health is one of the number one things we’re dealing with in today’s world. From loud, known cases like Kanye West, to the closed-off kids in the back of hundreds of classrooms who are feeling overwhelmed with anxiety, depression, or anything else. However despite overwhelming evidence of this challenge people still act like it doesn’t exist. People poke fun, or minimize the importance of mental health, but scream about mental health every time someone is taken from the world. It needs to be taken seriously, and taken care of.

What is the goal for you?

My main goal is to figure out myself, and create a path for myself in a way that is healthy and happy for my family and I. I don’t want to live a life dependent on money but I do want to live comfortably. In general, I would love to be able to make a difference and help people when they are feeling alone or in the dark. I know at times people feel really hopeless and let down and I want to set a reminder that people feel the same way and we should all be there for each other as a support system. (Enough serious time I also want to be the greatest pokemon master ever YAAAGGAA)

 The minute she makes this joke I break and can’t stop laughing. The fact that she can go from completely serious to completely ridiculous is so comforting. I find myself laughing not only at the joke, but at how nervous I felt when I was preparing for this interview. I’m laughing at myself for being nervous, for worrying that the real person would be different from the person on instagram, or from the Twitch streamer who will randomly stop playing a game and instead let her audience watch her bake cookies at 2am. We’ve become so used to the endless performance of content creators, that seeing someone who, it seems, is completely herself, is honestly disarming at first.

3 Breakfast must haves?

PANCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE CHIPS. (All time favorite food), Roasted Potatoes or anything with potatoes, and blueberry muffins!

Describe your perfect day

Honestly, waking up on a rainy day with my significant other and Goku(my cat) . A full 8 hours of sleep.  Not having to worry about drama or struggles. Staying in binge-watching the LOTR/ Hobbit Trilogy, drinking Hot Cocoa, eating everything and anything that I can that has potatoes and corn. (I’m a mess but I'm a SLOOT for Elote). and not having to worry about work/homework assignments in college. I’m a simple lass.

Rave or mosh pit?

Considering I used to go to a lot of concerts and got used to being swiftly kicked in the head in mosh pits, now I would prefer raves mainly because it’s a more loving and sweet environment and it’s a lot more affectionate.

Top 10 songs on your playlist right now?

Sunflower- Post Malone

IDWK - Dvbbs

Girls - The 1975

Kamikaze - MO

Take me As You Please - Story So Far

In Bloom - Neck Deep

From the Outside - Real Friends

Disrespectin’ - 88Rising

Bright Pink Tims - BlackBear

Ocean - Martin Garrix / Khalid

This playlist is available through Google Play on our blog!

 What advice would you give up and coming models to help avoid scam businesses/shady photographers? - Be cautious for red flags, pay attention to their “creative” ideas such as import/lude/ implied. If they don’t allow you to bring a friend during shoots. Check in with others who may have shot with them to get their input with their experience. Also - always meet in a public area and do not shoot with them in a private area. Try to shoot outdoors first, to see how they vibe during the shoot, and FOLLOW YOUR GUT FEELING. If something is off about them, cut the shoot short.

What got you into Twitch streaming and what do you enjoy most about it?

I used to work for a shady ass stream house with 10 other girls, and those girls turned to be the sweetest and most loving girls I’ve met. Although the work itself was garbage, it was the people who worked with me who motivated and inspired me to continue twitch streaming. I met such amazing and wonderful people within that house. <3 I love being able to get personal and talk to my viewers one on one, and I love making them laugh. If you’ve watched my twitch streams, I do dance parties in onesies because I know as much as it makes me look like a fool, it makes my viewers laugh and happy, and that’s all I want for them <3

If you could live in any Studio Ghibli movie which one would you pick?

Kiki’s Delivery Service or Mary and the Witch’s Flower <3

You're very open about mental health and your struggles with it. Was that always something you were open to sharing or was there a moment where you decided to do that?

I used to shut everyone out. I bottled up all of my emotions because I grew up being afraid of them. I was told to keep my head held high and never let my guard down. Showing sadness meant a sign of weakness to me growing up, but it just felt so inhuman to me knowing people feel the same way too and I couldn’t express it. I had a really bad experience back in middle school that completely destroyed me and my mindset. It was all because of social media. It tore me down and turned me into this monster who couldn’t learn to love herself. It stressed me out and brought so much anxiety. I figured, if ever I came back to social media, it would be to help others who felt the way I did. I don’t want anyone to feel like they were alone in life. I get it, suicide hotlines and phone numbers and therapists are provided for those who feel like they want to talk to someone. But in all honesty, it’s hard to find it within myself/yourself to talk to a complete stranger about your problems. It’s better to even talk to someone who you feel like you can trust. As a young adult, I feel like it would be better if I had open arms to those who need it.

 So I have to include at least one question about FBE and I have just one, important question: when they finish filming Try Not to Eat do they give you free rein? NOPE, WE CAN’T EAT JACK SHIT AND IT MAKES ME UPSET BECAUSE IT’S THE ULTIMATE TEASE. ( I love me some honey glazed HAM)

 If you haven’t watched the Try Not To Eat Challenge videos from FBE I highly recommend them. They’re hilarious, and Michelle is in most of them.

 Do you know how dope you are?

God No. I honestly think I’m way too dorky sometimes. I like having this persona on Instagram but being able to be myself and be goofy and fun as well. I don’t like to be serious, I really don’t. But I do have a feisty side when I see something I’m not okay with. I’m not really afraid to snap back if something doesn’t feel right.

Whether she becomes a therapist, psychologist, model, or anything else Michelle is destined for even greater and more amazing heights than she’s already reached. The world could benefit from someone not only as amazing as she is, but as honest and she is. I’m excited to see what’s next for her!

-Strawberry Smirk

[wildgrave]

what do u love about ur friends

idk which one of ya sneaky bastards sent this but i’m not gonna complain b/c i will take any possible opportunity to gush about my friends.

update: this got entirely out of hand and i just wrote about like... everyone i talk to. if u talk just ctrl + f ur name (but don’t feel bad if you’re not in here b/c i’m doing this off the top of my head and can’t remember everyone!! also a lot of these are hs friends who don’t have tumblrs but u asked anon so)

i honestly love them all for different reasons tho!! i’m not going to tag everyone but: thanh is great for a straightforward answer & we have the same awful sense of humor which is basically 8 years of memes to reference (also she says no romo a lot which i find rly funny for some reason??). hannah is super loving and supportive and always looking out for me. jessie is wry and clever and honestly has every reason to get annoyed at me 24/7 but somehow doesn’t. whitten i talk to every day and is super rational about my problems which is helpful when i need solutions (also dank memes). gaby is great b/c we both have a lot of the same interests (feminism, art, fashion, shit-talking ppl, etc) and gets riled up about my problems which is great when i need someone to get angry with. colette also gets angry, usually angrier than me, about my problems and is the best person to offer to beat boys up (b/c i know if she gets drunk enough she will fight anyone). kathleen is great b/c we always end up doing something ridiculous and it’s fun and makes a good story. brooke is the fucking funniest person i have ever met and thinks she’s punk rock but is secretly boujee as fuck. amber also thinks she’s punk rock, but has the softest, purest heart of gold of anyone i’ve ever met (also she comes up with the most ridiculously hilarious ways to proposition me). claire and i can talk about absolutely anything and send each other close ups of pimples but also take nudes of eachother and honestly if thats not true friendship then what is?? sofie is honestly brilliant and always has clever comments to make and i’m lowkey in love with her to this day and i mean, if you’re not a little in love with your friends wyd?? mila is so sweet and i can have fun with her doing anything, like we don’t even need to go anywhere we can just have philosophical talks on my bed and it’s chill. sammy and i have only chilled irl once but she’s really quiet and nice but occasionally makes rly snarky comments about straight ppl which are hilarious. lucy is never on skype but when she is we have a fuckin field day and she’s so petty but like... in a funny way? i’ve only hung out with andie once (which i’m trying to change before she goes back to vegas) but she’s so into musical theatre and i love reading her tweets about it b/c i love how passionate she is! dylan makes awful decisions on the daily like... blowjob competition? rly dyn? and it’s so funny to hear about and he gives ridiculous but funny advice and is super australian and always says “bruv” which is super funny to me. jenna i’m p sure is going to be running the world in two years (also holy shit she’s graduating college?? my bb girl is growing up :’)). adja is so funny b/c i thought she was super by the rules in hs but now she’s a wild child. aidan (as in the senior in hs, not the one my age) sends me #relatable memes and even tho we don’t talk often it gets deep as shit when we do (but i lowkey don’t trust him b/c of his opinions of iron fist smh). allie is in my race & ethnicity class and is just nice all around and we DM eachother on twitter sometimes like ‘what was that awful presentation in class’). nick from polisci is so knowledgeable about politics but makes the issues funny w/o being offensive and shannon (also from polisci) dresses rly cute and we have fun conversations & the three of us have a funny group chat for our presentation. quinn is such a wannabe edgelord but is honestly so pure and a good friend. asmaa is the sweetest possible person and we always tease quinn together. ricky continously gives me a hard time about everything but in a funny way and patiently explains WoW lore to me. JT is also fun to play WoW with and makes me feel like a baby b/c he’s and old man. rebecca’s steadfast belief in drarry makes me smile and i love her writing. harri is one of my many wives and her snapchats are amazing (as are her boobs). kinzie i rarely talk to but i can still hit up sometimes like whats up bitch today i had sex while listening to wtnv. cassie, becca, and eleanor are all rly cool and super pretty and nice to chill with and i love their art and photography and general personalities. georgie gave me the sweetest poem and letter last summer when i was feeling down and we have similar aspirations and i’d love to work with her in my career sometime! marko and henry are married istg but anyway marko is such a genuine, honest person and henry is an amazing writer and i loved english with him and it’d make me happy if we were closer. lena is my protege and i am an awful mentor b/c i never see her since i graduated but she is my child. layla is the baddest bitch i have ever met, her nails are always amazing and we can be catty together and blast nicki minaj. sarah is so funny b/c everyone thinks she’s reserved and studious and stuff (and she kinda is) but once you get to know her she is the sassiest person you will ever meet. my sister and i fight sometimes over me stealing her clothes constantly but we bond over how our parents drive us up the wall and also she cooks a lot which means i can steal food. the entire volstovic cycle fandom (dani, scarlett, anna, crystal, etc) are all amazing creators of things and honestly an inspiration. rimsha is the hardest working person i have ever met and i love hearing about her succeed. brady is my fellow gay (tho tbh 90% of the ppl on this list are gay b/c we flock together) and i love him for his snarkiness. all the boys i sat at lunch with in high school (garrison, rex, arun, etc) are such memes but i didn’t realize how cool they were until we graduated and now i’m like, damn i should’ve paid them more attention even tho i saw them every day. my boyfriend is my friend and he’s the most politically active person i have ever met, and he’s such a dweeb, and he makes me smile whenever we’re together (even when i’m trying to be angry at him). feihong acts like a fuckboy but is pretty dang cool if i’m being honest; he’s rly dedicated to what he does. carly and i don’t talk but i appreciate her paintings and selfies and funny tweets from afar. morgan and i were at a fidlar concert once together and we both couldn’t survive the mosh pit (also her instagram captions are fuckin hilarious am i right or am i right?). kelly is a goddamn klepto but we always have fun together drinking coffee and talking about pens and i love and support her art and she does the same for mine. charlotte is chill and i miss just hanging out in her basement b/c she’s such a gemini but in a good way. the ppl i sit with on campus (sumaiya, alex, zuri, etc) are always having interesting convos and share food and it’s a good time. my cousin and her husband (nat and ron) are the most punk ppl in their 30s and they introduced me to the punk scene and i miss them b/c they moved back to kansas. shakey’s photography on insta makes me feel pensive and i want to go to philly just to meet her. miki i’m not super tight with but her writing is a+ and makes me cry and i love rping with her. rina is such a cool mutual and her art is dope. lea is also a cool chic and i love her hair and want her to bake my wedding cake. mousse is so nice to everyone. ellie and i only talk like twice a year at family parties but we can always dive back in and pick up where we left off. the ppl i party w (other aidan, jakob, justin, etc) are dumbasses (i use that term endearingly) but i’m 98% sure they’ve all carried me to the toilet when i’ve been puking my guts out at a party. marley was that friend that ended up going to yale and no one was surprised so i admire her success but also she was always kind to me and always asked how i was doing with my mental illnesses. renee and maria and i bonded over ib art and sga and generally being over-worked by our sponsor. alanna was another one of my proteges who i need to keep up with better b/c she’s badass and funny and has the best eyebrows ever. i don’t talk to sidney anymore but we went thru so much together and supported eachother a lot a few years ago and i still love em for that. eddie is such a dweeb, everytime i see him (which is a surprising amount considering he lives in miami) we act like nothing has changed and go at eachothers throats. rachel m & galen have both grown so so much since i met them and i’m proud of them. rachel s is so fun to talk about hoe things with and laugh at eachother. marco has the best finsta of anyone ever. danny and i talk over snapchat every so often (like every month or so) and we have the weirdest convos like?? let’s name your imaginary lizard. zamzam (from my creative writing class last semester) was super fun to hang out with when she came over and actually everyone in that class (xander, leah, olivia, will, etc) were excellent writers and hilarious and we all bonded. victor is such a bro honestly he’s funny and is very attentive (actually listens) and is fun sober or not. sandra i’ve known since i was a baby and never really talked to until recently but she’s so nice to talk to about small things. alyssa i stalk obsessively on goodreads b/c who else can read that much, istg girl you’re a cyborg (but like a pretty one). rp buds that i haven’t mentioned so far (mario, mackenzie, etc) i value a lot for their companionship and writing. there are tons of ppl from hs that i wish i had gotten to know better when i was there (julia, drea, tina, both erins, bridget, etc). 

and yeah there are more ppl but those are mostly ppl i talk to at parties or dm occasionally or wish i was friends with but admire from afar. anyway. this got long. I JUST LOVE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

[disappointingyet]

Ten Thousand Saints Directors Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini Stars Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch USA 2015 Language English 1hr 53mins Colour 

Mediocre, gloomy conjuring up of the slam dancing ’80s 

There’s a rich history of feature films set in music subcultures, sometimes great, often rotten in fascinating ways. I’ll always be grateful, for instance, I saw the absorbingly terrible G:MT, which aimed to capture the jazzy-souly tail end of drum’n’bass in London*. They can, like that film, attempt to show what’s going on right now (meaning that it will almost always be out-of-date by the time the film makes it on to the screen), or go for pop cultural archeology, as Ten Thousand Saints does. This gloomy teen drama takes us, in a somewhat half-hearted manner, back to the heyday of straight edge in the late 1980s.

Straight edge was/is an aggressively puritan movement within hardcore punk, whose adherents avoided drink, drugs (including tobacco and often caffeine) and casual sex. Veganism was not obligatory but apparently most chose it anyway.

In Ten Thousand Saints, straight edge mostly seems to function as a rebellious rebuke to the characters’ hippy parents. The standard gag in the 1980s was that baby boomers were shocked that their kids were Reaganite breadheads (eg, the sitcom Family Ties), but here we have a noisier rejection of dope & free love. 

There’s a trio of youngish types at the heart of the story. Jude (Asa Butterfield), who is in his late teens and stranded in deepest Vermont, loves hardcore but is far from straight edge in his habits. Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld) is the hip, very New York daughter of a British ex-ballet dancer (Emily Mortimer). Eliza’s mum is in a relationship with Jude’s estranged, wayward pot grower/dealer dad (Ethan Hawke, but you’d worked that out already, right?). And Johnny (Emile Hirsch) is the singer in straight edge band called Army Of One – he lives in a squat in Alphabet City, at that point still considered a no-go zone by many New Yorkers. The three are forever linked, whether they like it or not, when SOMETHING VERY BAD HAPPENS.

I keep wanting to say that Ten Thousand Saints is melodramatic, but that makes it sound more fun than it is. It has the portentous, earnest gloom of a young adult novel. If someone takes mushrooms, for instance, you know they are going to have a bad trip. If a vulnerable person heads out on the streets after an argument, they will get caught up in a riot.

This is one of those films that serves mostly as a way of reminding you of better films, and showing how easy it is to get things wrong. Ethan Hawke’s not-as-cool-as-he-thinks dad is a much weaker version of the character he plays in Boyhood. The clumsy way that the SOMETHING VERY BAD affects everything else in the film demonstrates how brilliantly Kenneth Lonergan handled guilt and grief in Margaret and Manchester By The Sea. And any other teen punk film makes me wish I was watching We Are The Best! (Incidentally, the IMDB suggests Ten Thousand Saints is a comedy. By god, it isn’t – there’s barely a laugh in it). 

Nor is Ten Thousand Saints an interesting look at a scene. Other than the rather tiresome Johnny, the straight edgers are barely sketched in at all. There are a couple of mosh pit scenes, but they give you little sense of the weird, brutal form of entertainment/ritual that takes place when sweaty young men violently crash into each other. And presumably worried that the audience would be scared off by endless Minor Threat and Youth Of Today, the filmmakers have generously sprinkled the soundtrack with friendlier college radio staples of the time: The Replacements’ Sixteen Blue (a great song, admittedly), REM’s Fall On Me (likewise, actually – I’m always surprised to be reminded that they were once good), The Cure’s Let’s Go To Bed…

If you want a fiction film about US punk culture, then while Penelope Spheeris’ 1983 film Suburbia may not be a great piece of storytelling, it is tangibly authentic. Meanwhile Repo Man is decidedly less for real, but is a great movie. And if you want to see what NYC actually looked and felt like back then, there are any number of options that beat this stagey approximation.

Ten Thousand Saints feels like an opportunity wasted – much of the cast is good (I liked Julianne Nicholson a lot as Jude’s mother), the book it is based on is apparently terrific, and I think there an interesting pro-gentrification argument hiding in there somewhere. But what we have instead is predictable, trite and heavy-handed.

*Starring a young Chiwetel Ejiofor, I discover.

[kiaraflantroy]

Lyrics:

Mama told me (aye) not to sell work (mama) Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (white) Mama told me (aye) not to sell work (mama) Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (yeah)

Young nigga poppin' with a pocket full of cottage (ay) Woah kemosabe, chopper aimin' at your noggin (ay) Had to cop the Audi, then the top I had to chop it (skrt skrt) Niggas pocket watchin', so I gotta keep the rocket (glaw)

Neck water faucet (water), mocking birds mocking (woo) Act pint, stocking (act), nats keep thotting (nats) Wrist on hockey (hockey), wrist on rocky (Rocky) Lotta niggas copy, name someone can stop me (no one) Bitches call me papi, (bitch!), 'sace that's my hobby ('sace) Scotty on the molly, pocket rocket from O'Reilly One off in the chamber, ain't no need for me to cock it Niggas get to droppin' when that Draco get to poppin' All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli (Cookie) No check, want all cash, nigga I don't do deposits Bitches cross the border, nigga, bitches from the tropics I'mma get that bag nigga, ain't no doubt about it (yup) I'mma feed my family nigga, ain't no way around it (family) Ain't gon' never let up nigga, God said show my talent (show it) Young nigga with the anna, walkin' with the hammer Talkin' country grammar nigga Straight out north Atlanta (north side)

Young nigga poppin' with a pocket full of cottage (ay) Woah kemosabe, chopper aimin' at your noggin (ay) Had to cop the Audi, then the top I had to chop it (skrt skrt) Niggas pocket watchin', so I gotta keep the rocket (ay)

Mama told me (aye) not to sell work (mama) Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (white) Mama told me (aye) not to sell work (mama) Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (yeah)

Mama told you Mama told me (mama) not to sell work Mama told you Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (white)

1995 (nineties) 2005 (two-thousands) Seen it with my eyes (seen it), dope still alive (dope) Real mob ties (mob), real frog eyes (frog) Real whole pies (woah), all time high (high) Do it for the culture (culture) They gon' bite like vultures (vulture) Way back when I was trappin' out Toyotas (skrr skrr) I'mma hit the gas (gas), 12 can't pull me over (12) Space coupe, Quavo Yoda, pourin', drankin' sodas

I get high on my own sir, heard you gon' clone sir Stop all that flexin', young nigga don't wanna go there Never been a gopher, but I always been a soldier Young niggas in the cut, posted like a vulture Divin' off the stage in the crowd it's a mosh pit Yeah shawty bad but she broke 'cause she don't own shit Mama asked me "son, when the trappin' gon' quit?" I been ridin' 'round through the city in my new bitch

Young nigga poppin' with a pocket full of cottage (ay) Woah kemosabe, chopper aimin' at your noggin (ay) Had to cop the Audi, then the top I had to chop it (skrt skrt) Niggas pocket watchin', so I gotta keep the rocket (ay)

Mama told me (aye) not to sell work (mama) Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (white) Mama told me (aye) not to sell work (mama) Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (yeah)

Mama told you, mama told you

Analysis:

This song is an overall look at the Migos daily life. Their day to day activities include them selling cocaine, occasionally having to fight for their lives, and dealing with a multitude of women. “Mama told me not to sell work” This line insinuates that their mothers always told them to never get into selling drugs as a means of surviving, so they know right from wrong. “Seventeen five, same color T-shirt (white)” this line lets you know that they deal exclusively in cocaine. Cocaine is a high-priced street drug and brings large amounts of income wherever and in whatever form it is sold whether it be crack or cocaine. Seventeen five means $17,500, which is more than likely the amount of money that they made on that weight of product.

“With a pocket full of cottage” This insinuates that he is now a young man who has a pocket/wallet full of cash where he may not have been before. “Chopper aimin’ at your noggin” this is letting any other potential enemies know that they do have guys on standby to take out threats. “Had to cop the Audi, then the top I had to chop it” He procured an Audi and then removed the top of it turning it into a convertible. “N*ggas pocket watchin’, so I gotta keep the rocket” They know that the streets are aware of how much money they are making as artists and whatever side businesses they are involved in so they do have protection on them.

“Neck water faucet” They have lots of jewelry on. “Mocking birds mocking” The women are steadily flocking. “Act pint, stocking” Activist is a component of the popular drink “Lean” enjoyed by many rappers. “Nats keep thotting” another reference to the women. “Wrist on hockey, wrist on rocky” Another reference to his wrist being icy. “All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli” His motive is the money and he enjoys rolling up cigars full of marijuana. “No check, want all cash, ni*gga I don’t do deposits” He doesn’t want to fuss around with banks and money trails and would much rather receive all payments in cash.

“1995 2005/ Seen it with my eyes, dope still alive” This is around the time that the cocaine boom started in the United States, and they have noticed that regardless of the time it is still a very popular drug of choice for a lot of people. “Real mob ties, real frog eyes/ Real whole pies, all time high” This cocaine market is extremely profitable for those that can get into it, and they are insinuating that you need a very old and well known tie to even begin to delve into this world.

“Heard you gon’ clone sir” There has been word in the music world that other record labels are trying to bite the swag of the Migos because they are such a profitable and well known look. They have such a unique style. “Mam asked me ‘son, when the trappin’ gon’ quit?’” At this point in the song you realize that he went against his mother’s wishes and trapped anyway and she knows this and asked him when he will stop, but he never gives her a straight answer.

The song ends with him repeating the fact that his mother told him to never begin selling work in the first place, and that is the daily life of the Migos.