I Might Need Security Lyrics
Fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you (Yep)
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you (Nah-nah)
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you (Nah-nah)
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you (No)
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you
[Verse 1]
I ain't no activist, I'm the protagonist
I don't co-captain it, I fly solo like one cup in the cabinet
The cab is the cabinet, they trust me at landing it
They call me the advocate, they'll slide like the abacus
Boy meets world, everybody been savages
I just want to really know how much that your shooter averages
I'm not no nice guy, I'm just the good guy
The bad guys should really stay on my good side
I smelled my roses younger than the good die
The Illuminati couldn't see me with they good eye
They think they Heath Ledger scary, they just Jack Nichols
I'm a sign to my city like the Bat-Signal
Young chosen one, golden boy, De La Hoya
It ain't too many me's, rest in peace to Verne Troyer
I was younger than I seemed as a kid
I mean my G17 18 in the head
I mean I'm only 25 but I'm Motown 25
Bet I get a statue in my hometown when I die
And Rahm, you done, I'm expectin' resignation
An open investigation on all of these paid vacations for murderers
Fuck you, oh-oh
Fuck you, fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fuck you-ou-ou-ou
Fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu, fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu
Fuck you, oh-oh
Fuck you, fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fuck you-ou-ou-ou
Fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu, fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu
Fuck you, fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, fu-fuck you
Fu-u-u-u-u-uck you, oh
[Verse 2]
I don't get no paper, I gotta sign at the bottom
Still in my bag like the fries at the bottom
And I can't do nothing right, they gon' always be at me
I missed a Crain's interview, they tried leaking my addy
I donate to the schools next, they call me a deadbeat daddy
The Sun-Times gettin' that Rauner business
I got a hit-list so long I don't know how to finish
I bought the Chicagoist just to run you racist bitches out of business
Speaking of racist, fuck your microaggressions
I'll make you fix your words like a typo suggestion
Pat me on the back too hard and Pat'll ask for your job
And in unrelated news, someone'll beat your ass at your job
I'm the real deal
Who taught all these rappers that a big deal's not a big deal?
Inherited the earth, popping wheelies on a big wheel
My enemy lives in his mother's basement
That's why my videos don't got no Baphomet product placement
I'm a real one
The honey is sweet, the apple's bitter
They'll try to convince you you stronger without your woman than when you with her
And tell you they kidding while Twitter trashing your litter
I know the devil's a liar
I know that players is quitters, I heard you hire your hitters
I know the higher the bidder, that mean the less on return
So I just hire a sitter
I'm not no boss nigga, I'm a soldier
Kingdom builder, man somebody shoulda told ya
Fuck you
About
One of Chance’s more political songs, this track references many things going on in politics and news in the present day. He mentions Rahm Emanuel (Chicago’s mayor at the time of release), the death of actor Verne Troyer, and requests investigations into police murders, to name a few.
He also announces his acquisition of Chicagoist, a popular local blog covering the goings on of Chicago, which had been shuttered in late 2017.
You might recognize that the cover art for this song is a stylized version of the familiar anger meme, “Arthur’s Fist”. It’s not Chance’s first connection to Arthur.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
The artwork is an abstracted version of the Arthur’s Fist meme from the late 90’s cartoon Arthur.
The artist is Chicagoan and illustrator Brandon Breaux
I think it was a collection of moments, different things happening in my life that were kind of bubbling. I’m a multitasker, but that’s just who I am. And it’s always a lot of stuff going on. If I was to die today, I would die with a whole lot of projects unfinished.
I’m always working and always trying to get stuff done, and there’s always little shit that gets in the way. A lot of my stuff that I’ve been recording since last year has been more punch cut stuff than written stuff. It’s really more what’s on my heart than what I’m trying to manipulate to be something.
This is the only song that I really produced on, like I made little decisions on accents and drops and stuff like that when we were finishing up the song.
I’ve always loved I Might Need Security. It’s one of my favorite standups just because I love Jamie Foxx. He was talking about his real life and everything that was going on at the moment in his life. I’ve always wanted to sample that ending because Jamie Foxx, like me, is a multitasker, and he’s a musical genius, not just like a person that also plays piano but like a musical genius.
I finally decided to throw it on the MPC one day. What’s funny is when I originally thought of sampling it, I kind of wanted it to be more New York. I just pictured it like a turned-up song. When we made the drums, I made it with Smoko Ono, who’s one of my favorite producers. It was just like a little bit of a swing to it that made it more like real hip-hop.
After I bounced it with the drums that he had put with it, with the sample, I was kinda apprehensive about getting on it, because I was like, “I don’t know if it’s the way I wanna rap on it yet,” because I kind of wanted it to be a party song. I finally decided to rap over it like a week and a half after I made the beat. And when I got on the mic, I was just trying to say a feeling, a feeling I’ve had for a long time, just being me.
