Wild in These Streets | ||
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Length: | 3:24 | |
Released: | April 20, 2022 | |
Writers: | Charlie Scene, Danny, Erik Ron, Fudd Rukus, Funny Man, J-Dog, Johnny 3 Tears, No Love for the Middle Child | |
Producer: | Erik Ron, No Love for the Middle Child | |
Key: | C major | |
Tempo: | 150 BPM | |
Album: | Hotel Kalifornia | |
Last single: | CHAOS | |
Next single: | City of the Dead | |
Wild in These Streets is the second single from the band's eighth studio album, Hotel Kalifornia.
Background[]
Johnny 3 Tears talks about the track:
"Wild in These Streets is a song about growing up in LA when we were kids and that environment, it was like a tinderbox. We wanted to capture the bleakness but also the vibrancy underneath that."
Official Lyrics[]
Funny Man, J-Dog and Johnny 3 Tears: Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Demons in my head, they get loud when they speak (Fuck it!)
Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Lifted on a frequency, ain't no dial that can reach
Johnny 3 Tears: 5150 when fifty bodies go missing
Off the Vincent Thomas Bridge and ain't no one of 'em swimming
Yeah, the Coast Guard wants my kilos, so I re-up then I reload
'Cause the label wants to freeload off my singles, I need C-Notes
So I swab the fucking decks, break an O-Z, break your neck
I'll break every fucking bone in your body, missing body, bitch, who's next?
It's Undead and the rest, Johnny cashing checks
This is Hollywood, welcome to The West
Danny: What you give is what you get
And what you see is what it is
And what it is is what it's been
It's me against the world, yeah, fuck your friends
Funny Man, J-Dog and Johnny 3 Tears: Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Demons in my head, they get loud when they speak (Fuck it!)
Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Lifted on a frequency, ain't no dial that can reach
J-Dog: King Kong, steamroll these motherfuckers!
Funny Man: Since a child was a freak, vile when I speak
Wiping out they squad, then I smile when I sleep
Let the Caddy warm up, Caddy corner, trunk box bumping
Breaking glass on the block, hot trouble
I can see the muzzle flash in my thoughts
The boulevard is paved in blood, flooded with pain and drugs
Haunted by tainted love, come in and aim on us
Get 'em in they hometown, acting like some hoes now
(Yeah, hoe)
Danny: What you give is what you get
And what you see is what it is
And what it is is what it's been
It's me against the world, yeah, fuck your friends
Funny Man, J-Dog and Johnny 3 Tears: Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Demons in my head, they get loud when they speak (Fuck it!)
Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Lifted on a frequency, ain't no dial that can reach
J-Dog: Gravestones and bass tones, the raves in the catacombs
Paris, hit the plug with no prints on the pay phone (Ding!)
Dig up their bones and let 'em know
I ain't the one to fuck with, high-key and low (Yeah!)
But I got a long way to go, the bell tolls now (It tolls now)
I was born deep in hell, so I'm a hellhound (Grr!)
You wanna live forever? (Fuck that!) Fight death and his curse?
And if it's kill or be killed, you best be driving that hearse
Funny Man and Johnny 3 Tears: Wild in these streets, wild in these streets
Demons in my head, they get loud when they speak
Funny Man, J-Dog and Johnny 3 Tears: Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Lifted on a frequency, ain't no dial that can reach
Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Demons in my head, they get loud when they speak (Fuck it!)
Wild in these streets, yeah, wild in these streets (Get ‘em!)
Lifted on a frequency, ain't no dial that can reach
Charlie Scene: I'll let the nine break the silence, get used to hearing them sirens
Bitches get fed to the lions, gone with the wind like the Mayans
Not here to make no alliance, I'm just addicted to violence
Just here to give you some guidance and choke from this noose as it tightens
Why? There ain't no killing what won't die
And I got this feeling you won't try
Make sure you see me with both eyes
'Cause I'm the last thing you'll see, so goodnight
Personnel[]
- Hollywood Undead
- Charlie Scene - vocals
- Danny - vocals
- Funny Man - vocals
- J-Dog - vocals
- Johnny 3 Tears - vocals
- Other
- Anthony Reeder - engineering
- Chris Athens - mastering
- Erik Ron - production
- Greg Garman - drums
- Jeff Huskins - mixing for Dolby Atmos
- No Love for the Middle Child - production
- Zakk Cervini - mixing
Trivia[]
- Johnny makes a play on words referencing country singer Johnny Cash. The band usually covers his song Folsom Prison Blues at their live shows.
- Funny Man interpolates the famous Juicy J chant “yeah hoe” at the end of his verse. It is used in many popular rap songs but was popularized by the song Mafia N****z by Three 6 Mafia.