Death To Wall Art
from I Turned Myself Into Myself by SHIRT
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Making a return to music, on the heels of a project with the New York Public Library and artist residency in a castle in Italy, New York sonic insurgent, provocateur, disruptor, artist Shirt debuts “Death To Wall Art” his new single out today. Listen to “Death To Wall Art” HERE via Mello Music Group. This time around, Shirt joins forces with GRAMMY® Award- winning producer Jack Splash [Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Alicia Keys] for a new full body of work due for release this year.
On the Splash-architected track, a glaring guitar loop punctures the glitchy beat as Shirt ponders the state of art. He begins with, “People use any excuse to tell you who they are” and proceeds to do just that, lamenting his personal views on everything from cosmic connection and late-stage capitalism to under- recognized artists and art that has been deemed “not fine art” by racially structured “traditional” standards. Rapping acutely about Hip-Hop and rap music’s continued exclusion from the highest levels of the Fine Art world, Shirt spits, “If we being real nobody want to call it art. They’d have to open their museum doors––it’d fall apart,” slicing through the production with an informed and nuanced take.
Shirt’s incisive bars, “When I say ‘death to wall art’, I mean, fuck paint by numbers. That’s a hallmark. Don’t just color out the lines, tear the wall apart. Don’t just show me a corny NFT of the shark, go swim with sharks,” are summed up with the cover art of “Death To Wall Art” a photograph taken by Shirt of actual cuts through a museum gallery wall by the artist Diane Severin Nguyen.
SHIRT x Jack Splash full album coming soon.
Making a return to music, on the heels of a project with the New York Public Library and artist residency in a castle in Italy, New York sonic insurgent, provocateur, disruptor, artist Shirt debuts “Death To Wall Art” his new single out today. Listen to “Death To Wall Art” HERE via Mello Music Group. This time around, Shirt joins forces with GRAMMY® Award- winning producer Jack Splash [Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Alicia Keys] for a new full body of work due for release this year.
On the Splash-architected track, a glaring guitar loop punctures the glitchy beat as Shirt ponders the state of art. He begins with, “People use any excuse to tell you who they are” and proceeds to do just that, lamenting his personal views on everything from cosmic connection and late-stage capitalism to under- recognized artists and art that has been deemed “not fine art” by racially structured “traditional” standards. Rapping acutely about Hip-Hop and rap music’s continued exclusion from the highest levels of the Fine Art world, Shirt spits, “If we being real nobody want to call it art. They’d have to open their museum doors––it’d fall apart,” slicing through the production with an informed and nuanced take.
Shirt’s incisive bars, “When I say ‘death to wall art’, I mean, fuck paint by numbers. That’s a hallmark. Don’t just color out the lines, tear the wall apart. Don’t just show me a corny NFT of the shark, go swim with sharks,” are summed up with the cover art of “Death To Wall Art” a photograph taken by Shirt of actual cuts through a museum gallery wall by the artist Diane Severin Nguyen.
SHIRT x Jack Splash full album coming soon.
lyrics
Intro
Those things that hold you back from executing on your dream are myth...
Verse one
People use any excuse to tell you who they are
Risk death or dismemberment to tell you who they are
Do what I can today and plan what I’ma do tomorrow
Bump into you in the streets of Paris, that’s too bizarre
That’s a testament to the wavelength, got tools to sharp
I like the way you move, move forever
Just don’t move too far
Niggas wanna be him, bitches wanna fuck
That’s a true star
That’s a whole lot of energy I’m trying to move off
Damn we lost another black hero that’s a north star
Me and my girl really debating should we become porn stars? In this economy you gon’ suck
You getting fucked anyway, let’s spend the day in Montauk Big gun cocked, I like to vintage shop
My bitch too pretty to piss at the truck stop
But not too pretty to catch a cu––I want the top
I get a look like
This where the buck stop, you might could hear a gunshot My shit punk rock
Like finding a Picasso in a pawn shop
Chill, Splash, this a lost art
I wanna hear ‘bout the kids better than Mozart
That’s really a lost art
I’m here to identify all art, I’m talking all art
Death to wall art
I’m not just talking paint I’m talking all art
What the white establishment ain’t wanna call art It’s a lost art
It’s a lost art
Hook
[inaudible]
Get that kid something, get that kid something Get that
Get that kid something, get that kid something Get that kid
Verse two
If we being real, nobody wanna call it art
You’d have to open your museum doors, it’d fall apart
There’s more rappers than all the guns at Walmart
There’s not a dumb nigga in the crew, they all sharp
When I say “death to wall art” I mean fuck paint by numbers
That’s a hallmark
Don’t just color out the lines, tear the wall apart
Don’t just show me a corny NFT of the shark
Go swim with sharks, kill a shark
My people here been killed off
Building sealed off with the ceiling peeling off
Whiff of piss smell coming from the fifth floor, that’s why it’s “piss poor” I can’t tell you what I’m gonna miss more
The day I moved to the castle, that piece on the jigsaw
No hit records, no jump shot, I’m not 6’4
No chain heavy, nah I didn’t misspoke
So many blessings, too many for me to list off
[Inaudible]
Hook
Get that kid something, get that kid something Get that kid something, get that kid
Get that
Those things that hold you back from executing on your dream are myth...
Verse one
People use any excuse to tell you who they are
Risk death or dismemberment to tell you who they are
Do what I can today and plan what I’ma do tomorrow
Bump into you in the streets of Paris, that’s too bizarre
That’s a testament to the wavelength, got tools to sharp
I like the way you move, move forever
Just don’t move too far
Niggas wanna be him, bitches wanna fuck
That’s a true star
That’s a whole lot of energy I’m trying to move off
Damn we lost another black hero that’s a north star
Me and my girl really debating should we become porn stars? In this economy you gon’ suck
You getting fucked anyway, let’s spend the day in Montauk Big gun cocked, I like to vintage shop
My bitch too pretty to piss at the truck stop
But not too pretty to catch a cu––I want the top
I get a look like
This where the buck stop, you might could hear a gunshot My shit punk rock
Like finding a Picasso in a pawn shop
Chill, Splash, this a lost art
I wanna hear ‘bout the kids better than Mozart
That’s really a lost art
I’m here to identify all art, I’m talking all art
Death to wall art
I’m not just talking paint I’m talking all art
What the white establishment ain’t wanna call art It’s a lost art
It’s a lost art
Hook
[inaudible]
Get that kid something, get that kid something Get that
Get that kid something, get that kid something Get that kid
Verse two
If we being real, nobody wanna call it art
You’d have to open your museum doors, it’d fall apart
There’s more rappers than all the guns at Walmart
There’s not a dumb nigga in the crew, they all sharp
When I say “death to wall art” I mean fuck paint by numbers
That’s a hallmark
Don’t just color out the lines, tear the wall apart
Don’t just show me a corny NFT of the shark
Go swim with sharks, kill a shark
My people here been killed off
Building sealed off with the ceiling peeling off
Whiff of piss smell coming from the fifth floor, that’s why it’s “piss poor” I can’t tell you what I’m gonna miss more
The day I moved to the castle, that piece on the jigsaw
No hit records, no jump shot, I’m not 6’4
No chain heavy, nah I didn’t misspoke
So many blessings, too many for me to list off
[Inaudible]
Hook
Get that kid something, get that kid something Get that kid something, get that kid
Get that
credits
from I Turned Myself Into Myself,
track released October 4, 2022
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