2055

Album

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Label

RCA Records

Genre

Hip hop

Media Type

CD

Composer(s)

Great John & Sleepy Hallow

Entered Chart

Jul 31, 2021

Peak Date

Aug 28, 2021

Released

April 14, 2021

Recorded

Unknown

B-Side

n/a

Sleepy Hallow is Tegan Chambers, a Jamaican-American drill rapper from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He came to prominence in 2020 with "Deep End Freestyle," which features vocals by Fousheé and peaked at #80 on the Hot 100. That earned him a contract with Winners Circle Entertainment and RCA Records. "2055" is a song from his debut album, Still Sleep? I just wanna slide Parties in the sky like it's 2055 When Prince sang of wanting to "party like it's 1999," he was advocating enjoying ourselves while we can, before we're all wiped out by the bomb. Sleepy Hallow's lyrics are more melancholic as he raps about his struggles with street life, fake friends and lying women. Because his heart is so cold, Sleepy doesn't want to get involved in the gangsta lifestyle and prefers to chill on his own. New Jersey producer Great John supplied the somber beat. Great John produces most of Sleepy Hallow's songs, as well as those of Sleepy's friend, fellow drill rapper Sheff G. Aylo directed the futuristic video with animation by Owen Khang, Akam Hussein Rustam and Melis Sosa. It sees Sleepy Hallow travel to a cyberpunk city, which is his interpretation of what 2055 will probably look like. Sleepy Hallow told Genius in a video, the song is about escaping his problems by picturing himself in the future: "It's like getting away from everything, whatever problems you got, stress, (you) feel me?" he explained. "Just being in that zone in your own moment, you in 2055, you in the future, you doin' whatever you want."

Look, huh
I just wanna (Great John on the beat by the way)
Like it's 2055, huh
Huh, huh, huh

I just wanna slide, huh
Parties in the sky like it's 2055, huh
She said, "Boy you nice, boy you nice", huh
Heart cold like some water and some ice (huh)

Why would you sacrifice (huh)
Knowing you could die? Ain't nobody by your side, huh
I know niggas cap (cap) and bitches lie
Came from dirt, can't go back, you could see it in my eyes, huh
Real niggas cry blood (blood), hope my kid never try drugs (huh)
All I wanted was some love, would that trade for a gun (huh)
Big pack on me now, 'member back then I was fucked up, huh
I don't really want friends, everybody fake, I don't got trust, but

I just wanna slide, huh
Parties in the sky like it's 2055, huh
She said, "Boy you nice, boy you nice", huh
Heart cold like some water and some ice (water and some ice)

I just wanna slide, huh
Parties in the sky like it's 2055, huh
She said, "Boy you nice, boy you nice", huh
Heart cold like some water and some ice

I ain't need no one to like me (yeah)
Tryna fuck these demons in my head (in my head)
Tired of bein' in my bag for niggas
Talk 'bout you, then laugh with you
Fuck everybody, I said what I said (yeah)
Tell the haters get off me, come get your nigga, he on me
Eat it up like ravioli
Ridin' the dick like it's stolen, heart so cold it's frozen
I ain't givin' my heart to no one
But I know my niggas, they got me
See my cousin in the casket, yeah, they shot him
Watch how them bitches mad 'cause they not me
But I know my niggas, they got me

I just wanna slide, huh
Parties in the sky like it's 2055, huh
She said, "Boy you nice, boy you nice", huh
Heart cold like some water and some ice (water and some ice)