Doomsday

Album

Single

Label

Def Jam Recordings

Genre

Boom bap

Media Type

DD

Duration

2:30

Composer(s)

Cole Bennett;Jarad Higgins;Cordae Dunston;Marshall Mathers III;Andre Young;Melvin Bradford;Max Lord

Entered Chart

Jul 8, 2023

Peak Date

Jul 8, 2023

Released

June 23, 2023

Lyrical Lemonade isn't an actual musician, but an internet-based initiative. Founded by Cole Bennett back 2013, it's all about creating dope music videos and putting emerging rappers on the map. Bennett started Lyrical Lemonade as a high school student in Plano, Illinois. He began by crafting sick music videos for local Chicago rappers. In August 2017, Bennett garnered more recognition when he dropped the visuals for Lil Xan's banger "Betrayed," which went Platinum the following year. Since then, he's been in the director's chair for some heavy hitters in the hip-hop game. We're talking Juice WRLD, J. Cole, Kanye West, and even Eminem. "Doomsday," which was released on June 23, 2023 in conjunction with Def Jam, is the first single from Lyrical Lemonade's debut compilation album. This track features the lyrical prowess of the late Juice WRLD and North Carolina rapper Cordae. But hold up, this isn't a posthumous collaboration stitched together. Nah, it's the real deal, recorded together in September 2019, three months before Juice's tragic departure on December 8, 2019. Juice makes this clear during one of his rhymes. I found the reefer Cordae stashed in the back of the lab So I'm in class, smokin' gas, slappin' the class preacher The song samples Dr. Dre and Mel-Man's beat from Eminem's 1999 The Slim Shady LP track "Role Model." "Doomsday" serves up some lighthearted wordplay that takes us back to the vintage Em days. On the intro, Cordae straight-up acknowledges the connection to its source material. I just had a ice cream sandwich, M&Ms On a Eminem beat, ironically Yeah-yeah, three years Uh, uh, okay Cordae also acknowledges the three-year gap between Juice and him laying down their rhymes and Cole Bennett adapting it for his Lyrical Lemonade project. The track comprises just an intro and a single verse where the two rappers bounce back-and-forth. They flex and big themselves up like bosses and spit whimsical bars about basketball stars. Juice comes in at the end, proclaiming the sheer sickness of his rhymes. Beef with anybody, even if you vegetarian My flow on ebola, your flow just need Claritin Runnin' laps 'round these chaps, it's embarrassin' It's unclear why the song is titled "Doomsday." The word doesn't appear in the lyrics and for that matter it doesn't in "Role Model" either. Juice WRLD had huge respect for Eminem, and he dropped references to the legend throughout his music. In January 2020, they finally joined forces on the track "Godzilla," marking their official collaboration. That joint was Juice WRLD's first posthumous release, and it shot to #3 on the Hot 100. Juice and Cordae had a solid reason for not dropping a music video or releasing the track back in 2019. Juice made the call because their careers were skyrocketing and he felt it wasn't the right move. Fast forward to mid-2023, and the magic of AI brings us a mind-blowing visual directed by the one and only Cole Bennett. In this wild ride, we see Juice WRLD and Cordae morphing into each other as they spit fire down a chaotic hallway in a corporate office building. But that's not all. An AI-generated Eminem makes a cameo appearance, adding another layer of surrealism to the mix. When "Doomsday" finishes playing, Bennett cuts to a clip of Cordae and Juice in the studio. We hear Juice discuss what he'd like the video to look like.

Uh-huh, yeah-yeah
Juice is eating a, uh, ice cream
With, uh, lots of caramel
I just had a, a ice cream sandwich, M&Ms
On the Eminem beat, ironically
Yeah-yeah, three years
Uh, uh, okay

I'm the type to come in the game and just launch pain
With a bronze frame and a tattoo of my mom's name
This industry has nothing to offer beyond fame
Time to take these niggas to school, LeBron James
Lesson one, I'm a bad teacher who gave the class seizures
Smash divas, stash reefer in the lab freezer

I found the reefer Cordae stashed in the back of the lab
So I'm in class, smokin' gas, slappin' the class preacher
Bring the house down on you hoes, Queen Latifah
I'm too fast, gettin' this cash
Get in the way, get your brain bashed
Chopper gon' smash, hittin' your face
I'ma tie up, just like a shoe, my flow laced

Y'all niggas so fake, wash your face in my showcase
Fresher than Colgate, make hoes wait, I hold weight

Bottle of rose in the Rolls, drivin' with road rage
For ten days, off Xans, just tryna get paid

And since the sixth grade, I been great, no sensei
My rent paid for ten days 'cause my pen's great

I smoke ten Js with two hoes that go both ways
Funny how two plus two equals foreplay
Speakin' of foreplay, had this shit in the hallway with
A nun on Sunday, I guess I'm just too blessed (whoa, ayy)

Me and my nigga Juice WRLD takin' over the universe
You knew it first, got my mom Chanel with the newest purse
Birkin bag, never hurt to ask, "What type of purse is that?"
Something that's very fuckin' expensive, I deserve to brag
I murder tracks

This isn't mumble, it's murder rap
Type of shit your grandma understand with her old ass
Spend a half a million, then go back and make some more cash
The hair trigger Brazilian, you would get your whole hood waxed

See, what you know about my life and my troubled past?
Took the shuttle pass, hit the mall, I got double cash
Copped the duffle bag
Ten bands on my fuckin' ass, that's a subtle brag
Hi Level, we be makin' moves, hit the huddle fast

Break the huddle, get a sack, that's a fumble on the play
Not in my house, he look like Mutombo in the face
Leave him spinnin' like a funnel cloud with lightning and some thunder
Like the Wizard of O-Z, the way we carry him away (uh)
Carry him, then bury him, barbarian
Beef with anybody, even if you vegetarian
My flow on ebola, your flow just need Claritin
Runnin' laps 'round these chaps, its embarrassin'