Not long after dropping ‘Timmy Turner’ as a single, Desiigner invited Kanye West on the beat — and he murdered it.
‘Timmy Turner’ was originally released as Desiigner’s 2016 XXL Freshman freestyle, where he introduced the catchy hook. It didn’t take long for it to drop as a full 4:00 single produced by Mike Dean — who also worked with Kanye West, Beyonce, Ty Dolla Sign, 2 Chainz, Kid Cudi, Frank Ocean and Travis Scott in 2016.
The song would eventually go Platinum after reaching one million units sold in December 2016.
The single took the world by storm, so it was no surprise to eventually see Kanye West drop a verse on it. Now titled ‘Timmy Turner (Remix) ,’ the beat was cut in half and came out much softer than the original one. Desiigner took his verses out of the song, but kept the famous hook fully in tact.
After Desiigner spits the hook twice, Kanye West jumps right in at the 0:32 second mark. The lyrics are exactly what everyone expects from Yeezus — reality. The verse is about 45 seconds long and the rest of the song — a little over a minute — is filled in with the hook.
It’s definitely a song you could bump to, although a second verse from Kanye or a verse from Desiigner would’ve done more justice.
Here’s a look at the song, turn the volume up:
(Courtesy of DesiignerVEVO on YouTube)
As I stated earlier, the song was originally released as his freestyle for XXL Freshman in 2016. If you never got a chance to see that or just want to view it again, here’s that video:
(Courtesy of XXL on YouTube)
Kanye West continues to bring his music to another level every time he works on something. It’s also nice to see him collaborating with new artists.
If you wanted to know exactly what Yeezy said in his verse, here are the lyrics (courtesy of Genius):
Born in the nation that breeded us
Why they don’t never show me the love?
Jesus Shuttlesworth, I lead the squad
Walk on water while I feed the sharks
Everybody just got made alert (Tiimmy)
You might get killed on your way to work
Everyone seen it in broad day
Nobody feelin’ that paperwork
Nobody cared, that just made it worse
All of the talkin’ just made it worse
Tiimmy, Tiimmy, Tiimmy, too turnt up
Grab the burner, leave the block burnt up
Now look what you made me do
Look who you made me shoot
Don’t ask for help from dude
That ni**a crazy too
I’m the new Steve, mixed with Ali
‘Bout to get freed, I’m the new Walt
F**k what you thought
Man f**k all of y’all
Cause Tiimmy, Tiimmy, Tiimmy, too turnt up
Grab the burner, leave the block burnt up
Grab the burner, leave the block burnt up
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