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Tunde Bakare

FIFTEEN TABS

Studied engineering and dropped out one term short; raps about the maths of getting out

style

  • uk drill
  • afroswing
  • sliding 808s
  • dark piano melody
  • male baritone
  • laconic and precise
  • sparse production
  • london cold
  • british accent
  • hard

the numbers

bpm
112
key
D# minor
energy
0.66
dance
0.82
valence
0.46
vocal at
11.8s
length
1:00
language
En

lyrics

(fifteen tabs)

Expected value, discount rate, a column for the rent
Probability of signing, weighted, over thirty months
I built it like they taught me and the model said go
And I have opened it eleven times since then

Fifteen tabs, fifteen tabs, fifteen tabs, fifteen tabs
The maths was right and I am still not sure it was right
Fifteen tabs, fifteen tabs, fifteen tabs, fifteen tabs
Because I chose the inputs and the inputs were a mood

Here is the tab nobody sees. Tab twelve. Called "Mum."
One cell. What she says when people ask what I do.
I gave it a weight. I gave my mother's face a weight. In a spreadsheet.
(BEAT SLAMS BACK)

(tab twelve...)