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Tunde Bakare

I RAN THE NUMBERS

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
92
key
C minor
energy
0.67
dance
0.81
valence
0.47
vocal at
13.1s
length
1:10
words
153
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “numbers” ×16 · “ran” ×8 · “maths” ×3

lyrics

Everybody tells it like I could not do the final term
Like the maths defeated me and music was the exit
And the maths is the reason. The maths is literally the reason.
I built the model and the model said do not finish

I ran the numbers, numbers, I ran the numbers, numbers
Nobody wants the version where the dropout did the sums
I ran the numbers, numbers, I ran the numbers, numbers
It is a worse story and it is the one that happened

Tab twelve was my mother. I gave her face a weighting.
And in June I asked her and she had been proud for two years.

I ran the numbers, numbers, I ran the numbers, numbers
Nobody wants the version where the dropout did the sums
I ran the numbers, numbers, I ran the numbers, numbers
It is a worse story and it is the one that happened