Pre-Occupied

## Song by Jon Bellion featuring B.Keyz

"**Pre-Occupied**" is a song by Jon Bellion featuring B.Keyz, released as the third track from the former's fourth mixtape, *The Definition* (2014).

## Background

Bellion explained to *Complex*, "The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career. My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap. So Wu-Tang raised me, but then my sister showed me Death Cab for Cutie and I was like, 'This is giving me the same goosebumps as Wu-Tang, but they're not talking about the same things.' It's completely different ends of the spectrum. So Wu-Tang raised me, Death Cab changed me, and even though I blend all these things, you should go ask Rihanna if my pen game's crazy. I had the No. 1 record [in the country]. And my artistry is everything, that's my baby. I'm trying to change music and put music out for free, but when it comes to making records, 'Fuck you, pay me.' Realize that I'm funding my own videos through writing records for other people."

## Credits and personnel

* B.Keyz – vocals, writer
* Dave Kutch – mastering engineer
* Jon Bellion – vocals, writer, producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1: Jon Bellion]

Wu-Tang raised me, Death Cab changed me

You should go and ask Rihanna if the pen game's crazy

My artistry is everything, that's my baby

But when it comes to publishing, it's fuck you, pay me

Don't be mad 'cause the records that you cut sound lazy

And everything I'm cooking, sounding nuts like rabies (uh)

I hate rappers, please don't call me

Give me urinal suggestions like please don't stall me

Don't play for me, I'll be yawning

How I'm doing pop melodies and you sound corny

Now everybody trying to hang around like awnings

Me and my people linking in the park like crawling

Things seem Rocky, Drago, Ivan

No cash, broke bad, so damn Heisen—

Berg, check the chemistry, I found this hybrid

It's Dilla in the pocket but it's so Paul Simon

It took a little while for your mind to find it

But once you see the genius it's intimidating, isn't it?

[Pre-Chorus: Jon Bellion]

Isn't it? Isn't it?

Isn't it? Isn't it?

Took a little while for your mind to find it

But once you saw the genius, it's intimidating, isn't it?

Isn't it? Isn't it?

[Chorus: Jon Bellion]

They told me that my attention span aligns

Somewhat with the child or a fly, yeah

They didn't understand that I saw signs

Hearing things, but now they realize

That the woman that I prayed for became my wife

And dreams that I wrote down, they came to life

I figured out there's money in my mind

I'm glad I lived my life pre-occupied

[Post-Chorus: Jon Bellion]

You need to get that bag out my face

God made me a full-blown genius

What the fuck I need coke for?

You need to get that bag out my face

God made me a full-blown genius

What the fuck I need coke for?

[Verse 2: Blaque Keyz]

Outkast raised me, Lupe changed me

Now I do things with words to make you lames praise me

Whether Liu Kang or Luke James or Usain maybe

Feeling flyer than a jet son, I'm oh so Spacely

Now everybody clueless, how the flow so crazy?

Got me dashing with an actress, lookin' oh so Stacey

I hate rappers and I really mean it

Tryna ball with the kid'll get you sunned like Phoenix

Rather ball you up, feather and tarred

Until you're harder than sparring with Mayweather

With leather Spaldings

This is my calling, so I answer it with bars, but not for service

It's for hurting any person verses me

I've been rhyming since nurseries

Third degree burns, emerge from the furnace, get close to me

While I'm roasting one of these pigs, my flow is rotisserie

It's a pity that all these hoes slipping out of their hosiery

Won't get a hold of me, I slip through their fingers like Rosaries

Been waiting for you to find it

So I leave it where it's supposed to be

'Cause once you see the genius, it's intimidating isn't it?

[Pre-Chorus: Blaque Keyz]

Isn't it? Isn't it?

Took a little while for your mind to find it

But once you see the genius, it's intimidating, isn't it?

Isn't it? Isn't it?

[Chorus: Jon Bellion]

They told me that my attention span aligns

Somewhat with the child or a fly, yeah

They didn't understand that I saw signs

Hearing things, but now they realize

That the woman that I prayed for became my wife

And dreams that I wrote down, they came to life

I figured out there's money in my mind

I'm glad I lived my life pre-occupied

[Post-Chorus: Jon Bellion]

You need to get that bag out my face

God made me a full-blown genius

What the fuck I need coke for?

You need to get that bag out my face

God made me a full-blown genius

What the fuck I—

[Outro]

*Beautiful Mind*

## References

1. ↑ Ortiz, Edwin (September 25, 2014). "Interview: Jon Bellion Talks About His New Album, 'The Definition,' and Growing Beyond His Work on Eminem's 'The Monster'". *Complex*.