Royalty

Vybz Kartel

**Royalty** est le premier single du quatrième et dernier album de XXXTentacion, Bad Vibes Forever. Cette musique est une collaboration entre X, Ky-Mani Marley (le fils de Bob Marley), Stefflon Don et Vybz Kartel. Cette musique rend hommage aux origines de X car celui-ci a expliqué que ses 2 parents étaient jamaïcains. Tous les autres artistes en featuring avec X sur cette musique sont jamaïcains ou d'origine jamaïcaine. Sur l’album, Royalty est le dix-neuvième morceau. X était fier d'être d'origine jamaïcaine. Il était un grand fan de Vybz Kartel et il voulait travailler avec lui mais il n'a pas pu le faire de son vivant car Vybz était en prison. Quand X est mort, Royalty n'était pas terminé, il y avait juste le couplet de X, le couplet de Ky-Mani et le refrain de Ky-Mani. La voix de X n'avait pas d’auto-tune, les mixages n'étaient pas finis et l'instru était légèrement différente de celle de la version d'aujourd'hui. De son vivant, X avait réussi à contacter Ky-Mani car plusieurs de ses proches étaient en contact avec les Marleys. Quand X est mort, la production a rajouté en feat Vybz et Stefflon.

## Paroles

[Refrain: Ky-Mani Marley]

Royalty (Royalty), inna mi bloodline

Dem soldiers yell (Dem soldiers yell), on these front lines

Don't know why, know why

But demons come to test us sometimes

In my scheme from longtime (Longtime)

Defeat where you're confined

Royalty (Royalty), inna mi bloodline

Dem soldiers yell (Dem soldiers yell), on these front lines

Don't know why, know why

But demons come to test us sometimes

In my scheme from longtime (Longtime)

Defeat where you're confined

[Couplet 1: XXXTENTACION]

Yeah, me haffi, big up, yuh

Big up, yuh, big up, yuh

Buy car and land fi yuh

Use bad man for their bread when the mortgage up

Big up, yuh, big up, yuh, big up, yuh

Gyal dem a Kingston

Haffi whine dem body when they hear me on this one

Man, it's cool until this shit change

Wanna use me for the money and the cars, yeah, the big range

Yeah, it's funny how shit change

All shorty want is young ni\*\*a's drawers, that shit stains

In a poor house, Biscayne

Now I'm in the coupe with a crib big as Chris Paine

Never could forget all the nights it was just pain

Now I'm finna come for the throne, don't forget, mane

[Refrain: Ky-Mani Marley]

Royalty (Royalty), inna mi bloodline

Dem soldiers yell (Dem soldiers yell), on these front lines

Don't know why, know why

But demons come to test us sometimes

In my scheme from longtime (Longtime)

Defeat where you're confined

[Couplet 2: Stefflon Don]

Nuff tings ah get lock arff

Iced out rings nah come off

Clean from me born, tell a gyal she fi chuck arff

We can't stall, we a rise, we a take arff

(We make the boys do wha' dem a do)

'Cause the gyal ah set trends

Name just ah bubble pon the endz

Tick, me ah tock, pon the sumtin til it bend

We no friend badmind, we no 'fraid of dem (We no 'fraid)

Win, we a win til the end

[Refrain: Ky-Mani Marley]

Royalty (Royalty), inna mi bloodline

Dem soldiers yell (Dem soldiers yell), on these front lines

Don't know why, know why

But demons come to test us sometimes

In my scheme from longtime (Longtime)

Defeat where you're confined

[Couplet 3: Vybz Kartel]

His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, so we royal

Triple X crew, so we loyal

Big batty, fat pussy, broad gyal

Come here, back it up gyal, buss a whine, mhm hm

Bend up inna 10 and inna nine, mhm-hmm

Miami gyal, Caribbean whine

Yardie say, you a real buddy bruka

Yankie say, you a bad muhfucka

Ky-Mani, who waan fi war?

We can work the army, war like Irani

Man grimy, crimy, can't style me, parrie

Man Triple X to Tentacion

Pull up on dem endz deh like taxi man

Nah spray cologne, we spray hot metal, cho man!

Real bad man like Sandokan

Real hot gyal badman go pon

Anyweh we walk, the street govern

No fairytale, no Alice, no Peter Pan

Versace style, Louis V pattern

We strike the street hard, no FIFA

Plan kick you from Mobay, Halfway Tree you land

We born fi get dough, no need no man

We life a sort, ask the reader man

We balls a work, we a the breeder and

Nah laugh with it, badman Riddim

Smoke high grade and fly like pigeon

Real badman, we no haffi have image

Score like scrimmage inna any gyal village

Fuck dem wicked and squeeze out liquid

Sharp shooter like Billy The Kid

Haffi live twice fi do things that we did

TJ, tell dem we're wild and wicked

[Refrain: Ky-Mani Marley]

Royalty (Royalty), inna mi bloodline

Dem soldiers yell (Dem soldiers yell), on these front lines

Don't know why, know why

But demons come to test us sometimes

In my scheme from longtime (Longtime)

Defeat where you're confined