Birds

## Song by Lil Wayne

"**Birds**" is the second track from American rapper Lil Wayne's 29th mixtape, *Tha Fix Before Tha VI* (2023). It was co-written with producers Shane "Murda Beatz" Lindstrom and Zachary "ManOhManFoster" Foster. The song engages in much wordplay, where he refers to birds as girls, fans (likely in reference to former app name Twitter which had the icon of a bird), drugs, an idiom ("free as a bird"), and even mentions their migration habits ('I got birds flyin' south').

## Critical reception

*Clash Music* wrote in a less favorable review, "is messy, an in-joke that probably should have been kept that way."

## Personnel

* Bryan Montesano – A&R
* Colin Leonard – mastering engineer
* Cristal Viramontes – recording engineer
* Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter Jr. – lead artist, writer
* Fabian Marasciullo – immersive mixing engineer, mixer
* Joshua Berkman – A&R
* Manny Galvez – recording engineer
* Shane "Murda Beatz" Lindstrom – writer, producer
* Sloane Esme – assistant mixing engineer
* Zachary "ManOhManFoster" Foster – writer, producer

## Cultural references

* Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer.
* Tweety (a yellow canary) and Sylvester the Cat are cartoon characters from Warner Bros. *Looney Tunes*.
* A birdie in golf ("birdie on a hole") is when the player takes one shot less than the par of the hole.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

(*M-M-M-Murda*)

[Chorus]

I got them birds, sell me them birds

This is absurd, I got the purse

Sell me the purse, sell me the cutlass

They look like nerds when it come to numbers

Bitch, I'm a nerd, I'm doin' numbers

Bitch, I got birds, I got 'em hummin'

I got 'em twerkin', I got 'em jumpin'

I got a seven, I got a bundle

I got a worker, I got a runner

She got a Birkin, I got my gun in it in case you lurkin'

First, she didn't fuck with cocaine, she converted

I gave her too much of the Yay, she got nervous

I put my thumb in lil' bitch and she squirted

I put some beads on her waist and her girdle

I put that ho in the air on commercial

I sent her all the way down to the Turks

[Verse 1]

Tiger Woods in the Sunday clothes

I said, "Whole birds, I don't do wings, this ain't Buffalo, bitch"

Whole bunch of vultures, whole bunch of crows, bitch

I'm the Eagle Street, rest in [?]

[Refrain]

I'm too cold to be a hot boy

And, I got birds flyin' south, boy

Yeah, I'm not bird to be a hot boy

I got them birds by the flock, boy

Yeah, I'm too cold to be a hot boy

I'm not bird to be a hot boy

I make them birds sing like "Quack," boy

Free as a bird in the clouds, boy

[Verse 2]

I got them birds, birds

I got them birds, birds

I got them birds

I got them birds, furs

Get 'em in Burb', I made 'em— Prr, prr

All these girls, damn, I'm 'bout to serve

Yeah, I'm servin' them birds ahead of the curb

Yeah, I'm 'bout to swerve fast, the regulars burn

All of these feathers, damn

All these treasures, remember to always measure

Always business, yeah, never pleasure

Remember, always, never

Wings stretchin', yeah

Both directions, yeah

Always flexin', charge him extra

I got Big Birds, you need Tweety, call Sylvester, dawg

Tiger Woods, I got birdies dawg

If it's a drought, it snap my finger, all the birds gone fall

No discounts, fuck you mean? You talkin' bird shit, dawg

Number thirty-three, sell the jersey, bitch

[Refrain]

I'm too cold to be a hot boy

Got birds flyin' south, boy

Yeah, I'm too bird to be a hot boy

Got them birds by the flock, boy

Yeah, I'm too cold to be a hot boy

I'm too bird to be a hot boy

I got more birds than you got clout, boy

Free as a bird in the clouds, boy

[Chorus]

I got them birds, sell me them birds

This is absurd, I got the purse

Sell me the purse, sell me the cutlass

They look like nerds when it come to numbers

Bitch, I'm a nerd, I'm doin' numbers

Bitch, I got birds, I got 'em hummin'

I got 'em twerkin', I got 'em jumpin'

I got a seven, I got a bundle

I got a worker, I got a runner

She got a Birkin, I got my gun in it in case you lurkin'

First, she didn't fuck with cocaine, she converted

I gave her too much of the Yay, she got nervous

I put my thumb in lil' bitch and she squirted

I put some beads on her waist and her girdle

I put that ho in the air on commercial

I sent her all the way down to the Turks

[Outro]

It's Tiger Woods

## References

1. ↑ Murray, Robin (September 29, 2023). "Lil Wayne – Tha Fix Before Tha VI". *Clash Music*.

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