2 On (feat. Schoolboy Q)

### Writer(s)

Tinashe Kachingwe, Bobby Brackins, Dijon McFarlane, Jon Redwine, Brendon Waters, Quincy Hanley, Cezar Cunningham, Sean Henriques, Steven Marsden, Delano Thomas, Michael Jarrett, Craig Serani Marsh

"**2 On"** featuring Schoolboy Q is the first single to be released from Tinashe's album "**Aquarius**". The song features Schoolboy Q and peaked at #24 on the billboard hot 100, Tinashe’s highest peaking track to date, and Schoolboy’s second highest as a featured artist.

## *Background*

This was released as the first single from Tinashe's debut album, Aquarius. A DJ Mustard-produced cut for the club, it features a guest verse from Schoolboy Q. "I wanted '2 On' to be transitional, so people get used to the idea of, 'She can make songs that can play on the radio, and she can still make songs that I can vibe out to in my car,'" she told *Billboard* magazine. "With this song, it's not such a struggle [for fans] to, like, clap or sing along," she added with a laugh. "They're already having fun and pumped up." Lyrically, the song is a party song about living life to the fullest. Music critics mostly praised the song for its sound and carefree lyrics, and "2 On" was also noted by critics as a departure from Tinashe's murky alternative R&B that was part of her previous songs. The single peaked at number 24 on the US *Billboard* Hot 100 and number one on US rhythmic radio, was the second-most played song of 2014 on the format, and was certified platinum by the RIAA. The song also reached the top forty in Australia and Flanders (Belgium). "2 On" was written by Tinashe, Schoolboy Q and Bobby Brackins and produced by DJ Mustard, Jon Redwine and DJ Marley Waters. It is nightclub-oriented, which contrasts with Tinashe's previous work such as her 2013 mixtape *Black Water*. She stated: "I wanted '2 On' to be transitional, so people get used to the idea of, 'She can make songs that can play on the radio, and she can still make songs that I can vibe out to in my car.'" "2 On" was released worldwide as a music download by RCA Records on January 21, 2014. It impacted US rhythmic contemporary, urban contemporary on March 18, 2014, and contemporary hit radio on July 30, 2014.

## Lyrics

Give me all that you got now

Make you want me cause I'm hot now

I'm gone, so faded I'm on one

Bang bang, pop off like a long gun

If you a lame, n\*\*\*\* you ain't making no noise

Get faded, turn up with the big boys

Live fast, die young that's my choice

Get money, get money like an invoice

We can mob all in the whip

Make the money make a grip

I be stuntin' with my clique

Getting faded 'till we trip (oh)

Man, I love to get on

I love to get 2 on

When the drink be too strong

When the tree be way too strong

Get faded, turn up, bruh

Pour it on up 'till I can't even think no more

Get ratchet, go dumb then go more dumb then

We can keep it lit, let's roll

I love to get 2 on

Let-let... let's roll

I love to get 2 on, I love to

Let-let-let's roll

Let-let-let's roll

Yea we can get active

And all my bitches attractive

We go, you know who we are now

Get high, hotbox in my car now

If you a lame, n\*\*\*\* you ain't making no noise

Get faded, turn up with the big boys

Live fast, die young that's my choice

Get money, get money like an invoice

We can mob all in the whip

Make the money make a grip

I be stuntin' with my clique

Getting faded 'till we trip (oh)

Man, I love to get on

I love to get 2 on

When the drink be too strong

When the tree be way too strong

Get faded, turn up, bruh

Pour it on up 'till I can't even think no more

Get ratchet, go dumb then go more dumb then

We can keep it lit, let's roll

I love to get 2 on

Let-let... let's roll

I love to get 2 on, I love to

Let-let-let's roll

Let-let-let's roll

[ScHoolboy Q:]

Uh, pull your panties down from under you

Beat that pussy up, make you wanna holla Q

Drunk than a bitch, high on that Mary Jane

Pussy in my mouth, pussy on my pinky ring

Nasty, baby me do it in the backseat

Swear this marijuana keep it cracking

Lights, camera, action, I ain't doing nothing 'til the cash in

Money, money, money, weed, fashion

Draped up and dripped out, keep the trees passing

Girl toot that thing up, fuck me, fuck rapping

Days of our lives so clap, clap that cake

Spreading your thighs I pump, pump your brakes, ay

Just give me the trees and we can smoke it ya

Just give me the drink and we can pour it ya

And my enemies, they see me living now

And if you roll with me, then you'll be winning now, oh

Man, I love to get on

I love to get 2 on

When the drink be too strong

When the tree be way too strong

Get faded, turn up, bruh

Pour it on up 'till I can't even think no more

Get ratchet, go dumb then go more dumb then

We can keep it lit, let's roll

I love to get 2 on

Let-let... let's roll

I love to get 2 on, I love to

Let-let-let's roll

Let-let-let's roll

## Trivia

* Tinashe first performed the song live at the 2014 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
* Tinashe explained the song's meaning to The Idolator.
	+ "We are trying to kill 'turnt up,' 'turned up on life,' 'YOLO,' all that stuff," she said. "And we are trying to bring in '2 On.' So basically, it just means super hyped up, super extra out on whatever emotion that it is if you are super, super happy, then you are '2 On.' You got it?"

* The song samples Sean Paul's 2005 hit single "We Be Burnin'" towards the end.
* The song's official music video was helmed by Hannah Lux Davis, who is one of the most in-demand music video directors (she is responsible for clips by the likes of Lil Wayne, Jason DeRulo and Ciara). However Davis and Tinashe go back a long way – Davis directed for the singer's old group The Stunners.
* Tinashe said to *Billboard* magazine of DJ Mustard's clap-heavy production."'2 On' really caught people's attention initially because it was the first time that they'd heard a female singing on that type of beat. DJ Mustard didn't have any women on any of his music at the point when I wrote that song, and I thought that that would just be a fresh sound."
	+ "'2 On' really caught people's attention initially because it was the first time that they'd heard a female singing on that type of beat. DJ Mustard didn't have any women on any of his music at the point when I wrote that song, and I thought that that would just be a fresh sound."