Butcher Brown - Down With the King
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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Butcher Brown - "Down With the King" a 2024 single on Concord Jazz
For today's Song of the Day, Virginia-based jazz/hip-hop collective Butcher Brown brings their take on the 1993 Run DMC classic “Down With the King.” The track was created in collaboration with the ACC Network, ESPN’s 24/7 national network dedicated to Atlantic Coast Conference sports, and the song can be heard in promotional spots that kicked off last month.
“Virginia music is one-of-a-kind, and always has been, just like the ACC,” said Butcher Brown’s lyricist and horn player Marcus Tennishu in a press release. “The Richmond aesthetic comes from a place where everyone is really diehard and blue collar — you work for what you get. We wanted this remake to be derivative of the original, but we had to put our own twist on it.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Down with the kings with years about ten of them |
| 0:24.4 | recruiting my eyes with the mic and they're linive them. |
| 0:26.8 | Tears and fears for my peers. They risen. You think that it is, it is, if not it isn't. |
| 0:31.6 | Race for the suckers, we in it lyrics. I'm banging out |
| 0:34.1 | Jeep's rock and beees in the street where the top of hanging out gather or rather |
| 0:37.5 | form a circle around a loud because brothers or others could never ever rock a crowd |
| 0:41.6 | Is it because he running off with him out or wasn't really |
| 0:44.7 | killing trying to play me for some cloud? No shut him down, the king with the ground, because everybody |
| 0:49.6 | want to get down. Two years ago a friend of mine asked me to say some MC rhyme so I said this |
| 1:16.3 | rhyme I'm about to say the rhyme was mecca and then it went this way |
| 1:20.4 | rather let the mecca michke on the windmill skill, math, the stacks, wearing |
| 1:24.5 | guard the hats. |
| 1:25.5 | It's okay to parlay the forete better. |
| 1:28.0 | Tell them that I could be the sweater tougher than leather. |
| 1:30.6 | Swing another left and right thing that I'm ready., but just like the weak one I gets no respect. |
| 1:35.0 | Money stay away because these other cats are fake from hollars to the beak and they be quiet when we're speaking. |
| 1:40.0 | See L and run DMC so Russian, big Big Time Way for Full Hammer got to touch it, |
| 1:45.0 | Remember the faces in all type of places. |
| 1:47.0 | Look, mom, no was a man. I'm taking the tours, I'm beckon the land, I keep it hard- because it's dope man these are the roughest |
| 2:15.0 | stuff as ones I ever broke down not meant for your feelings like a slow jab check it |
| 2:19.4 | suck an MCs can never swing with D because of all the things that I bring with me. |
| 2:24.0 | Only G. O D can be akin to me. |
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