Knox Fortune - Come Over

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Knox Fortune - "Come Over" from the 2020 album Stock Child Wonder on Nice Work.

Chicago-bred artist Knox Fortune (real name: Kevin Rhomberg) broke out of the Windy City's hip-hop scene after guest appearances on tracks by Chance the Rapper and Kami. Now based in Brooklyn, Knox returns with his genre-jumping sophomore release Stock Child Wonder. In an interview with Document, he explains the genesis of the album title and how it reflects his approach to songwriting:

It came from a song I wrote in 2012. It was written in a different context. As I got older, it stuck with me as a tongue-in-cheek way to mean the ‘next big thing’ in a generic form. On a monthly basis we get hit with the same cookie cutter pop personality, and someone’s like, ‘oh, you’re gonna love this,’ and it’s force fed. No one likes it. It’s just a funny thing to me: the idea of the “next big thing,’ but I’m not saying that I’m that. It was also just an alternate personality I could take on which helped with songwriting. When you do solo albums, it’s very emotionally draining. You have to pull so much from yourself, and if the project fails it’s on you. If you succeed, it’s on you. Creating the character of Stock Child Wonder helped me create, while not divulging too much on some things I’m not too comfortable talking about.

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0:00.0	The I can't blame her I had told her to come by
0:29.0	And I got high out of my mind
0:32.0	thinking about the times that we're in our I love in the time
0:33.0	the time's and let it out
0:35.0	can not be there but you can right now
0:37.0	when you came over
0:39.0	and you came out. You come back around. I'm back in.
0:45.0	You come back around.
0:50.0	Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, forget don't want to rest it all. This electronic drill spinning around is all I feel I that tonight.
1:25.0	Every day we get over, what I want to tell you
1:30.0	come over tonight tonight.
1:35.0	Tonight.
1:37.0	Seasons change for us a better way survive.
1:41.0	We don't surrender when it's time, when it's time to think of the
1:49.6	somewhere else, leaving me out by myself.
1:54.0	And I, I,
1:57.0	So come over, come over, come over,
2:02.0	come over, come over, come over to me.
2:05.0	I'm over to me.
2:08.0	We feel like, my man,
2:10.0	I'm gonna.
2:11.0	See that I want to ask you to know, She don't want her to rest.
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