I think HAX was the first song I knew I wanted to do based on the samples that Mustin had provided me with up front. I knew it was a banger. I knew it was catchy as all hell. And I knew I wanted to start the album off with it. Usually you go a few tracks deep before you showcase some of your biggest featuring performers, but screw that! Go big or go home! Ran, Lars, and I had previously teamed up on a Bayonetta track called “Reaping Beauty” (YouTube it. It had a really dope video.) so I knew the combination would be killer. You would not believe how easy it was to get these fine gentlemen on this track. I still feel so humbled that dudes that have crossed the globe performing music for, at this point, 100,000’s of people are still willing to jump on a track with a dude who sometimes headlines in Kennewick, maybe. I’m still such a fanboy. It’s disgusting.
lyrics
Everybody, welcome to the new stuff!
Beef Thompson, telling you I've grown up
How I do it? Well I tell ya
I just hit the little ~ in the middle for a minute than I hit another level
Beef be stylish, championship finalist
Approximately give as many shits as a nihilist
Tell a little tale how you’re gonna take control
But I’m the one who broke the mold, you can hold all the fat jokes
Truth be told I’m not much of a winner
But I’ve gotta a mega buddy had a song up on SportCenter
Don’t forget. Chillin like Neil Everett
I’m a beauty at a nine and getting hotter by the minute
Talent takes time so I skipped to the front
Green they get with jealousy, I’m level up
I roll up to your home and I make it explode
Then walk away without a look because I’m living in god mode
The rap cat who looks good in fat
Who always sounds so awesome on a Mustin track
You kill it like a wedding and you’re dressed in black
You can be the Steve Jobs, I’ll be the Wozniak, Jack!
(hook)
Oh my word, man, it must be hacks
How else could these guys be on like that?
Cheat code rappers, it’s a disaster
Tracking like a torrent, I’m a real life hacker
Oh my word, man, it must be hacks
How else could these guys be on tracks so phat?
Cheat code rappers, it’s a disaster
Tracking like a torrent, I’m a real life hacker
credits
from Grown Up,
released August 19, 2014
(K. Moore, R. Jarbo, A. Nielsen, Mustin)
MC Lars appears courtesy of Horris Records
PRODUCED BY MUSTIN™
Beefy is a grizzled young vet of nerdcore hip-hop, having been providing thrust inducing jams since 2005. Based near a
decommissioned nuclear production complex in the Pacific Northwest, Beefy’s meta-powers took shape in the form of dope rhymes, fun flows, and he can glow in the dark. Beef can be found on Patreon making new tracks every month with producer and beat sommelier tanner4105....more
Freeced is a fresh new face in the world of a new wave of Nerdcore that will overtake the dinosaurs of old, but Freeced is cool because they appreciate dinosaurs. Beefy
supported by 37 fans who also own “HAX feat. Mega Ran & MC Lars”
Couldn't have made "BURNER" without the Nerdcore genre this man started. Love this O.G.'s exasperated take on the modern internet, and hope he hasn't given it up entirely! Laurence Warner
supported by 33 fans who also own “HAX feat. Mega Ran & MC Lars”
I love this whole album: It just captures a wide range of experiences and affects the listener with a wide range of emotions.
I first liked this album because of the nerdcore elements, but I fell in love when I realized that these verses were true poetry, speaking to a deeper truth and beauty unlike most hip-hop I've heard. "A Poet" exemplifies this with its bittersweet message about how poetry is not valued. This is the first hip-hop tune I've ever shed a tear over.
Take a bow, Mega Ran. platinumazure