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Behind the song
“Are You Addicted to Your Phone?” starts from the perspective of someone consumed by social media—constantly refreshing, watching likes and views, worrying about the algorithm and measuring their importance by the attention they receive online.
That person isn’t literally me. I wrote from inside that mindset to explore what that kind of addiction looks and feels like.
The second verse is where the song becomes personal.
As an artist, I had a lot of pride, and there was something difficult about constantly having to ask people for attention—repost this, comment, check out my story, listen to my music. I believed deeply in what I was creating, but having to continually convince people to notice it could wear on me.
My passion for music wasn’t disappearing. But my hope for success wasn’t infinite. Every disappointment took a little from it, and I knew there could eventually come a point where that hope simply ran dry.
So the song begins by stepping into somebody else’s addiction to attention, but eventually turns the question back on me: how long can you keep fighting to be noticed before the fight itself starts exhausting the reason you began?
Story chapter
Lyrics & wordplay
Verse 1
i cant stop looking at my phone im addicted
repost, comment, and like and i feel lifted
but ive refreshed 6 times wait am i tripping?
its been 8 minutes i should post another picture
why the likes slowing down?
maybe its the algorithm
but this new video i made about to kill it
i know its gon hit a million
watch ima post it now give it a second
1 2
yea thats extra so im checkin but im con fused
wait they coming now i see em but just a few
my phone be acting up i swear im about to get a new
cuz i aint tryna miss a message my nigga or miss a view
meanwhile theres real life people talking to me and
i dont listen whats the point come and find me on the gram
cuz im hotta than a tan on the internet
yea im poppin i got fans now how ill is that
all it took was a couple dollars got 10,000 followers
followers are fans right? thats how you get your dollars up
i finally understand but im still kinda confused
its been 20 whole minutes.. only 3 views
tell me what should he do to make other people
treat him like they need to instead of just see through
im dying to viral wait, im dying to go viral maybe i should die just to go viral BOOM
Verse 2
what kinda spell am I under chasing after glory?
meanwhile all my pride gone right before me
cuz im begging for attention dont know if this is for me
"repost comment and like check out my story"
and the feelings reassuring when they do but its hurting
cuz its false hope or maybe the truth is im worried
that i really aint as good as i thought and still learning
but the fire music set in my heart is still burning
so im blazing but sad
i wasted my cash just paying for ads
which way is the path that makes it at last
my fate in this rap shit aint everlastin
hands on the clock turn sane into madmen
pain into passion
and flames into ashes
from baby to casket
knew that one day on this planet
id be a great mane if i lasted
so plainly im asking
all i needs your faith on the back end
i got what it takes like the passion
desire and sadness and granted im tired cuz dam it
i do this alone to inspire the masses
never mind the fact that we get paid last
long line of cats making cash off that ass
and they leaving us the scraps at least as time pass
the love grows slow while the hate run laps just adapt
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