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HE GOT ME AGAIN!! | Cymple Man - Diamondbacks Fake Friends, Industry Snakes & Music Industry TruthAdded:
[music] [music] [music] >> Brothers and sisters, aunties, uncles, and play cousins.
What's good, fam? It's your boy, Mr. Michael. Hey, check it out. Today, my guy, Simple Man, is back. I can't wait to get into this one. He didn't drop a new track called Diamond Backs. I'm looking forward to this one. I'm looking at the YouTube like title on here, and it says Simple Man, and it says Fake Friends, Industry Snakes, and Music Industry Truth.
If you know, you know. Simple Man kind of can go there. Simple Man can kind of go there. And his lyrics is always on 1,000. So, with a title like that, man, I'm kind of afraid of what he about to say.
But, we going to see. We going to see.
Today, my guy, Simple Man, let's get it. Before we get started, y'all, I'mma say it like I always say.
Make sure you hit the like button on this video. Don't wait till the end. Hit it right now. And if you're not already subscribed to Old Heads Media, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Make sure that you hear whenever we drop something new. Make sure you hit that notification bell. All right? And with that being said, let's get into it. Simple Man, Diamond Backs. Y'all going to see too.
Whoever did these graphics, whoever did the thumbnail for this, hey, kudos. Kudos, cuz this thumbnail is dope as hell. This thumbnail is dope as hell. All right. Let's go.
>> [music] >> Yeah.
I'm still here.
Y'all ain't got rid of me yet.
>> [music] >> Let's go. I've been at work while y'all working on your next lie. I still bump [music] riding dirty and a criminal. I ain't never been in no studio to get high. I'm here to get mine. I ain't here to get by. [music] Folks paint you certain ways to try and hold you back. They're scared of the potential you possess. It's all an act.
Sometimes chasing that money [music] will keep you blinded at. Cuz you can still find diamonds on a diamondback.
I'm still the truth like the opposite of falsehoods. [music] It's all good. I knew y'all switch when y'all could. They ain't family or kin. Spray the roaches here. They sell out like the coast [music] was clear and a boat was near. I seen some folks get knocked and they ain't have a case cuz they was working with 12 like it was half a day. It was [music] his third down bad, but he avoided that stay. Now he open in the field. I bet he passed away. So, I just keep things kosher like a synagogue for bones sticking out your head [music] like the Grinch's dog. She got that rock in her voice like a demigod. I told her you'll get burnt out Eve like a Christmas [music] log. Them junkies ain't working like a leaky fridge. I'll still be nodding off worse than a sleepy kid. [music] I did some things local rappers don't believe I did. But if you don't leave a legacy, I mean, did you even live? I've been at work while y'all working on [music] your next lie.
All right, y'all.
Let me go back to the beginning of the verse. Man, man, Simple Man, every time. Every time. One thing you know, if you don't know that you know that you better know, is that Simple Man going always give you bars.
Always give you bars.
I got to break this down. I heard too many I heard too many bars in that. I got to do me. Got to do me. Let's go.
Let's [music] go. I've been at work while y'all working on your next lie. I still bump riding dirty [music] and a criminal. Hey, shout out Chamillionaire.
Shout out Outkast. Huh, Ridin' Dirty. It's Chamillionaire, Ridin' Dirty. Got to check me, Ridin' Dirty. Got it. All right. All right. And Outkast, uh my bad. My bad. Almost got lost, y'all. Let's go. I ain't never [music] been in no studio to get high.
I'm here to get mine. I ain't here to get by.
Folks paint you certain ways to try and hold you back. [music] They're scared of the potential you possess. It's all an act. Sometimes chasing that money will keep you blinded at. Cuz you can still find diamonds on a diamondback. [music] I'm still That you can still find diamonds on a diamondback. That's a bar.
That's a bar. That's a bar. Chasing that He's saying you can still find diamonds on a snake.
money will keep you blinded at. Cuz you can still find [music] diamonds on a diamondback. I'm still the truth like the opposite of falsehoods. It's I'm still the truth like the opposite of falsehoods. It's all good. [music] I knew y'all switch when y'all could. They ain't family or kin. Spray the roaches here. They sell out like the coast was clear and a boat [music] was near.
That right there was a bar. They sell out like the coast was clear and a boat was near. But if you listen to the way he pronounced the word sell, he said they sail out like the coast was clear and a boat was near. They sell out, but it sound like he said sail.
That was a bar that you wouldn't even know it was a bar because you had to pay attention to the pronunciation and not the actual word. That was dope.
That was dope.
>> like the opposite of falsehoods.
>> [music] >> It's all good. I knew y'all switch when y'all could. They ain't family or kin.
Spray the roaches here. They sell out like the And then he said they ain't fam Oh my god, man. I just caught that. They ain't family or kin. Or kin. Spray the roaches.
They're not family or kin. Kin is what you call It's like another word for saying family. That's my kinfolk. But, again, the play on the word. Orkin.
Orkin. The pest control. They ain't family or kin. Spray the roaches. Man, what the >> [snorts] >> Here we go.
>> on a diamondback. [music] I'm still the truth like the opposite of falsehoods.
It's all good. I knew y'all switch when y'all [music] could. They ain't family or kin. Spray the roaches here. They sell out like the coast was clear and a boat was near.
>> [music] >> I seen some folks get knocked and they ain't have a case cuz they was working with 12 like it was half a day. It was his third day I seen some folks get knocked and they ain't have a case cuz they was working with 12 like it was half a day. Means they was snitching. They was working with 12 like it was half a day. But they Man, >> knocked and they ain't have [music] a case cuz they was working with 12 like it was half a day. It was his third down bad, but he avoided that [music] stay.
Now he open in the field. I bet he passed away. So, He just said, I seen some folks get knocked, but they ain't have a case cuz they was snitching. Cuz they was working with 12 like it was half a day.
But then he said it was his third down bad. Third strike. Three strikes, you out of here. It was his third down bad.
So, first he goes from snitching, you know what I'm saying? Catch a case, working with the working with the cops.
You snitching. So, even though that was your third strike, you ain't catch that case because you was snitching.
Now he open in the field. Now he out. He out cuz he was working with the police.
I bet he passed away. Cuz you know, when people in the streets hear that you was snitching, chances are you up out of here.
But, the flip on that whole play, it was his third down bad.
I'm bet Now he open in the field. Third down, open in the field. Football. Third down, open in the field like a wide receiver. I bet he passed away like the quarterback throwing the ball. Third down bad.
Open in the field.
Pass away.
Bro, there hasn't been a bar so far in this whole verse that was that did that wasn't that wasn't bars.
Not a single bar. Third down bad, but he avoided that stay. Now Now y'all see why I'm a fan of Simple Man. You know, bars is my stuff. I like going in and digging like this, and he always makes me work.
He always makes me work. He don't sit back and just just drop songs. He put that pen to work. I love it, man. I love listening to this dude. He open in the [music] field. I bet he passed away. So, I just keep things kosher like a synagogue for bones Keep things kosher like a synagogue. The Jew. Keep things kosher. Bro. in the field. I bet he passed away. So, I just [music] keep things kosher like a synagogue for bones sticking out your head like the Grinch's dog. [music] The bones sticking out your head like the Grinch's dog.
It made me want to watch that movie.
That ain't even Christmas time.
>> Keep things kosher [music] like a synagogue for bones sticking out your head like the Grinch's dog. She got that rock in her voice like a demigod. I told her you'll get burnt out Eve like a Christmas [music] log. Yo, I just I just caught that. See, I almost let that one get by me. She got that rock in her voice like a demigod because The Rock played a demigod in the movie Moana.
She'll get burnt out Eve. She'll get burnt out Eve like a Christmas log.
Because on Christmas Eve, when people be lighting their fireplace, a Yule log. You'll get burnt out Eve.
The Yule log is the Christmas log. Yule log.
Bro.
Bro.
Bro.
Bro.
Come on, Simple Man. rock in her voice [music] like a demigod. I told her you'll get burnt out Eve like a Christmas log. Them junkies ain't working [music] like a leaky fridge.
I'll still be nodding off worse than a sleepy kid.
Them junkies ain't working like a leaky fridge. I'll still be nodding off worse than a sleepy kid.
>> some things local rappers don't [music] believe I did. But if you don't leave a legacy, I Facts. Hey, Simple Man, that was verse one. And you done already made me You done already made me do a between the lines. This wasn't even a between the lines episode, but I cannot let bars get past me. For those of y'all that's going to get in my comments talking about why you stopping the song so much, I am not letting bars get past me. So, hey, it is what it is.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> Sometimes chasing that money will keep you blinded at Yeah, that that that's facts.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Everything going to wrap up just how your life started on your own. Hey.
>> [music] [music] >> Hey, that [ย __ย ] right there was dope as hell. I ain't mean to get dark like Robert Downey in Tropic Thunder. For any of y'all that have seen the movie Tropic Thunder, you know what I'm saying, with Ben Stiller, where Robert Downey Jr.
played the character who thought he was black.
>> [laughter] >> He had the dark skin and he talked like he was Hey, what's up, my man? You like he talked like he was black.
I ain't mean to get dark like Robert Downey.
But let me switch this thing up and keep it lighthearted. But But But instead he did the the Tony Stark reference cuz Robert Downey Jr. Jr. also played Iron Man.
Yeah, bro.
Bro, you sleep.
>> [music] [music] >> If you worried about a bill, make it a bill of health. Bars.
>> [music] >> Keep your family in the picture like it's Olan Mills. Olan Mills. Hey, bro, I ain't even know Olan Mills still existed. You are you Hey, you telling your age, my guy, cuz I don't even know that Olan Mills still existed. I remember Olan Mills used to do like used to go in there back in the days, all their backgrounds looked exactly the same. Olan Mills sometimes did the school photos and stuff like that. I remember you used to go and get them old pictures. I got a picture now from when I was a kid where your parents would take you to Olan Mills and you'll have one pose where you sitting there looking at the camera like this, and then there's another pose off to the side like this, and they mix the two of them together.
I didn't know Olan Mills was still in the thing was still a thing, though.
>> [music] >> Billy Bob Land Man, I hope you know the drill. That was a doper bar than you realized. Billy Bob Thornton plays in the TV show The Land Man on Paramount Plus. You can go watch it if you want to watch it now. But Billy Bob Thornton plays the lead character in the TV series Land Man, and it's about drilling oil.
So, he said Billy Bob Land Man, I hope you know the drill. Bro.
I'm telling you, bars.
>> [music] >> Got to keep it pushing like a mosh pit.
I ain't never been to one of those. I don't think I'mma ever go to one of those. I'm a little too OCD for stuff like that. Hey, you know what I'm saying? OCD, PTSD, street D, whatever you want to call it. Where I come from, I ain't finna be in the middle of no crowd with a bunch of people pushing on me. It's going to be some problems in there.
>> [music] [music] [laughter] >> Sweet like Tennessee whiskey.
>> [music] >> I don't want to hear nothing.
>> [music] [music] >> In the end, they ain't going to You got to help yourself out.
They ain't going to be there. This self-checkout.
Bro.
Bro.
Another one.
Another one. I know because of the timestamp on this, we going to get a hook and then that was the end of the song, so I already know, you know what I'm saying? I'mma go ahead and let it finish playing out, but Simple Man.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hey, that's hard.
>> [music] >> Nah, man. Nah. Nah.
A wood grain with the diamond in the back. Um I know the original. I'm trying to think of who used that.
Um I know the original diamond in the back, sunroof top, digging in the scene with the gangsta lean.
I'm trying to remember what rapper It's been a few rappers that they used that, but the most real Anyway, that's irrelevant. Um I know it was a southern artist. That's irrelevant, though. What that tells me, though, is another thing that I always knew about Simple Man.
He respects and studied and embodies the culture.
Bro. That's one of my guys, man. Simple Man is one of my guys.
>> [music] >> Bro.
Simple Man.
You done did it again.
I love I love reacting to Simple Man because he always gives me exactly what I want. I'm addicted to bars. I'm addicted to bars. And he respects the craft. So, because of that, every time I get into one of his songs, I I always end up doing a between the lines episode on his track because I can't help it. I got to go back and show the show the bars to you. There's no way that I would be doing you any justice if I just played the song through and tell you what I thought about the song and not pointed out the artistry that was in the song.
That was a pen. My guy. Simple Man.
Diamondbacks. I [ย __ย ] with that. I [ย __ย ] with you, my guy. If y'all don't know about diamond If y'all I said diamondback. If y'all don't know about Simple Man, I done did a few Simple Man reactions here on this channel. I'mma continue to do Simple Man reactions here on this channel, but you make sure that you go over to his channel and you check out his archive. Cuz my man, he don't play. When he gets in the booth, he puts his work in.
My guy.
Till the next one. Love y'all.
That was fun. Peace out.
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