The Iconic REDRED Breakdown “REDRED” Official Lyrics & Meaning VERIFIED by CORTIS (코르티스) | @genius

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:02]We are reacting to Cordae on Genius.

[00:00:08]Y'all, this is like Y'all know how many times I've I used to watch Genius?

[00:00:15]You know how many rappers that I grew up listening to that I've seen on Genius?

[00:00:20]The nostalgic feeling that I'm getting is insane. Like I'm talking about XXXTentacion when he came out with Look at Me, [ __ ] on Me. I'm talking about Ski Mask the Slump God, Smokepurpp, Comethazine.

[00:00:35]I'm talking about all of them, Lil Pump.

[00:00:39]We could keep on going forever and ever.

[00:00:42]Juice WRLD.

[00:00:51]Like it's so many rappers that we had that is lost and that lost and that we lost and died. RIP, rest in peace to all of the goats that has been on this exact same interview.

[00:01:08]And now Cordae is on this interview, too.

[00:01:12]Cordae is making history on Genius.

[00:01:15]Let's get it. The artist, engineer, um, mixed our song and he made it into a whole 'nother song. He did like a whole Yeah.

[00:01:26]Who remembers when Genius used to be huge? Or I think it might still be huge.

[00:01:32]But it's died down a little bit. Genius is not the same as it used to be.

[00:01:36]Everybody used to be on Genius.

[00:01:39]Oh my goodness.

[00:01:41]And there was a rhyme which was E E.

[00:01:43]James gave an idea of like, "What about green green?" Green green.

[00:01:47]>> So, let's talk about something we lean into as a as a So, not only James Not only does James give ideas on the choreographies, but also he gives ideas on how we could how we should implement alerts.

[00:02:03]That's insane.

[00:02:07]Huh?

[00:02:10]Bro, >> [laughter] >> they was like they was like bro, you're not scheduled for today. I was like bro, what? I could have swore I was scheduled for today. And they was like no, check.

[00:02:20]I was like what? That's crazy. So I just came back.

[00:02:28]For nothing bro. I didn't THAT [ __ ] WAS WOW. I COULD HAVE SWORE THAT [ __ ] SAID ON Thursday though.

[00:02:37]Uh yeah, I'm about to get in these videos real quick Kayla.

[00:02:42]No, no, not yet.

[00:02:46]Wait, hold on. I ain't going to lie.

[00:02:49]I'mma come out there and talk TO YOU ABOUT THAT.

[00:02:51]HOLD [laughter] ON.

[00:02:53]I'MMA I'MMA COME OUT THERE AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.

[00:02:58]DON'T WORRY. I'MMA I'M DON'T WORRY. WE GOING TO TALK. WE GOING TO TALK.

[00:03:02]>> [laughter] >> WE GOING TO TALK.

[00:03:06]YO, BRO, what the [ __ ] Yo, trust me. Listen, look. It's It's inside joke. Don't worry. Don't worry. Me and him we going to have we going to have our little talk bro. That [ __ ] was funny as hell. Hold on y'all.

[00:03:19]It get crazy sometimes.

[00:03:51]Green green which is my favorite part.

[00:03:54]Do seeing all kind of green, green. Like come on now. Kind of remind me of Rihanna dollar signs. Dollar signs, all I see is dollar signs. That's what I like.

[00:04:05]I love me some green.

[00:04:11]HEY!

[00:04:27]I MENTIONED HOT VANILLA LATTE. It's like an Easter egg. Yeah, when we wrote this song, it was cold in Yeah, in Korea. It was freezing. It was cold. Korea was cold. That's why we mentioned like putting our hands in our pockets. We go outside, we bop our heads to the beat that we That reminds me of when they was in Seoul. Y'all remember when they was in Seoul? And it was super freezing. They was dri- I think they was drinking lattes, right? They definitely was eating noodles. And they made dumplings.

[00:04:56]They had a whole three thing Yeah, that [ __ ] was crazy. But it was cold You could tell it was freezing cuz when they would breathe, bro, all the cold was coming out of their breath. I'm like, there's no way. And then they said the degrees. I was like, well, yeah, the deg- I'm like, what? Say it again. How low? Negative what?

[00:05:17]You got me [ __ ] up. We've been listening to Who writes the "yeehee"?

[00:05:27]It was Shownu's? All the iconic lines, he took >> [laughter] >> Please explain the lyric when they um Please, I want them to explain the lyric about them talking about having your pants up is like red and you should you should be sagging. Please, I want them to explain that. Y'all, that [ __ ] is probably the funniest lyric ever. That's like one of the funniest lyrics that they've came up with. Like what you mean me not sagging is red? Like what do what do you mean that's that's red? I didn't I didn't I forgot that was not So, that's not that's not cool? I I ain't going to lie, I don't want nobody putting the honey bun on my bed.

[00:06:23]I don't want Fleas Johnson thinking that he could get a piece of me.

[00:06:27]You crazy. I'm not sagging.

[00:06:31]Palangi, it it it literally mean flapping ears. Someone who easily swayed, like easily influenced. I think we just wanted to talk about >> Y'all Yeah, y'all that's crazy. Y'all was actually telling me about this.

[00:06:49]Palangi, it it it literally mean flapping ears. Someone Yeah, y'all was telling me about y'all was telling me about the meaning of this. I I didn't understand what this meant, but when y'all was telling me I was like, "Okay."

[00:07:00]And some of y'all was like, "You've never heard of this saying before?" No.

[00:07:04]I've never heard of this saying before.

[00:07:06]This This is like them they they brought this saying to my life for the very first time. Other than that, I never heard it. who easily swayed, like easily influenced. I think we just wanted to talk about um Yeah, that's a Korean line.

[00:07:22]Have your own opinions.

[00:07:27]Reading the room too much.

[00:07:30]You got to read the room, but don't read it too Yeah, you got to read the room, but if you read the room too much, you you lose your own opinion.

[00:07:37]Facts. That's perfect. Like don't overthink, you know? Make sure you have your wits about you, but don't overthink.

[00:07:45]Cuz y'all, a lot of things in this life is not something you should overthink.

[00:07:50]As crazy as that sound As crazy as that sounds, it's a lot in this life that you don't need to overthink. I promise you, exactly what you think it is is what it is. There is no more to it. There is no underlying. There is no There's nothing that's You get what I'm saying? There's nothing deeper than that. Like a lot of things is just not that deep. It really isn't. It just really is not that deep.

[00:08:14]And the more people learn that, the better a lot of people going to be.

[00:08:19]And that that even means like internally, looking at yourself like as a person. Or, you know, even when it comes to like how you view yourself as a on like a a value basis. Like, you know how people say, "Oh, I'm not really confident myself." Or like, "I doubt myself a lot." Well, that's probably because most likely you're just thinking too much. Like, let's just do the old common the common i- issue that a lot of people have within themselves and their insecurities.

[00:08:52]They feel like they ugly.

[00:08:54]A lot of people feel like they just don't look good.

[00:08:57]Well, if you ask me, you're overthinking it.

[00:09:01]Like, even if it is true, I'll just give you a good a good How can I say Let me just give you like a good example.

[00:09:09]Or a way to put this.

[00:09:11]Even if it may be true that you're not that attractive, you're overthinking the ugliness.

[00:09:18]Cuz there's so many people out there, so many people, that look at you and think the absolute opposite. And then if And then we could even take it further and say, you can always change your attractiveness.

[00:09:35]Like, there's so many different ways.

[00:09:37]Just going to the gym alone can put some pointers onto your attractiveness and make you more appealing. So, when people like overthink themselves in such a negative manner, which you know, I know you know, how this thought process works cuz I used to do it.

[00:09:56]You're really just thinking too much into it. You really are. You you are.

[00:10:00]It's people out there for you. It's people out there for you. And I promise you this, those people are exactly who you want. They exactly who you want.

[00:10:08]They're exactly who you want.

[00:10:11]And who you need.

[00:10:13]So, yeah, this is perfect this is perfect. I like that saying. I didn't know that they I didn't know that this was the meaning for that. Like you lose confidence.

[00:10:23]Exactly.

[00:10:33]Carson is funny as [ __ ] I've seen her Tik Tok. She was like, me rapping a song until till we get stinky part come on cuz like who? I'm like, yo, Carson is funny as [ __ ] It's a metaphor of like cooking up like food and also cooking up beats or music like how does how we turn up the speakers to the loudest volume and then burning speakers kind of like yeah. The smoke and everything kind of gets on our clothes and stuff. So, we get stinky.

[00:11:11]Stinky.

[00:11:12]Stinky.

[00:11:13]>> Well, that's not what I thought at all.

[00:11:16]I thought we was in a studio like NBA NBA YoungBoy not taking showers, sleeping in there, eating in there, living in there, everything in there, having groupies in there, parties in there, you name it.

[00:11:32]Mama Mama get invited in there. Like everything. Like your family in there.

[00:11:37]You don't leave the studio. I'm thinking like actually stinky. Like they don't they not washing that bonquet.

[00:11:44]They they so into their music and they going crazy and have so much time just taking that just the time that they have they just taking it and just putting it towards the album. They like, "Yo, I ain't going to lie. I forgot to take a shower."

[00:11:59]"Damn, we all forgot to wash our ass today. How long has been? We've been in the studio for like about 5 days now consecutively? Yeah. Oh, yeah, we we stinky we stinky as shit." That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that we not washing our ass because we so into making this album. And I ain't going to lie, the album is so good, I think they lying.

[00:12:19]I think they lying. I think they just covering it up and they and they making it all pretty so they don't actually tell us what it really means. And it really means that they was working so hard on this album they wasn't washing their ass. I think that Cordis is lying. They wasn't washing their ass. They wasn't. They was too focused. Cuz come on now, there's no way you made a banger of an album and you was taking showers. It's I'mma be honest with you. I ain't going to sugarcoat. If I'm making an album this damn good, I probably missed about a week of showering.

[00:12:51]I ain't going to lie, I'm stinky as [ __ ] that studio. My energy My engineer, manager, and producer coming into the booth talking about, "Yo, bro, I ain't going to lie, we going to have to take a pause on this [ __ ] Go take a shower, please. Like I ain't going to It's been 7 days. It's almost going on the eighth. It's almost about to be over a week, brother, you have not washed.

[00:13:09]Please. I know you want to get this album out and I know you want this [ __ ] to be the best thing that ever touched media platform, Spotify, and whatever streaming platform, and whatever the [ __ ] else you want it to touch. But right now you touching our nose with your stinky ass balls. Okay? So please, take a [ __ ] shower, brother.

[00:13:30]That's I'm telling you, they would have to tell me to get in the shower cuz if I'm making an album, I'm not taking no showers, bro. [ __ ] all that. I got to I got to finish this album first, bro.

[00:13:39]Priorities. Well, you want to be You want to be clean or you want to be lit?

[00:14:06]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> Wait, what's the gadgets? Come on, Mr. Miyagi, teach me your ways.

[00:14:30]I want to know. What What the [ __ ] What's the gadgets?

[00:14:41]My favorite part is The climax.

[00:14:47]>> It's the climax. After COVID, everything kind of like stopped and everything.

[00:14:51]It's a cold world.

[00:14:54]Everything feels kind of gray after it.

[00:14:58]Oh my Thank you. Cuz the world definitely lost color and that's crazy.

[00:15:02]Color outside the lines, but the world definitely lost color after COVID. I don't know why. I really don't. Like it All it was was a shutdown. Like that's it. Basically, people was able to just do whatever Basically, the government said, "Hey, all y'all get to have a vacation for about 2 years.

[00:15:24]That's how I take it. We basically all went on vacation, didn't have to do [ __ ] For like 2 years, we all just was able to be in a crib. And just binge-watch movies and every [ __ ] thing else cuz while COVID was going on, movies was still dropping.

[00:15:40]Nothing stopped outside of whatever else was going on like with the communities and the populace, which is odd because music was still dropping.

[00:15:50]Uh media was still dropping.

[00:15:52]There was still streams. There was still new YouTubers blowing up during COVID.

[00:15:57]Y'all, there was still new movies. Like entertainment didn't get didn't go on a pause at all. So, we were So, although we were like basically, quote-unquote, stuck and everything had to be on pause, outside of us being on pause, everything else was still on play and on go.

[00:16:18]So, we had entertainment. So, we was trapped in a house, trapped, but we still had entertainment. We still was watching movies.

[00:16:27]And we And also, it wasn't that bad.

[00:16:29]Like it wasn't no damn There There was some curfews in some cities or whatever, but for the most part, you was able to get away with that [ __ ] Like just dodge the cop Y'all, I used to be outside ducking the cops all the time.

[00:16:44]Or Or I used to be outside walking around all the time. Ain't nobody outside. Empty as [ __ ] It's COVID. Like I wasn't trapped in the house. Like if you wanted to be, yeah.

[00:16:56]But I don't know why things went so Basically, it went so dark after COVID.

[00:17:02]I don't know why because it literally was just us being on vacation, enjoying ourselves in our lonely. That's it. On some speaker knocker [ __ ] We was thuggin' by our lonely.

[00:17:14]You mean to tell me everybody can't handle thuggin by they lonely for that amount of time without going absolute oh [ __ ] everything once COVID end I ain't going to lie I'mma be lifeless, soulless, inhumanless.

[00:17:29]Because of two years of being in the [ __ ] house? Which is something everybody was doing anyway? Who the [ __ ] was outside before COVID? Please, let me know.

[00:17:38]Everybody was already going on a I'm I'm antisocial, I'm depressed, I don't like going outside, [ __ ] crowds. Everybody was already in that wave before COVID hit.

[00:17:51]It just got a little worse but other than that like everybody was already on that track to not liking each other. It was already a bunch of [ __ ] going on.

[00:18:00]So it's like I don't know what like why did COVID become your reason for like not [ __ ] with nobody?

[00:18:06]Becoming a mute.

[00:18:08]Saying oh I I I ain't going to lie I don't like guys, I hate men. Or I don't like women, I hate women. Like what? How the [ __ ] we have a huge gender war? Like yo I don't know what I don't know what is up with COVID but it's way more than meets the eye y'all. It's way cuz it literally changed people's mentalities.

[00:18:26]Like it changed people's brains in how they process information and thoughts.

[00:18:32]And in how they process their perceptions of the world. Like the way people think now they weren't thinking that way before.

[00:18:43]COVID is something more to COVID. It's something more to COVID and I think it I think COVID kind of it kind of rewired people's brains. I think COVID I think COVID was um low key a brain virus.

[00:19:03]Just not deadly.

[00:19:07]That's what I think. Uh quarantine and stuff. Once you get signed a city like how people not listening to CDs. People not listening to CDs no more. And like we we release albums and then they buy CDs, but like it because they don't have any CD players, it's just like there. Then we're talking about like the stage that we go on. Like we don't want any, you know, dead crowd.

[00:19:30]We want the crowd to have to go crazy.

[00:19:32]Crowd to go wild. Put your phone down.

[00:19:35]Oh my goodness, thank you. Y'all Y'all remember when I first started reacting to K-pop music or music in general and I was talking about the crowds? I remember I was talking about the crowd when we was reacting to cat's eye.

[00:19:47]Oh my goodness, it was other It was other groups, too. But I was talking about why is the crowd so dead? Why do they have their phones out? Put your [ __ ] phone down. Just enjoy Like why are you Why are you recording it? You got your own two eyes to see it. You literally could save this moment in your memory for the rest of your life. You don't need your phone. You can experience it right here, brother. Like you're going to record the entire thing, you're going to lose the immersion. So it's like I [ __ ] with I [ __ ] with that.

[00:20:18]Cortez know exactly what they're doing.

[00:20:20]Yes, we don't want dead crowds. We don't want people lifeless. We don't want people just there to be there. Like you know how much money you spent on the ticket? If you don't turn up, That's a Yeah, Cortez is so right about that.

[00:20:32]Don't no dead crowd. Yeah, enjoy it. Put your phone down.

[00:20:35]Put your phone down.

[00:20:44]It's connecting to the song fashion.

[00:20:50]Yeah. And referencing the mosh pits.

[00:20:53]Yeah. Learn how to make a mosh pit. Like because I feel like in a lot of Korean festivals, they don't mosh. Yeah. So like and as a person who loves that culture, we just wanted them to like How about you learn and then kind you do them?"

[00:21:07]>> Yeah, since we've been like, you know, saying that out, like, spitting that out from our lungs, but it it wasn't working out. We just >> Yeah. told them to learn it one more time.

[00:21:18]>> Yeah. One more time we imagined it again. One more time. So, we're saying it again.

[00:21:22]>> One more time. But, you got to note down This time note it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:21:27]All right.

[00:21:28]Yeah, turn it up. All right.

[00:21:30]I told you to turn it up. I'll mention no stupid red side. [ __ ] ON THEM BUCKETS OF CREAM.

[00:21:35]FOR ME, IT FEELS LIKE A statement at the current moment what we don't want to do and what we pursue to do.

[00:21:42]Um so, like, the reds are what we won't not do at this current moment. It's not optional for us. It's like, we said it and we're NOT DOING IT.

[00:21:52]IT'S LIKE, WE'RE we're going to achieve that. We're going to pursue that.

[00:21:55]>> We Oh my goodness. And this is this just resonates with me. Yes, it's not optional.

[00:22:02]Yeah, when I say the things that we're going to we're going to accomplish on this channel, it's not a option. It's green, green. Like, we got to do it. You get what I'm saying? Anything else that's red, red. Getting less than a million views, that's now red, red. You get what I'm saying? Not shooting for like the stars when it come to my channel, starting to try and get 10,000 to 50,000 views is red, red. You get what I'm saying? Not starting to make a certain amount of money off of YouTube, that's red, red. You get what I'm saying? Like, everything is not a option no more.

[00:22:39]Like, everything is just do or die. It is. It's really do or die cuz if you know your potential, you know your worth, you know your price.

[00:22:49]You know what you want and you know what you you deserve. One of the hardest songs, one of the most turnt up and hardest songs in hip hop history is from Meek Mill's Dreams and Nightmares.

[00:23:03]And before the beat drop, he says, "I was on my grind and now I got what I deserve. [ __ ] nigga."

[00:23:14]You get what I'm saying?

[00:23:16]I'm on my grind.

[00:23:19]I'm going to get what I deserve.

[00:23:24]this song after our debut and then we had a lot of experience like just going on stage. We put those experiences into the lyrics and >> Right. Yeah. and the whole album into the whole album. So >> Exactly.

[00:23:38]>> Yeah. Right.

[00:23:41]This is This is a fire breakdown. like know us as like the team who kind of sags their pants.

[00:23:48]There's no necessity in >> Oh, yes. They going They covering it.

[00:23:53]the team who kind of sags their pants.

[00:23:55]There's no necessity in covering your butt. Yeah.

[00:23:59]Cuz you know have that confidence.

[00:24:01]>> Yeah. Have that confidence in you. Have that confidence that your ass is just need to be all out. They just have that confidence that your ass need to be all out. Like, oh my y'all, I can't believe they actually covered it. I and that this is exactly what I expected them to say.

[00:24:17]Like, have that confidence that have your ass showing. Like, that's I [snorts] going to lie. That's crazy.

[00:24:25]That I I I think I'm going to pass. Um yeah, I I don't know if I'm that confident. Yeah, that's a little That's a That's a notch above. That's a That's a notch above. But, like, comment, subscribe. Dreamers funny to drop this video. So, yeah, you better run it up. Cordae just just Cordae just did a genius interview.