Hey what’s good y’all, it’s ya boy Cordae
and I'm going to take you to my episode of We the People, which is all about Taxes.
OK, now let me start to tell y'all all about taxes.
How much do you pay? Well, that depends on yo bracket.
I've learned that in real life,
the fact is, it’s something that affects all the masses.
But I'll break it down into a classic.
You see the Internal Revenue Service.
I didn't know that the IRS stood for the Internal Revenue Service...
until, you know, I was doing my research to write this song .
But that's a fun fact.
Was discovered with a purpose by Abe Lincoln.
Also didn't know that either.
So like so before I wrote this song, you know, I took a real approach
because, you know, obviously it's an educational song.
There's going to be use to educate millions.
And so I just wanted to go above and beyond and, you know, do
the proper research from extremely reliable sources
and double back on it to make sure that I was given, you know, accurate
information and, you know, allowing people to take away from this song,
to learn from it,
as I was learning from it, you know, from actually writing this down.
You see 9% of taxes help provide to the poor
But 15 goes to the office and supplying the war.
Yeah, I didn't know that. I knew, you know, it was
a disproportionate
amount, but I didn't realize, like, you know, the actual percentages.
So, you know, I was looking this up and I was like, wow, I got to put that in.
Now if you ask me, I say that the numbers are shrewd
But we agreed that with no military, we're screwed.
I'll drop a little knowledge for whatever it's worth.
Only two percent went to medical research.
That's funny that the doctors are like in a basement with like cobwebs
and like sixth grade science tools.
Because I said 2% went to medical research.
But that's actually super funny.
I want to look back at this song, you know, a 100 years
from now and be like, wow, hopefully I'm alive at 120.
But and you know what Ricky Bobby said?
What medical research and my income is.
I can definitely shoot for 120.
Now we just get started and I'll give you some more.
But we all know one thing's for sure.
Little homie, you better pay yoo taxxxx la la la
Lil homie you better pay yoo taxxxx la la la
la la la
Lil homie you better pay yo taxxx la la la (I don’t think you hear me?
You betta pay you tax (you betta listen)
I just wanted to add a bunch of instrumentation to this.
I went back, you know,
after I wrote the song and recorded it, I was like, let's add on.
Like a saxophone right here.
I just wanted to field the chorus with all sorts, like a little sounds,
you know, like it's like a tambourine back there somewhere you can hear.
Dun dun, dun, dun dun.
Like a little guitar riff that had them. Dun, dun, dun, dun dun.
Pay your taxes, then add like on.
Layers on my vocals like pay your tax.
La da da da la da da da da.
Pay your tax. Na, na, na.
Pay your taxes, then I'm in the background,
You better listen to me.
Lemme tell you now.
So I just wanted to add a good amount of layering on this ya know.
And I know what ya kids thinking, what this got to do with me
But one day you gonna really need Social Security.
That was tight, shout out to the animations for that line,
like because one day you don't really need a Social Security.
And then he got like the old version of this kid.
And he's like, can you imagine that?
Like in real life, though, like looking at like your older self, like, ‘Argh
let me drink some more water.
And I always keep it real
So I'm I have to say that me and my family really benefit from Medicaid.
Yeah, yeah. That Obamacare. My grandma had that Obamacare and that Obama phone.
I don't know if you remember that. You remember the Obama phone.
I don't know if you remember that.
But it was a real my grandma had that and Obama had Obamacare.
So you got to vote, brah.
And it's super beneficial because you have a say who's your local officials?
And they decide on how to slice the pie.
I love these animations, it’s tight.
At first I was kind of like I didn't they do an animated version of myself,
but I kind of like the fact that it's like all cats, you know, it's kind of
it's kind of trippy.
But yeah, I was definitely thinking visually and I started watching,
animated educational
shows to see the vibe, you know, like
because I said the purpose of this is to directly educate.
And so it needed to be something catchy.
Yet, informative. That's like easy to remember.
Hence the ‘pay yoo taxxxx’, you know what I’m sayin?
Yeah.
Lil homie you better pay yoo taxxxx la la la
la la la
Lil homie you better pay yoo taxxxx la la la
la la la la la la la la
Lil homie you better pay yoo taxxxx la la la
(I don’t think you hear me)
You know what, when I was first writing this, I wanted to be funny
in a way to, you know, almost like a spoof sort of feel,
but still be like extremely dope and creative and musical.
And yeah, man, this is fun to make. Honestly.
(You better listen, let me tell you)
You better pay your tax
(Now put your hand—, I know you hear me, come on)
pay your tax
(Now come on now, come on)
Yeah that was tight, that was super cool.
I appreciate you all for watching my episode of The People with me.
Make sure you tune in to the rest of the series on Netflix right now.