4 AM Flex
After “Guns & Roses” somewhat nonspecifically describes Lanez’s relationship with the girl he was living with in 2009, “Flex” deals in stereotypical stunting, and “To D.R.E.A.M.” informs us of the goals he still had yet to accomplish, I Told You‘s fifth song gets back to the nitty gritty. We kick off with an explanation to a girlfriend about Lanez’s late-night pursuits, and how they lead him to link with her at an insanely late hour. This girl is with it in every way possible, knowing how “to read if the lick good,” and even throwing “her own 4 in the mixture,” the perfect partner-in-crime Tory needed at this dangerous point in his life.
After a brief interlude that sets the scene for the titular “flex,” namely the robbery of a dude named Chino’s house, we launch into live-action lick-hitting commentary reminiscent of Kendrick Lamar‘s “The Art Of Peer Pressure” and YG‘s “Meet The Flockers.” Chino discovers Lanez and his companions when they’re inside the house, and things go awry:
“The nigga that we just robbed popped one in his shoulder
It led to me pulling over, to checking and telling him dawg
Just take the passenger seat and I’ll hit the road
Cause it’s way too many police out here to feel like we low
My back windshield broke and the driver seat soaked
From the blood that was previously leaking from his coat”
As he rushes his injured friend to safety, he has to juggle police evasion and his own personal safety with his girl, who’s suddenly not so chill. “My phone blingin’ ’cause my girl at home clingin’,” he raps, foreshadowing her annoyance with him during a phone conversation in the next skit. His bro opts to jump out of the car before the hospital, and his relationship is beginning to sound strained. At the end of “4 AM Flex,” this chapter of Lanez’s life doesn’t seem long for this world.
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