Runaway Lyrics » Kanye West : The Runaway Lyrics / Runaway Song Lyrics by Kanye West is from The Album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The Runaway Song is Sung by Kanye West. The Runaway Song Music is Produced by Kanye West, MIKE DEAN, Jeff Bhasker & Emile Haynie. The Runaway Song Lyrics is Written by Kanye West, Pete Rock, Jeff Bhasker, Pusha T, John Branch, Malik Yusef, MIKE DEAN & Emile Haynie. The Runaway Song is Released on Oct. 4, 2010. The Runaway Song is Presented by G.O.O.D. Music, Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings & Universal Music Group.
Runaway Song Details :
| Song | Runaway |
| Singer | Kanye West |
| Music | Kanye West, MIKE DEAN, Jeff Bhasker & Emile Haynie |
| Lyrics | Kanye West, Pete Rock, Jeff Bhasker, Pusha T, John Branch, Malik Yusef, MIKE DEAN & Emile Haynie |
| Release Date | Oct. 4, 2010 |
| Label | G.O.O.D. Music, Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings & Universal Music Group |
| Album | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) |
Runaway Lyrics » Kanye West
[Produced by Kanye West, co-produced by Emile, Jeff Bhasker, & Mike Dean]
[Intro: Rick James &
James Brown
]
Look at ya, look at ya, look at ya, look at ya
Look at ya, look at ya, look at ya, look at ya
Look at ya, look at ya, look at ya, look at ya
Look at ya, look at ya, look at ya, look at ya (
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies, ladies and gentlemen
)
[Pre-Chorus: Kanye West]
And I always find, yeah, I always find something wrong
You been puttin’ up with my shit just way too long
I’m so gifted at finding what I don’t like the most
So I think it’s time for us to have a toast
[Chorus: Kanye West]
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags
Let’s have a toast for the assholes
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags
Every one of them that I know
Let’s have a toast for the jerk-offs
That’ll never take work off
Baby, I got a plan
Run away fast as you can
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
She find pictures in my email
I sent this bitch a picture of my dick
I don’t know what it is with females
But I’m not too good at that shit
See, I could have me a good girl
And still be addicted to them hoodrats
And I just blame everything on you
At least you know that’s what I’m good at
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About Kanye West’s Runaway from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
The piano, the echoing voice in the background, the distortion on his singing, the vocoder solo: every single element of this track is spine-tingling, hauntingly beautiful. Combine that with Pusha’s verse and it becomes Greek tragedy rap: it takes the clichéd ideas of power, sex, money and removes all the glamour from them.
West has stated that the song serves as
“a toast to the douchebags.”
West weaves a tale through topics such as his relationship with Amber Rose, his arrogance, insecurity, and sorrow.
Pusha-T
spoke about his emotional state
during the writing process for “Runaway”:
I wrote ‘Runaway’ four times—and what he does not know to this day is that I was going through a relationship scandal in my life. So this man is asking me to write a song about a relationship and to say that I’m the biggest douchebag ever. He’s telling me, ‘Yo, you need to be more douchebag. We need more douchebag!’ I didn’t want to say to him, ‘Dog, I don’t know if I even have douchebag in me right now.’ I’ve been jammed up, and it’s hard for me to even tap into that part because I’m remorseful. [Laughs.]
Producer
Pete Rock
added:
[Kanye] played ‘Runaway’—and as soon as I heard the drums come in, I just started laughing. He used my drums from
Mecca and the Soul Brother
! I used these drums in an interlude before this record called
‘The Basement,’
and those drums come on before the song. I never heard anybody make a song the way he made it out of those drums. I thought that was genius.
Kanye
premiered
“Runaway” at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards—one year after his infamous
“I’ma let you finish”
interruption of Taylor Swift’s speech at the VMAs.
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FAQs About Runaway
What did Kanye West say about “Runaway”?
That song is just the perfect example of the brilliance of Kanye West as a producer. And I got to witness that dude’s genius. I was lucky enough to go out to Hawaii to work on Cudi’s album
Man On The Moon II
. We decided to go out there because Kanye was working on
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
, and we’re all kind of a team.
The way that works is that I was working on Cudi’s album, and it’s all very communal. It’s Kanye’s studio, and Cudi would be there, and Kanye’s whole team would be there, and everybody who’s at the studio does music.
It was late one night, and we were hanging out, and Kanye asked me if I had any beats, and I started playing him some beats. Pretty low, no big deal, we were just chilling playing some beats. I didn’t know if I had anything that great, because his album’s production was coming out so fucking next level. I had some beats, but I was already in the process of working on songs from scratch, but I was like, ‘Yeah I got some stuff, I’ll play you some ideas.’
I had a beat, and I played it, and it was the foundation of “Runaway.” It was pretty different from the production now, but something about it, the chord progression or the way I put together the chords must’ve rung out to him.
It was pretty amazing to watch. He heard the beat once, then asked the guy to play it one more time, and then was just like, ‘Okay, put it in Pro Tools.’ And when he said that, the room was like, ‘Oh shit.’
He probably had listened to the beat for four minutes, and got in the booth, and almost verbatim to what’s on the song today, just did it. I don’t know if he wrote it in his head in those four minutes, but he just got in the booth and was like, ‘Yeah I always find, yeah I always find somethin’ wrong.’ And almost the whole song just came out. Something about the chords and the way the music worked, I don’t know, it just hit him and worked out perfectly.
The lyrics and the concept were what they were, and that’s when the Kanye West genius producer mode came in to play. He totally reproduced the record, and kept working on it and working on it, along with Jeff Bhasker, who played the piano line and played a lot of the keys on it. He’s one of my favorite producers too.
Those two guys really went in on the production. I was upstairs doing Cudi’s thing, and I just kept hearing the song just get better and better and better. Kanye is a super producer in the truest sense of the word. He turned it into the this epic song. It’s just a beautiful record. It’s a masterpiece.
He always is like, ‘Thank you for “Runaway.” Thank you for sparking that.’ He’s very cool about that. He’s very appreciative. I’m like, ‘Dude, you’re the one who made it this amazing record! Thank you for making my beat, that was pretty good, into this amazing song! [Laughs.]’
Emile via Complex
Does this track have any RIAA certifications?
Yes. “Runaway” was
certified 3x platinum
by the RIAA on March 9, 2022.
Why doesn’t Runaway feel like an apology?
Kanye admits that he has some problems but instead of saying he’s sorry he prefers to “suggest” to this girl to run away from him because he is not able to change.
Who produced “Runaway” by Kanye West?
When did Kanye West release “Runaway”?
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