City of Gods Lyrics » Alicia Keys : The City of Gods Lyrics / City of Gods Song Lyrics by Alicia Keys is from The Album Donda 2 (2022). The City of Gods Song is Sung by Alicia Keys. The City of Gods Song Music is Produced by Kanye West, MIKE DEAN, BoogzDaBeast, Bordeaux, Non Native, Scoop, The Chainsmokers, Dem Jointz, Ojivolta, Lil Mav, Tweek Tune, Hemz & AyoAA. The City of Gods Song Lyrics is Written by Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, MIKE DEAN, Mark Williams, Victoria Zaro, Tweek Tune, Raul Cubina, Playboi Carti, Lil Mav, Hemz, Dem Jointz, Delacey, Cristion D’or, AyoAA & Andrew Taggart. The City of Gods Song is Released on Feb. 11, 2022. The City of Gods Song is Presented by RichFish & Columbia Records.
City of Gods Song Details :
| Song | City of Gods |
| Singer | Alicia Keys |
| Music | Kanye West, MIKE DEAN, BoogzDaBeast, Bordeaux, Non Native, Scoop, The Chainsmokers, Dem Jointz, Ojivolta, Lil Mav, Tweek Tune, Hemz & AyoAA |
| Lyrics | Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, MIKE DEAN, Mark Williams, Victoria Zaro, Tweek Tune, Raul Cubina, Playboi Carti, Lil Mav, Hemz, Dem Jointz, Delacey, Cristion D’or, AyoAA & Andrew Taggart |
| Release Date | Feb. 11, 2022 |
| Label | RichFish & Columbia Records |
| Album | Donda 2 (2022) |
City of Gods Lyrics » Alicia Keys
[Chorus: Alicia Keys &
Playboi Carti
]
New York City, please go easy on me tonight
New York City, please go easy on this heart of mine (
What?
)
[Verse 1: Fivio Foreign &
Playboi Carti
]
Yeah, look, huh, nigga, this my shit
Welcome to the city of Gods (
What?
)
Pop was the king of New York, now I’m the nigga in charge
Only the drillers, the city is ours
We found out the opps and we pick ’em apart
I give ’em my time so I give ’em my heart
If the city love me, then I’m really a star (
What?
)
[Chorus: Alicia Keys]
New York City, please go easy on me tonight
Nеw York City, please go easy on this hеart of mine
‘Cause I’m losing my lover to the arms of another
New York City, please go easy on me
[Verse 2: Fivio Foreign &
Playboi Carti
]
Yeah, look, this is the city of money and violence
Everything we do is gon’ come with a challenge
Every bitch you fuck is gon’ come with a balance (
What?
)
Every shooter with me is coming in silence (
What?
)
And you niggas better pick a side (Better pick a side)
You niggas side hoppin’ (You niggas side hoppin’)
If I want ’em to not let you come into the city, it’s my option (Baow)
This is the home of the fly shoppin’ (Yeah)
This where the bitches gon’ watch pockets (Yeah)
When I’m on TV, I gotta look good
‘Cause I know the whole block watchin’
If you chill with the opps, we is not vibing
If I see ’em in person, we Fox 5 ’em
Yeah, the police is on us, we not stoppin’
(Yeah, the police is on us, we not stoppin’, nah)
This is the town of the big drip (Big drip), smooth talk (Smooth talk, ha)
Milly Rock (Milly Rock), Shmoney Dance (Shmoney Dance), Woo Walk (Woo)
You will not survive being too soft (No)
Been a long time, we took a new loss (No)
Shooters shootin’ ’til we got a new corpse (Baow)
If we stop then we lettin’ it cool off (Baow, boom)
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About Alicia Keys’s City of Gods from Donda 2 (2022)
“City of Gods” is a collaboration between Fivio Foreign,
Kanye West
, and
Alicia Keys
and is a triumphant ode to Fivio and Keys’ hometown of New York City. The song serves as the lead single for Fivio’s debut studio album
B.I.B.L.E.
and Ye’s eleventh studio album
DONDA 2
.
Ye and Fivio first collaborated on the song
“Off The Grid”
from Ye’s tenth studio album
Donda
, released in 2021.
Snippets
of a new collaboration between the artists circulated in early 2022 during private listening parties held by Ye. On February 6, 2022, Fivio
revealed
that Ye had given him a “crazy” feature verse for an upcoming song, and, on February 11, he
announced
the song’s release via social media.
The song’s chorus, sung by Keys, interpolates the chorus from
“New York City”
by
The Chainsmokers
, released in 2015. The track also features adlibs from Atlanta rapper
Playboi Carti
, who similarly attributed vocals to “Off The Grid.”
On April 7, 2022, Alicia Keys released a
solo version
of the song with a stripped back instrumental after
teasing
a short snippet of the alternate version via Twitter.
Songs That Sample & Interpolate City of Gods
- Songs That Interpolate City of Gods
Burnin’ Checks by The Game (Ft. Fivio Foreign)
City of Gods Covers
FAQs About City of Gods
What did Fivio Foreign, Kanye West & Alicia Keys say about “City of Gods”?
Fivio Foreign
dedicated
this song to his late friend and long-time collaborator
Tahjay “TDott” Dobson
.
TDott. That’s my baby boy. I never thought I’d be doing this without you here with me. You supposed to be here with me but you gon’ always be the prince in the City of Gods. Your name will forever live through with me. Long Live Prince TDott.
How did this song come together?
The way that shit came together, the beat came as a sample. It came with
the sample
from
The Chainsmokers
. It was a drill beat with that, and I’m like, ‘’This is fire’‘. I just did it on the beat. So I’m looking for everybody to put on here, I’m calling all New York niggas, ’‘Get on this shit’‘ and the verses was fire but it was just missing something, I don’t know what it was. So when I went to L.A., I played it for
Ye
. He was like, ’‘This is fire! We got to get
Hov
on it’‘. I’m like, ’‘What? We can get Hov?’‘ He said, ’‘Watch this, tomorrow’‘. But then the next day came and he was like, ’‘Yo,
Alicia Keys
is on the way, she gonna sing the hook’‘. I’m like, ’‘Word? Yo, you serious?’‘ He’s like, ’‘Yeah, and then we gon’ give it to Hov’‘. And I’m like, ’‘Yo, I’m not gon’ lie, I want it to come out now’‘. He’s like, ’‘You right, we got to drop it now before
DONDA 2
drop, so I’ma just throw a verse on it’‘. So what happened was, we made Alicia Keys sing, first time I ever met her, she was mad cool. We didn’t even do it in the studio, it was in a room with a mic, she was singing that shit. It was fire, and then we removed the whole sample because her singing was crazy, and then Ye threw his verse in. It was like that.
— Fivio Foreign, via
Apple Music
Was the song artwork changed?
Yes: in the first hours since the song’s initial release, “City of Gods” had a full black artwork on Spotify, in a similar style to Kanye’s
Donda
album cover.
However, on
Kanye’s subreddit
, it was pointed out that there were slight differences in the colour of black used:
“City of Gods” has a RGB of (0, 0, 0)
Donda
has a RGB of (1, 4, 2)
How did Fivio use this song to speak out on the perception of New York drill?
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