4 Raws

"4 Raws" is EsDeeKid's coming-of-age tale told through a fog of smoke, horsepower, and defiance. The song wanders breezily through drug use, street life, upward mobility, and a general refusal to take any guff from the "plod" (British slang for police).

EsDeeKid casts himself as a self-proclaimed "scumbag" from the "Liverpool slums." He recalls being "broke, no joke, but I spun back," a tidy little summary of a turnaround powered not by evening classes or careful budgeting, but by whatever dubious extracurriculars make a Lamborghini suddenly appear in one's life.

The title phrase, "four raws," is slang for lighting up four RAW rolling papers at once. EsDeeKid also folds in lines about being "four man deep in this German" (a German high-end car), and the grim boast "I'm rotten, I'm sick when I pour fours." For the uninitiated, "pouring fours" refers to drinking lean, an opioid cocktail with the side effect of making you feel like death itself when you stop consuming it.