Let Me Out (feat. Mavis Staples & Pusha T)

This politically-charged track finds Pusha T and Mavis Staples delivering hypothetical, doomsday lyrics about a world falling apart under a Donald Trump administration. Obama is gone, who is left to save us? So together we mourn, I'm praying for my neighbors They say the devil's at work and Trump is calling favors

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Beats 1, Pusha T said that Damon Albarn contacted him in spring 2016 before Trump was even the Republican candidate. According to the rapper, the Gorillaz founding member wanted to create a dark fantasy about the world coming to an end after Trump becomes president. "Damon begins to tell me to conceptualize the album as a party for the end of the world, like if Trump were to win," he said. "I wrote from the perspective of this day…from the perspective of a Trump win. So when this s--t really happened, I was like, 'Wait a minute.' And then I started wondering, 'What kind of a crystal ball does this guy have?'" "Like why are you even asking me to even think along these lines? And he really did, man. He was first," Pusha added. "I don't think that he thought he was going to win, I'm not gonna go that far, but he definitely conceptualized this whole thing."

Pusha T went on to say during the interview that he has always been drawn to Gorillaz's uncompromising vision. "It was all about the music, the whole cartoon aspect of it," he said. "A lot of it was like 'Damn, these guys are so true to what they believe in, and they're so dope and they just do what they want to do.'"