#LyricsMatter: Lil Uzi Has Neon Guts

In the most psychedelic hip-hop gem to come along in a while, Lil Uzi Vert and Pharrell heat up the track by spitting:

“Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Uh huh, yeah, yeah
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts

Admit it, I move like amoeba
I float in the room like I’m reefer
Alien, I’m not your kind of people
Telepathic fam watch how I read ya
You ain’t got emeralds greener
You ain’t got rich up the sleeve
And I got a Rolls that’s in the Grove, that I ain’t drove
Shit, I don’t know the reason
Andele, andele, arriba
Me and J Balvin on G5
Success is a drug man, and we high
I am mother as a beehive
I got love for you haters
Ain’t you tired of enslavement
Come with us, make some paper
‘Cause you should own what you labor
Yeah, You never stayed in Kailua
I put Chanel on my shooter
Flooded my chain and it’s Gucci
I don’t want that girl she moody
I’m basically saying that I’m cooler
Get Dior discounts from my cougar
Back in the six-grade I got them bad grades
I was in love with my tutor
See, musically, Lil Uzi trapping man
Most of you rappers be actors man
Go M.I.A when I find little Madison
Stay at the Ritz-Carlton, this not the Radisson
Just took a blue one, ’bout to take the red pill
Purple thoughts in my brain, hope it don’t spill
Stay with a nerd just like Urkel Jaleel
Fresh just like Carlton, I kill ’em with Will
Big ass “R” on my Smiths
Big ass “R” on my whip
Slip-on shoes, so you won’t trip
Said she kinda fine if she got some hips
Momma said, “Let me see the witch”
Boy you know light and dark don’t mix
Mix it up, boy, bad luck
Sick to my stomach with them neon guts

Higher than Elon Musk
So high stars eat our dust
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Dark energy, we don’t touch
Our jewelry’s be on Tut
And it give a nigga colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Higher than Elon Musk
So high stars eat our dust
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Dark energies, we don’t touch
Our jewelry’s be on Tut
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts

Yeah fam
Pharrell on Mars with my fellow stars
I’m like lightning striking on a metal rod
Say “Hello, God” on the double bars
So dammit, Amex, I got a yellow card

Yellow card, yellow card
Damn, P, I need a yellow card
I am from The Root like where the petal start
I had to push like a pedal
Started way after but ahead of y’all
New crib, got a better yard
Two years, I got hella cars
Since the eighth grade I had hella broads
Hella broads, hella broads
Yellow painting with a yellow brush
Shit came from cost, probably Marge
Slick my hair back like I’m Chico DeBarge
I got some lights on my chest
Don’t confuse it with a heart
Heard things ain’t looking too good for you
Had to pull some strings like I play the harp
I get these billions alone
It been that way from the start
Smoking good kush, my cologne
Got neon guts ’cause I can’t see in the dark

Higher than Elon Musk
So high stars eat our dust
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Dark energy, we don’t touch
Our jewelry’s be on Tut
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Higher than Elon Musk
So high stars eat our dust
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
Dark energy, we don’t touch
Our jewelry’s be on Tut
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts
And I got a colorful aura
Like I got neon guts”

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Symere Woods / Pharrell Williams
Neon Guts lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

This song can be best described as a melodic boast. Lil Uzi has put the world on notice that he cannot be placed in a box. An aura usually is the general sum of a person but his aura is colorful and adjusts itself to who he is, when he is.

In the first verse, he is setting the scene. He’s like an amoeba, in that, he can moves fluidly. He’s everything. Lol. Then the bragging becomes a tad superficial with his list of things he owns. He isn’t selfish though, he invites his colleagues to join him and his crew so they can make money too. He even shells out sound advice: “You should own what you labor.” Artists have been taken advantage of for far too long. You should own your work. Seems like a given but many people have been duped. If you’re an artist and you’re going the label route, make sure you READ EVERYTHING and DON’T SIGN ANYTHING UNTIL YOU KNOW FOR SURE THAT YOU WILL OWN PUBLISHING AND RECEIVE ROYALTIES FOR YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

Moving on… Uzi then mentions his success with the ladies, adding that, his love for the older woman started long ago: “Back in the sixth grade I got them bad grades. I was in love with my tutor.” He goes on to brag a bit more about his valuables and how lucky he’s been, then adds that he keeps smart people around him. Very smart in my opinion.

He ends the first verse by saying that if a woman has hips she’s kinda cute. 🙄

His mother looks at the light-skinned (or possibly white) girls he likes and warns him that mixing up the colors doesn’t work, in fact, it’s bad luck. So he thinks must be sick because he likes everything, per his super big, super colorful aura.

The chorus is straight forward but “Higher than Elon Musk” is worth mentioning. BARZ!!!

In the second verse,Pharrell feels out of this world (and lately he’s been out of touch: see black twitter for details.) with his ‘fellow stars.’ The world they live in is so different from what the hum-drummers are accustomed to. In his short flow, he is like the lightning that strikes metal and makes the world look up to see what happened. As a matter of fact, so many look up that he’s filthy stinkin’ rich. Amex even gave him a yellow card.

To which Lil Uzi Vert is like, ‘Fa Real? You rollin’ like dat? I gotta get me a yellow card too!’ He goes on to remind people that he wasn’t always rich. He worked hard and the benefit, in his opinion, is all the things he’s been bragging about. He goes on to say, he didn’t have to be rich to get women. Women aren’t a new thing and I get the feeling that he is not easily, deeply, impressed.

To end the second and last verse he spits about the light that lives in his chest. He wants us to know that it isn’t a heart and honestly I don’t see anything wrong with that. God is light. Light is love. You don’t need a heart to show love and hearts are more human than Godly, so hearts are pretty finicky by nature. We love people one day and hate them the next. What good is a heart if there is no light in it?

Finally he wants us to know that he earned all the money he has by himself and his soul/intuition/’guts’ are neon so he can navigate the darkness around him.

Whatever you feel about what he had to say, it was honest and he lives his truth. Aside from the small beef he had in the past, nobody really has anything negative to say about him. He made his money and sat down. (Recently he’s released new music. I haven’t heard any of his more recent pieces but I hope he continues to shine the light featured in “Neon Guts.”) I don’t know a lot about his discography but I like this song and I like Lil Uzi Vert’s personality.

–Just a take on what’s sure to be a hip-hop classic from a Music Head who is all about the lyrics.