Young Dolph
Coming on the scene with stern club bangers and cold punch lines, Memphis-based rapper Young Dolph became a local hero with a series of mixtapes before breaking nationwide around 2014. Since then, he frequently landed in Billboard with albums like 2020's Top Five-charting Rich Slave and two Dum and Dummer releases with Key Glock, as well as single collaborations with Megan Thee Stallion, O.T. Genasis, and others.
Born Adolph Thornton, Jr. in Chicago, Dolph debuted in 2008 with the mixtape Paper Route Campaign. Read Full BioComing on the scene with stern club bangers and cold punch lines, Memphis-based rapper Young Dolph became a local hero with a series of mixtapes before breaking nationwide around 2014. Since then, he frequently landed in Billboard with albums like 2020's Top Five-charting Rich Slave and two Dum and Dummer releases with Key Glock, as well as single collaborations with Megan Thee Stallion, O.T. Genasis, and others.
Born Adolph Thornton, Jr. in Chicago, Dolph debuted in 2008 with the mixtape Paper Route Campaign. Subsequent releases like The Weed Album and South Memphis Kingpin brought him to 2012, when he dropped the first in a successful series of mixtapes dubbed High Class Street Music . By the time High Class Street Music 4 and the Preach single dropped in 2014, Dolph was working with major-label producers including Drumma Boy and Zaytoven. Both provided tracks for his 2016 debut LP, King of Memphis, which featured no guest artists, and debuted at number 49 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
A trio of mixtapes followed, ending withm Rich Crack Baby. The album entered the Billboard 200 upon release and included guest appearances by Boosie Badazz, 2 Chainz, Wale, T.I., Gucci Mane, and 21 Savage. Another mixtape, Gelato, followed in early 2017, containing the Yo Gotti diss track Play wit Yo' Bitch as well as tracks featuring Migos, Wiz Khalifa, and Lil Yachty. Dolph's second studio album,Bulletproof, was released in April of 2017 and reached the Top 40 of the Billboard 200. Mere months later, he issued Thinking Out Loud, which featured guest spots by DRAM, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, and Ty Dolla $ign. The album was another success, hitting number 16 on the Billboard 200.
In early 2018, Dolph issued the EP Niggas Get Shot Everyday, following up later that year with the Key Glock collaboration Major (feat. Key Glock) and the solo track By Mistake The full-length Role Model appeared later in the year and became Dolph's highest-charting album to date, hitting number 15 on the Billboard 200. One year later, Dolph joined frequent collaborator Key Glock for 2019's Dum and Dummer, the pair's first collaborative mixtape. Dolph's seventh studio album, Rich Slave, arrived in August 2020 and found him addressing issues of racism and inequality in America. Included on the album were guest appearances by Megan Thee Stallion, Key Glock, and G Herbo. In 2021, Dolph and Glock reunited for Dum and Dummer 2, followed promptly by PAPER ROUTE iLLUMINATi, a showcase album for Dolph's Paper Route Empire label. Young Dolph died on November 17, 2021 after he was shot while visiting a bakery in Memphis en route to a Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. He was 36 years old.
Born Adolph Thornton, Jr. in Chicago, Dolph debuted in 2008 with the mixtape Paper Route Campaign. Read Full BioComing on the scene with stern club bangers and cold punch lines, Memphis-based rapper Young Dolph became a local hero with a series of mixtapes before breaking nationwide around 2014. Since then, he frequently landed in Billboard with albums like 2020's Top Five-charting Rich Slave and two Dum and Dummer releases with Key Glock, as well as single collaborations with Megan Thee Stallion, O.T. Genasis, and others.
Born Adolph Thornton, Jr. in Chicago, Dolph debuted in 2008 with the mixtape Paper Route Campaign. Subsequent releases like The Weed Album and South Memphis Kingpin brought him to 2012, when he dropped the first in a successful series of mixtapes dubbed High Class Street Music . By the time High Class Street Music 4 and the Preach single dropped in 2014, Dolph was working with major-label producers including Drumma Boy and Zaytoven. Both provided tracks for his 2016 debut LP, King of Memphis, which featured no guest artists, and debuted at number 49 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
A trio of mixtapes followed, ending withm Rich Crack Baby. The album entered the Billboard 200 upon release and included guest appearances by Boosie Badazz, 2 Chainz, Wale, T.I., Gucci Mane, and 21 Savage. Another mixtape, Gelato, followed in early 2017, containing the Yo Gotti diss track Play wit Yo' Bitch as well as tracks featuring Migos, Wiz Khalifa, and Lil Yachty. Dolph's second studio album,Bulletproof, was released in April of 2017 and reached the Top 40 of the Billboard 200. Mere months later, he issued Thinking Out Loud, which featured guest spots by DRAM, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, and Ty Dolla $ign. The album was another success, hitting number 16 on the Billboard 200.
In early 2018, Dolph issued the EP Niggas Get Shot Everyday, following up later that year with the Key Glock collaboration Major (feat. Key Glock) and the solo track By Mistake The full-length Role Model appeared later in the year and became Dolph's highest-charting album to date, hitting number 15 on the Billboard 200. One year later, Dolph joined frequent collaborator Key Glock for 2019's Dum and Dummer, the pair's first collaborative mixtape. Dolph's seventh studio album, Rich Slave, arrived in August 2020 and found him addressing issues of racism and inequality in America. Included on the album were guest appearances by Megan Thee Stallion, Key Glock, and G Herbo. In 2021, Dolph and Glock reunited for Dum and Dummer 2, followed promptly by PAPER ROUTE iLLUMINATi, a showcase album for Dolph's Paper Route Empire label. Young Dolph died on November 17, 2021 after he was shot while visiting a bakery in Memphis en route to a Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. He was 36 years old.
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1 Scale
Young Dolph Lyrics
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(Let the BandPlay)
Yeah
All I need is one scale, a couple bales, came in this shit by myself
Dolph, why you fuck his girl? Uh, shit, 'cause I'm a player
Quarterback, no NFL (ayy), drippy in Chanel (drippy)
Playin' hide and go seek in the mansion with my lil' girl (Aria)
Elevator was too crowded, so I took the stairs (woo)
The whole industry was hatin', so now I give 'em hell (ha)
Business man, I invest a whole million in the mail (yeah)
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah
I-I-I treat bitches like some shoes, I cop 'em by the pairs (it's Dolph)
She like when I grab her neck and pull her by her hair (it's Dolph)
In my city, I'm more important than the fuckin' mayor (it's Dolph)
Ten years straight, I set the prices on the kush, I swear (it's Dolph)
I got your bitch lookin' for Flipper (where he at?)
I let her ride like a bicycle (ah)
I pulled out and bust on her dimples (ah)
Quarter milli' for this Richard (Mille)
I had to run up them digits (run it up)
Niggas know that I'm the sickest (for real)
Bitches know that I'm the littest
Whip my dick out and piss on your feelings (for real)
I heard that lil' nigga from Memphis (okay)
I heard he used to trap in Fendi (okay)
I heard he went to jail in a Bentley (okay)
Straps with me in New York City (uh)
Lil' black nigga with all this fuckin' paper on me, man
What the fuck they mean, man?
I can't go out like that (uh), huh, hold up
Bangin' L's, swangin' scales (what?)
Shakin', got residue in my nails (what?)
Started gettin' real money, we bustin' bales
Everybody on the floor know the smell, uh
Dropped out of high school
Had to start bringin' my Glock, couldn't show and tell, uh (pussy)
Big bro got life in the feds
Can't talk on the phone, but he know it's well
Walked out the trap with a big ol' bag
'Til I pop in the house, I was on a seal (swerve)
We was sinnin' on Sunday, that bitch in my hand
But I'm sinnin' in my head, know I'm gon' prevail, uh
If I call her house phone, tell her bring that bitch out cocked, then my mama will (come on)
I was eighteen, my OG seen me hop out the Benz or a Bonneville (bah)
I bought a mansion, pop in that bitch fresh off a shootout, I'm hot as hell
Shh, you gon' do some time, niggas probably tell
Fuck it, this the lifestyle, know I probably will
I'm in New York with my nigga Dolph, he rockin' wop, but his neck on Gabbana still (uh)
I'm rockin' Christian Dior with a bag full of blues (uh), all black but it's Prada still (swerve)
I'm in the 'Raq, Benihana, don't eat at Hamada
See opp, he get probably killed (swerve)
Told lil' bro come out with me in Bali
Get out the 'Raq, he might come near, catch a body still (shh)
I'll pull up on your home in a Lamb' smokin' out the sack
Arch her back, disappear, artifact (skrrt)
I ain't comin' with shit but my pipe and a box of Mags
Twenty on me, that's my starter pack
Gettin' too much money, we ain't tryna make arch-rivals
You know we spark rides (bah)
I was outside and that's the reason we won battles
Nigga, we weren't part-time
Got a youngin, he only send straight at you (seen 'em)
You ain't never heard that snake rap? (Go get 'em)
On a nigga head, then we just can't catch you
Spin twice, mad as fuck, we went straight past you
Ever tried to kill a nigga just 'cause you had to?
Meetin' up in the clubhouse like Rascals (huh?)
Everybody rich as fuck, ain't nothin' past due
I could go grab a M from my mama pad too
Let me see what you gon' do, we could team-tag two
Oh, you ain't with the shit, have somebody blast you
Kel-Tec on my lap, if God bless you, I tag you
Have you fillin' the bag with your fast food (pussy)
Yeah
All I need is one scale, a couple bales, came in this shit by myself
Dolph, why you fuck his girl? Uh, shit, 'cause I'm a player
Quarterback, no NFL (ayy), drippy in Chanel (drippy)
Playin' hide and go seek in the mansion with my lil' girl (Aria)
Elevator was too crowded, so I took the stairs (woo)
The whole industry was hatin', so now I give 'em hell (ha)
Business man, I invest a whole million in the mail (yeah)
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah
I-I-I treat bitches like some shoes, I cop 'em by the pairs (it's Dolph)
She like when I grab her neck and pull her by her hair (it's Dolph)
In my city, I'm more important than the fuckin' mayor (it's Dolph)
Ten years straight, I set the prices on the kush, I swear (it's Dolph)
I got your bitch lookin' for Flipper (where he at?)
I let her ride like a bicycle (ah)
I pulled out and bust on her dimples (ah)
Quarter milli' for this Richard (Mille)
I had to run up them digits (run it up)
Niggas know that I'm the sickest (for real)
Bitches know that I'm the littest
Whip my dick out and piss on your feelings (for real)
I heard that lil' nigga from Memphis (okay)
I heard he used to trap in Fendi (okay)
I heard he went to jail in a Bentley (okay)
Straps with me in New York City (uh)
Lil' black nigga with all this fuckin' paper on me, man
What the fuck they mean, man?
I can't go out like that (uh), huh, hold up
Bangin' L's, swangin' scales (what?)
Shakin', got residue in my nails (what?)
Started gettin' real money, we bustin' bales
Everybody on the floor know the smell, uh
Dropped out of high school
Had to start bringin' my Glock, couldn't show and tell, uh (pussy)
Big bro got life in the feds
Can't talk on the phone, but he know it's well
Walked out the trap with a big ol' bag
'Til I pop in the house, I was on a seal (swerve)
We was sinnin' on Sunday, that bitch in my hand
But I'm sinnin' in my head, know I'm gon' prevail, uh
If I call her house phone, tell her bring that bitch out cocked, then my mama will (come on)
I was eighteen, my OG seen me hop out the Benz or a Bonneville (bah)
I bought a mansion, pop in that bitch fresh off a shootout, I'm hot as hell
Shh, you gon' do some time, niggas probably tell
Fuck it, this the lifestyle, know I probably will
I'm in New York with my nigga Dolph, he rockin' wop, but his neck on Gabbana still (uh)
I'm rockin' Christian Dior with a bag full of blues (uh), all black but it's Prada still (swerve)
I'm in the 'Raq, Benihana, don't eat at Hamada
See opp, he get probably killed (swerve)
Told lil' bro come out with me in Bali
Get out the 'Raq, he might come near, catch a body still (shh)
I'll pull up on your home in a Lamb' smokin' out the sack
Arch her back, disappear, artifact (skrrt)
I ain't comin' with shit but my pipe and a box of Mags
Twenty on me, that's my starter pack
Gettin' too much money, we ain't tryna make arch-rivals
You know we spark rides (bah)
I was outside and that's the reason we won battles
Nigga, we weren't part-time
Got a youngin, he only send straight at you (seen 'em)
You ain't never heard that snake rap? (Go get 'em)
On a nigga head, then we just can't catch you
Spin twice, mad as fuck, we went straight past you
Ever tried to kill a nigga just 'cause you had to?
Meetin' up in the clubhouse like Rascals (huh?)
Everybody rich as fuck, ain't nothin' past due
I could go grab a M from my mama pad too
Let me see what you gon' do, we could team-tag two
Oh, you ain't with the shit, have somebody blast you
Kel-Tec on my lap, if God bless you, I tag you
Have you fillin' the bag with your fast food (pussy)
In "1 Scale," Young Dolph brags about his lavish lifestyle, his business savvy, and his sexual prowess. He boasts about his love for exclusive and expensive clothes, such as Chanel and Christian Dior, and reveals that he has invested a million dollars in the mail business. He also claims that he is more important than the mayor in his city and that he has been setting the prices for kush for ten years. He raps about his penchant for treating women like shoes, says that he likes to grab their necks and pull their hair, and that he is a pro at playing hide-and-seek with his daughter. In the second verse, he discusses his family's criminal past, his big brother's life sentence, and his own decision to carry a gun. He also references his experiences with violence and drug dealing and his determination to succeed despite the odds.
"1 Scale" is typical of Young Dolph's lyrical style, which is characterized by bombastic braggadocio, unapologetic materialism, and explicit sexuality. The song is also marked by Dolph's distinctive southern drawl, which enhances the song's swagger and energy. Overall, "1 Scale" is a deeply personal and self-assured anthem that celebrates Young Dolph's hustle and his rise to success.
Lyrics Β© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Adolph Thornton Jr., Herbert Wright
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Francisco V
use this as a βthank you dolphβ button
Tyler Lynn
Uhhhhh huhhhhhh ππ¬
Kameron Kuypers
True
Sunfire band
This goes hard Iβm a young rapper I call it soul rap
Sunfire band
Young flame coming to YouTube soon SoundCloud already
QUANTRELL BISHOP
Herb outdid dolphin here
SP King
Canβt believe Dolph is dead. My favorite rapper, I loved every thing about his style, his I donβt give a fuck attitude, his love for his kids and his community and the fact that he stuck to the code. Rest In Peace Dolphβ¦weβll miss ya
BASED THOVEN
It don't much more stand up then Dolph it just goes to show no matter how much you do for your community and love you show your city it's never safe and someone is always willing to hate and hurt you for what you got R.I.P DOLPH REAL SOUTH LEGEND π¬πππ
AlmightyCapp
Rip to the legend.
Victor Diaz
Iβm not gonna lied to u Iβm fr losing my mind cause my grandma is almost a same day as young dolph day death π’