Denzel Rae Don Curry (born February 16, 1995) is an American rapper. Raised… Read Full Bio ↴Denzel Rae Don Curry (born February 16, 1995) is an American rapper. Raised in Carol City, Florida, Curry started rapping while in sixth grade and began working on his first mixtape in 2011. On September 24, 2011, Curry released his first mixtape, titled King Remembered Underground Tape 1991–1995. The whole project that Curry posted was later included on SpaceGhostPurrp's page, which prompted the birth of Denzel's music career. Following the release of Curry's first mixtape, Curry became a member of SpaceGhostPurrp's hip-hop group, called Raider Klan.
Curry left Raider Klan in 2013, releasing his debut studio album, Nostalgic 64, in September of that year, while still in high school. He has since released three extended plays: 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms in 2015, 13 in 2017, and UNLOCKED (a collaboration with Kenny Beats) in 2020, and four studio albums: Imperial in 2016, Ta13oo in 2018, Zuu in 2019, and Melt My Eyez See Your Future in 2022. TA13OO, ZUU, and Melt My Eyez debuted at numbers 28, 32, and 51 on the Billboard 200 chart, respectively, with Melt My Eyez returning at number 17 after the release of an extended edition. All of his projects have garnered significant critical acclaim.
In 2012, he released his second mixtape, titled King of the Mischievous South Vol. 1 Underground Tape 1996, which caught the attention of fellow American rapper Earl Sweatshirt and other members of Odd Future label.
Curry's third mixtape, titled Strictly for My R.V.I.D.X.R.S., was released after the death of Trayvon Martin, who also lived in Carol City and went to the same high school as Denzel Curry. His rap style on this mixtape was inspired by 2PAC. On June 9, 2015, Curry released his first double EP, titled 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms. His first release in 2016 was the single "Flying Nimbus".
His second full-length album, titled Imperial, was released on March 9, 2016, then re-released later on Spotify as the deluxe version on October 14, 2016. In June 2016, Curry was featured on a cover as one of the XXL's 2016's Freshmen Class.
On May 13, 2017, Curry uploaded a track entitled "Hate Government [demo]" to his SoundCloud account. In the weeks that followed, he released two more demos for songs entitled "Equalizer [demo]" and "ZELTRON 6 BILLION ft. Lil Ugly Mane." After these releases as well as a series of cryptic posts on social media (seemingly portraying another alter ego called Zeltron), he released an EP entitled 13 on June 25, 2017. All of the demo tracks were included on the EP as well as two other new songs. On August 18, 2017, Curry released another song called "Skywalker." Later that year, on September 22, a remastered version of 32 Zel was released, including a remix of "Ultimate" featuring Juicy J.
On April 2, 2018, Curry released the lead single off of Ta13oo titled, "Sumo" on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show. On May 24, 2018, Curry released the second single off the album titled, "Percs". Curry then released the third single titled, "Clout Cobain", on July 13, 2018, and announced that his album TA13OO, would be released in three acts: The first act, Light, was released on July 25, followed by Gray on July 26, and Dark on July 27. Each previously-released single represents one of the album's acts, as "Sumo" represents Light, "Clout Cobain" represents Gray, and "Percs" represents Dark, which comes together cohesively to form TA13OO. TA13OO features guest appearances from GoldLink, JID, JPEGMAFIA, ZillaKami and more.
On January 5, 2022, the official trailer for Curry's fifth studio album, titled Melt My Eyez See Your Future, was uploaded to his YouTube channel. It was revealed that the album would contain guest appearances from artists such as T-Pain, 6lack, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, J.I.D, and Thundercat, among others. Curry said the project would feature a new, more mature sound, different from his previous works: "Y'all are not going to hear the same type of Denzel anymore." On January 24, a single titled "Walkin", along with a Western-inspired music video directed by Adrian Villagomez, was released. Curry also said the album "is made up of everything that I couldn't include on Ta13oo or Imperial because I was going through depression and anger issues", and would take inspiration from traditional hip-hop, drum and bass, trap, poetry, and jazz. The same day, a North American and European tour promoting the album (with guest acts Kenny Mason, Mike Dimes, Redveil, and PlayThatBoiZay) was announced. On February 24, Curry released another single from the upcoming album, "Zatoichi" featuring Slowthai. It was accompanied by a music video also directed by Adrian Villagomez. On March 18, Curry announced the album would be released on March 25. On March 21, a third single, "Troubles" featuring T-Pain, was released along with a music video. The album was released on March 25, 2022. It debuted at number 51 on the Billboard 200 chart, and at number 23 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Curry recorded a song featuring rapper Reason, "1st Quarter", as a contribution to Apple Music's "collection of exclusively commissioned new songs from Black creatives", titled Juneteenth 2022: Freedom Songs. He commented: "It's an accomplishment to make it through the first quarter of my life. Especially as a Black man in America".
Curry's song featuring PlayThatBoiZay, "Let It All Hang Out", was included in Elvis—a biographical movie about Elvis Presley that premiered in June 2022—as well as on the movie's soundtrack album.
On June 24, 2022, a collaboration between Dot da Genius, JID, Curry, and Kid Cudi, titled "Talk About Me", was released, along with a music video directed by Cole Bennett. On June 29, 2022, Curry performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. On July 21, he performed "Walkin" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
On September 30, 2022, Curry released Melt My Eyez See Your Future (The Extended Edition). The album features reimagined versions of songs from the original album with live instrumentation performed by the Cold Blooded Soul Band, which performed with Curry on his NPR Tiny Desk Concert and The Tonight Show performance.
Curry left Raider Klan in 2013, releasing his debut studio album, Nostalgic 64, in September of that year, while still in high school. He has since released three extended plays: 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms in 2015, 13 in 2017, and UNLOCKED (a collaboration with Kenny Beats) in 2020, and four studio albums: Imperial in 2016, Ta13oo in 2018, Zuu in 2019, and Melt My Eyez See Your Future in 2022. TA13OO, ZUU, and Melt My Eyez debuted at numbers 28, 32, and 51 on the Billboard 200 chart, respectively, with Melt My Eyez returning at number 17 after the release of an extended edition. All of his projects have garnered significant critical acclaim.
In 2012, he released his second mixtape, titled King of the Mischievous South Vol. 1 Underground Tape 1996, which caught the attention of fellow American rapper Earl Sweatshirt and other members of Odd Future label.
Curry's third mixtape, titled Strictly for My R.V.I.D.X.R.S., was released after the death of Trayvon Martin, who also lived in Carol City and went to the same high school as Denzel Curry. His rap style on this mixtape was inspired by 2PAC. On June 9, 2015, Curry released his first double EP, titled 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms. His first release in 2016 was the single "Flying Nimbus".
His second full-length album, titled Imperial, was released on March 9, 2016, then re-released later on Spotify as the deluxe version on October 14, 2016. In June 2016, Curry was featured on a cover as one of the XXL's 2016's Freshmen Class.
On May 13, 2017, Curry uploaded a track entitled "Hate Government [demo]" to his SoundCloud account. In the weeks that followed, he released two more demos for songs entitled "Equalizer [demo]" and "ZELTRON 6 BILLION ft. Lil Ugly Mane." After these releases as well as a series of cryptic posts on social media (seemingly portraying another alter ego called Zeltron), he released an EP entitled 13 on June 25, 2017. All of the demo tracks were included on the EP as well as two other new songs. On August 18, 2017, Curry released another song called "Skywalker." Later that year, on September 22, a remastered version of 32 Zel was released, including a remix of "Ultimate" featuring Juicy J.
On April 2, 2018, Curry released the lead single off of Ta13oo titled, "Sumo" on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show. On May 24, 2018, Curry released the second single off the album titled, "Percs". Curry then released the third single titled, "Clout Cobain", on July 13, 2018, and announced that his album TA13OO, would be released in three acts: The first act, Light, was released on July 25, followed by Gray on July 26, and Dark on July 27. Each previously-released single represents one of the album's acts, as "Sumo" represents Light, "Clout Cobain" represents Gray, and "Percs" represents Dark, which comes together cohesively to form TA13OO. TA13OO features guest appearances from GoldLink, JID, JPEGMAFIA, ZillaKami and more.
On January 5, 2022, the official trailer for Curry's fifth studio album, titled Melt My Eyez See Your Future, was uploaded to his YouTube channel. It was revealed that the album would contain guest appearances from artists such as T-Pain, 6lack, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, J.I.D, and Thundercat, among others. Curry said the project would feature a new, more mature sound, different from his previous works: "Y'all are not going to hear the same type of Denzel anymore." On January 24, a single titled "Walkin", along with a Western-inspired music video directed by Adrian Villagomez, was released. Curry also said the album "is made up of everything that I couldn't include on Ta13oo or Imperial because I was going through depression and anger issues", and would take inspiration from traditional hip-hop, drum and bass, trap, poetry, and jazz. The same day, a North American and European tour promoting the album (with guest acts Kenny Mason, Mike Dimes, Redveil, and PlayThatBoiZay) was announced. On February 24, Curry released another single from the upcoming album, "Zatoichi" featuring Slowthai. It was accompanied by a music video also directed by Adrian Villagomez. On March 18, Curry announced the album would be released on March 25. On March 21, a third single, "Troubles" featuring T-Pain, was released along with a music video. The album was released on March 25, 2022. It debuted at number 51 on the Billboard 200 chart, and at number 23 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Curry recorded a song featuring rapper Reason, "1st Quarter", as a contribution to Apple Music's "collection of exclusively commissioned new songs from Black creatives", titled Juneteenth 2022: Freedom Songs. He commented: "It's an accomplishment to make it through the first quarter of my life. Especially as a Black man in America".
Curry's song featuring PlayThatBoiZay, "Let It All Hang Out", was included in Elvis—a biographical movie about Elvis Presley that premiered in June 2022—as well as on the movie's soundtrack album.
On June 24, 2022, a collaboration between Dot da Genius, JID, Curry, and Kid Cudi, titled "Talk About Me", was released, along with a music video directed by Cole Bennett. On June 29, 2022, Curry performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. On July 21, he performed "Walkin" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
On September 30, 2022, Curry released Melt My Eyez See Your Future (The Extended Edition). The album features reimagined versions of songs from the original album with live instrumentation performed by the Cold Blooded Soul Band, which performed with Curry on his NPR Tiny Desk Concert and The Tonight Show performance.
Underwater
Denzel Curry Lyrics
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Stick drill ravage
From medulla of the savage
Niggas sticking with the illest shit got
More sticks than a cabin
Wet em up like Squarepants 'till
The niggas start crabbin'
Rundown gun down like Birdman they clapping
BRRRTT! What happened to that boy?
Niggas yapping then they pull a
Strap into that boy
Paramedics come stressing cause a
Nigga got wetted
Lurking low in the gardens watch
His head get severed i reign supreme
The world is mine and you can't do a thing
Cause you can't kill a God but
A God can kill a king
Checkmate, fuck this shit you dead weight
You the type to make a jit heart race
Cut cable fuck niggas and what
Would that make you the person in the mirror
Not looking so beautiful who is you nigga
Mirror mirror in the bathroom
Am I gonna take a job to the back room
Later pimping down and hit em
With that crack boom
Then I send her home and
Laugh like some old coons
By the store Life is fact the truth is cold
That's how you live 300 years more
Philosophy the prophecy is probably a robbery
Don't talk to me about
Who's the motherfucking future
C9 bow down to your rulers
I got four niggas on the porch
Two niggas out the park
You better have your burner tucked
When walking after dark
Niggas be running reckless with their
Hammers ready to spark
Everybody is a target in the
Hood they playing darts
Taking them underwater
It's through the hood and past the wudz
Taking them underwater
So pass the wudz and roll them good
Taking them underwater
And drive my mess understood
Taking them underwater
I'll take you underwater
Okay this one’s for all my dogs
I do it for all of my niggas
For Lotto, Chinaman
And Tiarra pour out some liquor
Still thug livin'
Come witness the black vision
Trigger finger itchin'
Brothers fall like thanksgiving
Your heart is St nicholas
Merry Christmas American Psycho with
Bale as the Christian
Bust your head like baby? made of crimson
Where is he now I'm
Spitting genocide to niglets
Paraquiz back in the day
Watch me form into bitches
Completes the masters, you bastards
Need to pass her, but the pastor, is an actor
If the rapture was to capture
Any mother fucker on this planet
I know that God’s an artist so
He’ll pick a good canvas
So I let the bad ones perish
I found god inside the face that I’m starin'
At
In my world Jesus is black and misunderstood
I’m taking y'all past to the wudz and say
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
So steal, steal, steal, steal
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
Grab the steer throw the keys get the mac
Cyberspace mask doing drive-bys
In hovercrafts black hover craft
Grey matter gats counter act
What better way to use
Crack to terminate blacks
Black got jacked now that’s the
School of Hard Rock
This ain’t no game you don’t
Live with a life stock
Like the Legend of Zelda it’s Heaven or Hell
Bruh you callin' for 911 but there’s
No one to help ya
M16 feel like it's Hamburger Helper
And now you see yourself flying
With Delta an airline
Tech 9 young and wave it ya tape line it’s C9
You fuckin' with the wrong air-side
Combine my organized crime in the mean time
We seem blind still on the
Grind till we see shine
Hover slow on the green eye
You better hope you have a keen eye
Drown the youth
From medulla of the savage
Niggas sticking with the illest shit got
More sticks than a cabin
Wet em up like Squarepants 'till
The niggas start crabbin'
Rundown gun down like Birdman they clapping
BRRRTT! What happened to that boy?
Strap into that boy
Paramedics come stressing cause a
Nigga got wetted
Lurking low in the gardens watch
His head get severed i reign supreme
The world is mine and you can't do a thing
Cause you can't kill a God but
A God can kill a king
Checkmate, fuck this shit you dead weight
You the type to make a jit heart race
Cut cable fuck niggas and what
Would that make you the person in the mirror
Not looking so beautiful who is you nigga
Mirror mirror in the bathroom
Am I gonna take a job to the back room
Later pimping down and hit em
With that crack boom
Then I send her home and
Laugh like some old coons
By the store Life is fact the truth is cold
That's how you live 300 years more
Philosophy the prophecy is probably a robbery
Don't talk to me about
Who's the motherfucking future
C9 bow down to your rulers
I got four niggas on the porch
Two niggas out the park
You better have your burner tucked
When walking after dark
Niggas be running reckless with their
Hammers ready to spark
Everybody is a target in the
Hood they playing darts
Taking them underwater
It's through the hood and past the wudz
Taking them underwater
So pass the wudz and roll them good
Taking them underwater
And drive my mess understood
Taking them underwater
I'll take you underwater
Okay this one’s for all my dogs
I do it for all of my niggas
For Lotto, Chinaman
And Tiarra pour out some liquor
Still thug livin'
Come witness the black vision
Trigger finger itchin'
Brothers fall like thanksgiving
Your heart is St nicholas
Merry Christmas American Psycho with
Bale as the Christian
Bust your head like baby? made of crimson
Where is he now I'm
Spitting genocide to niglets
Paraquiz back in the day
Watch me form into bitches
Completes the masters, you bastards
Need to pass her, but the pastor, is an actor
If the rapture was to capture
Any mother fucker on this planet
I know that God’s an artist so
He’ll pick a good canvas
So I let the bad ones perish
I found god inside the face that I’m starin'
At
In my world Jesus is black and misunderstood
I’m taking y'all past to the wudz and say
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
So steal, steal, steal, steal
There they go sticking again
There they go sticking again
Grab the steer throw the keys get the mac
Cyberspace mask doing drive-bys
In hovercrafts black hover craft
Grey matter gats counter act
What better way to use
Crack to terminate blacks
Black got jacked now that’s the
School of Hard Rock
This ain’t no game you don’t
Live with a life stock
Like the Legend of Zelda it’s Heaven or Hell
Bruh you callin' for 911 but there’s
No one to help ya
M16 feel like it's Hamburger Helper
And now you see yourself flying
With Delta an airline
Tech 9 young and wave it ya tape line it’s C9
You fuckin' with the wrong air-side
Combine my organized crime in the mean time
We seem blind still on the
Grind till we see shine
Hover slow on the green eye
You better hope you have a keen eye
Drown the youth
The lyrics of Denzel Curry's song "Underwater" depict a gritty and violent portrayal of life in the streets. The first verse showcases the aggressive nature of the singer and his surroundings, with references to guns, violence, and the power dynamics between individuals. The line "Stick drill ravage, from medulla of the savage" suggests a sense of brutality and dominance. The lyrics also touch on themes of power and supremacy, with lines like "I reign supreme, the world is mine" and "you can't kill a God but a God can kill a king." The singer asserts his authority and superiority over others.
The second verse delves deeper into the struggles and dangers of the neighborhood, emphasizing the need to stay armed and vigilant. The line "Everybody is a target in the hood they playing darts" suggests a lack of safety and constant threat of violence. The phrase "taking them underwater" could be a metaphor for the act of killing or eliminating one's enemies.
Overall, the lyrics of "Underwater" paint a bleak picture of survival in a hostile urban environment, where power and violence reign supreme.
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