Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer, … Read Full Bio ↴Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her breakout single, "Dance Monkey", was released in May 2019 and reached number one in over 30 countries.
In 2019, she broke the Australian record for the most weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart by any artist with 16 weeks. By mid-January 2020, "Dance Monkey" had spent its 24th and final week at number one, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of "White Christmas", which spent 22 weeks at the top in 1943.
"Dance Monkey" was accredited 16× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 1,120,000 units, by mid-2021. Tones was the most awarded artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, winning four of eight nominations. Tones and I released her debut extended play, The Kids Are Coming, on 30 August 2019, which peaked at number three in Australia, and top 10 in several countries. Her debut album, Welcome to the Madhouse, was released via Bad Batch on 16 July 2021. It debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album's lead single "Fly Away" peaked at number four in Australia and number 11 in the UK.
Toni Watson grew up in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula to the south of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Conflicting reports state she was born either in 1993 or in 2000. The artist prefers not to disclose her birth details, "I never denied my age. I never lied about it. I just don't say anything now... Everything is wrong online."
She explained choosing a music career: "One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old." The singer-songwriter had learned to play keyboards and drum pads while at secondary school.She started busking in Melbourne, while working in fashion retail at the Universal Store.
In 2009, as Toni Watson, she created a YouTube page and posted a cappella cover versions of songs. She performed local gigs and festivals, including the Let Go festival. Tones was the vocalist for a duo in 2014, and remembered: "I started out singing in small pubs and bars in Mornington, I was singing along to a guitarist until I ended up branching out on my own." She explained her shift to a solo career: "I actually got made redundant from my retail job and with that money I bought an RC300 (loop station) and just started to try to figure it all out." She busked "up and down the east coast with her synthesizers and loop pedal, she has been building a loyal fanbase and captivating crowds with her genre-diverse style."
In September 2017, the singer-songwriter travelled to Byron Bay in the Australian state of New South Wales to try busking there. At an early performance, she met Jackson Walkden-Brown who became her manager about a month later. Her busking success led to a greater commitment to a music career. The artist spent 2018 living between Walkden-Brown's home in the Gold Coast hinterland and in her van in Byron Bay, writing music and busking full-time. Later that year she won the Battle of the Buskers at Buskers by the Creek.
In 2019, she broke the Australian record for the most weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart by any artist with 16 weeks. By mid-January 2020, "Dance Monkey" had spent its 24th and final week at number one, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of "White Christmas", which spent 22 weeks at the top in 1943.
"Dance Monkey" was accredited 16× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 1,120,000 units, by mid-2021. Tones was the most awarded artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, winning four of eight nominations. Tones and I released her debut extended play, The Kids Are Coming, on 30 August 2019, which peaked at number three in Australia, and top 10 in several countries. Her debut album, Welcome to the Madhouse, was released via Bad Batch on 16 July 2021. It debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album's lead single "Fly Away" peaked at number four in Australia and number 11 in the UK.
Toni Watson grew up in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula to the south of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Conflicting reports state she was born either in 1993 or in 2000. The artist prefers not to disclose her birth details, "I never denied my age. I never lied about it. I just don't say anything now... Everything is wrong online."
She explained choosing a music career: "One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old." The singer-songwriter had learned to play keyboards and drum pads while at secondary school.She started busking in Melbourne, while working in fashion retail at the Universal Store.
In 2009, as Toni Watson, she created a YouTube page and posted a cappella cover versions of songs. She performed local gigs and festivals, including the Let Go festival. Tones was the vocalist for a duo in 2014, and remembered: "I started out singing in small pubs and bars in Mornington, I was singing along to a guitarist until I ended up branching out on my own." She explained her shift to a solo career: "I actually got made redundant from my retail job and with that money I bought an RC300 (loop station) and just started to try to figure it all out." She busked "up and down the east coast with her synthesizers and loop pedal, she has been building a loyal fanbase and captivating crowds with her genre-diverse style."
In September 2017, the singer-songwriter travelled to Byron Bay in the Australian state of New South Wales to try busking there. At an early performance, she met Jackson Walkden-Brown who became her manager about a month later. Her busking success led to a greater commitment to a music career. The artist spent 2018 living between Walkden-Brown's home in the Gold Coast hinterland and in her van in Byron Bay, writing music and busking full-time. Later that year she won the Battle of the Buskers at Buskers by the Creek.
The Hype
Tones And I Lyrics
Gotta see that in person I don't believe hype
Bae is we fuckin tonight
You impressed by the drip of my ice
Caught the vibe yea I felt that on sight
Been through too much I don't do the lies yea
That's why im wise big check gotta put it on the side
Big huncho
Niggas walking round places that they wont go
Only stay one place if they wont smoke
Give a quick dose you know im straight gas a young nigga to live
Spoiled my bitch a young nigga to kind dropping them hook got yo bitch on my line
Like a back pocket you niggas behind
Like wine get better with time
Better watch out let me call Ian, and im done fucking sluts let me stop lying
And you new you to the game and im not tryin
No saving these hoes that's real talk for real
I'm Big brazy im hard to kill
Gotta see that in person I don't believe hype
Bae is we fuckin tonight
You impressed by the drip of my ice
Caught the vibe yea I felt that on sight
Been through too much I don't do the lies yea
That's why im wise big check gotta put it on the side
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and get 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Uh
Box em out til that lil nigga aint breathing
Imma lil baby but I aint teething
Bib on my neck cause I been eating
Swerved that lil bitch cause she was cheating
She tried to cap tried to say she aint need me
I got the sack and she call if she need me
Big racks Big Brazy on tv
Its time baby sit back cause im in a lil bind
Gotta think back to a piece of mind
Sometimes its kinda hard to find but I relax while im smoking on pine
At magic when I link up with Ian
Bad bitch but I made her my side
She praising me like I am the messiah
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with.
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and get 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Same ole, Same ole, Same ole.
Same niggas fucking with the same hoes
In the trap and fucking with my same woes
Fuck nigga tried to run off with my lingo
Same ole, Same ole, Same ole
Same nigga fucking with the same hoes
In the trap and I'm fucking with my same woes
Fuck nigga tried to run off with my lingo
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and get 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
I'm bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week, but I'm on my eighth bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around Don't fuck around and get 38 quick
It's about time
Bae is we fuckin tonight
You impressed by the drip of my ice
Caught the vibe yea I felt that on sight
Been through too much I don't do the lies yea
That's why im wise big check gotta put it on the side
Big huncho
Niggas walking round places that they wont go
Only stay one place if they wont smoke
Give a quick dose you know im straight gas a young nigga to live
Like a back pocket you niggas behind
Like wine get better with time
Better watch out let me call Ian, and im done fucking sluts let me stop lying
And you new you to the game and im not tryin
No saving these hoes that's real talk for real
I'm Big brazy im hard to kill
Gotta see that in person I don't believe hype
Bae is we fuckin tonight
You impressed by the drip of my ice
Caught the vibe yea I felt that on sight
Been through too much I don't do the lies yea
That's why im wise big check gotta put it on the side
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and get 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Uh
Box em out til that lil nigga aint breathing
Imma lil baby but I aint teething
Bib on my neck cause I been eating
Swerved that lil bitch cause she was cheating
She tried to cap tried to say she aint need me
I got the sack and she call if she need me
Big racks Big Brazy on tv
Its time baby sit back cause im in a lil bind
Gotta think back to a piece of mind
Sometimes its kinda hard to find but I relax while im smoking on pine
At magic when I link up with Ian
Bad bitch but I made her my side
She praising me like I am the messiah
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with.
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and get 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
Same ole, Same ole, Same ole.
Same niggas fucking with the same hoes
In the trap and fucking with my same woes
Fuck nigga tried to run off with my lingo
Same ole, Same ole, Same ole
Same nigga fucking with the same hoes
In the trap and I'm fucking with my same woes
Fuck nigga tried to run off with my lingo
Its about time
Im bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week but i'm on my eight bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around don't fuck around and get 38 quick
A nigga like me ain't nothing to play with
I'm bout to go ape shit
Seven days in a week, but I'm on my eighth bitch
I'm nothing to play with
Don't fuck around Don't fuck around and get 38 quick
It's about time
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
Written by: Phillip King, Rashad Collins
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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