Key Glock, Lean Habits | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 15^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥, we highlight “Lean Habits” performed by Memphis rapper, Key Glock. 

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 15^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2023), we break down 🎵 “Lean Habits” performed by 🎙 Key Glock.

“Ayy, y’all go some more ice?” Memphis rapper 🎙 Key Glock needs that ice for his lean, of course.  Why? He’s got 🎵 “Lean Habits”! “I got lean habits / I got kinfolk in the trenches, never seen a Patek / Yeah, I was raised by my granny, barely seen my pappy / Yeah, now I’m paid, I got bitches callin’ me daddy.” Come-up and flex 💪! “Lean Habits” appears as the seventh track on his 2023 album, 💿 Glockoma 2. Besides asking for ice, drinking sound effects can be heard during the intro as well – not surprising! Of course, lean is referenced multiple times, including his assertion he has a “Baby bottle full of syrup with no baby, baby,” and later, admits, “I was sixteen, sippin’ lean when I started rappin’, nigga.” With ample lean in the mix, “Lean Habits” also encompasses drip, money, sex – the shallower things in life.

Key Glock keeps those habits brief, at least in terms of the song.  Two-and-a-half-minutes is ample time for him to mention those fast whips, shooters, Wilt Chamberlain (obligatory baller reference), and, I quote, “can’t put my trust up in these bitches, these hoes janky.”  WOO! Besides the hip-hop clichés via Glock’s compelling, easygoing yet assured flow, the production (🎛 RamyOnTheBeat and Oh Ross) fuels the fire. It’s those keys, the warm vocals, and the stuttering drums. Notably, a sample – 🎵 “Friday” by 🎙 Laura Groves – ups the ante. Who says trap can’t be classy? At least the instrumental! Lean = BAD while 🎵 “Lean Habits” = BANGER.

🎙 Key Glock • 💿 Glockoma 2 • 🏷 Paper Route EMPIRE • 📅 2023

Key Glock, Lean Habits: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 15 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Paper Route EMPIRE; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]