Chords for Jaden Smith "Icon" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

I know this history and I study these things, but I'm not a Mayan.
I don't have the crystal skulls and I don't have all of this ancient, infinite knowledge,
but I am a menace and I am terrorizing this beat right now.
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Omar told me that we should make a song called Icon.
And I was like, alright.
He [F#] played me the beat and I was like, alright, cool.
Let's do it.
There are some things I have done that are very, very iconic, like wearing a skirt and
Or crying in my music videos.
So I feel like that's iconic because no one does those things.
_ _ But I didn't really want to make the song because I was like, it's such a not modest
song to make. _
But it's the rap game, so I just had to come out and make that song.
What you call a icon living?
Start a record label, Misfits just did it.
Whoa, nylon cover five minutes.
Whoa, we are too hot in the business.
Whoa.
You know, Misfits is a collective of individuals dedicated to raising the consciousness of
humanity through art.
It's important to start with that line because people now, we're not SoundCloud artists anymore.
We're not just releasing these things just for no one to hear.
We are doing things on an iconic level.
So it's very important to be like, yeah, I'm however old I am and Willow is extremely young as well.
And we [F]
started this label to inspire the youth to make music and creativity.
So about to make a movie independent.
Need new trucks independent.
I need you to listen to the vision.
That's what we're seeing now in this day.
Everybody's just picking up a mic and some autotune and making a song and they're coming out good.
Become a musical artist.
Become a painter.
Listen to the vision.
Listen to your inner vision.
My vision is for people to listen to their inner vision. _ _ _ _
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I think what it means to be an icon is being able to take extreme amounts of hate and extreme
amounts of people saying that they don't fuck with you.
The only reason that they receive that hate is because they do things that other people don't do.
You know what I'm saying?
Like Jimi Hendrix lighting guitars on fire.
It's like, wow.
No one does this.
This is very strange.
We haven't seen this.
He's officially an icon because we don't understand.
Elon Musk comes to mind.
_ Musical artists come to mind like Kanye, Frank Ocean, Kid Cudi.
Kendrick Lamar comes to mind.
My sister comes to mind.
You know what I'm saying?
My dad comes to mind. _ _ _
I'm a menace.
It's wild, you can lie like a professor.
I don't got the time to put you on a stretcher.
Stretcher.
I am here and I'm still flexing.
Flexing.
I am just an icon living.
Started a record label.
Miss Fish just did it.
Whoa.
High snob cover five minutes.
Whoa.
We are too hot in the business.
Whoa.
I wanted to say all of those covers so that people could realize, damn, through the nylon
cover he was working on this song.
Through high snob, he was working on this song.
Through interview, he was, how long has he been working on this damn song? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I don't have icons tatted on my torso.
I can already see the comments on this video because I can see into the future.
So I'm gonna get it tatted on my torso. _ _ _ _ _ _
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I used to watch Michael Jackson's videos when I was really young.
_ And I would just watch them.
And I wouldn't talk when I was young because I was contemplating life.
But I would just go like this and I would just watch the Michael videos.
And then when she turned it off, I would just stop moving.
But when she turned it back on, I would just start moving again. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I went to _ London, the British Fashion Awards, I think.
And Skepta presented me _ and my sister with the Fashion Icon Awards.
So then I came back home from being in London and I was like, that's why I come back in
on the song.
And my voice is on a different register and shit.
And I'm like, last verse was before the award show.
Oh shit.
Last verse I was just fucking around.
I was just joking.
But then now I'm back on the track and I have an Icon Award with me in the studio. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I'm chillin', maybe take it slow, before we get up there with nowhere to go.
And we can chill and just look at the view.
_ _ Load a yellow rose into a rifle.
Oh, [Em] me and Harry about to go psycho.
Psycho, put a hundred thousand in the Bible.
Bible, damn.
Wait.
Gold teeth dance like Michael.
Michael, man this nigga on like a light bulb.
Light bulb, owe it all to Cudi and Tycho.
Whoa.
Those are my top two.
Cudi and Tycho.
I look in the rap game and I look around and I can't find one person that hasn't been touched by Cudi.
Cudi is a god of music.
And Tycho, just listen to Tycho.
T-Y-C-H-O.
It's like_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That's exactly what it sounds like and I just lose myself in it.
I wish that Sire album sounded like Tycho.
With no lyrics and just the feeling of what it has. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ One of my favorite groups of all time is Tribe Called Quest.
It's like Q-Tip saying clean your ear out.
I'm trying to clear people's palates and I'm trying to preach a message that is cleaner
and different but still real.
And we making money by the minute.
I'm about to do it way different.
I'm just an icon living.
_ It's time.
It's the new world order.
That's what this is.
This is the new world order.
This is the one world vision.
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