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about

Yeahboi. This song existed before all others in its entirety and
was the only one I intended to include from any other solo
tracks I’ve done, partially because I produced it and partially
because it had the uplifting/upbeat vibe I wanted running
through the album. That said it needed a revamp and despite
several attempts to splice in the “2017” bit (as well as another
correction) I had to go for a total redo on it.
Me and this flipping 2 minute track have a lot of history,
I kinda did it for a joke back in 2010/2011 when I found this
sample (I do like a sample that says a word you can use to
write with, though) and put it out on Soundcloud purely to see
what the reaction would be to a recorded track instead of a
produced beat which I’d been uploading up until then. It was
around the time of my Sinoptic Music label still going and
every month I was aiming to get a video together for each free
EP. That month we had one ready to go with Lunar, all scripted
out, but we ended up pulling it for one reason and another and
Paul Cockcroft kindly agreed to do a video for this as a kind
of emergency idea. We filmed it in about half an hour and he
edited it in not MUCH more than that by all accounts, and I
showed it to the Flame Griller lads and they talked through
and ignored most of it, so I got a REALLY bad feeling about it.
That said, people seemed to take to it quite positively (after it
was released) and I still get people mentioning it or sharing it
today. Mental really. If you look at the old video, there’s a brief
moment that catches our old cat Badger as well bless her,
she’s no longer with us :( She was a proper legend.

lyrics

...I say “meh” to it/
Cos I’m fed up of not getting the best of it/
I sit around all down cos I’m stressed and shit/
But life’s far too short so to heck with it/
Mek a tit outta myself get vexed a bit/
But lately, things seem like they’re extra big/
When really...all I need is an exorcist/
...To get rid of the spirit of the pessimist/
So forget the shit, I need to concentrate/
There’s a lot of wasted time I need to compensate/
Used to do a song a day ‘till I got long int face/
And who cares whether it’s summat that you want to rate?/
...I’ve only just discovered that I’ve got no fate/
And one day, I’ll be laying in a box and grave/
Or even burnt to ashes after songs of praise/
I’d rather be here than there that’s the concept mate/
(Meh)...it should be my life’s motto/
Life’s proper good in the hood when I’m blotto/
But I wake up the next day with a head like “uh ohhh”/
Probably shouldn’ta said what I said and kept my gob closed/
I’ve got loads of regrets that are similar still/
There’s no point killing yourself over spilling the milk/
I never wanted to be King of the Hill/
Just a diligent civilian that’s written it ill/
I made a beat a week decided to give it a rest/
There were nuff people commenting, for this I was blessed/
But there’s only so long the internet can big up ya chest/
Gotta get out in the real world and give it your best/
Cos at the end of the day, it’s just a pen and a page/
A guy called Ben on a stage, who remembers the days/
Forever amazed, in HMV, spending his wage/
Getting Brand New Second Hand or some Eminem, Dre/
Some venomous Cage whatever, it’s irrelevant mate/
Cos it’s twenty seventeen, I’ve bin checking the date/
Nothing worse than saying that, cos with every play/
From twenty eighteen onwards it’ll sound terribly aged/
Anyway, generally everybody’s obsessed with the fame/
Whatever happened to making art for the sake of it mate?/
If it’s getting on top of you and you aren’t tekin the strain/
Take a load off your back and remember to say...
“Meh” to it mate//

credits

from RemarkableUnremarkable (better price on ExP​.​uk), released July 14, 2017
Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Ben “ExP” Goodwin
Mastered by Ben “DivKid” Wilson

Contains samples from:
“Dites Moi” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” 1958

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West Yorkshire based hip-hop musician from Flame Griller & Tough Crowd

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