URL Badman – English Lyrics

• By: Lily Allen
• Album: Sheezus

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

I work at home in my parent's basement

I don't troll, I make statements

I'm not a cliché sittin' in my PJ's

Double cupping at lunch on a Tuesday

I'm like Drake, see? So don't hate me

I get vexed if you don't appreciate me

Real talk, I'll put the world to rights

So when I'm a big boy, I'm gonna write for Vice

It's not for me? It must be wrong

I could ignore it and move on

But I'm a Broadband Champion

A U-R-L Badman

And if you're tryna call it art

I'll have to take it all apart

I got a high-brow game plan

A U-R-L Badman

I'm a U-R-L B-A-D-M-A-N with no empathy

I got a high-brow game plan

A U-R-L Badman

I'm a U-R-L B-A-D-M-A-N and you're dead to me

'Cause I'm a Broadband Champion

A U-R-L Badman

Spectacles with no prescription

Short-shorts with conviction

Supreme, Palace, APC

Sizzurp in a chalice, yeah, that's so me

I'm a London white boy repping ATL

Keyboard Warrior that can't spell

I don't like you, I think you're worthless

I wrote a long piece about it up on my WordPress

It's not for me? It must be wrong

I could ignore it and move on

But I'm a Broadband Champion

A U-R-L Badman

And if you're tryna call it art

I'll have to take it all apart

I got a high-brow game plan

A U-R-L Badman

I'm a U-R-L B-A-D-M-A-N with no empathy

I got a high-brow game plan

A U-R-L Badman

I'm a U-R-L B-A-D-M-A-N and you're dead to me

'Cause I'm a Broadband Champion

A U-R-L Badman

I like Jordans, Jay Rich, DJ Scream shit

Complex, Pitchfork, Winnie The Pooh shit

I'm a space ghost perpetrator

A bottom half of Idolator

Check for Tyler the Creator

A blogospheric vindicator

A$AP, Kanye, XX remix

Mike Jones, Paul Wall, I need a Kleenex

I don't like girls much, they kinda silly

Unless, of course, they wanna play with my willy

...

I'm a U-R-L B-A-D-M-A-N with no empathy

I got a high-brow game plan

A U-R-L Badman

I'm a U-R-L B-A-D-M-A-N and you're dead to me

'Cause I'm a Broadband Champion

A U-R-L Badman

I got a high-brow game plan

A U-R-L Badman

...

Key Grammar Structures

• I don't troll, I make statements

  ➔ Negative contraction + contrast conjunction

  ➔ "Don't" is the contraction of "do not" used for negative present simple. The comma implies contrast between negative and affirmative actions.

• I get vexed if you don't appreciate me

  ➔ Zero conditional

  ➔ Describes general truths using present simple in both clauses: "get vexed" (result) happens whenever "you don't appreciate me" (condition) occurs.

• I'm gonna write for Vice

  ➔ Informal future (gonna)

  ➔ "Gonna" is colloquial for "going to", expressing future intention. Common in spoken English but avoided in formal writing.

• I'll have to take it all apart

  ➔ Future obligation (will have to)

  ➔ "Will have to" expresses strong future necessity or obligation, stronger than "must" or "should".

• I could ignore it and move on

  ➔ Modal verb for possibility (could)

  ➔ "Could" suggests hypothetical ability or possibility, contrasting with actual action taken in the song.

• if you're tryna call it art

  ➔ Informal contraction (tryna)

  ➔ "Tryna" is slang for "trying to", showing informal speech common in modern lyrics. Reflects casual pronunciation blending.

• Keyboard Warrior that can't spell

  ➔ Defining relative clause

  ➔ The clause "that can't spell" defines and criticizes the "Keyboard Warrior". Essential information without commas.

• Unless, of course, they wanna play with my willy

  ➔ Concession with parenthetical phrase

  ➔ "Unless" introduces exception, while "of course" adds sarcastic emphasis as a parenthetical aside.