Bhad Bhabie – Babyface Savage – Lyrics Explained

Bhad Bhabie – Babyface Savage – Lyrics Explained

Yes, it’s Bhad Bhabie. For this Lyrics Explained episode, we’re going to be looking at a song called, “Babyface Savage.”

Now you may not know who Bhad Bhabie is but I’ll bet you know something about her already. Bhad Bhabie’s real name is Danielle Marie Bregoli. She’s an American rapper and internet personality who first came upon the scene on an episode of Dr. Phil.

I rarely watch TV but I did see this episode — she appeared on Dr. Phil for an a segment called “I want to Give up my Car-stealing, Knife-wielding, Twerking Thirteen-year-old Daughter who tried to Frame me for a Crime.”

During that segment the audience started to laugh at some of her responses. She got irritated about that and challenged some of the audience members to meet her outside by saying “Cash me outside, howbow da?”

That phrase became a wildly popular internet meme. If you don’t know exactly what I said there, she said “Catch me outside, how about that?” But she pronounced it “Cash me outside, howbow da?”

She leveraged that notoriety into a record deal and recording career. In fact, she became the youngest female rapper in 2017 to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her debut single.

She subsequently signed a record deal with Atlantic Records. Alright, maybe she is not your cup of tea, but she was able to twist what could have been a negative into a positive and now she’s rolling with a recording career.

I’ve heard the song “Don’t Hate Me.” It’s not bad. With some experience she’s going to be better.

Let’s get right into it.

“Babyface Savage,” like a lot of the hits today, comes out with the chorus. (Lyrics are cleaned up a bit. Hey, this is a family channel.)

Comin’ out hard like ’88, make a person levitate
Babyface savage, bitch, I don’t play Patty Cake
Charms in the carrot cake, carats in the Patek face
Cop a new coupe, no top, that’s the Cali’ way

“Coming out hard like 88 make a person levitate.” A year before she was on Dr. Phil she was interested in magic. In fact, she had a magician name: Badini. She eventually wanted to become the “hip hop magician” and that was her name — Badini — she was gonna mix hip hop with magic. She learned how to make people levitate. It was her signature bit. But then music took over.

“Babyface Savage right, I don’t play pattycake.” She’s not kidding around. She’s saying she is serious about the rap game!

“Charms in the carrot cake, carats in the Patek face.” Carrots refer to her magic outfit. She wore a jacket that had carrots all over it. It was part of her hook. The announcer would introduce her: “Badini — the vitamin C of magic!” Because there’s vitamin C in carrots so that’s how that came about.

“Cop a new coupe, no top, that’s the Cali’ way” This is a showbiz thing. The announcer says “Now coming to the stage, the Badini — the vitamin C of magic!” and she’d roll out in a convertible with the top down.

“New coupe, no top.” What they’re talking about there is the California style,  sunshine — the whole LA thing.

Drop a lil’ check, everybody lit (lit)
Drop a lil’ check, everybody rich (rich)
Drop a lil’ check, everybody slide (slide)
Drop a lil’ check, everybody die

“Drop a little check, everybody lit,” Before magic, in her younger days, she was kind of skirting the law: her friends would dine and dash. When you “get lit,” it means you act like your feet are on fire and book. It’s not morally correct. I’m just saying that’s what they did.

And that’s what she’s up so when they dropped the check, everybody’s lit man and they slide out of there. If the cops come you have to hide. That’s what “everybody die” means. You lay down like you’re dead in the brush and the trees to hide from the police.

All right, so there’s a lot going on, so that’s why we that’s why I said at the beginning of this video that we’re
gonna go deep on this, but it’s gonna take some work on all of our parts. We haven’t even gotten to the first verse — that’s the chorus! So hang in there, folks.

Drop a little check, get active, action
Babyface savage, gon’ pull up blastin’
Drop top comin’ down Sunset, smashin’
Drop top comin’ down Sunset, smashin’
Magic with the ratchet, make these people disappear
Itty bitty bitches in my mentions, listen here
Itty bitty bitch, I run the city like the mayor
The bitch with the red ponytail in her hair (in her hair)
Ridin’ this beat like a mf snare
Playin’ with the bands like a bankroll (bankroll)
Pockets full of huncho, hundos (boom, boom)
Gotta keep the nine like Rondo
Cop a new condo, pronto
Rollin’ Backwoods, no Fronto, heck no
Been had the juice, ten shots out the Bronco
Your girl mad ’cause she ain’t the one, though (the one though, girl)

“Drop a little check, get active, action, Babyface savage, gon’ pull up blastin’.” She’s talking about driving down Sunset Boulevard in LA and taking a hammer and hitting those blasting caps. When you were a kid, you’d take a hammer and bang you hit them on the pavement and they’d make that popping sound.

“Magic with the ratchet.” Ratchet is a slang term for hammer.

“Iitty bitty people in my mentions, listen here any bitty person, I run the city like the mayor, the person with the red ponytail in her hair riding this beat like a snare, playing with the bands like a bankroll.” What she’s talking about is she got so much publicity the mayor of LA asked her to be the Counselor of Hip-Hop for the city — it’s a made-up title they came up with for her.

“I run the city like the mayor.” She was supposed to be the liaison between the mayor’s office and the hip-hop community here in town.

“Riding this beat like a snare.” She’s talking about tuning into the hip-hop hip-hop and rap artists in this town.

“Playing with the bands like a bankroll.” She had some money to spend for events and seed money for albums for up-and-coming artists.

“Pockets full of hundos.” Hundos is street slang for hundred-dollar bills. She had them in a big roll. In fact, she invented something: If you’ve ever seen those dispensers where you pull the clear plastic tape off when you’re
packing a box, she had that full of hundreds. She could peel off a hundred dollar bill and tear it on jagged edge of the dispenser. She’s pretty inventive for a young person, so we have to give her some props.

“Rollin’ Backwoods, no Fronto, heck no.” Backwoods is a brand of backyard grill . It’s very popular in the hip-hop community. She’s talking about getting a new condo and putting a Backwoods grill in right away. To give you some context, these are not little Weber (porch) grills. This is a grill the size of a truck, and it’s got all of the accoutrements you’d ever need to have a party in your backyard and throw down some hip-hop and dance around.

“Been had the juice, ten shots out the Bronco, your girl mad ’cause she ain’t the one, though.” Again, that’s when she’s coming from meetings with the mayor’s office and she’s downing the juice. It’s LA, it’s California — everybody’s on the green juice, drinking it and staying healthy.

“Ten shots out the Bronco” refers to the multi-vitamins that she takes every day with her veggie juice.

“Your girl is mad because she ain’t the one, though.” You know – she is spending so much on it — if you go to Jamba Juice it’s like eight bucks for a decent size. People get mad if you don’t go to their Jamba Juice and you go to another one. They want that Jamba Juice investment.

Then it goes back into the chorus and then verse two with Tory Lanez.

Get, get, get, get
Stones in the Cartier, people get naughtier
.44 leave a lil’ hole in everybody here
Money, people, people, got more than everybody here
‘Fore I get up out of here, we gon’ let up out of here
Them broke people came to interact, gon’ get a body here
Had a redhead with me, it ain’t no Lil Yachty here
41 millimeter face, first 48
Bust down, water got it floodin’ out the Rollie face
Money made, more to make, lot of people, more to take
New car, stolen plates, fast like Golden State
Person trippin’, tell him he can get it by the shoulder blade
AK chopper, my person, we should go on dates
30 in the dirty on my hip, goin’ both ways
I’ve been up four days, trappin’ out the hallway

“Get, get, get, get stones in the Cartier, people get naughtier, .44 leave a lil’ hole in everybody here.” What they’re talking about is opening hearts with the power of the 4/4 beat of the classic hip-hop song. Hip-hop is an emotional musical genre. If you want to feel emotion, hip-hop is one of the best musical genres. They’re opening up hearts with the 44 — opening up holes and hearts, getting people emotionally involved.

“I’ve been up four days, trappin’ out the hallway.” They’ve been working on new songs for four days. These are artists. They don’t operate in the 9 to 5 world you may operate in.  They are opening up hearts, getting people emotionally involved in the songs. Well, how do you do that?

“Bust down water got it flooding out.” You have to stay hydrated when you’re working for four days straight — when you’re up all all night.

“Money made more to make.” These are successful people, not the guy who raps freestyle at work. These are stars at the top of the game. This is a hit.

“Stolen plates fast like Golden State.” They don’t kid around. They crank out the tunes like the Golden State Warriors coming down the court.

There’s a lot going on in these lyrics, but she is focused on creating hip-hop hits that open hearts. And also bring in some cash so as the liaison to the mayor’s office she can spread it around the rap community here in Southern California.

It’s an amazing approach to the whole game. I know it took a while to get through all that because this is a person with some depth to their sound, lyrics and whole approach at a young age.  At her age, I was working as a busboy at some diner. You have to give her props — she took what could have been a negative with the Dr. Phil situation and turned it into an entire career. It’s one of the most amazing turnarounds in hip-hop history.