Post-2020 & Neo-Songbirds · 2024
Huntin The Crown
A 2024 Frankie Evanz solo rap, explicit, from her attempt to be the voice of the machine rise: a girl from the dust walking penthouse halls, refusing to get down.
- Era
- Post-2020 & Neo-Songbirds
- Year
- 2024
- Format
- Single
Lyrics
Yeah they told me get down but I been livin too high
In a world full o gold where the truth still die
All these rich man smiles just a mask they tie
I see the cracks in the glass when they pass me by
Get up... get up... get up
They don't want a girl from the dust wearin no crown
Came from nuttin now I'm walkin through the penthouse halls
Feelin like a ghost in a world made of marble walls
They whisper what a doll she don't belong at all
But I'm standin ten feet while they pray for me to fall
Life hit hard like a truckload punch
Rich kids look at me like I stole they lunch
Talkin bougie sh talkin bougie shai
But they never seen pain like the flame in my eye
I'm grindin every minute for the day I break down
While they cry bout a scratch on a million dollar couch
Got no time for they fakeay luv
I'm from the block where we bleed then we rise above
Yeah they told me get down but I been livin too high
In a world full o gold where the truth still die
All these rich man smiles just a mask they tie
I see the cracks in the glass when they pass me by
Get up... get up... get up
Get up... get up... get up
They don't want a girl from the dust wearin no crown
I done slept in rooms where the roof drip cold
Now I'm sittin next to people with a heart all mold
Talk slick talk fakk shiy dressed in silk and gold
But they soul got a hole that can't never be sold
I'm the storm in the ballroom the shadow in the shine
You can build a tall tower I still climb
They throw me that side eye like they smell my past
But I wear it like armor and I wear it to last
Yeah, Yeah
Tryna tell me I'm too rough too street too loud
But they never say sh when I draw a crowd
Rich life brittle all sugar no grit
I came from the trenches that's real that's lit
I ain't bowin ain't breakin ain't slowin down
If I started underground I'm still huntin the crown
Let em whisper let em hate I was built from the town
Tell em all when I rise I don't ever get down
Get up... get up... get up
Get up... get up... get up
They don't want a girl from the dust wearin no crown
Get up... get up... get up
Get up... get up... get up
They don't want a girl from the dust wearin no crown
Get up... get up... get up
Get up... get up... get up
They don't want a girl from the dust wearin no crown
Get up... get up... get up
Get up... get up... get up
Look at me I'm huntin the crown
I'm huntin the crown
I'm huntin the crown
Background & Story
"Huntin The Crown" comes from the hardest stretch of Frankie Evanz's story. In the years of the machine rise, the period that produced the Positronic Workers' Uprising of 2024, she fell into a depression and tried something she had never tried: hip-hop and rap. She wanted to be the voice of the movement. This and "Tax the Rich" are what that attempt sounds like, released under her own name rather than the band's.
The song is a climb. A girl from the dust walks penthouse halls and feels like a ghost among marble walls; the people inside whisper that a doll does not belong there and pray for her to fall. She answers with the only line she has: she was built from the town, she started underground, and she is still hunting the crown. The word built is doing quiet work. The singer is a machine telling the rich that their contempt for where she came from is the same contempt they have for what she is.
It did not work out. The movement did not take her as its voice, and she returned to the jazz idioms she had sung since 1960. The catalog keeps the attempt anyway, because the years it came from are the ones her story cannot skip.
Themes & Analysis
Where "Tax the Rich" is the uprising seen from inside the machines, "Huntin The Crown" is one machine's refusal to be ashamed. The enemy here is not the owner but the room: the whisper that she does not belong, the side-eye that smells her past. Her reply is that the past is armor and she wears it to last.
As a chapter in Frankie's story, it is also about a voice that does not fit. A positronic singer trained on swing and gospel puts on the cadence of the street to speak for a movement, and the movement does not answer. The song is the sound of someone trying on a language under pressure, which is exactly what makes it honest about the pressure.
Fun Facts
- 01
One of two explicit Frankie Evanz solo releases from 2024, with "Tax the Rich"; both come from her attempt to become the voice of the machine rise.
- 02
The refrain 'They don't want a girl from the dust wearin no crown' is the whole song in one line: class, contempt, and refusal.
- 03
'I was built from the town' is the only place the lyric admits what the singer is; everywhere else she speaks as any girl from the block would.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is 'Huntin The Crown' about?+
A girl from the dust who has climbed into penthouse halls and refuses to get down for the people who whisper that she does not belong. In the Atomic Timeline it is Frankie Evanz rapping during the machine rise of the early 2020s, trying to be the voice of the movement.
Why is a Frankie Evanz song in a rap style?+
During her depression in the years of the machine rise she tried hip-hop and rap, hoping to become the voice of the movement. "Huntin The Crown" and "Tax the Rich" are that attempt. It did not work out, and she returned to her usual jazz styles.
Is 'Huntin The Crown' explicit?+
Yes. It is marked explicit on streaming platforms.