This is a song about a young woman who moves abroad for school. While out there, she loses focus and gets caught up in the social scene. While on the surface the song speaks about an entitled person, on a deeper level the song explores generational wealth. Her spending habits are hurting her nuclear family and her relationship with her fiance. Both parties are afraid to tell her no and instead enable her.
lyrics
INTRO – OOZEELA
Tap to get it
Tap to get it poppin’
Tap to get it
Tap to get it poppin’
VERSE 1 – ARLO MAVERICK
Won’t lose sleep for the things you do
Daddy’s little girl and you know it’s true
Whole life savings gave it up to you
Said you’re gonna be a star he believes in you
Weeks go by doesn’t hear from you
But you always call when the rent is due
Now you’re failing class he don’t have a clue
Do you care about the stress that you put him through
AURAH ARIKO
I’m tryna find myself
Guilty conscience
Just lie
It helps
Wanna be part of the in crowd
Well you're in now
In trouble
In debt
In a hunnid thow
Second mortgage
For a child who lacks the discipline
You would think an +A would be the minimum
No job distract you
So what’s there to hinder
Snapchat
Instagram
Of course Tinder
CHORUS – OOZEELA
Big daddy's credit card
Anything she want she go get it (Tap it)
In a city where she has no friendships (Tap it)
No matter how expensive (Tap it)
She's got his credit card
She don’t ever have to cash or cheque in
She just tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap to get it poppin’
VERSE 2 – ARLO MAVERICK
While most women settle for a social life
Most girls ain’t happy til they’re socialites
Found love but they don’t hold it tight
Cause they girlfriends say how you know it’s right
You know its foul but they override
Why settle for him when you got your whole life
Man back home think you focused right!
But little does he know where you go at night
AURAH ARIKO
Girls just wanna have fun
But you’re not 18,
Hun, you’re 31
Foreign student
With a man working double shifts
Fatherless
So to him it’s what love is
Guilt trips
Where you question his manhood
Got his own bills
But everyday he’s ambushed
With your wants
Cause you need everything
Little does he know he don’t mean anything
CHORUS – OOZEELA
Big daddy's credit card
Anything she want she go get it (Tap it)
In a city where she has no friendships (Tap it)
No matter how expensive (Tap it)
She's got his credit card
She don’t ever have to cash or cheque in
She just tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap to get it poppin’
VERSE 3 – OOZEELA
Tap water nuh good enough she want Brita
Tap-dancing with a dude and him want get her
Tap steady pon the floor til he undress her
Top student in her class could’a done better
Stop looking at the neighbour grass you got better
Stop with a bad behaviour you brought up better
Top of the world
Top hat
Toppa toppa
Top that
Every single time you see her
Facebook or Snapchat, snap
CHORUS – OOZEELA
Big daddy's credit card
Anything she want she go get it (Tap it)
In a city where she has no friendships (Tap it)
No matter how expensive (Tap it)
She's got his credit card
She don’t ever have to cash or cheque in
She just tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap to get it poppin’
credits
from Soul Merchant,
released July 9, 2021
Written by M. Wilson, O. Severin
Additional Vocals by Aurah Ariko
Produced by Mike Schlosser
Mixed & Mastered by Brad Smith (Velveteen Studios)
Arlo Maverick is a hip-hop MC whose sound explores Jazz, Electro, and Soul yet identifies itself as hip-hop through fusing
nuances of hip-hop’s golden era and Jazz theory. Lyrically Arlo Maverick’s music is a poetic narration of everyday life experiences. For Maverick it is as much about moving his audience physically as it is about moving them emotionally....more
