Ghais Guevara has shared “The Old Guard Is Dead,” a new single from his upcoming album Goyard Ibn Said. In the song, Guevara changes his voice at several points while rapping about falling into the temptations of wealth as he became more successful. “Mom, look, I did catch a storm/warned me of all the threats of temptation/now fast forward, my clue was Dio/I got hit, I passed the torch to her,” he raps on the opening verse. As for the song’s creative direction, as reported by the Clash, he said: “Constraints always breed innovation, and this song is an example of that. The lack of sample options available forced me to use unfamiliar songs, sounds and processes .The result was that my navy and I stormed the docks, and the citizens looked terrified because they knew we weren’t going to leave.
Fans loved the new sound. “Guevara with his deep voice is crazy,” one user wrote in the YouTube comments section. Another added: “The sound switch is [fire emojis] Not ready to launch AOTY contender in January.
Try to go to Houston and find me a Whitney
She wants to go to Hollywood, she wants to be Brittany
I can’t see the vision if it’s not a dollar
My man does push-ups first, then 50 degrees lower
Avoid my texts when I come to your city
Hooked up with those niggas that are out to get me
I took them to the water but they just couldn’t get the water
Everything I did became everything you didn’t do
