"223's" is a song by American rapper

YNW Melly Jamell Maurice Demons (born May 1, 1999), known professionally as YNW Melly (initialism for Young Nigga World Melly), is an American rapper and singer. He is best known for his songs " Murder on My Mind", " Mixed Personalities" (featuring Kany ...

featuring American rapper

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, released as the lead single from YNW Melly's debut studio album '' Melly vs. Melvin'' on August 9, 2019. It reached the top 40 of the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and in New Zealand.

Background

The track, originally by 9lokknine and released on his December 2018 mixtape ''Lil Glokk That Stole Khristmas'', was "rebranded" as a collaboration with YNW Melly, who has been in jail since February 2019 after turning himself in on double murder charges and possession of marijuana. After being pulled over for a broken tail light, YNW Melly led a one-hour police chase through the city of

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ending with Melly fleeing; the track references this incident. It was released as a single in August 2019 after going viral on the video app

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Lyrics

The lyric refers to

gang violence A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectivel ...

, with the title referring to

semi-automatic rifle A semi-automatic rifle is an autoloading rifle that fires a single cartridge with each pull of the trigger, and uses part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject the case and load another cartridge into the chamber. For comparison, a bolt-act ...

s that fire

.223 The .223 Remington (designated as the 223 Remington by the SAAMI and 223 Rem by the CIP) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed in 1957 by Remington Arms and Fairchild Industries for the U.S. Continental Army Command ...

cartridges.

Music video

An official music video was released on YNW Melly's official

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Background

Lyrics

Music video

Charts

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