CUP FULL Lyrics – 21 Savage

21 Savage’s WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? lands like a brick through a trap house window today via Sony Music Entertainment, a raw 14-track reckoning that wonders if the code we lived by got gentrified out of existence. And CUP FULL? It’s the mid-album pour-up that tips the brim, toasting hard-won stacks while the lean spills over scars from the block that raised—and razed—us.

This cut, track four on the 14-song slab, captures Savage’s signature menace wrapped in hazy introspection: trap’s thunderous 808s from producers Taurus, DJ Cash, Serra, and Jaegyeong Kim rumbling under Thug’s ethereal intro and Savage’s ice-cold flows. It’s Southern gothic hip-hop at its core—dark, syrupy vibes evoking early mixtape rawness, but evolved with atmospheric keys that echo like distant sirens.

Thematically, it’s a raw autopsy of survival: middle-school hustles morphing into penthouse paranoia, coping with agony through the cup’s numb embrace, and that unshakeable code where loyalty’s the only currency. Thug’s spoken-word opener sets the therapy tone—“we cope with bad things by doing drugs”—before Savage flips it into street scripture, blending braggadocio (“lead in the chopper like a pencil”) with quiet confessions of cutting off the too-friendly and masking up for the spin. Recorded in piecemeal Atlanta sessions amid Savage’s post-incarceration reset, it’s him directing the chaos, no overproduced sheen—just honest haze that hits different at 2 a.m.

Dropping without warning on December 12 after a December 8 Instagram teaser that had the timeline in a chokehold, the album’s stacked with heavy hitters: Drake on a potential banger, Lil Baby trading scars on “STEPPBROTHERS,” Young Nudy repping ATL kin, and Metro Boomin anchoring the shadows. No full tracklist spoilers beyond the 14-deep dive—from opener “WHERE YOU FROM” to closer “I WISH”—but it’s all vault-forged fire, questioning the erosion of hood honor in a world gone soft.

Savage is mid-stride in his empire arc, two years past american dream’s chart domination and that relentless ’25 feature gauntlet with everyone from Travis Scott to Central Cee. The Slaughter Gang survivor’s trading some ice-cold detachment for warmer wounds now—sold-out American Dream Tour residuals still echoing, with whispers of a ’26 run teasing more of this evolved edge. It’s him circling back to the questions that built him, proving the streets might’ve changed, but the savage in the mirror hasn’t.

Dive into the CUP FULL lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? tracks for more of 21 Savage’s unflinching street gospel.