Before Lana Del Rey became the gangster Nancy Sinatra we all know and love, she was a little less-well known and was more familiar with her original name, Lizzy Grant. Her debut album, Lana Del Rey A.K.A. Lizzy Grant, contains some gems that you might not have expected to come out of the woodwork, including "Yayo," a track originally from her Kill Kill EP.
"Yayo" is slang for cocaine, and keeping the drug in mind upon your first listen, the track becomes something else. It's the slow-motion soundtrack to the most intense scene of the movie. Miss Del Rey's got one haunting voice in this near-six-minute masterpiece. I'll let it slide if you choose to think it's about fast-paced romance and the whatnot, but I need you like a baby when I hold you has one meaning only. "Yayo" is tragic, and at the same time, it is nothing short of beautiful.
Don't do drugs, kids.
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