Suicideboys album-Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation

Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation

Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation is the third studio album by American hip-hop duo Suicideboys. The album was released on July 29, 2022, through G*59 Records. The album was produced by member Budd Dwyer. The album was preceded by two singles, "The Evil That Men Do" and "Escape from Babylon". The latter peaked at #22 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in the United States.

In the U.S., the album peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200, #2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart and the Independent Albums Chart, and topped the Rap Albums Chart. The album peaked at #6 in New Zealand, #14 in Finland, and #26 in Australia and Canada.

Genesis is the opening track of Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation.
Genesis refers to the book of Genesis and focuses on the story of grief, creation, sin, and rebirth. The story tells how God's perfect creation, mankind, is punished by genocide for disobedience.
Since Genesis is about rebirth, the song can be interpreted as the boys recreating themselves by changing their personalities, voices, and tones. Around the time of the release of the "LIVE FAST, DIE WHENEVER" project, they adopted a punk, hardcore style of music with Travis Barker, and the duo has been constantly changing their style ever since.

Matte Black is the second track from the album Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation. The sample was used to promote the May 9, 2022 release of the Greyday series.
It's relatively long for a song of $uicideboy$'s customary length.
Scrim's verses are more a reflection of his addictive tendencies as a whole. It's also a reflection of his manic-depressive self. He shifts themes a lot in this song, like an addict molding his mind. First, he talks about sleeping with a girl, then he talks about relapsing on opioids, and finally, he goes back to the girl. Sex and drugs are addictions that people are addicted to and are often addicted to, after that he talks about his sadness and how he now uses his money to cope with his sadness by buying land and diamonds when in reality he is not happy and will never be truly happy.
Ruby's verse is largely based on the fact that the older he gets, the less he can take care of himself. He talks about what a terrible person he is and how no one should follow him or be with him because his hobbies and behavior will bring people down.

Fuching your Culture$uicideBoy$ have been against the whole mainstream music for a long time and this time they are taking things to their hand to damage them, not just dissing it but indeed, ''fucking it''.

This song is also a sequel to their 2019 single, ‘’Fuck Your Culture‘

1000 Blunts is the 4th track on the album Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation and is the sequel to the 2014 track "100 Blunt$".
100 Blunt$ was one of the first songs where the duo used autotune and sound effects, and that may be the case in this song as well. The use of autotune coupled with the song's title gives the song a vibe that seems to take one on a trip to get high on marijuana.

In Constant Sorrow is the 5th track on Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation.
The song is one of the most depressing on the album, where Ruby talks about how he achieved everything he dreamed of, but it no longer matters to him, how he feels inadequate, and how he struggles with the name $uicideBoy$.
Due to the duo's name being associated with "suicidal" behavior, some fans have been waiting for years for them to finally end their suicides, mainly during the Boy$ era of 2017-2020, as they were dealing with sobriety and personal drama in their lives, and because of this, Ruby is the one who told them to leave him alone because he has changed over time and his suicidal state is as well.
On the other hand, $crim talks about how he felt distrustful of his friends and family and how he struggled with the idea of believing in "God", which either means that he struggled with believing in the existence of "God", or it means that he thought that "God" had little to no impact on $crim's life because his prayers didn't seem to be heard.

Escape from BABYLON is the 6th track on Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation.  "Babylon" here refers to "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth," commonly known as the "whore of Babylon" (which is also the name of the artwork used on the cover of the song), a female figure mentioned in the book of Revelation as symbolizing evil:
And I saw another woman sitting on a scarlet beast, which was full of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, and she had in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and filthiness of fornication. - Revelation 17:3, 4
"The Whore of Babylon" is used by the boys to talk about getting rid of their exes and gold-worshipping "sluts," as the line goes: 

Still I deal with trauma from this ex in my past
Only bitch I know psycho enough to land me in rehab

Resistance is Futile is the 8th track on Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation.
The song reminds fans that Boy$ only changed their style, not their roots, as Ruby says in the last few lines of the song

Still in that 7th, ain’t nothing has changed
Still wearing FTP fits to the grave
Still fuck the fame, fuck the pressure and pain
Only thing changed is I cut off my mane

Eulogy is the 9th track on the album.
Scrim and Ruby spill out all the problems in their lives, Scrim talks about his rocky relationship with his family while Ruby opens up about the effects of his years of chronic drug use and his mental state.
If we notice the title of the song and the chorus sung by the cousins, it sounds like the last words of the two of them played at a funeral after their deaths, most likely a self-inflicted death.
In 2012, Scrim released a very similar song as the closing track to his first solo mixtape, Narcotics Anonymous, called Outro [Suicidal Thoughts]. The track is heavily based on a sampled song by The Notorious B.I.G. on Eulogy, Suicidal Thoughts.

No Matter Which Direction I’m Going In, I Never Chase These Hoes is the 10th track on the album. $uicideBoy$ has spoken about their troubled romance on several occasions in songs such as CLYDE (I Hope At Least One of My Ex-Girlfriends Hears This)", "'Escape from BABYLON'" and Ruby's solo song "Broken Krystal Ball".
Ruby had an unhappy five-year relationship in the past with a girl named Krystal and broke up with her before the release of What My Liver Can Handle That My Heart Can't, while $crim had an unhappy relationship with his ex-fiancé, Tori, who manipulated $crim while he was in rehab.
The song serves as a reminder for the boys to stay emotionally detached and focus on what's most important: their careers and futures. Emotions can be a distraction when you're trying to be rich.

$uicideboy$ Were Better In 2015 is the 11th track on Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation, and looks back at the themes and styles that made the duo famous, and how fans still want them to keep their original style of rap, themes of depression and suicide, and overall mellow tone, although they've continued to evolve both as people and as artists.
The track itself is very similar in style to the duo's work during 2015/2016, featuring dark piano samples, Memphis vocals, and lyrics centered around depression, addiction, and suicide. Similar songs from that era include "Kill Yourself (Part III)," "Low Key," and "I Miss My Dead Friends," to name a few.
The opening section of $crim is a direct quote from his lyrics on "Kill Yourself (Part III)":
Always bragging about my emotions, sayin' how I'm fuckin' falling apart
The song is one of Boy$' most popular songs, amassing around 402 million plays on Spotify alone. In the song, the brothers talk about their struggles with drugs, depression, and suicide - issues that "$uicideBoy$" was founded around.
The song's title, "$uicideboy$ Were Better in 2015," first appeared in a merchandise trailer and on t-shirts and hoodies.

Unlucky Me'' is the sequel to the boy band's 2016 effort "Lucky Me."In "Lucky Me," Boy$ references the infamous "27 Club" - a reference to a group of musicians who died at the age of 27. These artists include Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and Jimi Hendrix, to name a few.

On the last track of "Sing Me a Lullaby," "My Sweet Temptation," $UICIDEBOY$ goes back and forth while $crim says he doesn't really trust the people around him and thinks people are "acting" to get his trust, while Ruby was speaking out about his long absence from social media and the public eye aside from concerts, and they both talked about their newfound sobriety, but that they're still suffering, and they still have a lot of love for themselves since $uicideBoy$ The same ideas and beliefs they've been talking about since the beginning, like being against "organized religion" are something they've talked about a lot in the past - like in their song "Exodus" - and throughout the album. The artwork shows photos of tornadoes that tore through parts of New Orleans and its suburbs, downing power lines and scattering debris in parts of the city severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jimmy Pohlman said at a news conference that one person was confirmed dead and several others were injured in the suburb. Other tornadoes from the same storm system struck parts of Texas and Oklahoma, killing one person, injuring others, and causing widespread damage.
As Boy$ talks about in the first song of the album Genesis, the use of this tornado may represent God's punishment for those who sin, as Genesis talks about how God created the world. Very good, but it was destroyed in a flood due to human disobedience, which may be a reference to the track name "THE_EVIL_THAT_MEN_DO".