Verdansk
by Dave

Album: We're All Alone in This Together (2021)
Charted: 4
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Songfacts®:

  • Verdansk is a major city in Kastovia, a fictional country featured in some of the Call of Duty video games. It serves as the primary setting for the Special Ops operations and Ground War maps of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), and the battleground for Call of Duty: Warzone (2020). Verdansk is actually based on a real city, Donetsk, in Ukraine.
  • During this braggadocios track, Dave uses several metaphors related to Call of Duty to illustrate his high-living gangsta lifestyle.

    Airport, we're going for bants
    I hopped out the plane, I ain't going Verdansk


    Dave and his homies are bantering about how traveling abroad is so easy and normal for them, It's like "hopping" out of an airplane and parachuting onto land in Call Of Duty.

    That one mine, Bouncing Betty

    A "Bouncing Betty" is a S-Mine used extensively by German forces during World War II - they show up a lot in Call of Duty. When triggered, these mines "bounce" into the air before detonating at about 1 meter (3 ft). Here, Dave is describing a girlfriend called Betty who has a "bouncing" posterior.
  • Dave first teased the song on June 29, 2020 on his Instagram Story. By the time he included it on his We're All Alone in This Together album, it was one of the most highly anticipated tracks on the project.
  • Dave wrote the song with the track's producer, Kyle Evans. The rapper's go-to beatmaker and childhood friend, Kyle Evans produced or co-produced eight out of the 12 We're All Alone in This Together tracks, including its lead single, "Clash."

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