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charlieonnafriday feat. Lil Tjay – Same Friends

Charlieonnafriday is a star on the rise — the Seattle born artist has a knack for melody, catchy hooks, and authenticity that can’t be taught. On “Same Friends,” featuring Lil Tjay, Charlie offers his best record yet. He waxes poetic about his come-up in the music game and bringing his same friends along for the ride with him before Lil Tjay comes in to deliver a bar-heavy verse that’s reminiscent of early Tjay records. In the video, Charlie and his day 1 friends from Seattle are settled into a lavish home in LA, kicking it and recording before all heading over to Lil Tjay’s house where Tjay and his guys are doing the same. “Same Friends” ft. Lil Tjay is a banger primed for long car rides with the windows down and the speakers all the way up.

Charlie hasn’t let up once this year. While he’s been flooding his fans with new music, he’s also been on the road. He kicked off 2023 with the ONNAFRIDAY college tour, making stops at some of the biggest colleges around the country and performing fan favorites like “Enough” and “That’s What I Get.” He’s currently opening for Jessie Murph across the states before heading to Europe in April to open for his mentor Macklemore. The Macklemore tour is particularly special for him — growing up in Seattle, Charlie has always been a Macklemore fan and now he’s added collaborator and friend to their relationship in addition to tour, Charlie was featured on Macklemore’s recent BEN.

To understand charlieonnafriday and where he’s headed, it’s important to go back to where he started. Raised in many neighborhoods in and around Seattle, but noting the Greenlake neighborhood as his home, Charlie says, “I just like capturing moments.”

When COVID hit in 2020, Charlie was a junior in high school and started thinking big-picture about what he wanted to do with his life. He reflected on what brought him the most joy, and knew music was it — specifically, continuing the lineage of iconic artistry that comes out of a city like Seattle. And then he manifested a career. By his senior year, he focused his songwriting and landed a hit with the slow banger “After Hours.” The song distilled the essence of the party, connecting with young people all over the world, as well as older adults remembering the good old days.

From there things happened fast. Just a few months later, Lil Keed wandered into the studio where Charlie was recording in L.A., heard what Charlie was working on, and demanded a track together immediately. They made “Misfit,” right on the spot, and Charlie calls it, “one of the craziest experiences of my life.” That was lucky timing. But writing anthems like “Colorado Boulder” with Kidd G, about college girls who blow all their money on “Titos and weed” — that’s not luck, that’s skill.

For Charlie it all comes back to the genesis of Seattle and that penchant for bottling life; “I’m not the same person I was in high school,” he says, having seen the world a few times now. “But I’m still making songs in my bedroom. I’m still capturing moments. And hopefully people want to live through what I capture.”

Download/Stream:

All Platforms: https://charlieonnafriday.lnk.to/SameFriendsftLilTjay
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/same-friends-single/1678641618
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1NEFmcySKqVun0sMj1EOZg

Follow charlieonnafriday:

Instagram: @charlieonnafriday
TikTok: @charlieonnafriday
Twitter: @charonnafriday

Driving past the same hoes
I’m still with the same friends
Out here with the same bros

Lyrics:

I’m still with the same friends
Out here with the same bros
We still out here mobbin’
It’s just in a range rove

Made it with the same guys
Now we different bankroll
Now we all in designer
Driving past the same hoes
I’m still with the same friends
Out here with the same bros
We still out here mobbin’
It’s just in a range rove

Made it with the same guys
Now we different bankroll
Now we all in designer
Driving past the same hoes

Yeah told you I would never change and shit
Young Charlie yeah he the same and shit
I’m out here gunnin it vroommmm
Onnafriday got in the name and shit

Champagne in my hand imma spray that shit
My dogs gon’ dance on the stage and shit
Throwing up shots on the pavement
Same old roads I’m claimin it

And I’m with all the ones from the jump
Now we do what we want when we want
It’ll be that way til I’m gone
Til I’m gone
Til I’m gone
Til I’m gone
I’m still with the same friends
Out here with the same bros
We still out here mobbin’
It’s just in a range rove

Made it with the same guys
Now we different bankroll
Now we all in designer
Driving past the same hoes
I’m still with the same friends
Out here with the same bros
We still out here mobbin’
It’s just in a range rove
Made it with the same guys
Now we different bankroll
Now we all in designer
Driving past the same hoes
Fuck all these bitches I know they want part of
my money no dummy I rather them eat
It’s hard to know when they like you for you
If it’s my music then how am I unique?

I know I’m young and I’m fly with the heat
Gotta value myself so I won’t even eat
Pussy boy n***** be savage a savage through tweets
If I give a response I win and repeat

I know I make it look easy
But I’m focused aint no time to slack
Trying to go for my bro imma clap
I told you I love you aint none of it cap
At the top with my brother we made it
Still be with my day 1’s this ain’t dated
Just a couple of n****s they faded
From the jump I been solid I played it
Ohh
I’m still with the same friends
Out here with the same bros
We still out here mobbin’
It’s just in a range rove

Made it with the same guys
Now we different bankroll
Now we all in designer
Driving past the same hoes
I’m still with the same friends
Never thought we’d live like this
We out here blowing through them stop signs
Riding shotgun through the sticks

Don’t need no one but my same guys
Out here getting bankroll
We still out here mobbin
It’s just in a range rove

Out here with the same friends
Still out here with the same friends
Yeah
Still out here with the same friends
Still out here with the same ones
Same ones
Same ones

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