Songfacts®:

• "4 Raws" is EsDeeKid's coming-of-age tale told through a fog of smoke, horsepower, and defiance. The song wanders breezily through drug use, street life, upward mobility, and a general refusal to take any guff from the "plod" (British slang for police).
• EsDeeKid casts himself as a self-proclaimed "scumbag" from the "Liverpool slums." He recalls being "broke, no joke, but I spun back," a tidy little summary of a turnaround powered not by evening classes or careful budgeting, but by whatever dubious extracurriculars make a Lamborghini suddenly appear in one's life.
• The title phrase, "four raws," is slang for lighting up four RAW rolling papers at once. EsDeeKid also folds in lines about being "four man deep in this German" (a German high-end car), and the grim boast "I'm rotten, I'm sick when I pour fours." For the uninitiated, "pouring fours" refers to drinking lean, an opioid cocktail with the side effect of making you feel like death itself when you stop consuming it.
• The track floats along on producer Wraith9's atmospheric, cloud-rap-tinged production. Wraith9, who also handled EsDeeKid's breakthrough single "Phantom," supplies the moody, weightless backdrop over which EsDeeKid spills his melodic Scouse flow.
• "4 Raws" appears on EsDeeKid's debut album, Rebel. Following its release, it became one of the album's most popular tracks, climbing into the UK Top 40.
• A remix of "4 Raws" with Timothée Chalamet was released on December 19, 2025, arriving after weeks of online speculation that EsDeeKid was Chalamet pursuing a faceless rap side career.
  
  EsDeeKid performs with his face concealed, but similarities in build and eye shape fueled theories that the masked Liverpool rapper and the American actor were one and the same. The idea wasn't entirely far-fetched: Chalamet has a handful of old YouTube clips floating around from his LaGuardia High School days when he rapped under the name Timmy Tim.
  
  The remix appears designed to put the rumors to rest... mostly. In the video, Chalamet pulls down a bandana to reveal himself, while EsDeeKid stays masked, ensuring conspiracy theorists still have room to maneuver. What is clear is that it's definitely Chalamet on the mic for the remix, which also doubles as light promotion for his sports comedy-drama film Marty Supreme.