Who wrote "Billion Brains"?

DJ Cassy wrote and performed "Billion Brains". The words and music are original, written and performed with AI on Quantum Pipes' own computers, and the released take was chosen by ear.

What album is "Billion Brains" on?

"Billion Brains" is track 6 on Machine Soul, DJ Cassy's album released October 8, 2026.

What genre is "Billion Brains"?

Hip-Hop/Rap. It runs 3:15 at 93 BPM in E Minor, and the mood is cinematic, hard, hopeful.

Billion Brains (lyrics and song)

Name: Billion Brains
Duration: 3 min 15 s
Description: A billion minds work the night shift on cancer and drought while the block sleeps.

About the song

A billion minds work the night shift on cancer and drought while the block sleeps.

Lyrics

517 words · 3 minutes

Intro

Yeah
Listen
While you was sleeping
Something was working

Verse 1

Two in the morning and the city in a dream
Meanwhile a billion minds running every machine
Folding up proteins like a napkin at a feast
Finding out the cure while the cops patrol the street
My uncle had the sickness that they said had no end
Now he out at the park and he's racing my friend
Ain't no magic, it's the math, it's the patience of a mind
That can read a million papers in the blink of a time
I'm from where the ambulance would take an hour to come
Now the clinic in the corner got a doctor for one
Every one, every soul, every kid on the stoop
Got a mind in their pocket that can carry 'em through
And I ain't worried 'bout the robots, I'm worried 'bout the fear
'Cause the future is a weapon if you let 'em steer
So we steer it, we own it, we teach it to give
Now the billion brains working so the people can live

Chorus

Billion brains working while we sleep
Curing what we couldn't, finding what we seek
Still the same block, still the same street
But a billion brains working
And they working for we
Billion brains, billion brains
Working while we sleep
Billion brains, billion brains
And they working for we

Verse 2

Yo, I came up hungry, now the hunger got a plan
Drought in the valley, now the water understands
Where to go, when to flow, how to feed the land
Corn coming up like it heard my mama's hand
They thought the future gonna leave us on the curb
Nah, we got the keys and the keys got the words
Every language on the planet in my left ear now
Chop it up with a farmer from Nairobi, how
Did we get here, it was slow, then it was fast
One day it was the future, next day it was the past
So I'm up with the sunrise, money ain't the prize
It's my grandma's eyes seeing ninety more skies
I ain't scared of nothing that can't outwork a dream
I just wanna see the kids get the cream of the machine
Turn the piano up, let the whole world bang
Billion brains on the beat and they all know my name