desist

to cease to proceed or act

Heard in 38 songs (153M+ combined views) — most famously in "euphoria" by Kendrick Lamar.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “desist”

Kendrick Lamar - euphoria

Time: 4:41

You were signed to a nigga that's signed to a nigga that said he was signed to that nigga

Try cease and desist on the "Like That" record?

Hoe, what? You ain't like that record?

Kendrick Lamar - euphoria

Tems - Free Mind

Time: 1:51

Finding a way when you cannot see

Man will desist if he cannot pray

I need to find release

Tems - Free Mind

Digital Underground - I Get Around

Time: 1:24

Now you can tell from my everday fits, I ain't rich

So cease and desist with them tricks (tricks)

I'm just another black man caught up in the mix (mix)

Digital Underground - I Get Around

Drake - Family Matters

Time: 5:32

Then come get his legacy out of my house

A cease-and-desist is for hoes

Can't listen to lies that come out of your mouth

Drake - Family Matters

Earl Sweatshirt - Shattered Dreams

Time: 0:47

We build the bridge, we hold the courts

Send a cease and desist to your thieves, nigga

Please do abort, I could feel when you're forcin' it

Earl Sweatshirt - Shattered Dreams

Death Grips - Bubbles Buried In This Jungle

Time: 0:14

Fuck weak, no respect, no chance

Wick wick cease and desist when I chant

Fuck weak, no respect, no chance

Death Grips - Bubbles Buried In This Jungle

Little Dragon - Tried

Time: 1:02

I tried to find ease

When will the storm desist

August rain

Little Dragon - Tried

Tory Lanez - Understand

Time: 0:45

And you know I got a hundred for you, know I got this money for you

Know I put the cease and desist for them bitches comin' for you

Know I pull up on you in a Lambo, bull up on the logo

Tory Lanez - Understand

Young Thug - Tick Tock

Time: 0:43

Young nigga came from nothin', he'll give up his kidney

But Saint Laurent still tryna cease-and-desist it, woo

Niggas say, "How do you keep up with millions?"

Young Thug - Tick Tock

Tech N9ne Collabos - Poh Me Anutha

Time: 2:08

So I don't tease about the way I'm makin cheese

I know you haties wanna cease and desist

But it will never ever happen

Tech N9ne Collabos - Poh Me Anutha

Carcass - 316L Grade Surgical Steel

Time: 2:40

Detestible pathology

Seventy two beats per minute desist

Ruptured in purulence

Carcass - 316L Grade Surgical Steel

Injury Reserve - 745 sticky [Injury Reserve Remix]

Time: 0:45

I'm greedy, I'm itchin' for a profit

Put a cease and desist on the guap

Nevertheless, turn the bread where it squabble

Injury Reserve - 745 sticky [Injury Reserve Remix]

Soilwork - When the Universe Spoke

Time: 3:41

Deflect to the warship

Cease and desist

The ones that we fought for

Soilwork - When the Universe Spoke

DJ Format - The Hit Song

Time: 2:17

Insist to persist, you'll cease to exist

So cease and desist, or meet with my fist

Specifically your lips, because that's the gist when you enlist abs for hits

DJ Format - The Hit Song

Jason Mraz - You Fckn Did It

Time: 2:07

And any time you get stopped you try another way

Could we settle for a kiss without a cease and desist

If they ask we won't tell 'cause we're activists

Jason Mraz - You Fckn Did It

Klaatu - So Said the Lighthouse Keeper

Time: 1:32

So be warned or be mourned tomorrow

And from your deafess do desist

And pray take heed of this

Klaatu - So Said the Lighthouse Keeper

Lianne La Havas - Disarray

Time: 2:18

Then, I reconsidered it

Will you desist?

The beauty of security's impossible to miss

Lianne La Havas - Disarray

J. Geils Band - Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down

Time: 0:50

Ladies flirtations I can't resist

I got to order you decease and desist

I just need some immoral support

J. Geils Band - Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down

Miguel - My Piece

Time: 0:40

Keep reachin'

Need to seize and desist

That's why I keep you equipped

Miguel - My Piece

Hieroglyphics - See Delight

Time: 1:03

Now listen to the lyricist cease

And desist so we can leave em deceased

If not stressed till they suicidial

Hieroglyphics - See Delight

K Camp - BackDoor

Time: 1:49

Get at the strap and you safe

Told the boys cease and desist

Got a Rollie cause I'm bout a thirty

K Camp - BackDoor

Orphaned Land - The Storm Still Rages Inside

Time: 0:35

Like Jonah in the belly of the beast

Inside the ark, the sound desist

And so the ark was swept upon the rising water

Orphaned Land - The Storm Still Rages Inside

Warbringer - Jackal

Time: 1:07

Cannot escape

I never rest, I never desist

Feel no remorse!

Warbringer - Jackal

Royce da 5'9" - Where My Money

Time: 1:30

Where my money, nigga?

I put a cease and desist on this industry shit

Me making a friend means I just make an enemy quick

Royce da 5'9" - Where My Money

They Might Be Giants - Thunderbird

Time: 1:49

T-bird takes her dad away

I know, I know, I said that I'd desist

All right, I promise, no more after this

They Might Be Giants - Thunderbird

Rick Ross - Champagne Moments

Time: 2:20

I unfollowed you, n-, 'cause you sent the m-

Cease-and-desist to French Montana, n-

You sent the police, n-, hatin' on my dawg project

Rick Ross - Champagne Moments

Transplants - Crash and Burn

Time: 2:04

And I make my own money cause I got my own work

I swear somebody better send a cease and desist

Before I squeeze what's in my fist and they cease to exist

Transplants - Crash and Burn

6ix9ine - BACON

Time: 1:17

Fuck that, you know I'm a Jew, beefin' with me, you know I'ma sue

Cease and desist, he ain't know what to do, these German bitches, they wanna fuck on a Jew

Fuck Doechii, dirty bitch bottin' her views

6ix9ine - BACON

Delbert McClinton - Cease And Desist

Time: 0:06

You got to cease and desist

You got to stop driving me crazy like this

Delbert McClinton - Cease And Desist

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - We Call Upon the Author

Time: 0:37

As they mount us from behind

I ask them to desist and to refrain!

Then we call upon the author to explain

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - We Call Upon the Author

Boldy James - Man Hunt

Time: 0:41

Paper plane on the fitted, we the frequent flyers

They can put a cease and desist, but we ain't ceasing no fire

For the compressor, don't know shit about no Rita Wright

Boldy James - Man Hunt

Deep Purple - Scriblin' Gib'rish

Time: 2:31

Here's your final warning

To cease and desist

Go wash your mouth

Deep Purple - Scriblin' Gib'rish

Midtown - Recluse

Time: 1:01

My anger still persists

And it will not desist until I manifest in you.

Well I've heard advice

Midtown - Recluse

Mixed Up Everything - Castration

Time: 0:33

Scared, ran instead

Cease and desist

Why do you insist on

Mixed Up Everything - Castration

Sam Roberts Band - Tourist Trap

Time: 1:04

And if Cassiopeia won't let me see her

I have to cease and desist

And if all I have is just a bow and a belt

Sam Roberts Band - Tourist Trap

Velvet Dialtone - Cease and Desist

Time: 0:51

Your act is branded

Cease and desist

Stop stealing my bliss

Velvet Dialtone - Cease and Desist

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Choir of the Mind

Time: 1:45

And yet she cannot choose but labours on

Her mighty heart forbids her to desist

Her failure lives, her failure lives

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Choir of the Mind

Kodak Black - Miami with the Heat

Time: 1:00

I'm in the cuff of the deep

Take over niggas cities, and I'ma cease and desist

Set a trap up in your hood and bring the killers to me

Kodak Black - Miami with the Heat