HARDY Delivers Unfiltered Truth In New Spoken Word Track, ‘QUIT!!,’ Announces 2024 Tour

HARDY was inspired to write the song after someone wrote the word “quit” on a napkin and put it in his tip jar early in his career.

HARDY holds nothing back his just-released song, “QUIT!!,” a spoken word track that details his journey to success and the drive to never back down that led him here. 

Penned by the genre-bending hitmaker with Jacob Durrett, the autobiographical tune was inspired by a story he told at the 2022 ACM Honors after accepting his first-ever ACM Songwriter of the Year award. A clip of this speech was included on the accompanying visualizer, which finds him recounting the moment back in the early days of his career when a person wrote the word “quit” on a napkin and put it in his tip jar of the gig he was playing that night. Instead of letting that word tear him down nearly 10 years ago, he has used it as motivation throughout the rise of his career. 

Now he’s speaking his truth in the autobiographical track, opening with a reference to this experience that happened a decade ago.

“Somebody wrote quit on a napkin I took it out of my tip jar laughing Like damn what a asshole, man/ I’m just a flat broke boy with a guitar asking/ For anybody to pay attention/ It’s not like anybody paid admission/ I was just wishin’/ Somebody would listen/ Give me a shot and I ain’t talkin’ bout Canadian Mist then,” he delivers on the opening verse.