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Yeah, yeah
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Blacklight, yeah)
You better act right when you come around it (You dunno how to act)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Yeah!)
The proof’s in the power and we proud of it
Ay (Woo!)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Talk about it)
Say it three times, get surrounded by it (What it do!)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it
But you gon’ hear about it
Whatchu think you know about it?
(Muse) What’s the price of a black life?
Ahhhh
Ever seen a mortuary with a black light?
Say it in the mirror three times
Get ya act right
See my UV shine when a black light gleams
That's ultimate vision
They hoping and wishin' I fall
Me on any beat like a war of attrition
My mama told me "Boy, patience!
We're from a long bloodline of exploitation
It's gon’ take a few generations
To heal the wounds
Don't get consumed in temptations"
Mama
I'm a little more militant
Like every innocent child soldier fillin' his clip
Aiming at investors and suits running a loot
Living debt free
He caught a bullet straight back now he set free
And they can front on the news
But we got nothin' to prove
Cos when you got nothin' left
You have nothin' to lose
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Blacklight, yeah)
You better act right when you come around it (You dunno how to act)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Woah no!)
The proof’s in the power and we proud of it
Ay (Blacklight)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (talk about it)
Say it three times, get surrounded by it (Yeah)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it
But you gon’ hear about it
Whatchu think you know about it?
A young prophet
Mohamed musing on the message
How do you teach so many people not to love the wreckage?
In a couple seconds it could run all the way to hellish
Is it haram to hate your killer?
Tell me what you reckon
Black liquor through the liver, I’m a cold sinner
I hold a mirror to my people just to see the maker
Slither baker
Come to serve us all a slice of dinner
Bitter taste, hit a smile
Grip the cold trigger
Drip, drip, rosey liquid for your latest winner
In an alternate universe we might’ve been unchained
That’s a foreign legacy
But we’re still untamed
Our future make your Queen Lizzie thinner
Take up what you make up lest you become drained
New generation, one mission
We deliver way quicker than your best breaker
No checkin’
But never lost like your boats lack direction
Siga!
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Talk about it)
You better act right when you come around it (You dunno how to act)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Whatchu talm’ bout?)
The proof’s in the power and we proud of it
Ay (Ahhh)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it (Talk about it)
Say it three times, get surrounded by it (Woah no!)
Blacklight, we don’t needa talk about it
But you gon’ hear about it
Whatchu think you know about it?
Yo yo (Moopz!)
Blacklight, I handle mine with eloquence
I'm diligent with mouthin’ it
And vigilant of counterfeits
When I got to earth
He said “There ain't no gettin out of it
I didn't put a doubt in it
so learn how to be proud of it
Look (Bruh)
I gave you a gift, better make the most
When they take your shine
You inject ‘em with a greater dose
You gon' feel some highs
And experience some greater lows
But you gon’ survive and win everything that them haters won't"
God, it's really hard trailblazing though
Lemme hit you with some honesty
The path sucks (Argh)
But I won't pass up
And if I'm never a star
I'll shine without being gassed up (I learnt to shine)
Mo Muse and Deesy D, what a match up
Homie, don't snooze on the South, West or the East
We goin’ after everything that's on the map bruh
In the future when they talk ‘bout black music in the N-Z
We the ones they gon’ ask of
Yeah
Sya!
They been sleepin’ on us for too long man
You hate to see it
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Semi Savant
03:56
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Pụọ ebe a!
Get up outta my position
There ain’t a label, it’s a given
Some of y’all don’t really do this for a livin
And it shows
Here we go, gold overload
OH NO (Hey!)
You are not ready for war
You cannot ignore the Semi Savant
WOAH STOP
Actin’ like we haven’t conquered before
(Hey!)
Stay on the course
SEMI SAVANT
Ay
This the way it goes
Imma Black star
Been shining for ages though
I gettin plugs now
Some figures pay for those
I’m on a pathway and
I think it’s paved with gold
Wait a minute!
What? (Woah!)
I been doin’ this for eons
All this time, been disguised as a peon
Big poppies wantin’ me to put the meek on
If it's you, you a sucka boy
Light that up in neon
I see chords as colours
I cause a ruckus
It's all or nothin
They in awe and wonder
I force a stutter
Like they cords have ruptured
That's right
There's a king on the inside
That's why
I keep the chin on the incline
The Sun never say "For them I'm gonna dim mine"
So I won't negotiate the margin that I win by
Stand ground ‘til the feet go numb
Singin’ Fo, Fi, Fee Fo Fum
Jidenna said the “Chief Don’t Run”
My ancestors in the back like “Keep goin’ son”
A product of survivors (Yes!)
Luckily the black man never tire
And thankfully the black women take us higher
If you say you stand alone
Better get the strap
You a liar
.
We gather together
Then scatter and spread out
Emphatically chatter bout matters
Instead of proactive endeavours
It's taggin on twitter
It's glamour, it's glitter
And grammin' the picture
It's fashion playin twister with activism
The act is visible for those who active listen
and catch the difference
If passion fizzes when you can no longer market ya action
Then that's just social capitalism
Now listen
I got Afrikan vision
I want to gather the masses scattered
And shackled in systems
Lackin the wisdom
Who actin like they in actual prisons
And introduce em to the valiant mission called Pan africanism
Listen
But it's a mistake to negate the Divine from equations
And cave into Satan
To aid and abet in his hatin
and aim to create the exact situation we need liberation from
That's why I got to be a saintly son
At times I feel like showin’ them I ain't the one
Some folks take to the streets and wanna paint with blood
No Spiderman, but an avenger's what we can't become
Some say a legend's what I can't become
But that's hard for me to believe since I came from one
Actually two
Big up to mama and pa
Y’all made a semi savant
And now he’s
ready for war
Put my feet down where I put ‘em down
Renegade stamps
They in every town
Cosmic timeline, round about
It ain’t everyday that it come around
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Weight On My Bars, Pt. V
02:24
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Look
Soft core, still a hard case
Flow make ya brain shine and ya heart blaze
Keep both eyes on me, star gaze
Part 5 and I'm still throwin’ up the bar weight
Son of the soil, they don’t wanna start shade
Steady ready to get froggy but they larvae
Cross me, and see all the lights like Kanye
Make myself clear like a selfie on a Huawei
I rap avid for my melanin inhabitants
Uncapped passion when I'm pennin’ on these canvases
An incel wanna cover me in bandages
They couldn't count on it with an abacus
Quick math
Stay mean but never deal in averages
Wish that I was stackin bread like my sandwiches
Extract capital that's handled by the managers
Give back to Africans who wranglin’ for scrappages
Fist black and upright for my people
Didn't think I had to say that we is all equal
Homies gettin’ chased outta town like a steeple
Pray they make it out alive, brothers gettin’ lethal
Situation evil
Starbucks Sally like "I knew they was uncivilised,
Check my box braids though
I got them at the illest price!"
Big blind spots courtesy of ill-advice
History was written by the hands that tyrannized
Every beat that I'm on, I obliterize
That's obliterate and vaporize fused
Yea I can customize any verb that I use
Wax intellect on every verse that I do
Smash every set before the final curtain I pull
Average rappers I will batter like they fried food
They’ll be quite bruised
Like they in the ring with Thai dudes
I oop-
I do it for rejects and throwaways
Tell all of my peeps not to stow away
Cos folks keepin too much capital
Tend to treat others like they is lower case (Woo)
Try to move in the holy ways
Though at times I desire to throw a vase
At a wall in anger cos I get vexed when
Artists make trash but they gettin’ cake (Nah)
The floor commonplace, so I levitate (Yes)
They sleepin’ on me while I leave magic in my wake
Hear my peers sayin I even don’t how he make -
his own basslines and ‘em tight fat rhythms
They try do the same like they might match with him
There ain’t no symmetry, I be real fact spittin
Busy makin’ hiphop while you makin’ fan fiction
Yeah, I make the real black music
Y’all make fan fiction
Ha
Yeah
Let’s go
Y’all know nothin’ bout this weight (Y’all know about it?)
That I’m pushin up (push around)
I’m in there every second day
I don’t do it for the sway
Nah
Woo
Y’all know nothin’ bout this weight (Y’all know about it?)
That I’m pushin up (Uh)
I’m in there every second day
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Na wetin dey no
Na wetin dey no
Na wetin dey no
Na wetin dey no
What’s good?
Uh
Jaye Moni
Heard about me?
They don’t know me though
But they know from the wave
It’s a Moni flow
I baptize the beat like a Holy Ghost
And now adays I get around n*****
Coast to coast
I just spread my talents like an octopus
And became that rapper that they love the most
Link up with Maz
He across the globe
Two middle fingers up to a xenophobe
Like a rolling stone I just rock ‘n’ roll
I’m a diamond’s glow with my pockets swole
Keep a few bad b****** all around me though
Gotta leave with the bag
I’m up out the door
Dress nice, smell like Issey
Super duper freaky just like Missy
Bad B, I keep it juicy
Remind them of that chick that ran with Biggie
It’s Moni
Na wetin dey no
Yeah
See dem times
We dey hustle we no get
Si na wetin dey no
Yeah
We dey do our ting
We no send
Si na wetin dey no
Yeah
Omo Naija to the ends
Si na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Yeah
Na wetin dey no
I ain't gon' repeat why
I'm culturally piecewise
If y'all don't know it by now
Then when you gon' realise?
Got odds stacked against us
But you won't see the dream die
Bleak circumstances be precisely where we thrive
Biafran in the bloodline
Descendent of the sunshine
Lackin the vernacular
But drink a lot of palm wine
They’ll doubt ya sometimes
But when they see you rise
They’ll be like "It's about time!"
"I'm so proud of our kind!"
Ha,
That's the game though
I'm doin' what they won't
But I'm steady prayin for my people catchi’ halos
Constant on the case load
Tryna stack the playdough
I wear a hundred hats
So you can miss me with the shade bro
Yo
Y'all needa learn how to play shows
I sweat like a detective being discovered on a payroll
Chill goes AWOL
Me against my peers
I make the most art
Liken me to Beethove'
Na wetin dey no?
Na wetin dey no (Rah! rah!)
Yeah
See dem times
We dey hustle we no get
Si na wetin dey no (wetin dey no)
Yeah
We dey do our ting
We no send
Si na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Yeah
Omo Naija to the ends
Si na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Yeah
Na wetin dey no
Jaye Moni, Mazbou, Magugu, Skunkadelic
Ndi Naija
It’s the take over
Now where we at?
Auckland city, Cardiff, London!
Ay
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Ay ay ya
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Wetin dey no
Na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Yeah
See dem times
We dey hustle we no get
Si na wetin dey no (wetin dey no)
Yeah
We dey do our ting
We no send
Si na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Yeah
Omo Naija to the ends
Si na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Na wetin dey no (Wetin dey no)
Yeah
Na wetin dey no
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Bad Energy
Ay
Let it fly by
First hit em with the side eye
Clownin with me
That I wouldn't try try
See me duck a bad vibe
And watch it die die
Bad Energy
Ay
Let it fly by
First hit em with the side eye
Clownin with me
That I wouldn't try try
See me duck a bad vibe
And watch it die die
When I say I'm all in
It's neither doubt nor its shadow
I killed my hesitation, put it underneath a meadow
Negativity just got a stomach full of arrows
Put a noose around my unbelief
And hung it from the gallows
When I protect my energy I'm anything but mellow
Bad vibes, crush 'em like a slug under stilettos
Imma church boy but I might get froggy like a freddo
Cos the best solution is replace the s.o with a revo
What I do, I do with guts fam
And with the amount skill you can fit into one man
Tell Candace she a sucka for being a trump stan
But she don't have a clue
She only part of the Klux Klan
Trash rappers I put 'em back in the dustpan
Duck bad verbs and adjectives
I don't cuss man
Clutch that blessin' my momma hustled
with clutched hands
Never puff pass or scull back
Just hunt cash
But mad evil at the root of the love of loot
And power too
Think the scene is due for another coup
So power to
Any motherlanders who comin' thru
With power moves
Black power ooze
You bout to view what ours do
Made a move not designed for goons and coward dudes
Used to make code for pesos, amounted few
Then I flew
Now I'm creatin tunes makin yo face screw
like you was chewin on sour food
Bad Energy
Ay
Let it fly by
First hit em with the side eye
Clownin with me
That I wouldn't try try
See me duck a bad vibe
And watch it die die
Bad Energy
Ay
Let it fly by
First hit em with the side eye
Clownin with me
That I wouldn't try try
See me duck a bad vibe
And watch it die die
Aye I'm from the city where the hatred will leave 'em on pavement (Ay)
Rated M for mature with the picture I'm paintin'
They got that amistad mentality fresh off the slave ship
And I keep everything together while chasing these payments
Obviously a go-getter I gotta be
Haters look and stare
But that will not stop a G
Grew up around killers hustlin' all kind of things
Police flashing lights
Crip and blood ones
I can't see a way out
But I made it yet the hood still in me (Hey)
Envious and depressed cos I move consistently (Hey)
Goal achieving all the time
You could call me the GOAT
Blew a bag a few times
But I'm stayin' afloat
Still I don't recommend that y'all play me for a joke
Who naive? Super solid
Have no problems sayin' no
Quit tryin' to get under my skin
Could get choked
It's a high probability if you want smoke
Let it breathe, gotta chill
I'm a super chill dude
Will put a foot in yo ass
If you get a bit rude
To avoid all of that I put forcefields up
Easier to do that than to call your bluff
Cos it's easy to step away from confrontation
Takes a whole lotta strength
And a whole lotta patience
I been so stressed out I could snap like this beat
Keep that B.A.D energy from round me
Bad Energy
Ay
Let it fly by
First hit em with the side eye
Clownin with me
That I wouldn't try try
See me duck a bad vibe
And watch it die die
Bad Energy
Ay
Let it fly by
First hit em with the side eye
Clownin with me
That I wouldn't try try
See me duck a bad vibe
And watch it die die
Aight
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To The Gates
03:57
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Yup yeah
Grip tight while I stoke these flames
One more time, there is no replay
I can't let go, I’mma hold these chains
One day I'll look back and it won't be pain
But right now it comes and it goes in waves (Waves)
Never thought I would go these ways
I don't sell out
I don't betray
Nah I won’t be strong
Nah I won't be brave
Man, it's always been me holding everyone's guts (Guts)
But who's gonna hold my spade? (Who?)
And dig me deep in a grave
So I take these sins to the gates (Yeah)
I said “Who's gonna come my way?”
And bury me deep in a grave (In a grave)
I’mma take these sins to the gates
And hope my God gon’ take ‘em away
Take ‘em a’
So I scream into the silence of the dawn
Feels like it's the only thing that keeps us warm
Even though I know you said that you prefer the cold
I don't
Who's gonna hold my spade?
And bury me deep in a grave
So I take this sin to the gates
And hope my God’s gon’ take it away
I said “Who's gonna come my way?”
And bury me deep in a grave
I'mma this sin to the gates
And hope my God gon’ take it away
Take it away
Yeah
No names, no risks (Nothin’)
Dreamt about planes and trips (Wanna fly)
I had to act strong, mask on
‘Cos I knew I could never put the blame on this (On this)
Didn't know your left from your right (You’re right)
I didn't know my right from my wrong (I was wrong)
I just navigated by feel
And I feel more than I could ever write in a song
But am I right-ing wrongs?
Or is it too little, too late? (Too little, too late)
And when I get to the gates
Is my God gon’ take it away? (Yeah)
I said “Who's gonna come my way?”
And bury me deep in a grave (In a grave)
I’mma take these sins to the gates
And hope my God gon’ take ‘em away
Take ‘em a’
So let's wait until the dusk turns into dawn
‘Cos I don't think I'm ready to be strong
Even though I know you said that I would just move on
I'm torn
Who's gonna hold my spade?
And bury me deep in a grave
So I take this sin to the gates
And hope my God’s gon’ take it away
I said “Who's gonna come my way?” (My way)
And bury me deep in a grave (In a grave)
I’mma take this sin to the gates
And hope my God gon’ take it away
Take it away
But in our world of shifting bounds and moving borders
I was your calm
You were my order
And I don't regret a second
All the memories that are stored up
And moments I kept score of
Form my aura
So even if I do not speak
You can be sure that
Nothing's changed
I say nothing's changed
So meet me early in the morning
And I scream into the silence of the dawn
Feels like it's the only thing that keeps us warm
Even though I know you said that you prefer the cold
I don't
So let's wait until the dusk turns into dawn
‘Cos I don't think I'm ready to be strong
Even though I know you said that I would just move on
I'm torn
Who's gonna hold my spade?
And bury me deep in a grave
So I take this sin to the gates
And hope my God’s gon’ take it away
I said “Who's gonna come my way?” (My way)
And bury me deep in a grave (In a grave)
I’mma take this sin to the gates
And hope my God gon’ take it away
Take it away
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Mazbou Q Auckland, New Zealand
Mazbou Q is a UK-born, Tāmaki Makaurau based Nigerian artist and producer. Stemming from his background in classical, heavy metal and West African Highlife, Mazbou Q's particular brand of Hiphop challenges the very notion of genre and captivates those with a deep appreciation for musicality. Mazbou Q takes inspiration from the likes of Fela Kuti, The Roots and Black Star. ... more
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