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061
03:14
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narolane
You came here to the 061, so we’ll show you how to get,
How to get things done
Came to the 061, we’ll show you how to have,
How to have some fun
You came to the 061, came to the 06, 061
You came to the 061
We’ll show you how to get, how to get things done
You came to the 061
We’ll show you how to get, how to get things done
You came to the 061
We’ll show you how to have, how to have some fun
Came to the 061
You came to the 06, 061, you came to the 061
We’ll show you how to get, how to get things done
I am not a queen I’m a Prince
Make a scene and dip for months I don’t leave any prints
I am not a queen I’m a king
No picket fence, but I’ll picket if you keep me out the ring
I am not chasing a ring
Wasn’t be groomed for a groom, there’s no man I live to impress
I am not explaining myself
Keep it bespoke before I ever say yes to a dress
5’2 but somehow still the bigger man
Cut to the chase don’t need a middleman
Dream my heart out pepper Ann pepper Ann
I do this because I can
I’m not paying any attention to the fakeness
I’m not giving any advice that I’m not taking
I’m not wasting anymore time I’m staying patient
Bringing all my energy back to keep it sacred
Sometimes to heal a bone you’ve gotta break it
I am the result of love for generations
Dream you back to life, call it a grave shift
Trying to keep it understated
Say perchance you misunderstand
Who the heck that I think I am?
You shoulda called me the gyaldem sugar
Up jump the boogie and I cool with my gang
You came here to the 061, so we’ll show you how to get,
How to get things done
Came to the 061, we’ll show you how to have,
How to have some fun
You came to the 061, came to the 06, 061
You came to the 061, we’ll show you how to get,
How to get things done
You came to the 061, we’ll show you how to get,
How to get things done
You’ll get to the 061, we’ll show you how to have,
How to have some fun
You came to the 061, you came to the 06, 061
You came to the 061, we’ll show you how to get,
How to get
History made, your children’s children’s children will learn about me
I don’t even post
And I’m all on your socials, paper and your tv
I’m here to stay, if you hate it you should write to your local MP
Cause your local MC
Writes constitutions in WAVS and MP3s
You should call me “daddy” at this point
I could diss you and make it a ted talk
Get a book deal for bars that I wrote in the notes on my phone
Make it look like a walk
In the park
Gladys Knight and I light up the dark
Noah fence but this is the arc of the covenant
Coveted
This is the future beloved
Call me Éire and weed all the Aryans out of your area
Clearing the air for you
They say it’s humerus, I got a uterus, call it hysteria
Find it hilarious that I have barely begun my career
Already gave them the fear of God,
Odd
I just said that I wanted to bar
What you afraid that I’ll say with the time that I’ve got?
You’re Dom, but you can’t control yourself?
You’re a Don, but you don’t know yourself?
You’re a boss but you can’t share the wealth?
With all due disrespect
I know that I’m fine and got bars
I know I got brain and got heart
That part
I know I don’t have to try hard:
You came here to the 061, so we’ll show you how to get,
How to get things done
Came to the 061, we’ll show you how to have,
How to have some fun
You came to the 061, came to the 06, 061
You came to the 061, we’ll show you how to get,
How to get things done
061
061
How to have, how to have some fun
061
061
How to get, how to get things
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2. |
Might Be
03:26
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Narolane! Narolane!
If I came to play then I came to win.
Caster Semenya, run my mouth again.
So active they called me an activist
But you’ve barely seen the half of it.
Second coming of Dionysus,
Olympus just might fall for this.
Queen Medb taught me what ambition is so I know how to deal with the bull so Coole how I raise hell.
Call me a maverick.
These man are looking like Porky Pig
“Yabbadee yabbadee yabbadee”
Can’t stand that I’m gorgeous black and Irish— Man. Choke on it.
What they say to Ali? Bomaye?
Boomerang through the noise
Feeling so Strange Boy; “please come and make my day.”
Don’t do scenes we make movies.
Vision stays Universal.
If you try to son me?
I just might get paternal.
We make ballads to twerk to,
Keep some kings in my circle,
If my confidence hurts you?
I hope you took it personal.
You are not like me
Ha, unlikely I just sip my tea
High and mighty
I just upped my fee
Game is not free
“She thinks she’s that heat”
Well, I might be.
You are not like me
Ha, unlikely I just sip my tea
High and mighty
I just upped my fee
Game is not free
“She thinks she’s that heat”
Well, I might be.
I don’t have the privilege of mediocrity
Or some foolishness,
I’m married to my excellence so I just don’t have time for veiled threats.
My responsibility is to remind you of the futility of ever trying me;
Just cause I’m nice don’t mean that I’m not designed to rain hell on anything that comes for
My people
My family
My dreams, my purpose, my history,
My genome—
I’m unlikely to be that sweet don’t push me baby,
I’ve given you warning.
I came here to rap, and everything else? Is getting so boring.
I make it look good when I entertain but I’m not performing.
Said I was a king, cause I’ll bury your rules leave in mourning.
Treat it like a calling.
I don’t do moments— do momentum,
When you come into my mentions
Bet this gives you hypertension.
Stream my music babe, you’re welcome.
You are not like me
Ha, unlikely I just sip my tea
High and mighty
I just upped my fee
Game is not free
“She thinks she’s that heat”
Well, I might be.
You are not like me
Ha, unlikely I just sip my tea
High and mighty
I just upped my fee
Game is not free
“She thinks she’s that heat”
Well, I might be.
You are not like me
Ha, unlikely I just sip my tea
High and mighty
I just upped my fee
Game is not free
“She thinks she’s that heat”
Yeah, I might be.
You are not like me
Ha, unlikely I just sip my tea
High and mighty
I just upped my fee
Game is not free
“She thinks she’s that heat”
Well, I might be.
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3. |
I A M (Interlude)
01:20
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I am beautiful. And that is the least interesting thing about me.
I like myself! I LIKE myself! I LIKE MYSELF!
I am in charge of my own body.
I know the difference between respect and authority.
Giving you respect doesn’t mean I have to do what you say.
I am allowed to be angry. I am allowed to be angry.
I am not ashamed of passion.
My anger shows me what I need to protect.
My dreams are important.
My dreams are important. Dreaming is not a waste of time.
I have permission to be confident.
I am not perfect, and I have permission to like who I am right now.
I am pro black before I am anti anything.
I will never let anyone shut me up because they are uncomfortable the truth.
I will not be insecure because you are not comfortable with my confidence.
My vulnerability is a privilege. My sensitivity is beautiful. All of my heart is worthy.
Nobody else has the right to tell my story
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4. |
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You can’t take my energy
You can take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my, take my, take
You can’t take my energy
You can take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my, take my, take
Hear the call but don’t phone it in
For crones or for omens
We’re riding out here like Rohan
Diogenes but got hope; “behold a man”
Or Artemis me, I’m only fowl when I’m floating
Freedom is potent, the future’s in focus
Hear the call but don’t phone it in
For crones or for omens
We’re riding out here like Rohan
Diogenes but got hope; “behold a man”
Or Artemis me, I’m only fowl when I’m floating
Freedom is potent, the future’s in focus
You can’t take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my, take my, take
You can’t take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my, take my, take
Flesh it out
Save a little a little time
Can’t let them take my eyes off this
Bottom line
Keep it by my side,
Rolling out my best life
Flesh it out
Save a little a little time
Can’t let them take my eyes off this
Bottom line
Keep it by my side,
Rolling out my best life
Make out this storm, and return to the shore where we departed
Holding onto faith, letting go of the past coz it’s distorted
Taking it back everything you’ve stolen while I was starting out
It was all by design, I’ve got the pencil now
And you, you can’t take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my, take my, take
You can’t take my energy
You can take my energy
You can’t take my energy
You can take my, take my, take
Hear the call but don’t phone it in
For crones or for omens
We’re riding out here like Rohan
Diogenes but got hope; “behold a man”
Or Artemis me, I’m only fowl when I’m floating
Freedom is potent, the future’s in focus
I know exactly who I am. And because I know who I am, I know who you are.
I am the child of the soil and of the sun.
I am the continuation of a song of faith and power that my people have never stopped singing.
I am just one voice.
So even if I quit tomorrow this will never end.
Even if I pause tomorrow, baby there will be another one and another and another one for eternity until this work is finished.
And if we do not sing and speak and march and dance and love, then even the rocks will cry out “justice”.
So whether they have nurtured me by blood or by their vision, I know the path has been paved for us by everyone who has ever taken a risk for their righteousness, is holy.
So I lay my heart at the feet of:
Toni Morrison,
Of Maya Angelou,
Of ODB,
James Baldwin,
Gladys Bentley,
Maurice White,
Aretha Franklin,
Audre Lorde,
Kenneth Kaunda,
Patrice Lumumba,
Tina Turner,
Josephine Baker,
Langston Hughes,
Whitney Houston,
Frantz Fanon,
Roxanne Shanté,
Marsha P Johnson (the ‘P’ stands for ‘pay the hate no mind’).
Bayard Rustin,
Diana Ross,
Thomas Sankara,
Kwame Nkrumah,
Assata Shakur,
Nanny of the Maroons,
Sister Rosetta Tharpe,
Saul Williams,
Ida B Wells,
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture),
Renee Cox,
Julius Nyerere,
Malik El Shabazz,
Angela Davis,
Lydia,
Elijah,
And every preacher, singer, lover, dreamer, survivor and believer who would never allow the odds or the opposition to prevent them from being exactly who they were without shame.
So this is a blessing.
For everyone who has ever said enough was enough.
Nothing will slow you or allow your steps to falter.
You are the head and not the tail. You.
You will bless and heal the very ground you step on.
You will recover. You will recover.
No weapon formed against you will prosper.
No conspiracy will throw you.
No conspiracy will slow you.
And that goes for superstition, bad faith intuition, imposter syndrome, “common sense” traditions, every “obia” and “ism”, cloudy vision; and anybody or anything that’s ever tried to get me (or you) to believe giving up is what you need to do before you’ve even tried.
Your confidence cannot be sacrificed.
And you can’t take my energy.
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5. |
Return of the King
03:55
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Ah narolane haha…
Ah ah
I’ve never been to Mexico
But I know you Cancun
And I’m coming back soon
So you need to make room
And I’ve never been to Kosovo
But you know we Balkan
You handle my Shere Khan
Colder than your snow man
I’ve never been to Mexico
But I know you Cancun
And I’m coming back soon
So you need to make room
Never been to Kosovo
But you know we Balkan
You handle my Shere Khan
Colder than your snow man
Huh
Sometimes
Man I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes
Huh?
Just sometimes
Man I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes
Not afraid of crossing
Some lines
Just, huh
Sometimes
Zunguzunguguzunguzeng
You can bite my flow but we’re not the same
Might hate it but you can say my name
Unfortunately I can’t say the same
C H A I L A
Be your own advocate because not today
Satan
I made my lane
I’m ethereal I’m on another plane
Young titan
Never bow to Zeus or Poseidon
Swords, sceptres or tridents
Strider, return of the king
Bun liars,
Worm tails worm tongues
I’m tired
Dora Milaje, call me Akata
Got my Bushidō, heart of Assata
I am the shogun, studied Bambara
Child of the soil and the child of my father uh
I’ve never been to Mexico
But I know you Cancun
And I’m coming back soon
So you need to make room
Never been to Kosovo
But you know we Balkan
You handle my Shere Khan
Colder than your snow man
Huh
Sometimes
Man I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes
Huh?
Just sometimes
Man I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes
Not afraid of crossing some lines
Just huh, sometimes
Your transphobia is whack your homophobia is whack
We see through you
My parents respect me way too much for me to ever entertain what you do
Black Knight, on a quantum level
Grounded but I never settle
Don’t Hyde, but I just might Jekyll
Divine; I correct the devil
If I can rob you of your dominance then you stole it to begin with
You make way too many assumptions
Did I ever say I was cis?
Don’t take leave of your common sense
Cause you know that I can act right
Give me one reason to go Gotham and this isn’t staying polite
Huh,
Sometimes
Man I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes
Huh uh
Sometimes
Man, I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes
Not afraid of crossing
Some lines
Uh Sometimes
I’ve never been to Mexico
But I know you Cancun
And I’m coming back soon
So you need to make room
Never been to Kosovo
But you know we Balkan
You handle my Shere Khan
Colder than your snow man
Huh
Sometimes
Man, I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Sometimes huh?
Just sometimes
Man, I think I’m Kanye, sometimes
Might rub you the wrong way
Not afraid of crossing
Some lines
Just, sometimes
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Denise Chaila
In her breakthrough track Copper Bullet, Denise Chaila succinctly described the thriving hip-hop scene in
Ireland.
The fact that Chaila was able to convey the sentiment of a nation in one perfect line displays both the depth and skill of the Irish MC.
It perhaps partially explains why, following the release of her debut EP Denise has become one of the most in-demand MCs in Ireland and beyond.
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