Name-dropping Tupac and Kwame Nkrumah on the EP’s first verse serves as an early signifier of the territory Awate resides in, and the following five tracks that make up new EP Shine Ancient, are ultimately a rewarding and empowering journey. Produced by Turkish Dcypha, it’s a loose concept project t...
I know you're gonna feel it when you hear me telling you my story
I've afforded this time for it
Yeah
Black Power
Shouts to 2Pac
We're owed money by Numark
I free my mind like Africa and Kwame Nkrumah
Dominate the whole hoopla and kill every verse like the '03 Luda
Yeah
It's in my nature
In my hand I hold a sabre
My sonics are in your head like the melody of Sega
I know you plagiarise
Disguised, tryna hide from my tribe, but we see it in your eyes
You're not major where I'm from
So raise up like the sun
Bums get crumbs in the city where I'm from
While the blue blooded are loving what they call fun
Not at all done keep going, keep exposing the roles of the wolves in sheep's clothing
Look close at what I'm showing
Decolonise our minds, rise and keep growing
Lay it on the line
Got a lot of demons locked inside
But I'm still out here
Yeah I'm still out here
Yeah I'm still out here bredrin
The streets talk, I study clear lessons
Professing, I have no peers, second to none
I bun anyone who wants to tell me bite my tongue
I'm just tryna shine as beautiful as my mum
It's not suitable for you to try to test me
Especially since I don't know whether I'm insane or not. Pressures got me in pain a lot
Cops sweating me
My fists defending me
Suddenly, several scum descend on me
Self-esteem, I've got the recipe
I flow like the Red Sea and wash away the wealth of thieves
(A good man)
On the line. Got a lot of demons locked inside
But I'm still out here
Yeah I'm still out here
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Got a lot of demons locked inside but I'm still out here
Gonna be your favourite rapper out here
And you know that we are gonna kick the beast out here
Out here
All my people in detention, break em out here
All my people locked in prison get em out here
Yeah
This is where you can see tragedies for you and me and black families under scrutiny