Tulsa, the fifth song from Jarry Manna’s latest album, is all about his kinship with his collaborators and friends from Tulsa and the World 45 collective. It mostly talks about the difficulty of living in the harsh parts of Tulsa and struggling with mental health.
[Verse 1: Jarry Manna]
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Ayy
Flexed up (Yeah, yeah)
I just had to tell 'em we the next up (We the next up)
Yeah, ooh
I could tell you it's all toxic (Toxic)
Lookin' like you ain't learn nothin' (Nah)
Just Joshua
Okay ('Kay), I had to come in the intervals
I had to give it that minimal
I had to move through the envelopes
You lookin' at me through the cynical
Really so petty
I ain't got time, I been runnin' through the city
If I ain't makin' waves I gotta slide with the milly
Got the town and the crown, on top like Diddy (Augh, augh, augh, augh)
Know what I'm saying?
My ninja was cuttin' them ties (Ties)
We callin' and swattin' them fliеs (Flies)
My people was strugglin', I (I)
I wavеd up to survive ('Vive)
And now it's ride or die (Die)
I hope y'all stay alive ('Live)
I'm talkin' bout deep inside ('Side)
Just better not follow that high (Augh, augh, augh, augh)
[Verse 2: St. Domonick]
Flexed up, huh yeah
Vuelo had to go and run the check up
Ayy, huh, I had to get it together
Hmph, we in this forever
Ride, but never for any endeavour
Yeah, I listen to Erykah
How do that life could get better
Yeah, we live in America
I'ma go get a Beretta
Yeah, just tryna make it, stayin' alive is a job on daily basis (Basis)
These times been crazy, trial on trial but the sky got grey like Mason, yeah
Kept my faith and all three eyes, surprised by my vibrations
Now we wavin', wait 'til you see me in the sky flying by on my spaceship
[Verse 3: Keezy Kuts]
Ayy, just a [?] (Ayy, boy, you)
Boy, you crazy (Boy, you crazy)
Get the catfish with the gravy (With the gravy)
You know we deep (Ayy we deep)
Deep like the Navy (Deep like the Navy)
But this a army (This a army)
This is a warning (This is a warning)
Tulsa is warming up
Got jiggas is stuck
Fresh outta luck (Ayy, ayy)
I'm postin' like Chuck
Gettin' these bucks
Countin' these bands
Tryna get to these plans (Plans)
Tryna get me some land (Land)
You know that we out (Ayy, ayy, ayy)
Plus you know where we at
We all in the main, ayy
[Verse 4: Jarry Manna]
(Ayy)
Baby want me to slide but I don't feel it's time
Right now, bae, I got a lot on my mind
I'm [?] and floatin', I'm focused on flight
Thinking that I should be on the front lines
But I'm on that side, at least how it seems, cuz we really don't know who pullin' the strings
Feeding your mind through the media streams
I enclip the wave and the various [?]
One of my clan, a captain marine
She want me Kaepernick, taking the knee
Twistin' my eyes 'cause they cappin' our king
Just tryna drown out the negative means
I feel like a hundred, but still in my dreams
The feelin' familiar, but still been missing (Augh, augh, augh, augh)
All on my head, I can still hear it sing like, yikes
Tulsa was written by Keezy Kuts & St. Domonick & Jarry Manna.
Tulsa was produced by 2Peece.
Jarry Manna released Tulsa on Fri Jan 29 2021.