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Shaka

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Shaka

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Uh, ah, uh...

My brother Shaka would have wanted me to do it like this

So raise your glasses for the lost ones in your life...

Dilla Dawg and Master Wel would have wanted me, as well

To propel with the spirit of the mic...

Even if you had one person with you and it's hard

They make it easy, celebrate them, let them just who they are...

Because of these experiences I have some control

On the microphone, I'm bold elevating to the stars...

Here's a demonstration, with the excellence

Reverse the pandemic that's filled with pestilence

Who has his finger on the pulse of the b-boy?

Serving fiends with the stream of a d-boy

Who's well connected, you must respect it

I'm driven with the spirits mentioned in this record

Hopefully this serves as motivation

The never sayin? doc? kind of sensation

Put my stamp on it, the mic clamps on it

Mama I know, let me put lil' thamp on it

Blade runnin through the day with agility

Stay gunnin, make way for possibilities

It's the capital Q, rap it'll do

What I want it to, it's like tamin a shrew, uh

Livin life, the Shakespearean proportions

Knowin better, I've experienced distortions

And through the in and outs, of life's revolvin doors

I'm a see that, I'm still gettin more

Yeah I'm comin in, I'm gon' see my friends

To the top floor, it seems it never ends

Heaven never ends, yeah it never ends

It be goin on, it's phenomenon

Like a new born, or a Stevie song

It be going on, do ya feel it?

(Do ya feel it? Do ya feel it?...)

The snare drum go...

My brother Shaka would've wanted me to say this to y'all

Don't lose sight y'all without giving a fight...

I'm channeling Weldon Irvine - Mr. Clean

He would've wanted me to say what I mean, and mean give it right...

Dilla, havin you in my past has been a blast

You've inspired so many and forever will you last...

And to my father, yo your spirit is drapin me

Never escapin me, I'm happy that I had you in my past...

Uh, uh, let's go...

A-let's go...

Let's go...

Let's go... uh...

Tka, uh...

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