[Chorus]
Moqwebo, moqwebo
Designer, designer
Dream dinero numeros, mulatto banyana
Mama pray for mañana, when I'm by the bodega
Makazana montana, posted by the bodega
I'm by the bodega, by the bodega
By the bodega by the bodega
By the bodega by the bodega
Cop 'em rolling papers blow them at the haters
[Verse 1]
Young nigga ngiqoka ngathi iToni
Weejun moccasins and the socks secret
It's for the toes
Paint pictures with the rebel youth 'cause we never listen
Kin folk, streets treated us like kin folk
Black boy, been broke
I want plugs yeah, we seem dope
Seen dope, yeah, it seemed dope
It's a scene in a movie what we seen
They would never put it on a screen
Hell no, too graphic, grotesque
Haute couture, por favor, corner conversation connoisseur
High fashion, high fashion
Dreams of makazana, high fashion
Cousin had a gold tooth with a tooth pick
Pray my niggas die flashing
High fashion, high fashion
Talking makazana, high fashion
Big boy [?] shoes
Brought some cousins with the cousin I ain't never lacking
High fashion, high fashion
High key we just want it lavish
Trying to turn a ghetto into Paris
Fly nigga pauper new Aladdin
[Chorus]
Moqwebo, moqwebo
Designer, designer
Dream dinero numeros, mulatto banyana
Mama pray for mañana, when I'm by the bodega
Makazana montana, posted by the bodega
I'm by the bodega, by the bodega
By the bodega by the bodega
By the bodega by the bodega
Cop 'em rolling papers blow them at the haters
[Verse 2]
Scene twede, scene twede
Slept in the trap house, woke up five star hotel bedding
Slept in the trap house but I woke in the plane, sharp vede
Hostess, au nhoste
Fofa out favela for the vede
Never ready, unexpected they was never ready
Recollected all my blessings
Mama's prayers kept a young niggas face steady
Posted with some pauper people politicking paper
Told my niggas we on television
And nou bare jukujela on the teli
Too poetic, rap prophetic
Speech ecstatic, make the beat kinetic
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with the alphabetic, joh
Unapologetic strata academics, young mill a night
Rah nigga, Kemet
Cut from a real cloth no synthetic
Gs in a jean cuzzin it's genetic
Black youth dying everyday, swear it's Sarafina
It's what we dream with the dreamers
Scheme with the schemers
That's why we kick ngiligithi dialect
With demiurge demeanor
Sies!
[Chorus]
Moqwebo, moqwebo
Designer, designer
Dream dinero numeros, mulatto banyana
Mama pray for mañana, when I'm by the bodega
Makazana montana, posted by the bodega
I'm by the bodega, by the bodega
By the bodega by the bodega
By the bodega by the bodega
Cop 'em rolling papers blow them at the haters
[Outro]
How about you see where I'm from
Tlo ke u qavise where I blom
Chila ka hier with my dogs
After eight ka qava taxi
'Bout to drop off umama
She said, boy watch yourself when it's dark
See, I know niggas is dogs
But that's why I put those scenes in my songs
'Cause ghetto children want songs
With truth about how we
Learned that lefatshe is not for the weak
Where I'm from
Tshepa ditoro tsa hao, make them real
'Cause they don't know
They don't know what you are
As he sets us into the track, Maglera Doe Boy starts off by painting a picture of who he is externally and internally.
Ngigqoka in isizulu means I dress/ dress as, so he’s expresses how he’s dresses like a Don (which is a man of high class and status) while having the mindset of Rico, which I assume is the leader penguin from the movie ‘Penguins of Madagascar’ and the movie trilogy ‘Madagascar’, further solidifying his high rank amongst others.
Kin folk is an American old term which references to relative or extended family member.
Maglera references to how the streets treated him like family
Having numerous dreams of money and being with mixed race women.
He expresses how the township is getting worse in terms of crime and the children are now part of the destruction.
He juxtaposes the helpless/hopeful situations the youth in Sarafina would’ve had and how the transpire in modern day Kanana or South African townships at large.
Chomi is a South African term used for “Friend”
Maglera references to how his friends never saw hope in the township and the scenes he saw growing up were violent and chaotic.
pauper ; “a very poor person.”
politicking has a lot of definitions in street lingo but here it is used as a form of having arguments (di ngangisano) about something,
He basically is around poor people who have little arguments about money, but they always had the spirit of sharing.
Vincent “Van Gogh” is an artist that doesn’t have an ear. “We never listen”