Roots (Reloaded)

By Zakwe

On Cebisa

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[Intro: Stogie T]

Ehh, Stogie T, Zakwe, ehh

Ha!


[Verse 1: Stogie T]

Before Nelson Mandela was on money

I was folding leopards you would swear it's origami

Wild life lessons, every death gave me life

Still-born, so me and Christ share a likeness

None like him, no Siamese

It's all timing

You can push hope it come out live but this ain't the gynae

Zakwe hit me like, "let's talk about the rhyming."

Couldn't find the heart to tell him, "that's not my vibe scene."

Not when the world need a Marley

And Bob's your uncle but you worry about your country

I don't take molly, I take lil' rocksy and my daughter

I take your chiffon dresses from the shopping complex

And I'm not trying to shop a complex

I put my shit in the music so you can find strength

It's a lil' project I built from the onset

Ordinary people baptized now that's a John Legend

Born in Tanzania, that seems far-fetched

But none of you know the world that's in my closet

I make lines speak to the heart of the darkness

Everything hidden unless you listening with your conscience

It's taking revisiting lyrics to feel the content

German precision sniffers is ill-equipped for this bomb threat

If she could get too thick for Shawshank

Don't bank on lip if you can't swim or walk it

Didn't got the whisky on the arm rest

Puffing something stinky from the tropics

With a face like brake lights

Eish son you can miss me with the nonsense


[Hook: Jay Claude]

About that time I'm ma get that money

I made me stacks but I'm ma make more hunninds

'Cause now I found the roots to my sanity

Shades for my money, drink, pop my daily bread

All black dude can't see nobody

If you ain't no badass somebody

Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look

Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah

All black dude can't see nobody

If you ain't no badass somebody

Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look

Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah


[Verse 2 : Raxion Stance]

Yeah, they say you reap what you sow, and so I plough raps

On a road to riches on bare feet, I barely count steps

Focused on the vision

Never bogus while they trippin'

If they say that they don't know us, they don't know what real is, that's facts

Ak'sanas'khath' sok'dlala, ng'vuk' ek'seni ng'vele ng'phande

Painting vivid pictures with words when I rap

Something like Danté

When I flow, then you know z'yabuya, sow'zabuy' ung'lande

I'm the seed Zakwe planted the time that he dropped Impande

I grew

Became the roots to Hip Hop, this be the Family Tree

Homie that's a Cassper Nyovest referral

Enemies still, look to the boy

I should've been suspended in a sphere of amber how I'm timeline

I'm balancing between lightyears

I surpass like a cryptobiotic element in emerald

Name a rapper that I'm better than, hah, there's a several

Matter fact the list is without bottom, bra I level up

Ng'yashisa, if I show you hell, it's me burning the devil up

Put seven up, I'm reluctant to go to university

Why should I when there's a whole entire universe in me?

Why should I study when I can body rappers with verses

See, I'm a different shine, you need heliocentric lenses

Just to see me on these stages

Bringing into life every lyric stuck in my pages

I want 28 mil by 28, don't know what age is

I'm hot, they know it's me bru

I look at  mumble rappers like, "what would Stogie T do?"

Ha, he'd prolly kill 'em all, exactly what I'm here for

I'm cut from a different cloth so Denim ain't what I tear for

Shaking ceilings with a sheer force

Making feelings be the main course

To the music I'm dishing to people who need it

And therefore they don't know me, they know my name and my music

Your dream can only be a reality if you go out and pursue it

I took my emotions, my soul and passion and I fused it

So that's why when I drop a song, I drop life and not music


[Hook: Jay Claude]

About that time I'm ma get that money

I made me stacks but I'm ma make more hunninds

'Cause now I found the roots to my sanity

Shades for my money, drink, pop my daily bread

All black dude can't see nobody

If you ain't no badass somebody

Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look

Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah

All black dude can't see nobody

If you ain't no badass somebody

Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look

Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah