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CHORUS X 2 - ARLO MAVERICK, OOZEELA & MOURAINE
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
VERSE 1 - ARLO MAVERICK
I’m ready to eat
Man I been starving for years
Swallowing pride
Drinking my tears
Said I was low
Nobody cared
Ever been po’
Nothing compares
Broke as a joke as I follow my dreams
Now you in debt can you stomach the screams
Late on your rent, where will you sleep
Hard nut to crack, gotta believe
No cheat codes
Go beast mode
Repeat those and reach goals
But please know they’ll repo
So see hope you’re real close
Prepare to be lonely
Prepare to be scared
Prepare for a journey
When nobodies there
CHORUS X 2 - ARLO MAVERICK, OOZEELA & MOURAINE
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
VERSE 2 - ARLO MAVERICK
I wanna be free
Eat by the sweat of my brow
Living for Friday
Instead live for now
Believe in myself
Stop asking how
One life to live
I’m living it now
NSF cheques am I built for that shit
No gas in my tank would that force me to quit
Sacrifice love if it meant I’d be rich
Where’s the reward if I won’t take the risk
My own man
So no thanks
Just know that I won’t ask
Please hold back your cold laugh
I know that it’s bold that
I’m prepared to be lonely
Prepared to be scared
Prepared for a journey
Where nobody cares
CHORUS X 2 - ARLO MAVERICK, OOZEELA & MOURAINE
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
VERSE 3 - DEUCE FANTASTICK
You see the wins but don’t know about the losses
You see me shine but don’t know about the darkness
Late nights, sacrifice
Tryn’a trust the process
Understand slow is better than no progress
There will be hardships
There will be strain
The game is heartless
There will be pain
Honestly a part of me gotta be insane
To suffer all of this for the love to entertain
But it’s the life I chose
So I’ma work it
Nobody said it be easy
Just worth it
So when you put on my EP
You get all of me
Not just the part you see up on the surface
I came from nothing
Look what I grew to be
I’m a staple in my city like the Jubilee
My haters sing uh-oh
Word to Lumidee
And truthfully
It all came from doing me
CHORUS X 2 - ARLO MAVERICK, OOZEELA & MOURAINE
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me (Ayyy)
I’m doing me
Wait your turn
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2. |
Tap It feat. Oozeela
03:41
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INTRO – OOZEELA
Tap to get it
Tap to get it poppin’
Tap to get it
Tap to get it poppin’
VERSE 1 – ARLO MAVERICK
Won’t lose sleep for the things you do
Daddy’s little girl and you know it’s true
Whole life savings gave it up to you
Said you’re gonna be a star he believes in you
Weeks go by doesn’t hear from you
But you always call when the rent is due
Now you’re failing class he don’t have a clue
Do you care about the stress that you put him through
AURAH ARIKO
I’m tryna find myself
Guilty conscience
Just lie
It helps
Wanna be part of the in crowd
Well you're in now
In trouble
In debt
In a hunnid thow
Second mortgage
For a child who lacks the discipline
You would think an +A would be the minimum
No job distract you
So what’s there to hinder
Snapchat
Instagram
Of course Tinder
CHORUS – OOZEELA
Big daddy's credit card
Anything she want she go get it (Tap it)
In a city where she has no friendships (Tap it)
No matter how expensive (Tap it)
She's got his credit card
She don’t ever have to cash or cheque in
She just tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap to get it poppin’
VERSE 2 – ARLO MAVERICK
While most women settle for a social life
Most girls ain’t happy til they’re socialites
Found love but they don’t hold it tight
Cause they girlfriends say how you know it’s right
You know its foul but they override
Why settle for him when you got your whole life
Man back home think you focused right!
But little does he know where you go at night
AURAH ARIKO
Girls just wanna have fun
But you’re not 18,
Hun, you’re 31
Foreign student
With a man working double shifts
Fatherless
So to him it’s what love is
Guilt trips
Where you question his manhood
Got his own bills
But everyday he’s ambushed
With your wants
Cause you need everything
Little does he know he don’t mean anything
CHORUS – OOZEELA
Big daddy's credit card
Anything she want she go get it (Tap it)
In a city where she has no friendships (Tap it)
No matter how expensive (Tap it)
She's got his credit card
She don’t ever have to cash or cheque in
She just tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap to get it poppin’
VERSE 3 – OOZEELA
Tap water nuh good enough she want Brita
Tap-dancing with a dude and him want get her
Tap steady pon the floor til he undress her
Top student in her class could’a done better
Stop looking at the neighbour grass you got better
Stop with a bad behaviour you brought up better
Top of the world
Top hat
Toppa toppa
Top that
Every single time you see her
Facebook or Snapchat, snap
CHORUS – OOZEELA
Big daddy's credit card
Anything she want she go get it (Tap it)
In a city where she has no friendships (Tap it)
No matter how expensive (Tap it)
She's got his credit card
She don’t ever have to cash or cheque in
She just tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap, tap, tap, tap
Tap to get it poppin’
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VERSE 1 - ARLO MAVERICK
We doing this or not Ma?
If not we got a stop Ma!
I’m tryna be your rock Ma!
But you keep running with these thots Ma!
Second thoughts bring cold feet like January
That cold shoulder you giving, got me kinda leery
Is this my future, married to my adversary
Arguing at lengths bout shit that isn’t necessary
I can’t lie, you confusing me
I mean… all the things that you do for me
When it’s time to ride, it’s just you and me
But you’ve put your friends between you and me
You let’em have say in shit that don’t affect them
Part of the reason why I don’t respect them
Tellin’ our biz and you still protect them
If you don’t check them then I’m gon exit
CHORUS - GR4M
Is you riding, is you riding
Are you gonna take a ride with me,
Baby we are so divided, I don’t like it
Why do you fight with me
If you want be my wifey be my wifey
Ride side by side with me
We can get it if we all in
Said we can get it if we all in
VERSE 2 - ARLO MAVERICK
So what’s it gonna be Ma?
… choosing them or choosing me Ma!
Losing them or losing me Ma!
I guess we bout to see Ma!
Envious of your single friends
Who get flown round the world by some shriveled men
They ain’t looking for love
They want attention
They do it for likes and the mentions
But never mention them lonely nights
Drunk text to they ex
Wish you’d hold me tight
C’mon Ma
You should know your worth
Taking cues from girls
Who got trauma to nurse
Maybe it's me I don’t know my worth
Patient for a love that only seems to hurt
Patient for a love that only leads me on
Keeping me around just in case she’s wrong
CHORUS - GR4M
Is you riding, is you riding
Are you gonna take a ride with me,
Baby we are so divided, I don’t like it
Why do you fight with me
If you want be my wifey be my wifey
Ride side by side with me
We can get it if we all in
Said we can get it if we all in
VERSE 3 - K - BLITZ
try not to talk about how much I miss her
In my dreams the only time we kissing,
wake up pissed off she aint with me,
worst part is it's my fault that we so distant ,
resisting these gifts I was given,
threw her love away cause I was too scared of the feelings,
that I'm feeling now,
heart broke not cause she left,
but because I let her down ,
and now we're friends, wow, aren't we mature,
but secretly wish that we could go back to what we were,
but seem like it can't happen,
these are the cards we've been handed,
and still my heart is feeling like its branded,
she hide our convos from her man cause he'd never understand it,
and I got a woman but I'll never love her cause I'm damaged,
I’d leave her in a second if we tried to second chance it
Made a plan to put in action,
I'm so done with the distractions,
plus she knows I always knock it out like Askrin
So baby girl can take this as me asking
CHORUS X 2 - GR4M
Is you riding, is you riding
Are you gonna take a ride with me,
Baby we are so divided, I don’t like it
Why do you fight with me
If you want be my wifey be my wifey
Ride side by side with me
We can get it if we all in
Said we can get it if we all in
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VERSE 1 - ARLO MAVERICK
Christmas will never be the same
Many will judge, but cous
They'll never know your pain
These realities would never touch my family
We argue, but we're happy
So that gravity of agony
Ain't something that we talk about
Until the day policemen walk inside your house
And say the unthinkable
The unfixable
Will forever live with you
As your left with the visuals
Tears and screaming
Wake me if I'm dreaming
Is this a joke?
Where's Gavin, can I see him?
Tell me he’s okay
Or tell me that he’s hurt
Don’t tell me that he’s dead
I don’t wanna hear those words
I was with him yesterday
So you gotta be mistaken
He did what?
There’s no way this makes sense
It’s not possible
You’re at the wrong house
… you’re at the wrong house
CHORUS - FAB EL
I told myself
This ain’t true
I’m sure it’s someone else
This ain’t you
But now it’s all just a lot of tears
And for your soul I recite a prayer
I was there but just not aware
You was alone playing solitaire
VERSE 2 - FAB EL
Demons in his ear, I seen him in despair
Tryna reach him, speaking to him
It’s like he ain’t even there
Life ain’t really fair
When you fighting to live it
He got caught up in the dark
And his light was dimming
I remember life as children
So simple and quite forgiving
No other feeling like my cousin coming to visit
Spending nights as children
Nintendo games till the morning lights
Was filling our eyes
We Double Dragons tryn’a fight villains
It’s ironic how life comes together
As we got older shoulder to shoulder
We fight when we got jumped together
Now as teens we smoking and drinking
To socialize overtime it just went over the limit
Cause now he’s doing dope
His souls missing
Socially distant
I didn’t know how low he was sinking
But his auras different
He took his own life so the pain would end
And trust me I ain’t been the same since
CHORUS - FAB EL
I told myself
This ain’t true
I’m sure it’s someone else
This ain’t you
But now it’s all just a lot of tears
And for your soul I recite a prayer
I was there but just not aware
You was alone playing solitaire
VERSE 3 - ARLO MAVERICK
Dead on arrival
Jackie's pain would give me life
Poor and naked
Urcella's faith would save you twice
Question the meaning
But something’s will never know
This facade is for pain that I will never show
You were hurting
In hindsight the signs were there
Were there times when you questioned if somebody cared?
Were there previous tries we never knew about
How could you get to the point that you would do without?
VERSE 3 - FAB EL
You see I knew you as the type to try to duke it out
And keep fighting when you lose the round
I knew you’re style and I knew your doubts
I guess your life was your truest bout
Still never thought that you would choose the route
That you chose to walk
Had me frozen in the dark
To lose somebody close to my heart
I know the cards you was dealt
Dealing with war but not in pairs
You was alone playing solitaire
CHORUS - FAB EL
I told myself
This ain’t true
I’m sure it’s someone else
This ain’t you
But now it’s all just a lot of tears
And for your soul I recite a prayer
I was there but just not aware
You was alone playing solitaire
OUTRO - JUDAH WRIGHT
Okay, Okay
You’ll be
Okay, Okay
Okay, Okay
We’ll be
Okay, Okay
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Hashtag feat. Riwo
02:16
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CHORUS - RIWO
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
VERSE - ARLO MAVERICK
Three Fifths of a man
Catching six from the Klan
Stop tellin’ me to march
Like my pleas stand a chance
What’s all the hate for
You tryn’a start a race war
Oh you should pray more
Is that what we wait for
The morals of our enemy
To show some empathy
That’s not the remedy
And never will it ever be
Shot for jogging
Imagine that
Completely unprovoked
And he still got clapped
No matter what we do
They find an excuse
I was scared
I didn’t know what to do
Protected by courts
Lawyers and unions
Believe me when I say it
They know what they doin’
When there’s consequence
They’re more thoughtful in
Dealing with arguments
And exercise common sense
Todd gets irate
He’s told calm down
Jerome gets upset
He gets shot down
Can we talk about this man’s life
Or will you gaslight
Say he didn’t act right
Or even, that’s life
Get defensive
Make it about you
Never said you were racist
But, what will you do
The truths you ignore
Are the ones I gotta live
Your “get over it”
Is the Fuck I gotta give
My bad
You don’t like my skin B
That sounds like an ish-you
Not an ish-me
CHORUS X 2 - RIWO
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be
A hashtag one day
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VERSE 1
9th Grade
Fell in love for the first time
The type of chick
That you dare not insert lines
A prisoner to her love
What was my crime?
Falling for her love in this lifetime
See sadly the girl that attracts me
Sticks pens in my hair to laugh at me
Makes fun of the food momma packs me
Always saying bloodclot when she pass me
Of all things
Why must love be undercut
She was singing thunderstruck
I was thinking what the fuck
Yet for her heart
I had fallen hard
But where do you start
With no common mark
She called me typical
Often she would ridicule
Asking if rap
Was the only thing I listened to
It’s easy to be critical
But somewhat hypocritical
Especially since
This chick only listened to
Classic rock, grunge and heavy metal
Quoting David Bowie
Cause he on another level
When I’m quoting Stevie Wonder
She’d say that’s nothing special
The man wrote Talking Book
And he never held a pencil
CHORUS
Love me from within
Not the skin that I’m in
Love me from within
Not the skin that I’m in
Love me from within
And not the skin that I’m in
VERSE 2
Tolerance and fetish
Would walk a thin line
Blurred by her desire to know my dick’s size
See there’s something in our skin’s contrast that gives rise
To long fought taboos
But maybe this time
Love could get past the fact my skin’s dyed
Or would it cave to the fears
Dark skin will imply
Sadly some things
Aren’t meant to be
Love had conquered nothing
Cause mentally
She wasn’t ready for the stares that accompanied
Her every time that she’d comfort me
Jeers often came from her closest friends
Disgusted by our love and would not pretend
So what’s a love that you won’t defend
But a penny in your pocket that you cannot spend
Racism,
You know that thing we ignore
Pretend it don’t exist
Like lips with cold sores
Sistas fixed they lips
Like creams at drug stores
Wasn’t on their radar
But now the uproar
But I defended us
Never pretended lust
Yet your heart followed
Those who contested us
CHORUS
Love me from within
Not the skin that I’m in
Love me from within
Not the skin that I’m in
Love me from within
And not the skin that I’m in
VERSE 3
My lady came to me
Said Bae we’re pregnant
Shoulda been on cloud 9
But my high was blended
A conversation that we should’ve had back in year two
Repeatedly delayed because I feared you
Might be offended
Take it out of context
Claim to be color blind
But it’s complex
Love ain’t enough
We’ll pretend though
Like she won’t learn about slavery or Jim Crow
Like she won’t learn about strange fruit that hung from trees
How her ancestors bled for her luxuries
Who are we to act naïve?
Like the child we conceive won’t live to see
A world where her skin would not breed
A fear that will justify their need to squeeze
A world where she won’t be forced to weave
Hanging on by a thread
Cause they fail to see
Natural to be acceptable
What about names?
Something Congolese
Or safe like Jane
Can’t have a conversation bout cops killin black folk
But we can throw on “One Love”
And fuckin dance though
Will we deny her experience
Because we lack backbone?
Tell her just ignore it
Knowing that she can’t though
… knowing that she can’t though
CHORUS X 2
Love me from within
Not the skin that I’m in
Love me from within
Not the skin that I’m in
Love me from within
And not the skin that I’m in
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VERSE 1 - ARLO MAVERICK
I used to have a fear for planes
Too much is left to chance
You could say you’re literally flying
By the seat of your pants
It appears I passed with flying colours
My passport is covered
And every country we rock
I grab something for mother
Mugs clutter her cupboard
To remind her that I love her
And her son is on a journey
Her prayers help discover
I took my fam to see the globe
So they could know
The potential we hold
If we focus on our goals
Late nights in Seoul
Eating chicken as we hold
Conversations bout the future
And how we plan to grow
Wrexham to London
The vibes dem we love them
Tallinn and Rotterdam
Maybe hop on a tram
Cannes by the beach
Late night stare at the sea
Miles away from Edmonton
However did we reach
Europe and Asia
Some may say luck
Cause the only time I flew as a child was to Jamaica
CHORUS 4X - ARLO MAVERICK & OOZEELA
I’m a world tour
And I’m taking my fam
I’m taking my fam
I said I’m taking my fam
VERSE 2 - MOURAINE
Ayo Arlo good looking
I just got confirmation for the booking
We could make outta Edmonton
If Hov made it from Brooklyn
I tried to tell my niggas theres more to this life more than this
Picture us on Boeing jets taking private trips
To get paid
And tell rhymes on stage
No lay away or delays
I wrote this on plane just imagine
Manifest and hard work it could happen
I ‘member the days
When I was laughed at rapping
Now my high school haters in my dm
Like nigga you really poppin’
Damn you see the irony
I always believed in the higher me
And 9-5 isn’t cut for me
I’d rather be in Rotterdam
With dime down to swallow me
But nothing beats the feeling when I come back home
To tell all my niggas can’t wait to bring them along
You know patience is virtue
Dawg it won’t be long
Till the world tour with Mohammed my man
With Mohammed my man
World tour with Mohammed my man
CHORUS 4X - ARLO MAVERICK & OOZEELA
I’m a world tour
And I’m taking my fam
I’m taking my fam
I said I’m taking my fam
VERSE 3 - GATSON
Look, everything is everything now
I know I made my granny proud
I hope the town see I’m proud to be where I’m from
I say it loud (207)
Poppin’ champagne in Champagne
I hope you enjoying the campaign
We came so far the world knew our name
Word to New Skools in Europe
Puttin on for the town
They like, “who dude”
Get a clue nigga
Gat a spit that shit that give you blues
It’s true nigga
Takes a little longer when you build it organically
Never spittin fantasies
This is my reality
Where I’m from if you make it to 25
It’s like you hit the lottery
I came in this game
I never had my hand out
All I ever wanted for labels to hear my plan out
Wrote a letter to the world
Hoping shit would pan out
And when it didn’t I got discouraged
Till I found my purpose
God drew my blueprint and now I see it was worth it
I’m on my
CHORUS 4X - ARLO MAVERICK & OOZEELA
I’m a world tour
And I’m taking my fam
I’m taking my fam
I said I’m taking my fam
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Arlo Maverick Edmonton, Alberta
Arlo Maverick is a hip-hop MC whose sound explores Jazz, Electro, and Soul yet identifies itself as hip-hop through fusing nuances of hip-hop’s golden era and Jazz theory. Lyrically Arlo Maverick’s music is a poetic narration of everyday life experiences. For Maverick it is as much about moving his audience physically as it is about moving them emotionally. ... more
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