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La La Land

from Immigrant Summer by Akin Yai

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lyrics

Gunology with numerology
The bullet or the ballot
What a conflict
Astrology
Want outta this space
We can’t orbit
Want outta this race but can’t forfeit
Plot thickens, i need to write faster
seed of my pastures
baby need diapers
And then some
My future grandson
It’s a ugly world
But the paper Make you handsome
I like it dusty
The drum kit musty
That’s Dave on the boards
finally it’s getting funky
Healer,
Heal thyself while you live
And then you have a Message to deliver
For every doofus
pounded out toothless
And all the hoochies
poppin out they coochie
and all the stooges
Poppa’d out in Coogi
Or prolly Kool G Rapper outta movie,
Road to the riches , some stay close to kitchens, chef boyar-keys
They push push the fiction,
And spoke with diction
Hoping folks will listen
And Sold convictions
Dope and so conflicted

La la la.. (repeat2x)

A monotone in my voice for mister Elam
Tons of guns for the kids
But what is freedom
Building wells in Africa for the people
Charity for your weak deflated ego
One nation
We stand to praise the eagle
Like Jamal and Malik
We still illegal
Say it loud for the back
And let dem people hear it
What you hearing is time
And flashes of the spirit

Like photosynthesis
Light up in
The sentences
Trickle down fuel the body with the medicine.
They wanted seats at the table when they let us in
I said Nah fuck them crackaz
We gon burn it down
And build it up
With a face on a native crown
Visitors they gon know
If they take it down
Man between stanzas commercialized gangstas
You forty plus
You need to pull ya pants up
Like a bibliophile
Get lost in kingdoms
Made of paper and ink
And greater vision
Imagination of life
In state of bliss
Imagining the beyond
Instead of this

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from Immigrant Summer, released February 2, 2024
Produced By Akin Yai

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Akin Yai Gainesville, Florida

Born in Ouidah,Benin (West Africa) Akinlola Yai spent his early childhood years migrating back and forth from Benin republic to Nigeria. Akinlola moved to America at 8yrs old and at the height of the golden year of hiphop...that winter Akinlola immediately immersed himself in American popular culture, music and most specifically hiphop like NWA's " straight outta compton" and lyricists like Rakim ... more

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