KENDALL WA
KONG (2021)
KONG I dedicate it to gramma. I dedicate it to the struggle. I dedicate it to all the sacrifices made. ✌🏾
They Bombed Palestine
They bombed
They bombed
They bombed
They
I was born a black guy in America/
who am I to turn a blind eye to genocide/
Prince had the 3rd eye/
but all y’all could worry bout was his purple pride/
I have been taught we all kings n queens/
but public schooling made peasants of you n me/
striving for cheap ass jewelry/
while the rich get exclusives if you thinking “who me?”/
you’re probably a bigger target than Muslims on the Gaza Strip/
why you hear Muslim n think Osama bitch/
some of my best friends have turned into targets/
am I cheating on American values where’s the scarlet/
the scarlet letters emblazoned on mi forehead/
that’s what happens when you born blacks go head/
adelante coach them boys like Conti/
but do it desposito like Luis Fonzi/
it’s banging a reluctant American/
but still mami you can call me Daddy Yankee/
They bombed
They bombed
They bombed
They
It fissions the expositions and propositions/
blurred all the vision now the children running into ditches/
homes been bombed the smoke n soot is taking root/
what’s a foot not one idea can stay put/
it’s gutta my country knows who to butter/
if they bent backwards for blacks like that wonder/
I would wonder why everyone don’t wanna live here/
then I wake up and tell foreigners to sit here/
disgusting the fornication and thrusting/
the lusting for oil and money in Hollywood bustlin'/
it’s hypocritical our people in tents banned from using vents/
you better close up that bitch/
like I said in the first verse it’s genocide/
we hate our own people why not hate Palestine/
the mental gymnastics to turn that blind eye/
tadow who’s yo friend now/
Stop displacing us stop erasing us/
all our monuments stop defacing us/
america stop sending aid against us/
hey eyes open up stop being against us/
Stop displacing us stop erasing us/
all our monuments stop defacing us/
america stop sending aid against us/
hey eyes open up stop being against us/
Stop displacing us stop erasing us/
all our monuments stop defacing us/
america stop sending aid against us/
hey eyes open up stop being against us/
Sugar Cane
Modern vampires of the city
Hunting blood
Blood
One blood one cuz one South Central/
one Watts one West Side one south/
one east side one north side one/
look at the concrete one pint of blood/
one Brixton one Bondy/
one dark skin wig blondy/
one light skin purple hair pink eyes/
one 95 Honda one G5/
one Rolls Royce one Aston Martin/
one Bugatti one hater one shotti/
one loc of hair hit the pavement/
one person cared one maybe/
one failed student one student athlete/
one shot echoed one ran the track meet/
one rich one poor one drowned one ashore/
one knocking at heaven or hell's door/
We all connected by that sugar cane/
I pumps sucrose in mi vein/
We all connected by that sugar cane/
I pumps sucrose in mi vein/
When you wake up early to do labor/
this flavor of pure pain do ya savor/
do you work harder or get on knees to ya savior/
do you work harder to ease the efforts of ya neighbor/
or is it the bootstrap ideology/
we let the government out psychology/
you n me he n she his n hers/
cared more bout the problem less bout the cure/
brothers don’t got touch but they got the nerve/
brothers dunno how to volley but love to serve/
brothers plow thru dinner just to eat dessert/
brothers was schizophrenic but now they all berserk/
that sugar cane flow thru ya veins/
whether Caribbean or from New York State/
whether from Michigan or the English Channel/
it’s a goddamn shame they treat us like cattle/
We all connected by that sugar cane/
I pumps sucrose in mi vein/
We all connected by that sugar cane/
I pumps sucrose in mi vein/
The Killing of Black Bodies
When I met you you were just 17
We were children yet they called us mean
The stares we get when we would walk down streets
Would make the sanest person tie tight feet and flee -
When I met you we were public schooling
We never knew early we could D I E
We thought we’d be playing not out protesting
And hearing the old timers tell us that we should flee
The killing of black bodies the news bring it up hardly/
without excuses sorry
we just us pardon me/
gotta hashtag it before they toe tag us/
They tell each other we can’t have mental issues
It’s premeditated if he’s black if he’s black
He’s medicated if he’s the opposite of that
Case closed give the reporter a pat on the back
The pics they post of us when we are just accused
Paint us menacingly so what am I sposed to do
Can we not get equal rights or accept we lose
At every turn ready to burn how bout you
The killing of black bodies the news bring it up hardly/
without excuses sorry
we just us pardon me/
gotta hashtag it before they toe tag us/
When I met you you were just 17
We were children yet they called us mean
The stares we get when we would walk down streets
Would make the sanest person tie tight feet and flee -
When I met you we were public schooling
We never knew early we could D I E
We thought we’d be playing not out protesting
And hearing the old timers tell us that we should flee
The killing of black bodies the news bring it up hardly/
without excuses sorry
we just us pardon me/
gotta hashtag it before they toe tag us/
Muévelo
I treat the blunt like luggage man I pack it/
then treat it like a cabbie n a black guy I pass it/
then treat it like Hari Hari I assass it/
I was told in school my brain wasn’t my greatest asset/
it was my legs n arms that would get me far/
it was my charm my smarts weren’t up to par/
so I try to up IQs w every single bar/
more bars than a Saturday night in Wrigley/
killing more brain cells a week than Dixie/
waving confederate flags like this is my dad's/
like we keep handing down this Dukes of Haz/
you call it hate I call it southern charm/
you call it burning crosses I call it curing lawns/
you call it bed sheets I call it headpiece/
the Native American's headdresses ain’t got shit on me/
sometimes I wonder if my sarcasm is taken literally/
Said turn on the cumbia we down in Colombia/
who wanna collude w us start a riot over some kahluas/
Come to Cancun w us hop on the omnibus/
what’s up w all the fuss que paso que paso/
Cansado de todo maricon, que eres un cabron/
put em on speakerphone tell em to muévelo/
Pack the bars blast the cars/
crank the bass to 10 hear it far/
Mi life is a symphony who’s playing the timpani/
don’t need no sympathy ain’t nobody pimpin' me/
I shot all mi shots until the clip was empty/
unfortunate for you it was from here to infinity/
rose from a pipsqueek they told him not to speak/
now these crowds I move like Moses in the pre centuries/
I’m just an animal recruited more/
2x2 roof to floor we grow like sycamore/
cats think I’m blowing smoke but I ain't a humidor/
more humidifier full of steam powering dreams/
if cash rules everything/
since 15 been swimming in cream/now money don’t mean a thing/
burn it like Joker grab the kerosene/
I’m giving you the skinny like Cara Delevingne/
I spits so much I created a ravine/
When we say move we mean move
When we say jump you ask how high
When we say ride and you don’t
Well... muertes
No quiero estar un poco loca.
Solo quiero que sepas que no hay mucho que puedes hacer sin mí a tu lado.
¡Joga Bonita somos los mejores!
Ed Zeus, Mell Duney. Por supuesto we a lil luney, you have to be.
LUCHA
U my friend u my friend till the end/
who did I offend/
I’m here to defend your right to sin/
so please go again/
I’ll jump off the ropes/
I grabbed the chair you stood and stare/
I’m Nacho Libre liberating mi gente w a big boot/
he jumped off the roof it SPLASHED!/
made mi cash took it back/
la toda villa/
confortarme las rodillas/
that’s who I did it for/
so bring out the citroen/
Bring out the citroen
Bring out the Citroen
Bring out the citroen
Bring out the Citroen
Blue demon knock yo ass to the cement/
I concepted these kids from this semen/
all these juniors/
I’m the king of the lucha el rey/
gira la página agárrales/
la vagina/
esta broma esta broma/
quieres piña/
colada for the lot of em/
floating like Xochimilcho I’m the prequel/
Bring out the citroen
Bring out the Citroen
Bring out the citroen
Bring out the Citroen
Viva Mexico/
You got 4 wheels I got 2 legs/
I got 2 arms I got 2 heads/
they all stronger than all that’s existed/
I’m a warrior like an Aztec/
I been reborn like the Nazareth/
this is westside peep the accent/
this ain’t Michael it’s Joe Jackson/
one misstep get your ass kicked/
everything I do should get a patent/
talk more shit than General Patton/
silenced everybody who was laughing/
sorry but the dramas in the casket/
Bring out the citroen
Bring out the Citroen
Bring out the citroen
Bring out the Citroen
Remember the Train to Barcelona
Re-member the train to Barcelona/
I had on Adidas they were bright white/
had Japanese written on the side/
I had just hopped off a 7 hour flight/
now I had to wipe the sleep out mi eyes/
I had just partied till midnight then hopped on the plane half drunk/
say goodnight/
I woke up landed hopped on a train/
it was sunny it was such a sunny day/
your Burberry shades if they were men’s/
I would’ve snatched them proceed w caution/
I took off mi coat I got in Chicago/
so I wouldn’t catch a cold/
I’m now wearing shorts leeves and a starburst coloured windbreaker/
I saw the city for the first time m started shaking/
This young black American was taken
Those chills rolled all thru mi spine/
when I saw Gaudí for the first time/
asking what I have I done all mi life/
to take so damn long to get to this night/
the tremors in mi body feel like the San Andreas/
you can call me a player cuz I attract all the haters/
even Bishop Don Juan had to throw some Hail Marys/
he was yelling out “chuuch” like Easter Sunday/
funny cuz I rose on the 3rd day/
died on the first day the French call it la petite mort/
all sorts of liquor be a good sport/
fuckin' on a tennis court/
titties everywhere cuz Europe ain’t prude/
guns is banned not boobs/
where I’m from sex is banned not guns/
that’s why I hear fireworks I gotta run/
The sun tanned your skin baby juicy like a tangerine/
speaking Spanish but to me it sounded Mandarin/
Catalonian/
all this colonizing leaves a brother dizzy/
we caught a Barcelona match and saw Messi at his best/
we were so young n broke I dunno how we afforded it/
standing outside the corner store straight loitering/
4am eating paiea right by the shore again/
who’s keeping score my friend/
the light goes dim I’m bout to show them/
would you believe this weed has no stems I brought in from Amsterdam/
now my eyes is dim/
win win win my head spin if I could be your husband/
you mi esposa I gotsta expose ya/
know how many times I thought about ripping this passport up/
and staying
Ain’t That
All my life I been built like this/
cuz I was different everybody talked shit/
nobody ever wanna pull me off the cliff/
ain’t that a bitch/
Aye swaaay
Blacks people built the White House/
kept building w the lights out/
so I always had a place there/
I know one day ima stay there/
ima paint that bitch blacker than midnight/
turn the tint darker till it’s right/
in mid flight to London England I started thinking that I could run a kingdom/
divide n conquer not too bad started from a victim/
mi fam in Rwanda was like dogg/
Kenny you can run the world what’s taking so long/
my physical mi digital they made an NFT of Kenny Gee/
I’m worth millions that’s the next thing/
you can’t put a price on me
you can’t afford these thoughts/
you can’t harbor this pain
you can’t fathom mi brain/
you can’t go down the line of disappointment i assorted/
yea he as gutter as reported/
All my life I been built like this/
cuz I was different everybody talked shit/
nobody ever wanna pull me off the cliff/
ain’t that a bitch/
Aye swaaay
From the west coast to the Midwest to the west side of the Chi/
from Queens blvd to MIA homie just try/
if you could think back to the time where all I wanted to do was to die/
when I tried pills when I tried crashing my car for suicide/
when the drugs filled mi system up and I was always outta body/
my late teens were fill w screams nightmares not dreams/
when my bank account had 30 quid and I clutched them like pearls/
by a white lady next to black youth this’ll make yo toes curl/
when I saw France for the first time that shit opened my eyes/
I been confined to this small corner for my whole damn life/
a black guy w a black life that’s not how I’m defined/
black guy w white money savings account I/
would rather die than go back to mi previous life/
when the turned tide I now got the moon in mi eyes/
I feel like Elon Musk my belly it must be always on empty/
cause I’m always ready for more washing ashore/
All my life I been built like this/
cuz I was different everybody talked shit/
nobody ever wanna pull me off the cliff/
ain’t that a bitch/
Aye swaaay
I wish to tell every ex that I ever had to kiss my ass/
I guess I’m doing better than you thought I can/
every retail manager I ever had can kiss my ass/
and dump yourself in acid asses/
ain’t that that spaz kid
In my room sippin' Arak Haddad/
bout to bomb these bitches like in Pakistan/
got more cheese on me than a Packer fan/
I wear it on mi head it’s a symbol like an ampersand/
I’m in the middle like an ampersand/
I’m not even in my prime
late bloomer/but atleast I blossomed
what do you call a flower that never grew/
I dunno guess it’d be you/
in the mini coup riding on the Strand/
left the high street back to Brixton/
then left Brixton back to Chi Town/
we on the west side what gramma cook now/
in Humboldt park I gotta jibarito con arroz con gondules/
not bad for a mulé/
bitches tryna wrap my meat up dip it in em like a souvé/
I hope my mama ain’t listening sue me/
All my life I been built like this/
cuz I was different everybody talked shit/
nobody ever wanna pull me off the cliff/
ain’t that a bitch/
Aye swaaay
I wish to tell every ex that I ever had to kiss my ass/
I guess I’m doing better than you thought I can/
every retail manager I ever had can kiss my ass/
and dump yourself in acid asses/
ain’t that that spaz kid
Blackwash it All
I shoulda kept my black ass in Italy/
what the hell I get back to America for to get back on Ritalin/
bodies bullet riddled in/
stop it fool the simpletons/
once we talk up we get banned/
shout out to YouTube for the suspension/
next time I’ll wear my hood up like the clan/
then I’m sure they’ll broadcast me across the land/
went to the club of Sam no Clorox wipes/
how am I s'posed to get this stain off mi whites/
I try to get a good deal on Jordan’s all mi life/
why I naively think this would be my only fight/
all this brainwash republican rot/
you what the French call les incompetent/
about as open minded as Papa John/
call Shaq cause we gon black wash it all/
Get it got it gut it scrub it/
black ain’t ugly who told ya that lie shut it/
color it make it as dark as it can/
smother it uncover it let the flame expand/
let’s mother it
How many more of us gotta die pick a time/
coppers would be much obliged get in line/
throw distractions in our face hypnotized/
I’m outta line when pointing out the genocide/
another died from senseless crime a friend of mine/
there’s criminals in blue too it’s synthesized/
and I’m waving my hands around pantomime/
just trying not to get handcuffed n sodomized/
my words are problems cause drama we’re rock bottom/
when you criticize me instead of what’s been revolving/
look into what these politicians getting involved in/
read n listen or keep scrolling the feed of nonsense/
it all ends it all leads to mi early coffin/
what can we do before then besides just getting rich/
my clique left slavery/
but bought that new whip hit the highway n dipped/
Get it got it gut it scrub it/
black ain’t ugly who told ya that lie shut it/
color it make it as dark as it can/
smother it uncover it let the flame expand/
let’s mother it
Car all foreign you can hear it motor up/
car all orange like I’m down in Florida/
bout to start storming homie better board it up/
bout to be a long winter the sun you better soak it up/
bad chickens all I’m tryna be stroking son/
showing up why somebody gotta loaded gun/
2nd amendment we defending cause if they packin'/
I gotta have mi people’s back and if I don’t/
if they put either one of us in a choke hold/
I got the right to defend myself or no go/
who can carry/
who can’t/
who getting buried/
who ain’t/
who live in the houses who did the paint/
who reps the church but ain’t really a saint/
it just occurred before I faint/
before I lay mi head in bed stop n think/
why I gotta stress black ain’t ugly/
Get it got it gut it scrub it/
black ain’t ugly who told ya that lie shut it/
color it make it as dark as it can/
smother it uncover it let the flame expand/
let’s mother it
You Mesmerize Me
Dr told my mama abort em on that faithful nite in Southern California/
mama went to sleep crying her eyes out four of em - she wore glasses/
mama had an angel met God God was a woman/
God said he ain’t gon kill you but he will be killa/
mama canceled that abortion and said yo ima have em/
7 months born premie
to the dr I reached up n slapped em/
that’s my first memory that’s how I know you’ll remember me/
I tend to watercolor my pain vividly/
these are happy trees I’m Kenny Ross I got the Afro/
and ima boss/
no discount like Ross/
more king of Miami shores/
if it was up to me you’d work on your core/
cause y’all niggas looking hella soft/
Westside till I drop
and if I learned anything from my moms/
that’s don’t drop the ball
nurture it raise it teach it phrases/
hold it’s hand just so long
then when it’s time to say so long/
you gotta king or a queen we been held down for too long/
ever felt you had a foot on your neck
when all you tried to do was get bread/
you want the whole loaf they throwing crumbs like a pelican/
I’m on mi Peloton I’m hella gone peddling uphill
what’s real I feel heavy carrying steel/
the American in me/
my uzi weighs a ton/
I point fingers at everyone n still tote mi gun/
right next to mi cheek I’m wetting mi beak/
tequila I drink I need it to squeeze/
this life is a tease an A student with Ds/
how I get these honeys it’s therapy to me/
By My Heart
What good thing can she say about me/
what baby would you ever doubt me/
what baby you can’t live without me/
come baby ven aquí/
she drink mi thoughts i keep ya hydrated/
you was dry before me ahh baby/
I swim in her eyes their oceans I’m the navy/
I am a Pacific baby/
you are Atlantic baby/
we met somewhere floating on the Mississippi/
our bodies of water have formed into a Great Lake/
and this was all after 1 date/
2 dates landscapes we shaped/
you were cold when we met I thawed the ice age/
ice cream I scream/
intoxicating took one scoop I permanently lean/
By my heart
Life is fleeting
By my heart
My heart bleeding
By my heart
You were a hard sell
By my heart
But I got you now hell
Mi cama su cama mi carro es tuyo/
mi pockets is fat together we sumo/
ganamos juntos is it palatable/
I’ll watch you walk from Paris to Rome/
Romeo Romeo we ain’t 14/
but infatuation may not be an age thing/
sometimes I can’t wait to go to sleep/
cause I fall back in love every morning/
love your body sculpting keep me bulging/
this pattern of love ain’t in holding/
we kept a full deck without folding/
taught each other punishments without scolding/
know each others words karaoking/
to me you never off key/
whisper in your ears softly/
ima bad man baby you lucky/
By my heart
Life is fleeting
By my heart
My heart bleeding
By my heart
You were a hard sell
By my heart
But I got you now hell