KENDALL WA
GRIETA (2019)
GRIETA is about race, hate, politics, aging, traveling, dying, parenting, kidding, adulting, all in a half hour episode!
Catalán Stallion
Ran the bull ring like another day/
watching James Bond die another day/
Two 007 chicks in mi room/
thousands upon thousands I’m wilt chamberlain dude/
so tall don’t need stilts/
dick so big gotta wear a kilt/
jeans don’t offer enuff space/
bitches think im Scottish just look at his face/
walk thru Barcelona like I own the place/
feel like dembele african descent/
but all over Europe like slavery ain’t happen/
like the moors conquered like I wrote the patent/
like they got correct pigment on Aladdin/
and Jesus Christ in 25/
years they gon make Pac white like they did Moses/
gimme time they’ll paint me white/
that’s how you know I’m great here’s mi fate/
muy gran
Drive cars like I’m cutting grass/
mowing down everyone could u grasp/
where I’m coming from why I act the way I act/
young American w nada but baggage attached/
you try swimming w cinder blocks/
I thought we did away w chickenpox/
measles polio it feels like/
1446 in America shitting bricks/
giving hickies in a theatre/
this just in Bieber/
is who I get compared to often/
acting dumb everywhere dog caution/
cuidado that facts hard to swallow/
public school educated that’s easy to follow/
the sandman would kick yo ass out the Apollo/
guess we really that shallow or you're just shite/
Hanna-Barbera
What is this Hanna barbera/
growing up we were scared of this future we inherit/
we just want our Saturday cartoons till noon/
but you had to take that from us too/
some say we grew too soon who knew and the coup we flew/
it’s too damn early to be so damn late/but this is our fate/
I just had to go ham this is mi jam/
crying tears all week so bring a dam/
we brought water back to Cali flood The Valley/
add this up to the tally flex like Bally/
fitness w the swiftness I wish this/
life could snap back in place w the quickness/
I got friends turning grey another day/
receding hairlines is we ight/
these rough 20s where we living on a penny uh/
a prayer, cross chest head he there?/
it’s getting to the point I find it hard you ever cared/
n just created life on a dare/
The life I live is not real grab the steel/
watching caps get peeled this damn spiel/
all the taxes getting raised la otra day/
every get fit craze just photoshop her/
got another job offer it’s proper/
for me to eff it up n say I want it no longer/
just wanna hop a boat cross the ocean n wander/
if I could survive on mi own is what I ponder/
got no son or daughter/
this music is mi offspring/
to the feast I bring/
a full family survived thru famine/
if music was mi only means of survival/
than the thing is I’d be fruitful/
I died once this is my revival/
my resurrection is truthful/
Clap for papi we getting naughty/
they wanna spar me they wanna charge me/
I feel like Tyson Mike or the farm/
you love me then hate I guess it’s my charm/
all mi life been in harms way/
so to me it’s just the Bombay/
I been filet n sautéed/
outlined n traced like chalk aye/
on the west side of Chi city/
on the south side of London Town/
on the north side of Paris commune/
to every street in Detroit you get the point/
we seen too much we just wanna be four again/
we just wanna be picked up after hitting floor again/
somebody to open doors and/
help us get a foot in puddin'/
MMLPQTP
(Mauricio Macri the whore that birthed you)
Damn you and the whore who birthed you/
we couldn’t make this more commercial cuz ima hurt you/
they brought tanks to mi city it’s such a pity/
you put the crack in mi hood it’s understood/
that mi gente up to know good we scramble for food/
en un país I signed the lease n now I gots to flee/
you tapped the phone lines gave me brown water/
told me bathe told me shave to me brush mi teeth/
told mi remove the sheet monitored the whole time I breathe/
there’s no peace we do the best on these streets/
I don’t wanna kill I don’t wanna steal/
you live without toilet paper n electricity still/
when your promised you got presidents throwing paper towels/
I feel like wow we just animals in kennels/non of us own it’s all rentals/
some of us owned but you took or let a hurricane tip it/
as for FEMA or any government assistance/
you call us lazy or like he always hands out reaching/
we didn’t ask to be colonized by countries who think it’s ok after columbine/
to ramp up the manufacturing the weapons/
so brown people who toe the line don’t overstep it/
or hold down women cover your face n your ankles/
cuz there’s men here it’s yo fault if they rape you/
but do feel obliged If they wanna date you/
I take 2 shots of bourbon in a suburban/
praying to Dios my slurring don’t get me shot/
committed suicide while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser/
who’s the loser the community it happened in or la Família/
I think both but who am I they ain’t count mi vote/
just gave me yards of rope and focused the scope/
Royal Milk Tea
It’s the softening of me/
it’s the notion el sabor es much too plenty/
it’s the watering down of me/
the one drop rule is hinting/the more looks I get the more I drip/
any milk in the fridge/
My baby told me she loves when it rains from above/
my baby basically confirmed what we had wasn’t love/
if the mere sight of I makes you wish I was light/
just a lil more sugar baby I’m sweet enuff what the fuck/
Take a sip face the drip/
don’t be a bitch don’t take the piss/
I was a pacifist but that exists/in mi past life
I’s a ass right/
word to I selassie/
these rastafaris give bad advice/
I rolled a blunt passed it right/
danced all nite attempted to die/
drowned in a lake half baked/
they resuscitate now I’m here again/
burned my body in an ash trey
rolled me up im atmosphere/
now I’m glad I’m here a sexy muthafucka/
w a dad beard I taught the youth/
love yourself fuck the rules/
fuck the law you royal too/
The Gun Against My Head
If bullets could yell, cells could tell/
read aloud what they walls intel/
inscribed on concrete, the faulty/
legal system we have it’s haunting/
blood can trace were you an ace/
attached to what face what a day/
mummy’s n love ones yo we got one/
piece to say like hey that’s your mate/
the streets a lie the system tied/
us in cuffs it’s bondage it’s tuff/
such is such in a sponge/
my life has sunk n I can’t budge/
Chicago loco, LA mad/
we walk thru west side n Southside w flags/
red or blue green or man it’s hard to keep up/
this is God’s hand/
the white man just let it happen n call us crooks/
not knowing they see us too if in the mirror they decided to look/
people are savages people are liars/
if we crossed hearts everybody would be dying/
trying prying cold dead fingers/
life lingers like winter never getting warm enuff/
but summer comes as bodies decompose/
n new becomes old n filled w bullet holes/
it’s outside mi home these streets is just a zoo/
all these spectators watching eating popcorn too/
we been detained Africa is the way/
but we dunno the direction we stuck in intersections/
Could we be everything god wanted us to be/
the answering absolutely - not/
Do you think before you squeeze/
do they realize this ain’t an ordinary sneeze/
it ain’t a lil hiccup to be picked up/
this is lives being erased/
when you scatter unfulfilled potential/
it’s so real it’s an insult/
life is suspenseful/
it’s like is this corner gonna be the end of mi info/
I walk thru mountains of hope valleys of death holding mi breath/
wondering if this is my last step/
if it is tell my kids/
this ain’t the life to live/
La Bombonera
I only run in the cold/
the spring time is my time/
mi tiempo un momento/
la boca en mi cara/the stadium was packed from head from toe/
me n you fight like a gladiator sport/
ain’t no winners when we both poke throats/
ima hate you till the min I croak/
but if you go first then I’m burnt toast/
We congregated then immolated/
made a self effigy of you n me/
it’s a battle on the pitch life is such a bitch/
I gotsta train her
could there be a time for you n me to talk this thru/
a form of protest thru mi body is mi vehicle/
I’ll be damned if I see you on the tram/
headed to the stadium I know it’s on again/
Why would I set myself on fire to keep you warm
The Shirtless Ones
Went on strike n loss it all/
no health insurance no job/
can’t afford to feed mi dog/
had to give it all away/
now you tell me to be loyal/
what this all boils to/
is me being traitor/
cuz I don’t care for our mayor/
I could give a pair for the prez/
I could give a care if he dead/
I don’t encouraging sharing lead/
I just wish the bs wasn’t fed/
corn fed like cattle/
too fattened up to battle/
too misinformed to tattle/
no wonder we feel rattled/
Loss mi hat n mi scarf/
in the middle of winter go figure/
loss mi coat n mi gloves/
I think I’m bout to lose mi fingers/
loss mi shirt n mi nickers/
it no grow back like lizard/
loss socks n mi boots/
the government took mi roof/
they tried to cut down the roots/
but you can’t lose the truth/
all the lie in our hair/
had to shave it off bare/
had to start it from scratch/
I were just the sewer rat/
but now look at that that that/
mi said look at that that that/
they start the cia n the fbi/
cuz me don’t bow nor be concubine/
I will not be yo clown/
I built the ark now everybody drown/
trow em all in da sound/
trow em all pon de ground/
pass de dutchie to the left side/
feed the children keep they eyes wide/
don’t let em tell you slaughter yourself/
one day you’ll be a father yourself/
or a mother raise ya kids raise ya kids/
cuz no one gon do it for us it’s/
one village una vida we live/
una vida de la tierra let’s spread
the peace
When they run up turn up burn up fill it up/
gasolina in mi cup pour it up/
when we set everything on fire n blow it up/
maybe then you’ll take us serious/