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T​ö​ks - Kick It

from Sixteen Shades of Blue by 17O1 Records

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Chris Tokita (vocals)

Instrumental produced by L.A. Beatz
Lyrics by Chris Tokita

Recording by Hanoi Hantrakul
Mixing by Hanoi Hantrakul, Jacob Reske

lyrics

For all the chilin’ with no hundred doller billas
From LA, cairo, to manila
This ones for you and all the homies who can feel us
Who ready to kick it
Cuz I’m ready to spit it

Can I kick it (yes you can)
Can I kick it (yes you can)
Man, Can I kick it (yes you can)
Well I’m gone (go on then)

If you want to kick it for a minute then settle down and listen
Don’t give a hoot about your boots and what will glisten
Given an instance to chat about things we’re missing
Do you list materials or life lessons
‘cause for one thing I am stressing
the importance of notions ‘sides what you’re rockin and who is dressin
in the latest
‘cause what makes us
are not the clothes we wear
but the words we share,
do you even dare
to strip yourself bare of the mainstream
and try trading superficiality
for reality that seems ever fading
now I’m hating all the ladies I am meeting
‘cuz it seems they’re seeking
a g thing
studded with three things
money, diamonds, and bling
like in the songs that we sing
but if you understand what shines brightest isn’t on a ring
then how bout you come and kick and we make us two a thing


so this one time this girl came up to me and was like,

“eh….i really dig your style and all….and me and my friends were just wondering….
You know…..well…..”

[Chorus]


yeah
I double down on the underground
if pop and radio are the air that we breath
then I’d rather drown
I go around town telling all these punks
to grab the mic tight
‘cause it’s time to get down
You ain’t even rapping you just spitting shit
Trying to an instant hit like it’s some intrinsic gift
Boy you missing it
And now you risking it
Instead of breaking molds you tripping just to try and fit in it
And I swear that if you touch my tunes when I’m jamming to the roots
I will give your ass the boot to the boons or a room
Filled with a loop of rapping goons
To melt your brain to goo by next day’s noon
I swear if life were a zoo
You’re too consumed
With your nose to the map trying to stay on the main path
But you zoom past all the views of life’s true beauty
to each his own, but this life ain’t no fucking movie

with each breath I let go
this flow planting these thoughts
oh how they grow
and under its shade I will wait
for your approach,
so if you ready for more
let me know


[Chorus]

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from Sixteen Shades of Blue, released May 5, 2013

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17O1 Records is Yale’s one and only student-run record label. We are an organization dedicated to the creation and dissemination of music on Yale’s campus. With our devoted engineering, marketing and publicity teams, 17O1 provides opportunities for student artists to record in a professional studio, and to showcase their music in the Yale community and beyond. ... more

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