Album

As We Prey


Prey For The Devil
Bambu
Producer: OJ The Producer, DJ Phatrick
2016

Intro:

Uh… the only thing is that... uh

With all this…uh…

With all this… uh… political thing happening right now

I don’t know how far we can go more

But we must have to push

Because as far as there is a small political space

If we are not going to move ourselves

And ask that we are conscious

Who is going to do it for us?

If not now, when?

 

Verse 1:

Women and ghetto men, watchers on the tower

Turn that music a little louder

Just give me about an hour

I’ll give you back word to tell ya’ll

The devil tries supression

Pressure immigrants to leave

Passing laws just to arrest us

Now they’re telling me to switch it

Elitists say I’m dated, wait a winute

Homie, why the fuck these youngin’s imitating?

I hear youngin’s out here making ’95 rap tapes

I am vintage ’95 I did my demo on tape

But I ain’t here for that, this summer saw murders rise

Reporting live and direct from Inglewood, Ca-lifor-n-i-a ayy

It’s hella evident, the devil been here ever since

Designing how to set the institutions up to benefit from parents' hard labor

20 hours a day

Dropping a bomb on a country for better rates on a trade

Now we prey

Praying with a gun against your

Brain

Ain’t no magic in the sky to put the pieces in

Play (ayy!)

Women, ghettomen however you identify

Long as you are down to catch the justice they deny

And I am

Not signing on dotted lines

Keeping all the music mine

Never had a person wasn’t black or brown who down with mine

Others went the whiter route

Got the bigger check and bounced

While I am too abrasive for the palettes of their greedy mouths

Fuck faulty independents, lying like they Get it

But they’re gonna push that "college party" rap for higher tickets

While I’m charging less than twenty

Sell out a venues plenty

And there’s gonna be a bunch of brown faces like a penny

Phat and I would rather rock for twenty of ours

Than a thousand white kids who think I rap too hard

That make us prey

 

Hook:

Hoping couple dollars come my way

From the opening bells straight up and destined for jails

So now we prey

We the prey

So now we prey

Hoping couple dollars come my way

From the opening bells straight up and destined for jails

Son now we prey

We the prey

Hoping couple dollars come my way

From the opening bells straight up and destined for jails

Son now we prey

From the prey

 

Verse 2:

Through the scope of black music I am Bam

The son of immigrants who the left Philippines Sayin’

Educated from the bottom by a standardized Test

Battered by a life of peolice, are A-alikes Next

Acquisition by a auto industry is in my Chest

When exhaust was more than momma chasing overtime cheques

One apartment, two siblings, and my grandparents and I

And I’ve been the prime prey for the devil all my Life

From a worker, to a student, educator in the Music

A jaded veteran ptsd-ing through the Bullshit

I’m a poppa, who’d rather have integrity in Mind

Cus most these motherfuckers can’t rhyme

From the days of watching momma chase the Bus

And seeing me in Cuffs

Now teaching young son to keep his checking hand Up

How to act when they show up and try to say “he look Suspicious”

All the shit you probably never have to teach the white children

Now we prey

Hoping couple dollars come my way

“Oh I didn’t know you still rap. Ain’t you from back in the

Day?”

I’m still prey

We the prey

 

Hook:

Hoping couple dollars come my way

From the opening bells straight up and destined for jails

So now we prey

From the prey

Don’t trip that’s just Bambu de Pistola

Bambu de Pistola

That’s just Bambu de Pistola

Don’t trip that’s just Bambu de Pistola

Bambu de Pistola

That’s just Bambu de Pistola

Don’t trip that’s just Bambu de Pistola

Bambu de Pistola

That’s just Bambu de Pistola

 

Outro:

A little exploration in the race

Tryng to navigate an industry with Filipino face, lower the pace

This isn’t praying to a God

This is preying like the Phillippine Army under Lumad

We are prey



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