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feat. Ghais Guevara & Michael Go - JUJU

from HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING by Backxwash

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JUJU (04:36)—pronounced: Joo-Joo, Nyanja to English: “Witchcraft”

lyrics

[VERSE 1: GHAIS GUEVARA]
East side movin up
But niggas wasn’t elated
i know that niggas corrupt
because i’m the nigga that paid them
i know that the game is rigged
because i’m the nigga who rigged it
yall fuckin with coons and birds, niggas is Mordecai and Rigby
I aint get this from no vision
This a story once repeated
How niggas control ya space
Til you deleted
Bought the chain before the gun
Arrogance on display
They was tryna flash
We muzzle the flash
Prayin that we aint gotta spray
Cant blame a nigga for being a vulture
That’s just the memo
But i aint see it in his eyes
Way back when we was shoppin demos
Had i known to keep my enemies closer
Maybe he’d keep his composure
Never give a monkey ass nigga the toaster
Cause now he blowin his ego
Strikin innocents cause the recoil
Cause he wanna be the man
To have his bitch spoiled
He wanna be the man to feed the
Hood well
Yellow tape where the hood dwells
Unproper farewells
Last words was probably some
Dumb shit

[CHORUS: GHAIS GUEVARA]
What if you can't, do what you said
What if you not, all that you thought
What if you slip, what if you fall
What if you just, can't save em all
What of the guilt, what of the hate
What of the memories and mistakes
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane

What if you can't, do what you said
What if you not, all that you thought
What if you slip, what if you fall
What if you just, can't save em all
What of the guilt, what of the hate
What of the memories and mistakes
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane

[VERSE 2: BACKXWASH]
Left a homie with me
It was getting sticky
I needed to get out the closet
I was feeling straight out my options,
Had to dip it break out the problems
You were lonely thinking I’ll be home in 50,
Have a bone to pick, well I owe you plenty
It’s some shit that you don’t understand
Some shit that don’t feel like a man
Burnt the true religions at my crucifictions

I am luci-her not lucifer
Don’t judge me for staying true
If I saw me I would hate me too

In the blackface no joni mitchell
With my fat face in the holy temple
Is this drag race, or a bad phase
Or a stan page with a bad taste

Been in magazines with half a dream that I should have kept tucked
I do that rapping thing that we planned to be and it should have been us
Aren’t you proud of me, where the happy things, dawg superman up
I can get packed meat or vaseline or Applebee’s or a tapestry

Between you and I
I survived my own suicide
This is who I am, look alive
I'm holding out that you’ll do in time
If you don’t love me for being me I won't judge you for being you
Don’t judge me for being me I won’t judge me for being you

[CHORUS 2: BACKXWASH]
What If I did, what If I don't
What if it is, what if it’s not
What if it came, what if it didn’t
What if it did, maybe I won’t
Maybe I can’t, maybe I can
Maybe I’m not, maybe I am
Maybe I shoulda said something,
Maybe I shouldn’t say nothing

What If I did, what If I don't
What if it is, what if it’s not
What if it came, what if it didn’t
What if it did, maybe I won’t
Maybe I can’t, maybe I can
Maybe I’m not, maybe I am
What if I shoulda said something,
What if I shouldn’t say nothing

[OUTRO CHORUS: GHAIS GUEVARA]
What if you can't, do what you said
What if you not, all that you thought
What if you slip, what if you fall
What if you just, can't save em all
What of the guilt, what of the hate
What of the memories and mistakes
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane

What if you can't, do what you said
What if you not, all that you thought
What if you slip, what if you fall
What if you just, can't save em all
What of the guilt, what of the hate
What of the memories and mistakes
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane
Niggas aint built, stay in ya lane

credits

from HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING, released October 31, 2022
Full Song Credits: Produced and Performed by Backxwash, Featuring guest vocals by Ghais Guevara [Verse 1. Chorus 1, Outro Chorus], Mixed by Will Owen Bennett, Mastered by Richard Addison / Trillium Sound Mastering, Main vocals recorded in Montreal by Chachi Revah

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