BE A PART OF THE VIDEO!
On Jan 18th in NYC we'll be shooting the music video to I GOT MY at the Bowery Poetry Club. Join us and lip-sync a line from the song (lyrics are below), spit your own "I Got My" line, be a part of the crowd, or whatever you want that's fresh! i got my crew now, i got my juice now, i got my vocals, i got my profile,
[Taiyo] [Derek] [CHORUS] [Theresa] [Taiyo] [CHORUS] [Derek] [Theresa]
Since half the song is about how we got our fam/friends/crew, we'd love to have ya'll IN the video.
Let's face it, we're not all that interesting looking... we need your pretty faces up in here.
What do you say? Come mug for the cameras and chill with us?
There will also be live performances from
TAIYO NA, ourselves, and the
incomparable ISHLE YI PARK.
So come through!!
LISTEN: I Got My (@ myspace)
LYRICS:
Chorus
i got my, i got my, i got my true style.
i got my roots proud, i got the youth loud,
you got to, you got to, you got to move now.
i got my, i got my, i got my soul found.
i got this whole crowd, i got this whole town,
i got the, i got the, i got the globe now.
ready, set, go, i got very fine company,
odds stacked high, but i do it cuz i love it, bÕ,
the wall is like a hundred feet, everywhere in front of me,
but bruce bubble under me, and fam got me covered, see!
small budget, big spirit, part bite, all fight,
what i got is hard drive and a loaded hard drive,
huh, tell my girl, itÕs gonna be all right,
i do what i love, how i live got a hard line.
right! cuz there was a time when i was timid and shy
i needed bigger cojones, mine would always shrivel and hide
i never pushed my limit up high, i never reached and touched the sky
until this music lit me and set me on fire, like lisa left-eye
and now i'm alive and kickin' it, got fans stacked thick like pyramids
went from the shower to singing on broadcasts, tv, and internet
this jam is the definitive anthem to get jiggy wit'
but not just with you butt and your feet, get low with your soul and spirit, you
diiiiiggg
i don't got no gangstas, no background dancers
no house in the hamptons, or fancy finances
i just got a stance and my eyes in a slant
so a record advance? i got a chinaman's chance
and i don't got a grand to pay for a sample
i just got derek kan here to play the piano
and taiyo na on the electric guitar
see me, i don't do shit but got the je ne sais quois
i got my life like an open road, play the part when i know my role,
do my art to express my soul, and break down and then open doors
hope is what i got like obama up in iowa,
put me in a corner, iÕm fired up,
look me in the eyes to size me up,
pop for a new land, new day, new stance, new talk, new dance
i got it like toussaint,
temudjin with the mic, iÕm improving every fight,
so you boom it and you boom it and you boom it all night.
don't got an slk
don't got an escalade
i walk, ride the bus, or catch the local metro train
don't got a gold neck lace
don't got expensive tastes
pork chops, ramen, and rice, and i'm goooood, i'm set for days
don't got the pop appeal
don't got the party thrills
what i got, you ignorant idiots, is i got a lot of skill
don't got a part of me
that's not part emcee
cuz hip hop runs through my blood, heart, lungs, and arteries
my entire life i've been required to perspire fight
pariah to messiah, my eyes upon that higher life
liars light a fire, i'm thankful they inspire spite
cuz they provide the spark man and i provide the dynamite
so take a deep breath
its time to de-stress
its like the internet, you got to refresh
plus i got respect for what you got til its gone
so i got a new purpose man i got a new song