4th Single and title track off Kabaka Pyramid's debut album "Kontraband" featuring Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
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Directed and Edited by Eric Coleman
Produced by Michelle Huynh
Writer/Production Coordinator by Isaac Deol
D.o.P. Alvin Octoman
Song Credits:
Written by Keron Salmon, Damian Marley
Vocals by Kabaka Pyramid, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
Composed by Damian Marley
Produced by Damian "Jr Gong" Marley
Keyboards by Sean Diedrick
Drum Programming by Damian Marley
Percussions by Richard Bravo
Backing Vocals by Kabaka Pyramid and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley Recorded by Marc Lee at Uncle D’s Studios, Miami,
Florida
Mixed by Marc Lee
Mastered by Christopher Athens
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Lyrics:
Intro
I'm Way Up
I'm Way Up
I'm Way Up
I'm Way Up
I'm Way up
I'm Way up
Chorus
Kontraband
Is it the Master Plan
Kontraband
it tekking up the farmers land
Kontraband
How it pass the borders scan
Kontraband
An end up in u daughter hand
Kontraband
Now whats in that recipe
Kontraband
Dat giving me this stress relief
Kontraband
Sell more than rice and peas
Kontraband
Feels so damn good to me
Verse
[DM]
Well now this dutty [fucking] dog sniffing me
pray to Jah I didnt leave a one spliff on me
If they found one they'd surely move swift on me
Family and friends wud surely be missing me
[KP]
Meanwhile Gong is having that epiphany
I'm being searched by a squaddy name Tiffany
The way she girt me mi sumn get stiff on me
Still me slide thru smooth like the chiffon Be
[DM]
As they're done searching the pyramid
they turn they're atention to the grammy kid
dealing with the rasta like an invalid
demonstrating how Babylon wicked
[KP]
Wah dem Ask bout
Illegal substance if these things we packaging
El Chapo ting
shipping and the handling
these accusations are damning
They say dem heard reggae artists trafficking....
Chorus
Kontraband
Is it the Master Plan
Kontraband
it tekking up the farmers land
Kontraband
How it pass the borders scan
Kontraband
An end up in u daughter hand
Kontraband
Now whats in that recipe
Kontraband
Thats giving me this stress relief
Kontraband
It Sell more than rice and peas
Kontraband
Feels so damn good to me
Verse
[DM]
Theres some sirens approaching me
call u back I hope i didnt leave a roach on me
Everything is stashed right where its supposed to be
But if not a bail u haffi post fi me
[KP]
Bredda mi jus see u picture weh di poster be
It heng up on di wall inna di grocery
Nuh worry the judge have a favour weh show fa me
mi got it covered like the suit weh me a throw pon me
[DM]
Yeah But K our faces known locally
An di ting tun up totally
I know they must smell the smoke on me
Can we defend the case vocally
[KP]
Well based on the scope of the evidence
An how much dem gathering intelligence
determines the charges u held against
for all the weight and the measurements
Of...
Chorus
Kontraband
Is it the Master Plan
Kontraband
it tekking up the farmers land
Kontraband
How it pass the borders scan
Kontraband
An end up in u daughter hand
Kontraband
Now whats in that recipe
Kontraband
Dat giving me this stress relief
Kontraband
Sell more than rice and peas
Kontraband
Feels so damn good to me
Verse
[DM]
They're preeing how our companies
Bebble Rock and Ghetto Youths is keeping company
Now the agent dem a come fa we
Beause Kontraband is spreading cross the country
[KP]
D
our records cleaner than laundry
or a washing machine weh full a lingeirie
So we not even need nuh money laundering
If it go to court we jus a peal (appeal) it like a tangerine
[DM]
Yeh but we cyan pay the lawyer wid nuh Tamrind
the case kinda shaky like a tambourine
Now we hot a road like a lava stream
Wahappen if the jury full a drama queen
[KP]
See mi lawyer jus phoning me
Mr. Pyramid
I hear that youve been touring
and the Kontraband is soaring and its taking off globally
Is it sold out or do you have a little more of the...
Chorus
Kontraband
Is it the Master Plan
Kontraband
it tekking up the farmers land
Kontraband
How it pass the borders scan
Kontraband
An end up in u daughter hand
Kontraband
Now whats in that recipe
Kontraband
Dat giving me this stress relief
Kontraband
Sell more than rice and peas
Kontraband
Feels so damn good to me