Stripe 3 EP

Tracklisting

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• 1 / Loopholes For The Brave

  Verse 1

  I’m ready for all types of scenarios
  The glowing, flowing, growing oratory yo
  Back then it was all about the Babygro
  Time will change the status quo

  My people where you at? Oh!
  If life gives you lemons, make a rum and coke
  Find a nice somebody and just elope
  Jump all over the terrain like antelopes

  Or deer, my dear this is no joke
  That other stuff had the tendency to choke
  Kill ‘em with the lyrical overdose
  It never was about the centrefold

  They don’t even attempt to break the mould
  Brothers and sisters, continue the revolt
  The revolution has been foretold
  While they all act remote-controlled

  Chorus

  Komla and Jim Tycho
  The tiger, the shadow

  Verse 2

  Remain standing for Komla the Great
  Instigate new plans to formulate
  Articulate prose and poetry to annihilate
  Pack a heavy right-handed jab, heavyweight

  Neutralise the acid, sodium bicarbonate
  And that’s the way this brother vibrates
  You can carry on sofa-sitting, vegetate
  And keep ignoring the use-by-date

  Make sure your evidence is always up to date
  Y’all, make a mistake and he’s a ball-ache
  Man understand this is give and take
  If I’d a known you were coming, I’d a baked a fat cake with corn flakes

  Retake the remake for Pete’s sake
  This Ghanaian MC, don’t underrate
  Or underestimate
  The pidgin and Ewe flow which often resonates

  Chorus

  Komla and Jim Tycho
  The tiger, the shadow

  Verse 3

  Resonates with the numerate brethren who like to keep it straight
  And narrow, we will dominate
  The landscape, it’s all about procreate
  They perpetrate and precipitate the stalemate

  The damage they cause I couldn’t estimate
  Or overstate, it’s so easy to palpate
  I don’t wanna continue to pontificate
  But I have to penetrate your mind state

  And let Tycho orchestrate
  This musical marinade on which I narrate (narration!)
  And lacerate with the sharp wit, irrigate
  Some of them just wanna intimidate

  And that negativity they propagate
  Undesirable vibe they radiate
  And yet the audience continue to rate
  That second-rate stuff they put on your plate Aww mate!

  Chorus

  Komla and Jim Tycho
  The tiger, the shadow

• 2 / Hot Kenkey

  Verse 1

  These hands were made for hot kenkey
  Nothing quite like kenkey for breakfast
  Little bigger than a jacket potato
  Muesli for breakfast? No, gimme kenkey

  This one be dapper shirt and tie
  Or tie and dye, this flow one of a kind
  92 fashion, linen, Adwoa Yankey
  Take this buy some agatha for your pikin

  Aboski trouser dey come back
  Full circle cha, don’t take life play chacha
  It hot so burger wear knicker
  Nkatee burger, nyebro, he be feeling brother

  Palmwine Highlife, Jama, Borborbor
  I go ride my bike all the way to Odorkor
  Kaneshie market, Spacecar or trotro
  This Wray and Nephew dey like Kasapreko

  Chorus

  These hands were made for hot kenkey
  Hot kenkey
  Ho-ho-hot kenkey

  Verse 2

  Robert Mensah goalkeeper number one
  Deka, baako, ekome, go back to the kalabule
  To the old school, Joy Ride, Mugu Yaro
  Ikebe Super, Trade Fair, Agya Koo Nimo

  Then my sis dey rock pompijo
  Chop some red-red or some omo-tuo
  Sunday afternoon, meat me there
  Be there or be square, chale play fair

  Broda, those were the days what?
  You feel say I dey play?
  Go crob haircut, sakora kose
  Make my beans Bambara, Oga know say

  Weytin koraa be Curly Wurly?
  Chale make we go fry some kelewele
  Wear boxers or you go get chilly willy
  Silly Billy many thanks for all your charity

  But we don’t always agree with that imagery
  That constant portrayal of my people
  That no be how wanna people dey oh
  Oh!

  Chorus

  These hands were made for hot kenkey
  Hot kenkey
  Ho-ho-hot kenkey

• 3 / Fly Away

  Chorus

  Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away
  Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away

  Verse 1

  Ay caramba, Cowabunga
  It all falls down, game of Jenga
  You’re under attack, an ambush of tigers
  Too high to get over too low to get under

  Look, come hell or high water
  Regenerate like a salamander
  Do it for the thrill like a puffer fish dinner
  Disappearing act

  Like Houdini in a Lamborghini
  With the cunning foresight of third little piggy
  Brick lyrics for nitpicking critics
  Handpicked to inflict metaphysic optics

  Break

  This is not rap anymore it’s a TED Talk
  It’s all about the honeypot
  Then the rapper took his shirt off, money shot
  Grab your crotch and get the job botched

  Warlord or warhorse
  Scream so much he’s gone hoarse
  Fly away to go where?
  Anywhere but here, just take me there

  Chorus

  Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away
  Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away

  Verse 2

  Tiger Shadow logo on the back of the Kimono
  Chale this is nice gimme more

  Tiger Shadow logo on the back of the Kimono
  Chale this is nice gimme more
  Really though brother feel me flow
  More funk than a billy goat

  Que sera sera
  The type to blast Cutty Ranks on the Cutty Sark
  Tigers from afar claustrophobic on Noah’s Ark
  This is what I brought you from Accra

  Koala fingerprints
  Same as human so what the heck do you think
  They would do when they find out we are the same
  Urban to suburban to savannah plain

  Tiger Shadow logo on the back of the Kimono
  Chale this is nice gimme more
  Tiger Shadow logo on the back of the Kimono
  Chale this is nice gimme more
  

  Tiger Shadow logo on the back of the Kimono
  Chale this is nice gimme more
  Really though brother feel me flow
  More funk than a billy goat
  

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