LYRICS TO RUGGEDMANS NEWS HIT---RUGGEDY BABA

ARTIST: RUGGEDMAN Feat.9ICE
TRACK TITLE: RUGGEDY BABA
PRODUCER: ID CABASA

Atewo mo bala/ (I spread my palm and see lines)
A o mo eni to ko/ (I don't know who wrote them)
We spit in pidjin awon kan n wuko
You better show where you belong/
Ruggedy Baba opomulero mo ja lekan/ (Ruggedy Baba the pillar that holds the building)
Ruggedy Baba opomulero mo ja lekan/ (Ruggedy Baba the pillar that holds the building)
Sa maa/ wo wan/ niran/ (Just keep looking at them)
VERSE .1
Once again its me the individual running the game physical/
I am here to open my mouth again and yarn spiritual/
To speak from my heart/let you know where e dey pain me/
As people dey back bite and talk about me up in this industry/
Where dem been dey when I dey speak for mechanics and shoe makers/
Dem dey talk around the subject like our lawmakers/
Before I dropped Ehen the industry was messed up/
Fakers dey rule while realer rappers dem dey stressed up/
Nobody did a damn thing until I came through/
I cleared the whole area now real rappers have a say too/
Now people dey listen to em/come for our shows and clap for em/
Some dey take am to the next level with hip hop forums/
From Nigeria the world only know Juju, Fuji and Afro beat/
but we all know hip hop is running the streets/
Wetin go make them know where your music come from/
in the long run/
Na the fussion of grammar, your slang and your mother tongue/
CHORUS:
Atewo mo bala/ (I spread my palm and see lines)
A o mo eni to ko/ (I don't know who wrote them)
We spit in pidjin awon kan n wuko
You better show where you belong/
Ruggedy Baba opomulero mo ja lekan/ (Ruggedy Baba the pillar that holds the building)
Sa maa/ wo wan/ niran/ (Just keep looking at them)
Spit more/
in your mother tongue/
till the people say say they want more
VERSE 2
I'm tired of people and gossip/
I don switch from smile to frown/
I'm tired of so called hip-hop heads whispering that I am not holding it down/
Say I don change from the way I be before/
Say now I dey spit for pidjin/
Dem prefer me when I been be/ hard core/
Like when I dropped What If and split the air waves/
Bur financially that left me grounded like Nigerian Airways /
What if I tell you say I only do one or two shows/
What if dem no pay me well enough to buy one good shoe or some good clothes?/
And say Paul Play/
Had a hand in letting me know/
What it will take for me to rearrange and eventually blow/
While you sit around and talk shit /
our elders mock our shit/
Cos of our too much metaphorical out of space type shit/
When some rap/
Dem no know where we dey come from/
Back then two rappers on stage was like seven throwing a tantrum/
We need to change that/put a face to our music/
Let the world know where we come from/
Let no one abuse it/
CHORUS:
Atewo mo bala/ (I spread my palm and see lines)
A o mo eni to ko/ (I don't know who wrote them)
We spit in pidjin awon kan n wuko
You better show where you belong/
Ruggedy Baba opomulero mo ja lekan/ (Ruggedy Baba the pillar that holds the building)
Sa maa/ wo wan/ niran/ (Just keep looking at them)
Spit more/
in your mother tongue/
till the people say say they want more
VERSE .3
Now let me address this issue of keeping it real/
The one subject wey I go say dey make me vex still/
Cos of how some emcees feel/
About these three words whenever they open their mouths/
Look my guy/
I no fit shout/
I go only ask whats keeping it real?/
Is it singing or rapping like Oyibo or doing what you and your own people can feel? /
Some say I sell out because I do dance track they call me Baraje master/
Forgetting it got me fame and money faster/
Forget the latter I'll move to the next chapter faster/
I'm just speaking my mind playing my controversial character/
The way I've been known to do when I spit it straight out to you/
You better recognize a real brother that's reaching out to you/
Speaking pidjin and dance tracks no mean say I no keep am real/
That's just me so how else I wan be to be real?/
My rules are spit in whatever language but make sense/
I did that and I've been hot ever since/
CHORUS:
Atewo mo bala/ (I spread my palm and see lines)
A o mo eni to ko/ (I don't know who wrote them)
We spit in pidjin awon kan n wuko
You better show where you belong/
Ruggedy Baba opomulero mo ja lekan/ (Ruggedy Baba the pillar that holds the building)
Sa maa/ wo wan/ niran/ (Just keep looking at them)
Spit more/
in your mother tongue/
till the people say say they want more