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NAVIGATORS feat. Indy Skies

from I STILL CAN'T AFFORD THERAPY! (EXTENDED CUT) by JJ Shadow

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[JJ Shadow]
I kill em all
Watch how they fall
Cause we found our way
Yeah
Straight from the Gods
Cause babe I’m a navigator
Persevered through it all
I’m calling on Rangi
This shit your tangi
If I make a call
Woah
I wear my spirit on me
No you cannot take from it me
Fuck yo cars fuck yo jewellery
Bitch ima burn that money
Cause boy I’m a navigator
We came straight from the Gods
I’m calling on Rangi
That shit your tangi
If I make a call
Woah

No I ain’t about threats
So many nights I got filled with regret
I’m reanimating I’m back from the dead
Third day when I’m taking these steps
No faith like an atheist yet
When I reach the Holy Mountain
Imma burn all that money that you been counting then
I’m letting you go cause you keep me drowning
Cause you already know me and my tribe we been on a quest
Wordplay never set it to rest
I got the dawg in me
White wolf in the dark when I spark the trees
Even you can hear me bark when I’m out the sea
Cause I’m splitting you in parts like Moses
Chosen
Harry Potter flows cause the track leaves you floating
Parseltongue in the year of the snake
I can see through the fakes gotta keep my eyes open

Wait
Gotta keep my eyes open
Yeah
Gotta keep my eyes open
Imma bring it back home
Lemme bring it back home
Uh
Yeah

Listen
Gotta keep my eyes open
Lemme bring it back home to the ocean
We was crossing that sea no Moses
Through the Māī and the Paru we was floating
We found our way to the land and in its glory
But they try and change it to another story
Tell a motherfucker try looking in Te Kore
All you white boys still calling me a Hori
I ain’t even know what the fuck you want from me
I see Te Ao
I do not know what you talking about
I put more heart and soul into my vowels
Than you could put into a verse wow
Lemme make it clear
I am not here right now
When I’m on the mic I put fear in the crowd
Cause I’m Uenuku Atua I leave you all whakama
I do not care about y’all
I know who I am
Y’all don’t
I got spiritual wealth
Y’all broke
I got too many bars
Can’t cope
I spit the truth in every single note
I spit my facts in every single sample I stole
I’ll flip it and give you some more
Got raised on that Dilla, Nujabes and Kanye
So you cannot stop me from bombing these hoes
I was yelling and screaming and running from demons
I looked up to Rangi and knew you was see through
I’ve repped 47 since STEEZ was on genius
So I throw it up like a girl that’s bulimic
My mum was the life of the party
Ancestors look down on me I know they proud of me
There ain’t no stopping me
Me oh done been my Miyagi
So if you don’t think I can fly
Just watch me

Call in the cameras
You know we dangerous
Walking on water I’m coming from Nazareth
But I stay humble
Got trauma I’m carrying
If I’m a G well then that’s how they’ll bury me
I don’t mean gangsta g I mean a great
I know when I make it they’ll feed off my plate
I’m spreading my love cause they got too much hate
So I say keep your head up and you’ll change your fate
I move through life with no apology
I been through too much to fake it
So I live my truth in my discography
Because baby this world is subjective
The powers that be is gon always neglect us
So don’t start to think that they’ll ever accept us
They turn all our empty pockets into weapons
That’s why I be stressing cause y’all don’t ask questions
We live in a time of reversing regression
The doctors and therapists nurse my depression
They spit in our face yet we take every lesson
Been wearing a mask ever since I was seven
Or probably younger
I got too much hunger
So I cannot stop tryna bring you these blessings
I been all alone in my life
Been thru way too much strife
So I found the light through all my brethren
All of my sisters who been thru the pain
The whānau who falling again and again
The children who been told that they need to change they ways
And then they get treated the same
All of the trauma that we navigating
The pyramids rising
The light has no shading
But ever since JJ done came in their way it seems
Nothing is ever gonna be the same again
So while they hating shit
We navigating
We navigating

Swan dive on the mic with a Zorro knife
I was born a legend no need to destroy lives
No hate in my heart had fear since the start
But I knew deep down it was alright
Cause I had a dream to make real
I wish I could write out exact what I feel
But I know if I take extracts from my soul
Then shit at the least I’ll give y’all something real
Yuh
I do this cause my family sick
My history nearly got wiped in attempt
So I spout the truth from the real to the myth
Because I am legend like Smith
No change on this earth
This ain’t no game I spit flames since the birth
I’m with the birds with the way that I turn
I feel like I’m Ziggy but you can’t fuck with me
Let stardust disperse
Cause I’m just way too hungry to stop
I got so much drive I don’t know how to park
And I still ain’t got a license
Looking in the mirror
I would see myself I would tear up
I’m in the upper like Kahukura
And you know I only spit the purest
I been around like a fucking tourist
But I still ain’t leave this country but only for the moment cause you know
I know I been odd
But we fucking navigators
We came straight from the Gods
I wear my spirit on my chest
You cannot stop
I’m calling on Rangi
That shit your tangi
When we see the call

[Indy Skies]
Unstoppable higher power running through me
Like the Oracle for the impossible
Know I'ma always get done
Like the motherfucking queen that I am
Never run
Not one, two, three, four shots, got me down
Don’t play dumb with me
I could go the full round
And I never made a sound
When I rose from the ground I worked hard in silence
Heart of a lion
Speed of a cheetah
Yeah
And you can never bully me outta my shit
It’s 100 degrees in the stu in the winter
All I did is write bars 'til my fingers splintered
Looking for a way out
Lay up just to stay out
Over and over I get it popping I don’t stay down
Bitch you wanna play now?
But this shit ain’t no playground
Oh
Aye, aye
In the deep end I’ma I’ma run it up
Bitches wanna pretend that they real enough
Teachers wanna contest, I ain’t feeling ‘em
Nobody got the way my mind works so I had to find a
New path
New school
Whole new state of mind
Misfit in trouble yeah wasting time
Used to sit up by the teacher
Couldn’t stay in line
Now I got my head down for so long
That I forgot the time
Turned my back to my shadow then I saw the light
Chose a different path and worked throughout the whole damn night
Navigating all my options
Lit my soul so bright
Won’t let the world crush my dreams
Born to fight
JJ told me lay heat on the beat
So I burn this shit up
Don’t give one fuck bout a loss, I’m a winner
Stacking that bread I forgot to eat dinner

You don’t know where I been where I’m going
You don’t know what I done what I know and
Only got one life one shot
The toughest gonna suffice to the top
You get what you live so attract what you want
Yeah no matter what
Uh uh uh uh
Yeah no matter what
Uh uh
You don’t know where I been where I’m going
You don’t know, you don't know, you don't know
You don’t know where I been where I’m going
You don’t know, you don't know, you don't know
You don’t know where I been where I’m going
You don’t know where I been where I’m going
Uh uh uh uhuh

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from I STILL CAN'T AFFORD THERAPY! (EXTENDED CUT), released August 25, 2023

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