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true story of my journey home to Maketū, in 2002. Recorded in my good friend Pete's garage in winter 2020. Late edition to the album, two-tier beat by Haz'.
lyrics
Reconnection 2 (Written transforms into freestyle)
Chorus
Hetty and Quentin laughed at, and abused me,
Treated me like a freak, not from the whānau,
Called Pāora, an eccentric like he don't matter,
Like my reconnection, was a laughing matter
Hetty and Quentin laughed at, and abused me,
Treated me like a freak, not from the whānau,
Called Pāora, an eccentric like he don't matter,
Like my reconnection, was a laughing matter
Verse 1
On Tapsell Rd in 2002, i met my whānau,
A Mātua Keke who showed me Waikato,
The Chiefs playing, with the cuz the captain,
Dion Muir he was leading the team and
I was tripping out, couldn't focus,
On the rugby 🏉, hocus pocus,
In my minds eye, eating a Māori spud,
Black one raw to reconnect to home 🏡
The Mātua laughed at me immaturely,
Though playing rugby with Chase,
Made me feel accepted Gee,
The demons, the paedophiles put in me
Made me dangerous to my cousin,
And the Mātua keke took him away from me,
Evil Whiro trying to get me to hurt he,
Like the bastard muthafuckas hurt me
Chorus
Hetty and Quentin laughed at, and abused me,
Treated me like a freak, not from the whānau,
Called Pāora, an eccentric, like he don't matter,
Like my reconnection, was a laughing matter
Hetty and Quentin laughed at, and abused me,
Treated me like a freak, not from the whānau,
Called Pāora, an eccentric, like he don't matter,
Like my reconnection, was a laughing matter
Verse 2
I’d like some whiskey and a box chevy V,
Like Yela i wanna ride n go crazy,
600 horses 🐴 pulling me free,
Down streets full bore ecstatically
I miss Maddy who Mona calls crazy 😜,
[beat changes]
She ain't crazy, she's a Gee,
I love ❤️ her madly, cos she loves ❤️ me,
People call me crazy 😜 commonly
But they can't write no prose like me,
Try being, a Bogan Genius Lawnmowing man,
In a tall poppy hater society,
With the Tongans next door watchin' me
[new mellower beat drops]
Māori have mana whenua I'm sorry, not sorry aye!?
Why you gotta constantly compete with me,
It's not your uncle sitting on Victoria street,
Asking me for all the change i have on me, do ya feel me?
Chorus
Hetty and Quentin laughed at, and abused me,
Treated me like a freak, not from the whāāānau [sung],
Called Pāora, an eccentric like he don't matter,
Like my reconnection, was a laughing matter
Hetty and Quentin laughed at, and abused me,
Treated me like a freak, not from the whānau,
Called Pāora, an eccentric like he don't matter,
Like my reconnection, was a laughing matter
Verse 3
It went one of two ways unfortunately,
Some whānau rejected me,
Many tested me, many accepted me,
My Kuia used to visit in her holidays
Before her mother Bertha Te Ārani passed away,
I am of this land and she is of me,
Just like i am of Europe so far over the sea,
A white nigga, Irish 🍀 makes up some of me
I'm like Bugz was, an EMCEE RiP,
Miss Toni, and the love of Rōtoiti,
I'm from Maketū in the sunshine,
For years i walked so Pōrangi
Now my scarred being,
I stare skyward and ask to be free,
Like the old whare Couldrey,
And the painting of the O.G. Tangihanga which i did see.
Ends with just under 1 min 40 seconds of freestyle off top.
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