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Subbed

by Wallah Umoja

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The saying "like a kid in a candy store" must evolve into "like a teen in a parking lot" as you get older. The vacant havens we found within these nine feet wide by eighteen feet long white grids were home away from home. The most rememberable fistfights, make-out spots, skate sessions, and backseat freestyles of my life happened in these empty lots. "Subbed" symbolizes those sweet moments we shared, taking a break from the fast life, sipping, and smoking in a four-door sanctuary. In those days, we spoke a language only we could understand. Teens lost in translation, and our elders probably wish we came with subtitles. -W.U

lyrics

Subbed - Lyrics [#PINKNBLUE]

use to wake and bake, with you then make a slap (uh uh)
now I'm barely making due I face the facts (uh uh)
sober cat, corner store, older cat, shoulder tap
backwood, zigzag, Optimo, or a black
hero, not a comet - saved
quick to a rob honest abe's
granny gin & tonic swayed
poppa had his chronic blazed
bubonic plague
room as a safe haven
radio, television, & a play-station
sent sisters to get swishers from Achmed
hotbed - snickers where the chalk-led 
small guy, tall guy, all guys, shot dead
spared there, shared air, square bear, not ted
gathered up, game day
whoever had the fatter butt
or the badder strut that's the one I'll claim, they
hang way in the back of buses
backpack, dub sacks, & brushes
gutting out a pack of dutches,
tell me where we're lacking substance

drop-in,
locked in, be patient
drop ten, hop in, speed racin'
drop off, lock off, we facin'
park tuck, spark up, we blazin'

drop-in,
locked in, be patient
drop ten, hop in, speed racin'
drop off, lock off, we facin'
park tuck, spark up, we blazin'

grin, even though it's, grim these days
north face, knowing how the wind, behaves
life gave us lemons, could you lend me aid
blood pressure, higher than the rent these days
funk thrown, young, grown, jump, jones, bump bones,
floor throb, creak, squeak, like you getting dunked on,
heat & smoke,
dice game leaving broke
Hennessy & coke, she into being choked
cross-fade,
I done loss fades
sippin' cough - aid,
in my lost days,
thoughts caged,
in yo waltz rage,
now a soft glaze,
no more off days,
living to die isn't dying to live
what it isn't might define what it is
draw a line, find crime wit a bridge
issa war, issa score, issa rigged

drop-in,
locked in, be patient
drop ten, hop in, speed racin'
drop off, lock off, we facin'
park tuck, spark up, we blazin'

drop-in,
locked in, be patient
drop ten, hop in, speed racin'
drop off, lock off, we facin'
park tuck, spark up, we blazin'

credits

released October 30, 2019
Official audio for Wallah Umoja - Subbed
Recorded & Produced by @wallahumoja
Mixed by @diondecibels
Release Date: 10/30/19
Track 4 of 12 #PINKNBLUE
Left-N-Right Records 2019

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Wallah Umoja Richmond, California

Wallah Umoja is a producer, performer, writer, and the co-founder of LEFT-N-RIGHT Records.

Raised in Richmond, California, Wallah was born into a family that prided itself on bringing a communal dynamic to the field of radio broadcasting. With his grandmother, his aunt, and his mother all working at the Bay Area's quiet storm R&B staple KBLX, Wallah became immersed in music at an early age.
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