A La Una - On My Way (feat. Kimmortal)
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
A La Una - "On My Way (feat. Kimmortal)," a 2022 single on Palms High Records.
A La Una is the just the latest iteration of a long-running collaboration between Lex Junior and Romeo Candido. Formerly known as DATU, the duo has progressed from focusing on contemporizing traditional Filipino music to a vast landscape of various tempos, stories, and textures as A La Una.
Our Song of the Day, “On My Way,” represents just one side or facet of the sounds A La Una is making and sees the duo put Vancouver rapper Kimmortal to the front. Over a ferocious beat, Kimmortal spits a story of resilience in the face of hardship with an allegory for being considered too short to play basketball. Written for the NBA, the song is the lead track in a short film directed by Candido called “Shorty.” Kimmortal said this about the song on Instagram:
“Wagkang Mahiya!” - my parents would say this to my siblings and i growing up. It would jolt me up and forward to just do it, to not be shy, to use my voice. Don’t hesitate, don’t hold back, Go in!
i wish you all fearlessness, courage and bravery when navigating this terrain. Practise being in your power because you are not powerless, you are powerful, divine and whole.”
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| 0:00.0 | Go go go go go go go go come on now let's go in small packages but I'm |
| 0:22.7 | sicker then your average spit if y'all I'm inspired by the alchemists |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome up a la la I am tough so I went fresh from the show I'ma punch up up up up underrated |
| 0:31.7 | Then the dog I'm under the radar rubber moping down and all the ragga haters making me a crown ring ring |
| 0:36.5 | What's that sound? Should we bow shut it down? We're false alarms to keep this far on the night |
| 0:43.1 | Turn my competition quiet on the sand |
| 0:47.7 | Been ready since the beginning come on now let's go go go go go go go go go |
| 0:53.8 | Come on now let's go go |
| 0:56.1 | Everybody cease the beginning come on now let's go |
| 1:00.7 | Come on now let's go go go close |
| 1:07.1 | Been ready since the beginning come on now let's go |
| 1:17.7 | Been ready since the beginning come on now let's go |
| 1:19.4 | Break all the toes in your area |
| 1:21.5 | I never fit the criteria |
| 1:23.5 | A rose from the ashes more than a flower |
| 1:26.2 | Can't stop, won't stop, champ every hour |
| 1:28.7 | They better know who's next |
| 1:29.9 | My people taught me best |
| 1:31.1 | I say you're with my test |
| 1:32.4 | Who'll come up here? |
| 1:33.6 | They underestimate the light way |
| 1:35.3 | Take a name |
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