Blinky Bill, M.anifest, Khaligraph Jones - Inaweza Haiwezi
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Blinky Bill, M.anifest, Khaligraph Jones - “Inaweza Haiwezi,” a 2022 single on Rauka Music Ltd.
You may know celebrated Kenyan producer/DJ Bill Sellanga, aka Blinky Bill, is one-fourth of the electronic collective Just A Band and has produced songs for notable names like Nneka, Goldlink, and Sampa The Great. The OneBeat Alum and TED Fellow is on the verge of releasing his anticipated sophomore record We Cut Keys 2, which follows 2018’s Everyone’s Just Winging It and Other Fly Tales.
Our Song of the Day is the lead single from the record, “Inaweza Haiwezi,” which features two of Africa’s greatest rappers, M.anifest from Ghana and Kenya’s Khaligraph Jones. Produced by Blinky Bill and Swiss producer Hook (MDQ), mixed by Commissioner Gordon (‘Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’, ‘Welcome To Jamrock’) and mastered by Tony Dawsey (Jay-Z ‘Blueprint 3’, Whitney Houston “My Love is your Love”, Nas ‘Illmatic’), the song is a bouncy, bass-heavy thrillride that shows off each rappers dexterous flows in this “East/West classic.”
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| 0:00.0 | Stray, do that |
| 0:09.0 | Stray, do the top |
| 0:15.0 | In the words of high words, in the words of high words |
| 0:19.0 | Go crazy, in the words of high words, in the words of high words |
| 0:23.0 | Go crazy, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words of high words, in the words |
| 0:53.0 | Here niki-chan and the bomb, How many got in the bomb, gone to November, may we December, beating the bomb I think you got him by |
| 1:01.1 | Elevation, Participation, One scheme two with the dream dream thing you know where's the |
| 1:06.4 | high words? you know where's the high words, go them go crazy, well," how do you do it homage, |
| 1:14.6 | It's another east-west classic drastic |
| 1:23.4 | See a rubber fresh, nobody touch plastic |
| 1:25.4 | I sip your palm wine from the film cup |
| 1:27.4 | If you know the vibe, OTS, telly drinks up |
| 1:29.4 | Link up on the Saturday's celebrity |
| 1:31.4 | Move the ball around of course, it's a sabotee |
| 1:33.4 | I'm a nutter, boxy stash dash |
| 1:35.4 | This is the rata, who is it? |
| 1:37.4 | Basta, pick up pizza, steaming up here black star |
| 1:39.4 | Fresh body, bite the form of rata |
| 1:41.4 | I've been on the vibe since since |
| 1:43.4 | Pepper rings down the limeprints |
| 1:45.4 | Bad man's team, we beat them rins |
| 1:47.4 | Fresh cramps, seen no prints, telly, shally |
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