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someone needs to do a little amapiano choreography for this, please! wrote the lyrics deadass like 12 years ago lmao glad it's finally a real song

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the light fantastic is a prophet thing
it's a forfeit win with a four feet djinn
it's a two foot dick with a four feet swing
and a keep your dollar fuck your dollar watch me spin
the words i spit come from a half baked whim
it's just half crazed skill skimmed off half raised cream
i'm a half raised god kept in half saved skin
on some fire fire fetch a tire half blazed scheme
what if the match won't light and the blood won't flow
so you get drunk, drink funk, crawl to go
singing water water fetch your daughter, bawl below
you're a cutter cutter in the gutter, haul me slow
take my hand to go, trip the light you know
it's fantastic, elastic, a lasting glow
wrap the spastic in plastic, a one night show
before the air stalls, night falls, blood filled low
for the light fantastic is a prophet's wing
clipped in four foot feathers with a four feet swing
i'm a two foot child with a four feet dream
like a baller baller getting taller at all seams
what if the sky won't reach, what if the void won't go
if i pull back, think slack, slide below
like a belly belly, under ready, five foot glow
from your lighter lighter pocket fire five foot flow
let the prophet know, give the seer a show
it's a bright thing, flight wing, lightning low
i’m a sighting, a blighting, a violent ho
in a skin filled air stilled gasping throe
cos the light fantastic is a choking hand
i’m the best damn demon in the whole damn land
i’m your favorite spirit on the whole damn gram
like a flesh filled sun killed master plan

and the light fantastic is a prophet thing
are you a godfeared sin, will you forfeit vim?
will you two foot swing on a four feet grin
keep your dollar fuck your dollar
will you watch me win

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from Stop Dying, You Were Very Expensive!, released March 8, 2024
Produced by Michaël Brun
Written by Akwaeke Emezi
Additional production by Chris Felix

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AKWAEKE Brooklyn, New York

AKWAEKE is an artist based in liminal spaces. Born and raised in Nigeria, they make music from an indigenous spirit center. The premise of their debut EP Stop Dying, You Were Very Expensive! is this -- I'm here, I'm a god, now shake your ass ;)

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