THE SHIFT – Lyrics

2. THE SHIFT

It’s called the shift, the tipping point
The shift, the tipping point

Did you know that most of financial transactions
are run by algorithms?
No I didn’t know that
Did you know that a company called narrative science
invented Quill?
A robot writer killing the poetry Forbes
is entirely written with that shit
I’m pessimistic I don’t want my lyrics written from statistics
Artificial intelligence is growing fast
Google car drives better than me and you
chest match I’m beaten by deep blue
Is cell-phone a part of human body? we rely on a battery
Smart phones replacing doctors
Diagnosis done by computers
They said the cities are going to be smart
Everything falls apart
Machines control the building
Hypnotize our Children
That doesn’t look like Heaven!
We need to be driven

Prehistory then history and now in what period are we? (x2)
The shift, the tipping point (x2)

4 million dead due to air pollution
Alarming observation
We need to adapt the city
They should declare a state of emergency
There is another option
we need a serious adaptation
Climatic refugees will flee everywhere!
but they just don’t care
Rural flight in the 60s
Now we try to bring back nature in cities
We gonna Hit the tipping point
We need to tackle the sources
We need to Change the courses
Everything is clear!
But they just don’t care

Prehistory then history and now in what period are we? (x2)
The shift, the tipping point (x2)

If you’re listening to our song in twenty fifty or later
I want to tell you that we are sorry
We just fucked it up…..

3. MY RESEARCH

I got to do my research, I’m a scientist (x2)

By nature, I’m curious
Science is serious
I wanna learn and study
Cos life is too mysterious
1rst step, state of the art
Reading searching summarizing
Strictness rigor and precision
I can’t afford to make a mistake
I develop a strong methodology
Inspired by old astronomy
I need conclusive evidence
Results need to be concrete
Using statistics, physics and chemistry
My reasoning must be logical
By analogy, I gotta test and try, the solution may be biological

I’m a doctor, I’m a professor, I’m a teacher I’m a lecturer (x2)

I got to experiment to get data
To analyze them later
Statistical relationship
Linear expo logarithmic
L A B laboratory, that’s the place where I like to be
Unknown territories I explore
Wow, I never seen this before
Ecosystemic influences, not a lot of differences
between nature and urban systems
I got to analyze similarities
The world is complex, the flap of a wing can have many effects,
Hazard spread through networks, boom, total blackout, shout!
Macro meso micro I know everything is a matter of scale
Multiscalar is the future

I’m a doctor I’m gonna teach you

I’m a scientist, I got to do my research  (x4)

4. WATCHING THE DRIZZLE

Water cycle, water water cycle
Hydro logical cycle
Water cycle, water water cycle
Hydro logical cycle

From the mountain top to the ocean
In a continuous motion
from the river to the sky!
60% of my flesh, yes I’m fresh
I’ve got the flair, I’m a dowser
Like the flow I’m improvising
Carving a path through rock
I don’t roll like a ball, I’m Fluid,
I change state, I evaporate
I freeze, like the ocean breeze
My flow is free like Ornette Coleman
Evasive, the 3rd element
Watching drizzle in my tenement…
Liquid freestyle, I’m like the Nile
Yes I’m Hostile! Check my pro file
I’m inspired by nature
I owe respect to my teacher
My Lyrics are written by Analogy
Listening to jazz is like enology
Don’t get me wrong I know the terminology
I don’t know any scale but I play music freely
Really? Like water I change phase
From drizzle to haze
No sunlight rays
Maze, I’m looking for a ocean
Full of lyrics and melodies

Water cycle, water water cycle
Hydro logical cycle
Water cycle, water water cycle
Hydro logical cycle

5. LOBBIES DAILY HOBBIES

L O double B I E S
Lobbies are scary I must confess
One of the sources of the world distress
They get more we get less  …
They serve their interest as a priority
what can we do  ? we are a minority
we must resist, I insist
Showing them we exist
Fossil fuel industries
Pharmaceutical lobbies
Lobbies daily hobbies
corrupting authorities
The power of car industry
they got backing from the ministry
while the world’s largest seed company
infects the world !!

G D P, Culture makes seven times more money
than automotive industry
But they shut down cultural venues everywhere
This is unfair

Bribery, corruption
destruction consumption
Instruction obstruction
Deduction reduction
I don’t tell you any fiction
this is a real depiction
bad situation I tell you the truth …
I spit bad news in the mic booth
My Doctor received presents
Bad medicines he prescribes
Last year they killed nuff residents
But they wont stop to pay bribes

6. EASY RIDER

Easy bro easy sista we run things easily (x4)

Easy Bro my selecta is called Papa Rocky
Easy Mac Gyver as named as great Banzy
Easy me want to big up all the stand high posse
Yes my name as you must know is Papajimmy
Yes mi want to big up the artist named Kazy
Yes he drew every cover of every LP
Yes I have to big up Wiseman and Goldie
They take care of the sound and the chemistry
Easy bro easy sista we run things easily
Easy massive crew easy family
From town to town from city to city
We are spreading the vibes in all the country
Take it nice and easy it’s still early
Warming up the sound warming up the party
Everyone is welcome it’s hospitality
Big up every people every nationality
Easy rude boy we don’t want no brutality
Peace love unity yes man we agree
Versatile is the style of the stand high posse
When a dream comes true it’s called reality

Easy bro easy sista we run things easily (x3)
From town to town from city to city
Easy bro easy sista we run things easily (x3)
From town to town from city to city

I’m the riddim rider, ri riddim rider (x2)
Spit nuff lyrics, pon the mic ya (x2)
I’m the riddim rider, ri riddim rider (x2)
Spit nuff lyrics, pon the mic ya (x2)

My mic is like a mountain bike
I ride the riddim from the valley to the pike
Delivering the hooks like a lightning strike
I control the flow like a river dike, so
Hook to hook, gimmicks to gimmicks
Back to back, lyrics to lyrics
Round the clock bim pon the click
I spit my lyrics like the great slick rick
I have more lyrics than England has bricks
Me sing me chat me toast me sing pon the mix (x3)
I’m the riddim rider, ri riddim rider (x3)

7. AFTER THE RAIN

After the rain, after the rain (x4)

Everybody get stuck in their apartment
Waiting actions from the department
Resiliency don’t wait anything from the ministry
People scream «We want to flee!» impossible, it’s just impossible.
Trains doesn’t work anymore.
Some help we are waiting for.
Looters looting a store
dark is the night and wet is the floor

It’s raining again
Plop plop plop !
Drops on the rooftop
It’s been 5 days like this now
And the rain doesn’t want to stop
Water level rises around the Block
Since 5 O’clock, we are stuck ! Here
Blackout ! Heating doesn’t work
I can’t go to work and I’m broke, there
Looters entering a shop, sirens wailing in the city
Disruption we can’t cross the river
surrounded by the flooded area
I can see smoke clouds on the horizon
Paris looks like a lost island
Trust me, it will be worse than nineteen ten

Everybody get stuck in their apartment
Waiting actions from the department
Resiliency, don’t wait anything from the ministry
People scream «We want to flee !» impossible, it’s just impossible.
Trains doesn’t work anymore.
Some help we are waiting for.
Looters looting a store
dark is the night and wet is the floor

8. TRIBUTE TO THA ORIGINATORS

Raggamuffin hip hop it’s hot, that style comes from the fast chat (x3)

Pupa could you tell we, where does the fast chat coming from?
1987, London city
Daddy freddy featuring Asher D
Same year, NYC
Boogie down production first LP
1993 roughneck reality
By the wicked wicked MC Jamal-ski
Jump spread out and hanging tree
This LP is legendary
1994 take it easy
Double trouble and own destiny
Mad Lion is a pure MC
Real ting was a great LP
Shinehead, rough and rugged and unity
Roots rap reggae by Run DMC
Big up big up, to the whole BDP
This was ragga hiphop history

Raggamuffin hip hop it’s hot, that style come from the fast chat (x2)
Fast chat is was fat now it’s back it’s still hot (x2)

Pupa could you tell we where does the fast chat coming from?

1982, London area
Peter King the fast style originator
Followed by papa levy and smiley culture
Tippa Irie and Asher Senator
Me neat me sweet was the first time ever
Me god me king was number 1 in Jamaica
Smiley did a hit with police officer
Cockney translation was a big number
Tippa did a tune with complain neighbour
Keeping ina dance by smiley and asher
Colonel mite did bless the selector
Offbeat posse jah tubbys do you remember
Riddle bubble done by daddy sandy
Daddy colonel did a tune take a tip from me
No no way by daddy rusty
Bad boy patrol by daddy freddy
Fast chat was big you have to trust me
It was even broadcasted on the telly
It changed the way of Mcing permanently
From London to New York City

Raggamuffin hip hop it’s hot, that style comes from the fast chat (x4)

9. KAZY BLUES

Instrumental

10. DINNER TIME

I’m a hedonist
I love the good food
I’m in a good mood
Everything is cool

Sunday morning I put on my jacket
«where are you going ?» to the market !
Bring back good food is the target
fresh vegetables in the basket
Chop that, cook that in the Hot pan
Corkscrew open a bottle of wine
smell that, huum, having a good time
Good for the belly, everything is fine
Your stomach acts like a second brain
Did you know that ? this is insane
Bacteria controls your mind
what you eat influences your mood
So open, a recipes book !
Choose one page and start to cook
Fresh fish, from the Hot nook brook
cooking by crook or by Hook

I’m a hedonist
I love the good food
I’m in a good mood
everything is cool

I’m not hungry anymore (x3)

I remember back in the days the taste of tomatoes
Now it tastes like shit full of GMOs
Same peas same beans same potatoes
Same plants same seeds yes shit grows
Everywhere in the world it’s the same shit
1000s of chickens in a dark shed
I’m feeling sick I lost my appetite, I’m not hungry anymore

I’m a hedonist
I love the good food
I’m in a good mood
everything is cool

Local products
Home-grown products
I like to know where the food comes from
Local products
Home-grown products
I like to support the people I know
My good friend Jack is a champion cook
Big up ! big up! to my good friend Jack
My brother Tony is a market gardener
Shout ! Shout ! to my brother Tonio

If you cook listening that tune to the radio
Big up ! Big up ! (x2)

I’m a hedonist
I love the good food
I’m in a good mood
everything is cool