Made in Jaffna - La+ch

Woke up a giant trying to find a piece of

(mind and)

Mind you I kept to myself on my island

(quiet)

See no evil, hear no evil even

(left my)

Left my love to go and serve my light and

Ever since a youth was used to moving on my own

The lonely cub too cutthroat

Gave a fuck about your validation

Ever since a youth was used to moving on my own

The lonely cub too cutthroat

Gave a fuck about your validation

Came in 86

I was four, we was torn

It was me and amma, appa and my four

Older brothers, I was youngest and protected

In Montreal we landed

Toronto made a home

Early sunny memoris etched on Calidonia Road

A couple factory gigs, split btween the folks

Kept up all afloat

Hearts still full of hope

By 89 suburban dreams was being bought

So we packed it out to Brampton

Expanded out the plot

That’s where I met this kid named Dex upon on the block

We best friends til' this day (shit)

That’s the work of god

Cause who’da known a couple decades down the road

We’d be oversees and rocking shows and getting blown

But first I had to navigate this adolescence

Twas a lesson in self hatred

I was placed amongst the racist

Plus the hatred was contagious

Oh so white washed and complacent

With them

White teachers

White schools

White Jesus

White rules

Went to catholic school

Raised a catholic fool

Taught the word of god

Told to hold my tongue

Never questioned who

Wrote the books they used

When they taught us all

How the west was won

It was all dispensed by puppets

I was on the fence like ‘fuck it'

Luckily for my me I found my self an Outkast CD

And through Andre Benjamin I tended my imagination

Luckily for my I found my self an Outkast CD

And through Andre Benjamin I tended my imagination

Ok now I got my confidence up I was lifted

I did my history found Hieroglyphics, Souls of Michief

Through Organized Konfusion found my voice through all the Rawkus

I saw my pain in DMX an exit out my conscience

A couple rap groups, a couple rap groups

(later)

I was making, made a bit of

(paper)

But had to learn through, I had to learn through

(failure)

That I was bound to be a solo dolo star from the start

Hit reset, shit was hard

Hit the bottle, hid my scars

Hit the bottom, ripped apart

Had a daughter, had no job

Debut album was a flop

Plus the devil’s in my ear talking raw like:

«boy you thirty five and haven’t popped

Need to stop, you a joke

Kill yourself, leave no note

Won’t be missed

You a mother fuckin' bitch»

But I had to shake it off

For the sake of Mimi X

So I hopped back in the stu

And put my foot up on their necks

Wrote the greatest shit I ever penned

Ascended out my purpose

This the tale of king VDP

Made in Jaffna

They’ll write it on my casket to remind them who the god was

Reporting from the ashes

Now behold the phoenix saga