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Defari

Duane Johnson, Jr., also known as Defari, is a West Coast hip hop artist. Primarily, he is a solo artist, additionally he is a member of the Likwit Junkies, a rap duo with DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples. He was born at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. He began DJing as a young kid in 1982. He was more focused on emceeing, and by 1995, released his first single "Bionic" on Oakland based ABB Records. With the help of E-Swift of Tha Alkaholiks, by 1999, Defari recorded his first album, released on Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records. more »

Year:

1999

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Intro: 
It's going down around town what? Likwit Likwit. Uh. 

"No doubt" 
"Knock 'em out the box" Slick Rick 'Children's Story' 

Verse 1: 
Don't underestimate the reach 
Here comes that city brother who lives by the beach 
Defari  work for Likwit organize 
Dodger hats and snowboard shades 
Camouflage my eyes 
Hustle to survive 
The Less mican man stands grand 
And work with two twenty five 
This here's the second smash 
The album, the third 
The trilogy will be heard from Toronto to Pittsburgh 
Yo Ev do we got retail in Afghanistan 
(Man I don't know but I know we got Japan) 
Uh ha, word up we all over the states man 
Doin' this 
For the MCs and the DJs 
The vertebrae 
Without the be	-boys 
Hip hop wouldn't be here to this very day 
And that's my word we tryin' to blow like the Hiddenburg 
Swerve legalize dope in the form of vinyl 
This ain't the final or the last blast kid 
I'm throwin' heat on the map (what?) for the underground massive 

Hook: 
"No doubt predicting far and ahead what will set the party off" -KRS-One 'The 
MC' 
(x3) 

Verse 2: 
See lyrically shit is gettin' drastic 
A lot of niggas flock tryin' to be new instead of classic 
Like an Aztec 
Praise the jaguar 
Like the fact that the sun shines at the biggest star 
Bigger than Mike Jackson or Michael Jordan 
So many Candyland MCs are boring 
See we be touring ? and ? (what?) 
Creepin' up in the shower on bitches like Anthony Perkins (ha) 
Defari 
Lurkin' in the ranks 
I'm tryin' to be like that brother Ant and stack mad Banks 
Plus give thanks and praise 
For each day I'm able to raise 
And see that foggy haze 
Comin' off the coast of the Pacific 
We stretch to the Atlantic my crew is Likwit 

Hook 

Verse 3: 
Yo f*ck the pennies give me the silver dollars 
The smooth scholar working hard straight blue collar 
Appreciate wealth so I do for myself 
First collaborate with live niggas and divide the purse 
The well rehearsed MC 
Defari Heru 
I crack the glass blackboard MCs so I can see through I do my Dew 
Do my thang 
Hip hop is my Love Supreme 
That's word to John Coletrane 
This cat Dwayne 
Rollin' down the diamond lane 
Travel by train, bus, boat, car or airplane 
To different venues with our names on the fliers 
Likwit niggas known to get ship poppin' and get it on fire 
I'm Extra Swift like my man Eric Brooks 
I keep an eye out for crooks 
Who contemplate rapin' my notebooks 
Some cut fast but they don't' cut faster 
Then the Kutmaster Kurt 
When I work 
I'm climbin' ladders 

Hook

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