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B-Boy Bouillabaisse

Beastie Boys

Paul's Boutique [Japan]

1989

with stress and strife
But it's good to have turn to be a king for a day
Or for a week, or for a year, or for a year and a day
Come what may

I'm

For most of my life you have been there by my side
When I hid in my basement, when I laughed and I cried
You helped me face some things that I feared

stand this day and testify magnify and glorify
The only God that make me fly high
Always got my back anytime that I cry
You're the only king who died for

The Refrain of John Dillon James

Alabama

Songs of Inspiration, Vol. 2

2007

He sat down on the bank and wrote this four line refrain

And I recall that song by John Dillon James


Well, I got my ticket for the ride in the sky

a Scofield nigga hanging on my coattail nigga
You can get it for wholesale nigga
No time for petty beef like rotel nigga
I was broke as hell nigga, no handouts

brighter days
Worked at a slaughterhouse and odd jobs for a wage
Married a beauty named Jane, single mother of three
After winning a sum for his botched

as a king, less as a queen
Doctor's still trying to push transitioning Brenda
Tried convincing him by bringing in someone transgender
But Brenda doesn't

Princes and kings, princes and king kings Kings, woah
Princes and kings, where are my ring rings
Princes and kings, princess and king kings Kings

I was six the day James Baldwin died, and fifteen in ninety-six when Tupac's mother
Cried
Turned twenty in twenty-oh-one when Bush lied, and today in

We Like It We Love It

John Kay

Rise & Shine

1990

Words and music by John Kay, Michael Wilk and Rocket Ritchotte


A ring on every finger, a girl on every arm
He drove his brand new Jaguar while

Calling men to repent like Noah, pre flooding
Filled with the Spirit, preparing hearts for the King of Kings
The Nazarene not yet on the seen
A Savior was

the answer
And as a prince it rarely ever is
But sometimes kings must go to war
All's fair, who cares what it's for

There once was a man named John Able
He

Jesus is king forevermore
Jesus is king owner of the realm
We think we made it he's just beginning
A thousand years just in one day
This God is mighty

“You’ll get yourself killed!”
But John found a doctor
Who prescribed special pills –
An’ he laid under a sunlamp
Cotton pads on his eyes
‘Til one day, in

Man i came I saw, but I ain't sure I wanna conquer
Cos being on top looks too much drama
Too many kings fell slain to their karma
Still fight

lay, keeping sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel;
Born is the King of Israel

For all to see there was a single star

Wonder why Malcom X made 'em shake
I'm Making my days count like I'm (Muhammad) Ali 
Martin (Luther King jr) would b ashamed by the hate
That's why I'm jus

among the stars.
His story so common yet so unique
So not everyone could see the glister of it.

He's traveled far and wide
He searched for a purpose in

flowers
Now his crown was for the taken
He was blinded by your grace but your grace couldn't save him
We wana know who shot Megan and who's to blame

the aids and only now you wanna talk
Your girl get f##k by me cousin Nytus
In the back of Burger King boy in a rubbish truck
You sell your Lucian accent

I ain't about killing
They driving me crazy I'm late for 3rd period
I gotta go fast let me hop in the Bentley
Step back step back
John is up waiting

Drama

Ghostface Killah

Apollo Kids

2010

the Liberty, fake Range Rover
I'm on his (Tail) like, Sonic lil' shorty
Palmin' on a 40, broad day I'm tryin' to dodge a cover story
Look like he stoppin for

was born to be (King, ah-ah-ah)
It's like prophecy
So I just gotta it like it's all for me (Run it back)
They treat me like royalty
All of them em could

Hiawatha

Laurie Anderson

Strange Angels

1989

By the shores of Gitche Gumee 
By the shining Big Sea Water 
Downward through the evening twilight 
In the days that are forgotten 
From the land