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Description: Happy birthday omekalike! I've been saving this remix up for quite a while, tweaking it and adding new elements over the course of like months. Two days ago I made a mad dash to write the lyrics (both in English and in Toki Pona, don't freak out!), yesterday I recorded and edited them, and today here we are ^^ The drums, sfx, main vocals, and text-to-speech are all new additions on the track, but everything else was made using vocal clips from the original omekalike. Much love to all y'all. I'm still very much blown away by, like, all of what's happened with my music this year. This is not at all where I thought rejoining ma pona was going to lead me, but I'm so glad it did. sina ale li pona sewi a.
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Sources: janusawi.bandcamp.com www.youtube.com
omekalikante
(Ceci n’est pas une guitar  
ni li kalama uta)
I been in the game for a year now  
Took a lil while, but I’m here now  
Showed ‘em what I had, they said it warranted a badge  
Why the hell did I think it wasn’t clear how  
Now I’m coming back on the mic  
The studio one, that’s right  
Out from the dorm, back in the home, bass with the amp simulator on the vox, automating the delay time
I’m making bank in a business they ain’t even heard of  
I only stumble over my words  
Tryna explain just half of a third of  
what kinda world I’m living in terms of  
Now even they want me to get the word out  
137, to be unexact  
They think it’s crazy I made that work out
Brains getting blurred out  
‘Cause on top of the lyricism, yeah I made the beats hit  
Top of the line before they’re even completed  
Go ahead with the tuner, boy, I don’t even need it  
And on top of the quality, I stay friendly to speak with  
Don’t care if I blow up, that’s how I intend to keep it  
If I’m being real I still don’t fully believe this  
But Jesus
Would be a good rhyme if I said the name that way so I gotta go meta  
Hardly would be my song if I didn’t  
I know the way I write and I woulda dodged that shit if I didn’t know better  
but y’all love me and I don’t dodge evidence  
I’m too busy here setting precedents  
Getting a bit excessive like
pali nasa  
mi wile e mani la  
mi ken kalama suli e nimi sama “wawa” sama “pipi” sama “mama”  
mama mi li ken kute e ni  
nasin pi jan mute la mi nasa taso ala   
(sina pilin monsuta ala monsuta?)
taso mani li kama tawa mi  
toki sewi li kama tawa mi  
sona mute li kama tawa mi  
ijo ni li pona tawa mi  
lukin mi la mi ken monsuta  
tenpo pini la ken ni li lon ala  
(a a a, musi a—sina o pilin monsuta)
ni la   
o jan pi awen toki lawa ni:  
mi o awen lili sama ni  
a la sina ken ala lukin  
mi kama pilin e ni:   
sina lon ala lon tenpo mi  
ni la mi ken weka e sona toki sina lon tenpo ale
ken la lon ni li awen  
utala sina la sitelen mi li lon e wile mi kepeken  
pilin wawa pi ken ala lape  
ni li ike taso sina wile ala pake  
la mi toki suli sin e ni:   
(omekalikante)
(I still haven’t brushed my teeth yet, I should probably do that)