Sélébéyone - Gagaku (from the album Xaybu: The Unseen, 2022)

Sélébéyone:
Gaston Bandimic - vocals (Wolof)
HPrizm - vocals (English)
Steve Lehman - alto saxophone
Maciek Lasserre - soprano saxophone
Damion Reid - drums set
GAGAKU
I study the attributes of the name. So, Abdullah means slave/servant of Allah. Karriem is also generous, deserving. So, I have to live up to that name. If I can live up to that name. Then I’ll be eligible to take it. - Billy Higgins
Yes, sir. I hear you. That’s the deen. That’s a lifetime mission. Lifetime journey.
Take a walk with me. Follow me in .
It happened cyclic. After gas to liquid mixed with elements from the ether.
Heat the base, things separate on a spoon.
Shutter under New York neon, shivering in a slave deal.
Poking holes in your arms. Hearing drums from beyond.
Pressure from the south in a baggy suit.
Conservatory mind playing chords while the mind plays tricks.
Still under attack by white cops with night sticks.
White woman fantasy. White man, nightmare.
All the while, drums possess you. So compressed.
So controlled and misdirected.
Black genius under pressure. Trying to find escape in the big city.
Half of the pattern’s cosmic. The other half is flesh.
Side of the same dice tumbling like life or death.
Here in the hereafter. Play the rapture. Change the game.
Aim to capture a moment to be free that was made perpetual.
Guided by the course. Guided by the force.
Through illusion in the land of the lost.
Guided by the course. Guided by the force.
Guided through illusion in the land of the lost.
Solos like a train of thought.
Through a mind uncompressed. Chemically implanted to stop the rise.
Solos breaking time. In the last of the lost.
Guided by the course. Guided through illusion in the land of the lost.
Jackie and I grew up, I mean, in the music together. He started practicing Islam. And then we went on a Japanese tour to Japan. The first mosque I ever went into was a mosque in Japan. - Billy Higgins
Gueewou thiapatate Yi la tassak djamb djobi
I’m here to dissolve the bad seed
Yéwou tappe taate guirr Niou Wagni wakh jobi
Spank ’em to stop talking and work
Mic bi on matchie foo soppi rapp bi oby
When the mic is on, I play with it, rap becomes a hobby
Niarri Pape meunoul am ma ley dink lowi
There can’t be two fathers
Ndarré guafa fane tassaré guafa
You are last, what did you do good
Fékhél rek ba constance rap barema fa
I’ve always been consistent
Deimb lgne fa inda lgne fa tey sa Lépp lowi
We contributed to the past and to the present
Toutii wakh bi yalla point bokouniou si lobby
Speak little and well we are not part of any group
Daaray rap the
It’s the school of rap
Vous etes tous mal barre
You are all screwed
Onde dou Sousse Yako Tey niola geune parer
You can do what you want, we’re ready
Na beat bi reukk ma Key beukk dikko Dori arret
Let the music start, so I can put my mind to it
Pass bé matt douma wathie té égouma sama arret
I paid enough, and I won’t get off the bus before the stop sign
Yalla bakhna flow bi dou Bana Bana hey
God is great, the flow is not cheap
Jeux de cartes mbedd bi tébi wouniou gana gana hey
The street card game, we are not losers
Grade namaste rap mate
When it comes to rap, we’re the best
Djapp bé djappé Alhamdulilah
We thank God
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A group that is actually pushing music into a totally new direction - or several new directions 🤯

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