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Switch ft Xenia Manasseh & Steph Kapela

by Sichangi

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Sichangi opens the year with the first single of his sophomore album, 'Soundtrack to a Heartbreak', enlisting rising Kenyan RnB superstar, Xenia Manasseh and Kenya's sharpest lyricist, Steph Kapela. What is really lovely about this song is just the bravado, the wordplay between the MCs, Xenia's amazing turn as a rapper. It really just oozes in style, with a fiercely pulsating low end and warped vocals weaving in and out, letting MC's do what they do best, rap the s**t out of the beat!

lyrics

Used to stare out the window
Watching all of the days go
Thinking I’d never make it
Took me long to embrace it
Knew I was cut out for greatness
I was just faithless
I was lacking patience
Scared of dedication
Lacking motivation


Supposed to give you my best
How when I can’t even rest
How do I try to express
Or should I call it confess
Got on a bulletproof vest
I stay protecting myself
Ain’t never cared bout the wealth
This for me is life or death
You know it
That’s why it took me some time
To realize
My eyes weren’t on the prize
That this was bigger than me
And I needed to believe
This could really be for me
This could really be for me yeah


I’ve switched major positions
I’m making major decisions
Nothing in the way of my vision
Now they look at me like competition
Circle finally coming to completion
Do you know I still stare out the window
No longer watching the days go by
Said I still stare out the window
No longer watching the days go by


I couldn't believe how I would ever come with the cards I was dealt
I've been working on my way up to the top of the shelf
Needed patience so for that I had to work on myself
Learn the meaning of value that I put into everything I invest in how you think I'm staying fresh to death
I ain't posting on my stories when I cut it with the best of the best
How you think I made it on to the set
How you think I'm steady coming correct

I ain't put out in a year I know my fans are getting slightly upset
Or maybe I got em slightly obsessed but I know they don't regret it, bitch I hustle knees high to the chest
And I'm moving like I'm practicing chess
But in stealth I got my target on lock and my ego in check I heard em saying I'm the best but they don't know what else
I got my heart on my sleeve and an S on my chest I make a stage come alive and give it two to the chest.


Used to stare out the window,
Watching all of the days go
Thinking I’d never make it
Took me long to embrace it
Knew I was cut out for greatness
I was just faithless
I was lacking patience
Scared of dedication
Lacking motivation


I’ve switched major positions
I’m making major decisions
Nothing in the way of my vision
Now they look at me like competition
Circle finally coming to completion
Do you know I still stare out the window
No longer watching the days go by
Said I still stare out the window
No longer watching the days go by


Most ain't around for the rise ,
I do not blame them I don't
I'm not that good at goodbyes
I cannot do it alone
I got ties
Got my guys
They're my goals
They're my highs
All your niggas they come with advice
All my niggas they come with supplies


Big bags all checks got cooperate O's
You ain't gotta check scores for them type of goals
It don't matter when I fall stand tall on my ten toes and I want it all like ten fold
Lakini bado wengi 'wajijui
Bado 'waelewi mbona si hatutambui
Kama hainibambi sinunui
Kama sii-feel hata kaa inasifa sifungui


Used to stare out the window,
Watching all of the days go
Thinking I’d never make it
Took me long to embrace it
Knew I was cut out for greatness
I was just faithless
I was lacking patience
Scared of dedication
Lacking motivation


I’ve switched major positions
I’m making major decisions
Nothing in the way of my vision
Now they look at me like competition
Circle finally coming to completion
Do you know I still stare out the window
No longer watching the days go by
Said I still stare out the window
No longer watching the days go by


Now break it down
Cut the talking and get into the figures
Hold it down, for my black queens and jiggy niggas
Say fuck the triggers fuck the silly happy-go-lucky niggas they watered down
I lost track of the laps I run round em
I son all these niggas and then I ground em
I just do all this shit cause I care about - wait..
I lost track of my fucks and I haven't found em


Yeeeeaah moving through the hood with a different vision why feed him for a day when there's different fish and switch positions yeah I got new conditions like brand new kitchen good nutrition uh ,
Siwachi baraka
Sina haraka
Bado nasaka
Bado naomba
Kama pasaka
Bado naomba
Nangoja sadaka

credits

released March 6, 2020
Produced by Sichangi
Lyrics by Samuel Sichangi, Samuel Namasaka and Stephen Nyankuru

Mixed by Samuel 'Sichangi' Namasaka
Mastered by Russell Kearney at www.russellkearneymusic.com

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Sichangi Nairobi, Kenya

Sichangi is a Songwriter, Producer, Sound Engineer & DJ.
1/5th of the EA WAVE
1/2 of Nairobi Laptop Orchestra (a producer/artist duo with Blinky Bill).
Sichangi’s productions are already making him a reference point in the industry despite his young age.
He is also a 2018 Red Bull Music Academy Alumni
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