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world and certainly in North America.
I think what we look for most is a combination of virtuosity
and a singular artistic voice.
We need to focus on developing new kinds of art
but still maintaining this tradition of excellence
and virtuosity that we have in our 100 year history.
From the invention of the radio, we've all been talking
to each other, eating each other's food...
we've been studying each other's languages.
And now, even just in America,
we're retrenching back into tribes.
You have western classical music and hip hop.
Many people see them as the polar opposites
of cultural expression.
What Hip Hop Orchestra Experience
I think is doing is really
creating new music.
It's creating something that audiences haven't experienced
before, that they can feel equally welcome
and discover each other and create a new audience.
This is a revolution.
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♪ ♪ ♪
You don't think I should retaliate, the situation
Am I supposed to lay here like some girl on menstrua-sh?
Curled up in the ball like some type of mental patient
Walking through life with a stench of hesitation
I can't do that, I got a moral obligation
I'm putting in work and they gonna feel my occupation
I'm going to make sure they have a permanent vacation
Is it hard to understand?
Well, let me free the complication...
Have you ever been kidnapped and held for ransom
Then beaten to the point to where you're no longer handsome
Real strong twine has your body confined
And your mind is exhausted
From all of the hard hits to the skull
As they pull you from the floor
Thick blood drips from your mouth and nose
And every time you cough your heart beats in off repetition
Your reputation is in submission mode
Your ventricle veins receive extreme pressure
Now you're having migraines
They strap a green letter to a pigeon
With demands written in it
You're hoping that your family will get it
And come to your rescue but they don't stress you
So, now you struggle for your life reaching for the light
You gotta resist that you hearing them footsteps
Here comes the violence again
It goes silent and then
The torture begins
And this is why
I sing the concerto
Of a mad man
I must get even!
This human being born from semen is now a demon I'm gleaming
In a mansion full of passion with an axe in my hand
And a few rubber bands spreading out my plans
Studying my blueprints to bring the new gift to the world
And when it unfurls the clouds will rain pearls
My enemies receive a golden shower, I tower over humbleness
I can't stop this rumble in my soul
80 staircases long is how deep it goes
And until you've climbed those stairs
And stared at the bear inside of you
growling
It's just bare inside of you
now then
Do you feel the madness jumping of the atlas
When those you've trusted
With your sadness do blasphemous acts behind your back
With a secret attack it's time to react
With a ceremony of repercussions I hear the drums
Rifles and bayonets in my head making me sweat
Come a little closer put your hands in my holster
Feel my convulsions
Touch my emotions
It's deeper that the oceans in the tropics
My personality has adopted a tinge that could fill a syringe
With the venom within me
Not even a kidney donor could filter the poison
There is no abortion!
♪ ♪ ♪
I know you're out there
I'm not alone here
I know a beautiful place where we can break fear
And we don't have to go far
Because it's so near open up your mind
And don't look behind
And you will truly find it, boy, it's sublime
When you see the light shining on the horizon
There's a mountain we can climb here the snow is exciting
And you can finally master the key of enlightenment
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
Tonight's event is really exciting.
This is one of our very first events in the brand new
Calvin Simmons Theater
completely new and renovated.
And it is the Hip Hop Orchestra Experience.
So this is a classical orchestra backing a rapper,
several rappers.
And so what you're seeing is this kind of new opportunity
to experience different forms of music together
and really looking at what is the future of classical music
and how do these things combine?
I think that's the opportunity
that we have here in the Calvin Simmons
and across the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts is,
y'know, bringing in new ideas,
understanding what's happening in the arts landscape.
So we are just so excited
to have this going on this evening.
♪ ♪ ♪
♪ ♪ ♪
I ascend like wind I'm cooler than
ice water, when it's necessary
I gets hotter than fire I'm harder than the solid earth
My mind is the universe I'll never suffer death
And I won't experience birth, nah
Immortal living in many dimensions right now
Spirit is breath and happiness is what it's worth
So fight now because it's your God-given right, child
'Ta know the truth
Seek it when you reach it
Don't keep it as a secret gotta share it
Make it a TV show and air it
The struggles what I bare and I don't compare
Anybody to anybody 'cuz everybody
is a part of the same body
Most just don't know it
I'm telling it 'cuz I'm a shamanic poet
It's too deep and my lyrics show it
The seed that the wicked plants I never grow it
I know the truth and everybody knows it
The universe
Is just one mind
The universe
Is just one mind
The universe
Is just one mind
And ain't no such thing as space nor time
Life's so deep, you sow what you reap
Reap what you sow eventually pay what you owe
Regardless of what your karma is
Time to stack merit towards spiritual elevation
This is the proclamation to heal the nation
Whatever your relation
Let's unite, it's time for unity
I've studied life studiously
And know it's time for you and me to come together
Be one forever
Find the sun to treasure
Pleasure is measured within the life I live by how I give
Unselfishly
The wealth me is healthy set if free and share it
Give a care with every feeling you could care with
Dare to gift the little bit you came in here with
For the ancestors and future generations
If you are in the position to give back
Now's the time to do it
Right now
[Audience Applauds]
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
When you come to an EMN show, you're going
to hear something very unique in the fact
that we're sampling elements of each other.
So you're not gonna hear that anywhere.
And in both genres, you're dealing
with the best of the best.
You're dealing with some
of the most experienced people when it comes
to putting together classical music
and some of the most skilled
and rooted MCs when it comes to the hip hop culture.
So, you're gonna hear something very authentic
that represents all music, that represents good music,
that defies any genres or limitations.
And yeah, you're gonna hear something brand new and fresh.
♪ ♪ ♪
Eh, yo!
♪ ♪ ♪
Check.
♪ ♪ ♪
How many times do we talk, but how many times do we help...
According to a good friend who comes and tells you: we're here
When you need them, we doubt their loyalty
They never show up - I predicted it like Nostradamus
Any kid fires a weapon
They were never taught that karma exists
There's no time to stay calm
He can't save himself even with an alarm
We all have skeletons in our closet
To your face they're cool, behind your back they curse you
Here we are only apprentices
My life in various shades and hues
Hey, it seems
I say nothing, I just let them be
The world full of pure lies and empty heads - I keep my distance
In short, I can smell it
It's going to ignite
We must learn
That if you're too weak, someone will mess you up
Do what you want, I'm on the sidewalk doing my thing
My way - I know very well what I have to do
Nobody is an angel, we all make mistakes
We always make them while trying to be better
Luxuries and excesses that make us worse
The day I die, what good will the flowers do
In crisis, smoking more green than two damn hippies
They used to act tough, now they think they're too cool
- Watch out if you enter my block - my crew is sharper than Mickey
Here we make it spicy enough to give you heartburn
Laid out in some park in a district - I'll get you
Smoking a short one for us and my ways
Meat is no longer scarce - Damn foolish kids
We didn't know that being happy meant having everything
I have a bad reputation because drama never suited me
If I have a good life, it's because of every wound
That I've lived through in the past
I traffic rap from Mexico to El Dorado
Leaving this - I had never thought about it
Like a rancher I tend to my herd
You're against me or you're on my side
There's no losing here
If she cries, let her remember
My heart colder than the cold of December
Doing what I want, the years never feel like years
Some beers with the crew, listening
to Vicente Fernandez songs
What's going on 'n on 'n on?
What!
What's going on 'n on 'n on?
What's up Oakland!
What's going on 'n on 'n on?
I am originally from Puebla and for music business
I got a contract in Guadalajara so I have
been living in Guadalajara for six years
I feel that hip-hop orchestra is innovating
because it's mixing two very different genres
and it's making them sound very well together for the audience
for all kinds of people, and they receive it everywhere.
I know they are going to like it very much.
I'm not afraid to go out and find it when life falls short
But I don't complain because nothing frustrates me
Planting seeds so that fruit will grow
They said I couldn't because I had bad behavior
Always serious...
Make way - I've stirred up the henhouse
Of course, a thousand times a person before a rapper
Painful nights wanting to get out
Searching for the path along this trail
Gray days, cloudy days - In the end the sun shines on us
If it's cold, my faith warms even the metal of a grill
I came to make a revolution with lyrics like Pancho Villa
I'm always ready for sarcastic comments
I'm tough on my enemies - They think I'm satanic
Neither bad nor fantastic, but a little lunatic
Every time I take the mic the girls find me charming
I work the scene to keep the pantry full
Thanks to such good lyrics, my wallet is full
They talk behind my back, trying to cash in on me
Birds on the wire - let them come closer without shame
I'm heavy caliber, that's how I express myself
Now those who were there when there was no money are with me
When I go out to the street, I kiss my daughters
Because only God knows if maybe I won't return
[Orchestra Music Stops & Audience Applauds]
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
It takes the virtuosity of these two very different styles
of music and doesn't blend them together, necessarily,
but allows them each to stand on their own.
And I can't think of any other type of music that does this
and with quite the dexterity
that the Hip Hop Orchestra Experience does.
From a hip hop standpoint, people
who are generally coming here maybe as a,
with a hip hop background, it kind of blows their mind.
It can be triggering for some people
because it may feel like, hey, those
who don't look like me are doing my music.
But I think that that's unfair.
I think that art is beautiful
and all people should be able to do all things artistically.
So for some folks hip hop is a part of their personhood
growing up, y'know, I listened to this kind of music,
I dressed this kind of way
and now this is a different version of that
that doesn't represent the way I grew up listening to it.
That could be the challenge and
that can be the trigger for a lot of people.
♪ ♪ ♪
♪ ♪ ♪
I woke up today, I'm blessed, I'm worriless
I'm stress free the hate don't bother me
Positivity is the only thing that I see
I'm blind to the negative
On the news you see murders and shootings it's repetitive
I lost my cousin then my granny it was consecutive
I'm all about my business you can call me an executive
I'm very wise you can see it in my eyes
Many people losing faith but I'm not surprised
You have to be like the sun and rise
When you find happiness all the negative dies
♪ ♪ ♪
I been through a lot but I ain't make no excuses
I got the bruises to prove it
Yo' mind you can't lose it, especially
Up in the storm
Look
Let's come together and form
Look, I've been through a lot but I ain't make no excuses
I got the bruises to prove it yo' mind you can't lose it
Especially, yeah, up in the storm
Yeah, let's come together and form
Mind over matter, sit back and watch 'em scatter
I'm reaching for the stars I climbed up the ladder
My mind so clear like the water in my bladder
They want to copy my style they really like my swagger
Life is a journey don't stress about what's after
I believe in you even through the tears and laughter
Less being pessimistic and more optimistic
It ain't Christmas this month but I'm still gifted
I rose above the concrete I'm thankful that I lifted
The pandemic took a toll on the world then it shifted
I've been through a lot but I ain't make no excuses
I got the bruises to prove it yo' mind you can't lose it
Especially
Up in the storm
Let's come together and form
I've been through a lot but I ain't make no excuses
I got the bruises to prove it yo' mind you can't lose it
Especially
Up in the storm
Let's come together and form
♪ ♪ ♪
You have to burn off all that negative emotions.
Y'know, life ain't perfect, neither are we.
It's okay, life, life gonna be life.
But you stay strong.
It's gonna be okay.
We gonna be a'right.
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
When we don't know what we're listening to
either stylistically
or through language, it makes us uncomfortable.
Music is often seen as entertainment
and we don't expect to be uncomfortable when we're being
entertained.
Because it's neither
this nor that
I think it, it takes people off guard and
because of that there's more openness to the music
and I think that it, it goes straight to the heart.
Oh, classical music,
and oh hip hop, y'know, like oh, oh...
And the way that it's blended
it completely destroys those kind of divisions
that are completely artificial.
And for me that is really one of the main things
that this ensemble does that mix people together
and breaks all those artificial things that divide us.
♪ ♪ ♪
Take a little time for yourself
Have an open mind and be kind to your health
Embrace what's been dealt don't camouflage what's felt
Eventually the misery won't be worth mentioning
Precision with your energy reinforces the mission we
Set out envisioning, babies are born glistening
As I grow older I struggle to keep it shimmery
When I fall off my game I just hustle from muscle memory
Infinite agility I have an affinity
The fire burning within me gently
needs rekindling now and then
Despite all the suffering
The world got us stuck up in
I keep a piece of me in tranquility
To fight the anxiety given by the society
Through violence and rioting I'm protected I'm unaffected!
♪ ♪ ♪
When you know what focusing is moving a boulder is bliss
The global warming can get hotter and hotter but still
I have adapted a skill to keep my attitude chill
And let my aptitude build 'til it enhances the magic
That helps us censor the tragic moments
Givin' my life a bonus when tragedy creeps up on us
I'm living within a fortress
At night I can't hear no voices but quiet enough to focus
I'm hearing the sounds of oceans
And like trees we sway in the breeze all day
But the darkness offers a different energy
I can sink and breathe within the tranquility
I have the serenity giving me an inner peace
That I carry in my sleep giving me tremendous dreams!
Then I'm waking up in the morning, phone is blowing up
before I'm yawning
Scroll until y'know all of the issues
Who is doing what with all the missiles?
Check the tally score...
How many rights left? No one really cares not the right-left
or the in between...
Claiming they righteous normally the street playing violence
Reality has now become a nightmare
Casualties of war standing right there
I don't pay attention to tension
'Cus I'm in a place where I'm ascending!
♪ ♪ ♪
Why is there equipment built to destroy all the living?
And war is the invention to solve opposing opinions
Compassion is a distant
indifference to those with billions
Why does it correlate to be rich is to be an idiot
I'm not getting it
It's getting a little ridiculous the systematic oppression
It's engineered so meticulously...
But I'm still able to breathe and leave it behind me
Because I'm not afraid of the day when I am dying
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
I think what people are feeling now, majority
of people are feeling anger, desperation and fear
and uncertainty because of the economic situation.
So it really creates more
and more conflict and more tension in the society.
I think that that is worldwide with the rise of the, all
of these extremist political parties
and extremist views is representative
of this new fear that the world seems
to be having about the risk of
sharing is becoming too great
and that maybe we need to go back to the way things used
to be when we didn't share, which never existed.
But I think that finding ways through
what the Hip Hop Orchestra
Experience is doing - through trying
to create new concert experiences,
but demonstrating that not only is it not scary,
but reminding society
that sharing the experiential is profoundly
moving and far more fulfilling than
just celebrating what you already know.
♪ ♪ ♪
Hey!
Yo!
Check.
I'm trying to be better
I compete against myself through trial and error
Circumstances made me better
Music gave me another option
What's up, Oakland?
Put your hands up!
Put your hands up!
♪ ♪ ♪
What do you want me to say - I'm not a role model
But as you can see, music is also my temple
I won't give up - I'll die trying...
To get everything I want up to this moment
Everything is moving very slowly
Rap was like a bottle of water in the desert
That's why I'm active and attentive to everything
Moving slow - crazy but content
One for my homies, two for those no longer here
Three because I no longer care what people say about me
Great like Jimi Hendrix, built like Ben Davis
I've got more miles on me - If only my sneakers could talk
Hey!
We bring it like a highway
Watch out - vultures are searching for carrion out there
Always a pirate, always a refined rapper
Let them bury me singing, like Chalino Sanchez said
We bring more white lines than a highway
Watch out - vultures are searching for carrion outside
Always a pirate, always crazy
Hey, hey, ya, what!
♪ ♪ ♪
Always a pirate like the Raiders logo
Walking style, sideways like a lowrider
Put your hands up, hands in the air
We bring rap metal, put your hands up!
♪ ♪ ♪
We bring rap metal like Iron Maiden
Walking style, sideways like a lowrider
Put your hands up, hands in the air
We bring rap metal like...
Forewarned is forearmed - I don't follow the flock
What you don't consume shouldn't hurt you
My body is more scratched than a bathroom wall
In vandalism mode, I cover my face with cloth
Always a pirate like the Raiders logo
Walking style, sideways like a lowrider
Put your hands up, hands in the air
We bring heavy metal rap like Iron Maiden
♪ ♪ ♪
We bring heavy metal rap like Iron Maiden
♪ ♪ ♪
Put your hands up, hands in the air
♪ ♪ ♪
Always a pirate like the Raiders logo
Walking style, sideways like a lowrider
♪ ♪ ♪
Walking style, sideways like a lowrider
We bring heavy metal rap like Iron Maiden
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops & Audience Applauds]
Without tolerance and acceptance
we will not have a common vision of beauty.
I have to be willing to accept what you find beautiful.
So we have to be willing to
look at ourselves and, and accept the opinions
and the ideas of others.
I think that the vision of the people is unified globally.
And I think that the real question is,
will the true story ever be allowed to be told
when the media is so controlled
and contrived to produce the desired outcome.
It's more like a catalyst
that will help them think about bigger things.
So, and apply it to everything.
I mean I know I do now even more when I look at my daughter
and everything that she does
and it makes me rethink the way that I live my whole life.
And so if there are things like that, that
can trigger you to think differently
and to maybe begin again
or have a different way of thinking to,
to guide you, I think beauty probably could save the world.
I mean we should get some t-shirts or bumper stickers
or something, right?
♪ ♪ ♪
Invade
Conveyed
Invade
Conveyed
I wanna be great
I will be great
Invade
Conveyed
♪ ♪ ♪
I'm taking what's mine
I read between the lines yo' daughter fine
She want me
Standing my ground can't let a man insult me
All in your house I can tell you're salty
Hydrate...
'bout to take off just like a rocket
Everyday you go to war just coming outside
Put your seatbelt on and get ready to ride
♪ ♪ ♪
Because it's real
Things happen on the regular be concealed
But its consequences when it's revealed
Traumatized from my cousin but I healed
No matter what you go through
You got bills
That's life in California
I just wanna warn ya
If you don't know
They throwin' up for grabs
I'm kickin' down the door
I will prosper I'm not the average Joe!
♪ ♪ ♪
Dream chasing wanna million in my bank account
Had old dreams I was young and they faded out
I wanted to play football I stood tall
I failed in that aspect I'm past that
Gave them a warning like hazmat
Told em then I would achieve they didn't believe
I knew I would grow before I plant the seed
I will conquer
We will conquer
♪ ♪ ♪
Whatever you do put full effort in it
Yes, you might fail but, oh well
Life about challenges life about risk
Instead of breaking down we should uplift
I love music but it's been challenging
I've been balancing I've been battling
I fought through situations with my family
I let it brew
Thought they had my back but it wasn't true
But there's consequences I knew the truth
Because of elevation and dedication
High expectation
High expectation
Look, I'm reaching for the stars
Even teachers get taught
♪ ♪ ♪
I will conquer
We will conquer
Invade
Conveyed
Invade
Conveyed
I wanna be great
We will be great
Invade
Convey
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops & Audience Applauds]
Hit me up
Listen, if you ain't a real person
That's a bad thing
In da streets they get sick boy ain't no vaccine
They say dat love real but what does dat mean?
I'm not beefing on no internet so please don't me
Hell yeah I'm a gift but you can't wrap me
If you ain't a standup dude please don't dap me
Always had big dreams since a kid wit acne
She wild like a lion she tryn ta attack me
Too many said they were solid but they wasn't
You might not feel my pain but they killed my cousin
It get crazy but this is what made me
I went to juvenile hall it really saved me
Best believe I had to wise up
Ya doing all that faking I see ya got yo lies up
Please mind yo business don't worry what's in my cup
To win is the goal I'm gonna slide like an ice puck
Best believe dat
Young Reshaud.
[Applause]
Eh, yo, yo, yo, what's up, what's up?
Eh!
Reality surpasses ego, bro I'm an antihero
We learned on the sidewalk, never knowing comfort
No matter how tough you look, you have a breaking point
You've won battles, not the war don't celebrate yet
Walking towards the light even though the night calls me
The neighbor calls the cops no one can match my range
I'm an extroverted wildcard who analyzes the scene
Always one step ahead a whole other world
Here we drop more hits than in any baseball game
Kids smoking in the cold because they have no North Face
The troublemakers on my block always cover their face
They'll erase your face no photos, no trace
What's up Oakland!
Thank you.
[Applause]
Now there's a couple of pieces
That have been chipped off my statue
But I'm still stoic and lethal
I'm adamant to be classic
Made from power for pain and pleasure so vividly tragic
The sensories will remember history and the magic
Fire clings to my structure my roots are deep in the desert
At the core of the desert I'm deserting all my influences
I'm doing this better
Sick of the influenza
Tell that girl ta get off my credenza
Respect my house when you enter
This is a shrine of wine and dine and act refined
Violins for music candles for lights
Real hitters in the crib please be polite
We doin things formally Bon Appétit Mon Ami!
Gimme currency then you can take part of me
It's an urgency
The resurgence of Kirby D in the gallery is a mere formality
cuz I'm in the streets
Amongst the connoisseurs of substance
I'm a functional art piece
An audio Henri Matisse
A vocabulary Keith Herring offspring
Within the studio I gross so immensely, yeah!
♪ ♪ ♪
[Applause]
♪ ♪ ♪
Properdopolis, I'm holding down the obelisk
Rocking in the metropolis Mik Nawooj chicken waffles
The way that we go together
Is fresher than fresh picked vegetables
All of these grooves are edible
All of my rhymes dissectible
This blapper is acceptable
Beyond merely respectable never could be forgettable
I'm an extraterrestrial
Blessings to you
Celestial lessons off my pedestal
Pedal is to the metal
Burn rubber on tracks and flex on fools
Yeah!
[Applause]
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
Oakland, how y'all feeling?
[Audience Applauds]
I think it's worth reminding very loudly
what this country was created for
and what it means in the eyes of the world
and why people wanna come here.
Rediscovering our values of being
an innovative inclusionary society
has just gotten lost in this tribal warfare
of incredibly rigid
and inflexible culture has sort of devolved into.
So how do we solve it?
I don't think we know that right now.
And I'm not saying that
what we are doing will solve these issues.
But I do know that
what we are doing will generate prototype of new way
of doing things, which we desperately need right now.
Because if you're trying the same things
and then expecting a different result,
that's the definition of insanity.
So I feel like it is crucial that we try something new.
♪ ♪ ♪
♪ ♪ ♪
Homie I be out here standing 10 toes down
Feeling like the hardest working man on my side of town
Gotta make them dividends can't be with yo pockets flat
Gotta hold your family down better stay on top of that
Gotta a son that stays oceans away
That I don't see that much
Think about him as I'm clutching almost every buck I touch
'Bout to be a teenager those those influential years
Gotta help him stay on course
He needs his pops to help him steer
I done came to a point in life where I can see clear
Knowledge gained by lessons learned
Accumulated through the years
Yo, I got a lot of wisdom started getting gray hairs
But I'm also at the point in life where I don't even care
Ladies still love me all the same like I was Cool James
But I don't got time ta be out on the prowl or poppin' game
Gotta make them dollars can't be 40 with my pockets lame
Right now it's money on my brain
I don't really got the time
It takes to get ta know you better
Sorry I'm so flighty I just really gotta stack my cheddar
I was doing bad had to pull myself up out the mud
Had it all then lost it all and just started recouping funds
Pushing used books rocking Postmates and Uber
Also rocking Lyft
I stayed working but they called me a loser
Looked at me like I was done
Everyone thought that I was through
Oh, now I'm a bum because I work a normal job like you?
Guess they use to looking up to me as the money man
But when things switch as they often can do
Know one understands
Folks that always was jealous of me reveled in my demise
I never let it get to me cuz I knew again I'd rise
If I could do it once I could do it all over again
Got inside myself and hustled
Stopped hanging with so-called friends
Now I'm making ends
Everybody's smiling in my face
They hit me up to try to kick it
But I ain't got time to waste
If it ain't about some progress I ain't got the time
If it ain't about this movement homie I ain't got the time
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Currently, I'm thinking about my currency
The current of the sea be floating money straight to me
Financially, I got a lot of energy
I'm giving back, that's why the cash was sent to me
Currently, I'm thinking about my currency
The current of the sea be floating money straight to me
Financially, I got a lot of energy
I'm giving back, that's why the cash was sent to me
♪ ♪ ♪
Currently, I'm thinking about my currency
The current of the sea be floating money straight to me
Financially, I got a lot of energy
I'm giving back, that's why the cash was sent to me
I only got time to lace tracks when I'm making money
Stacking big bags my monopoly is mine solely
Making boss moves on a level Don Corleone
I been so blessed, pockets bustn out the seams they holey
Get my cheese pie and avoid all of the pepperoni
Having money so old it's starting to smell moldy
Swear I studied origami, all the paper that I'm folding
We be high rollin
Ain't a thing of mine stolen chains golden, ice frozen
And y'know I'm always holdin
What you lookin fo?
I always cookin bro
I stay stocked I got a sto
And I could get you all these jugs on the low
♪ ♪ ♪
Currently, I'm thinking about my currency
The current of the sea be floating money straight to me
Financially, I got a lot of energy
I'm giving back, that's why the cash was sent to me
♪ ♪ ♪
[Orchestra Music Stops]
[Audience Applauds]
Thank you.
My name is JooWan Kim.
I'm the artistic director and composer
of Hip Hop Orchestra Experience.
It's Hip Hop Orchestra and it's an Experience!
Thank you very much. Thank you, Henry J Kaiser.
Thank you, Terri. Thank you, James. Thank you, EJ.
Thank you.
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We are a Hip Hop Orchestra and it's an Experience!
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