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Basements feat. Nake Nula Waun

from The Bridge by Frank Waln

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Bridge (Frank Waln)
Come down to the dungeon now (2x)
When the darkness comes around (2x)

Chorus
Hot summer nights & we’re in the basement (2x)
Cold winter days & we’re in the basement (2x)
Just cooking up that Native shit (2x)
Trying to get this fire lit (2x)

Verse 1 (Frank Waln)

I left school just to follow the flow/ Them damn white kids were draining my soul
Landed me out in Chicago/ Never ever saw a city so cold
I ain’t never have nothing but my music and my tribe/ Young storyteller coming from the rez live
There’s only so much I can even describe so I spit rhymes as good as the government lies
Saved money just so I could build a studio/ built a studio so I could save money
Cuz on the Rez ain’t no one have money/ Now my cousin’s basement is a studio
Star quilts for a booth/ write a song a day/ Never ever thought my music would be on it’s way
All I do is ghost out/ I’m in the basement/ I don’t ever see the light of day

Chorus

Verse 2 (Dre)

Damn I can remember and I truly must admit/ that I really should be sorry for the heat that I spit
In the basement back then man I really said some tragic sh sh sh sh sh
Should I say it? My daughter’s gonna be listening
Down the road as she grows but I’m thankful that my boys ain’t take it with them as they grow
Yeah I said it/ don’t correct my grammar/ back then I had no manners
I was cussing all the time and my rhymes couldn’t man up
Hope this time I stand up/ Hooks to the pavement
My mind’s still racing but not like it did in my old basement
I had a job while rhyming/ I was daddy while I was rhyming
But now I’m really climbing/ a line man/ I’m light man
To the dark places/ just face this you can’t compete
With Dre and Rollie back on a Frank Dubb beat
And we in another basement/ it’s not the old basement
But when I think about it, I found warmth in my basement

Chorus

Verse 3 (Rollie Raps)
I was 17 with better things ahead of me
instead of being focused on the music I was set on being dopeboy
Party hard/ I wasn’t ready mentally
I drop bills to pop/ the pain pills I bought
We’re temporary fixes/ I’m stuck inside the rez and life is getting very vicious
I’m running from the stress and I’m suspicious of snitches
People getting popped and plus my pops locked away
I bottle popped the pain and pushed on
I wrote my pain inside the book I rolled my kush on
I used to sleep inside the booth and leave the hooks on
I used the basement as a blanket just to block out the wrongs
I knocked out a song like bang bang
Living life on the rez it’s all the same thing
It’s either prison or death and that’s my main pain
Because my mom’s using meth
I’m trying to maintain I can’t/ My brain ain’t the same
The basement

Bridge (Tom Schmidt)
Get goosebumps
Get goosebumps
When you bump this out
Bump bump this out (2x)

Bridge (Frank Waln)
Come down to the dungeon now (2x)
When the darkness comes around (2x)

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from The Bridge, released September 1, 2017

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Award winning Hip Hop artist/producer from the Rosebud Reservation.

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