YAATIE
1991 when everything began and I came out the womb kicking, screaming
Moved in with Witteboome suburb where they drug dealing
I got lots of brasse looking at the prison ceilings
This is not emotion no so do not Koppel feelings
Everyone has a story so who the hell cares
I was fresh prince but I didn’t live in Bel-Air
Used to make me spikes yes I tried to gel hair
Started selling nikes Sieka had like 12 pairs
How you gonna tell me I’m a fake and I’m a fraud
When you know the pen is much more mighty than the sword
I don’t pop no molly’s I don’t rock no Tom Fords
I Just do karate on the mic I’m Jean-Claude
They tell I should be on snapchat I should tweet more
The problem is I’m on the corner with the street lords
They ask me who I am and I say I’m Rick James
Right before I really wys them what’s my nickname
I’m Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Probably know your sister and your taanie
My bru his name Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Go ask the taxi drivers and the gaatjies
They say they know Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Probably know your sister and your taanie
My bru his name Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Go ask the taxi drivers and the gaatjies
They say they know Yaatie
Grandma gave me coins I put it in a money box
Saved a couple pennies I spent it at the babi shop
I found out the stabbed him and my body felt a shock
I realise these aren’t fairy tales and Goldilocks
6 years old in Ocean View I got the chicken pox
Brasse broke into my house they good at picking locks
Music permi playing you could hear the boom-box
A naughty little laatie just like Riley Boondocks
I had a crazy life if I think and backtrack
My uncle was a skelem he was smoking mandrax
When he walked in everybody used to stand back
He grew up in the ghetto breakfast wasn’t flapjacks
I just wanna show you who was in my family tree
I had to good parents one of them was absentee
My daddy passed away and so I’m saying RIP
My mommy hates his name but I have to disagree
I’m Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Probably know your sister and your taanie
My bru his name Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Go ask the taxi drivers and the gaatjies
They say they know Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Probably know your sister and your taanie
My bru his name Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Go ask the taxi drivers and the gaatjies
They say they know Yaatie
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My bru his name Yaatie Yaatie
You know he’s a laanie
Probably know your sister and your taanie
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