Name: Black On Black
Duration: P00H02M31S
Description: ‘Black On Black’, a tough, metallic celebration of Africanism, black pride and Idehen’s memories of growing up in Nigeria – “afrobeat, chewing sticks, bus drivers smelling of palm wine at New Benin Market”

Black On Black

from Ends by LV & Joshua Idehen

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‘Black On Black’, a tough, metallic celebration of Africanism, black pride and Idehen’s memories of growing up in Nigeria – “afrobeat, chewing sticks, bus drivers smelling of palm wine at New Benin Market”

lyrics

champion lunch like chicken and bread
advice for life, don’t end up dead

Black on black like a doberman
Blood red eyes and golden fangs
Blak inside like a cola can
stepped out the flames as a colder man

stepped out my youth as an older man
Stumbled out the gate but im stronger now
Struggle with the bottle but im sober now
Blues cant hold me down

Black on Black like afrobeats
talk back get afrobeats
no shirts under afroheats
chewing stick on the afroteeth

Walk through the hoods like a stallion
walk through the woods like black lion
like a black lion, 9ja panther
Here for the beef no time for banter

champion lunch like chicken and bread
advice for life, don’t end up dead

christian child on a stolen bike
Underground no over hype
Move sharp move like a knife
So black you can taste the night

Black on black like aunt Beatrice
headwrap game like satellite dish
Candlelight vigil, rice and catfish
sermons with saints and bandits

champion lunch like chicken and bread
advice for life, don’t end up dead

Speak to god as a praying mantis
failed to launch but i nailed the landing
land on roses, awful noises
get on that get on that migrant voices

Grip the mike with the OJ Gloves
spit that venom that slows that blood
chop that beef that teeth find tough
asthma verse make the ears cough

champion lunch like chicken and bread
advice for life, don’t end up dead
clear blue sky but the eyes are red
Palm wine shutter but he walks alert

Black on black on jeans and converse
black on black no time for nonsense
black on black like after sunset
vinyl clean but the needle’s rusted

mamba ate all the snakes
Take the first bus out the sunken place
Blak on black like a thunder God
Shango shango thunder god

No President just bloody coup
Crude oil in the pepper soup
Crude Oil in the soil, staining the root
Old witch doctor with the single tooth

Good in braid look good in weave
She don't need no man to teach her
God is good and the devil deceiver
. I Don't believe in either

credits

from Ends, released July 6, 2021
Lyrics: Joshua Idehen
Performed by: Joshua Idehen
Produced and Composed by: Will Horrocks and Simon Williams
Mastered by: Transition Studios
Artwork by: Ivan Hadzhivelikov (concept), Yonko Patev (art)
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LV London, UK

South London duo LV, made up of Simon Williams and Will Horrocks have been at the forefront of UK electronic productions since 2007, beginning their musical endeavours together around 2000 while at university . Formerly a trio, including Gervase Gordon (Okzharp), LV have again and again shown an inventive flare for distinctly unique sounds. ... more

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Ends Dubs

Aug 2021
Ends

Jul 2021
Ancestors

Apr 2021
Ancient Mechanisms

Oct 2015

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