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Warrior

from Heritage Trail by Tipene

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Wero is a traditional maori challenge to visitors who had to make a choice wether the come in peace or to fight. The warrior performs the Wero(Challenge) to all rappers to tell the truth in their raps.

lyrics

10A (Beatmaker)
Tipene on the rise so high
Still the haters wanna see me fall
But I'm home bred, hangi fed
Never met a hori like me before
Coz Teeps be raw cannibal styles eat beef raw
Gimme the ball I'll run it up the guts bro
Brother got 'Gusto' CB4
Tipene on the rise so high
Still the haters wanna see me fall
But I'm home bred, hangi fed
Never met a hori like me before
Coz Teeps be raw cannibal styles eat beef raw
Gimme the ball I'll run it up the guts bro
Brother got 'Gusto' CB4

I started off cutting mutton
On the chain gang learning from the uncles
Dad said get the pahi get the mahi
Make the money if you want to
Ain't no really saying what I will or won't do
All I really know is that I wanna pull through
Trying to crack a super Saiyan
Make em all Goku(Go cool) if I wanted to
I just wanna put food on the table
So the whanau get to eat now
Then I do the dishes with the Mrs
Just to whip it with the tea towel
To everybody showing love for the mahi
Man peace out
Then I treat the haters like a gutter board
Catch em on the rebound
See your rhymes all hard
But you soft in the middle like a pork bone
And the ride in your video ain't yours
So your fullas gotta walk home
In the back row hating man you fullas need to breathe out
Under Siege when Teeps on the beat
You can call me Steven Segal(Stephen Seig Heil)
Every time I engrave that pad with the pen
On point like a javelin
Gotchu playing that mandolin
Coz it's over for an empty MC
Blow you off the map baye TNT
Flames in the heart if you breed envy
Can't hide from the truth
You standing in my way
I'm a run right through you

Tipene on the rise so high
Still the haters wanna see me fall
But I'm home bred, hangi fed
Never met a hori like me before
Coz Teeps be raw cannibal styles eat beef raw
Gimme the ball I'll run it up the guts bro
Brother got 'Gusto' CB4
Tipene on the rise so high
Still the haters wanna see me fall
But I'm home bred, hangi fed
Never met a hori like me before
Coz Teeps be raw cannibal styles eat beef raw
Gimme the ball I'll run it up the guts bro
Brother got 'Gusto' CB4

Got flow and a brother got Gusto
Brought up on the paua and the mussel
Gotta have the hundy hustle
To survive in a world so cut throat
Plus I write it on the page
Just to put the rhymes on a stage
Man I can't wait to get the bust on
Meditating on the stage with the chucks on
Māori boy with the pen I'm Picasso
Tā moko on the skin like a bar code
Complemented by the lineage indigenous
Ruaumoko I'ma burn em all to charcoal
Diamond cutter but the vision is so pretty
So move aside I'm ready to minimise yah levy
And silverside yah venny/venison
It wont stop I'm betting
It's do or die Tipene the killer rhymes I'm in it
Say "who am I?" the minute that i spit it
But it seems hopeless
So If you wanna know why I
Grab the mic and treat the stage like a Pae pae
Put in the mahi as the time flies by
Like the duck if you ain't sharp enough in the maemae
I'm well aware of the limelight
But nobody should be diving for kai at high tide
In the mainstream keep it real like Mai Time
I'm from Hastings still I ride the pipelines and it's like
See how many crews out just to prove their tight
Rapping but it's still not right nah
Realise that their shoes are twice their size
And can't cut it like a puha knife
Get em all drunk then they all gangstas
But, nah they only wanna act hard in their backyard
They cutting their own throats, lower their repertoire
But for what they already lacking the X Factor woooah

Tipene on the rise so high
Still the haters wanna see me fall
But I'm home bred, hangi fed
Never met a hori like me before
Coz Teeps be raw cannibal styles eat beef raw
Gimme the ball I'll run it up the guts bro
Brother got 'Gusto' CB4
Tipene on the rise so high
Still the haters wanna see me fall
But I'm home bred, hangi fed
Never met a hori like me before
Coz Teeps be raw cannibal styles eat beef raw
Gimme the ball I'll run it up the guts bro
Brother got 'Gusto' CB4

credits

from Heritage Trail, released August 3, 2021
Written and Performed: Tipene
Produced by: 10A

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