1. |
LALAKI
03:01
|
|||
I’m so lalaki
I’m feeling so lalaki
Bitch I am lalaki
So bow down to lalaki
Tomboy, Bakla
This flow’s so mataba
You wanna stop me
But bitch I am lalaki
Tomboy, Bakla
This flow’s so mataba
You wanna stop me
But bitch I am lalaki
Hoy, Puntangina
Tell me what the phobics are starting now?
Can I get some peace
Like it’s hippy dreams
Rolling up a tree
You don’t want this smoke
But you want my freedom?
BVT ain’t 50 shades
So you can keep them shackles, Mr.Grey
I’m De AP like APL/Apo
Get a taste of this tomboy tempo
Keep the pace up
Ay mami
Why they always got they eyes on me?
Am I so sarap, yummy?
Or is it coz I’m so lalaki!?
Is it coz I’m guapo, musanting
That your cousins just want me?
I got tin tin of adobo
If I’m too ‘paras for you lolo
I know, I know
Light skin like Americano
Mixed race, call it Halo-Halo
Shout out to the Whanau, Whanau
Bakla as a rainbow flag
And the culture ain’t holding me back
Keep my name in the sheets
When you see me in the streets
Make sure you address me as #1 Pinoy fag.
Tomboy, Bakla
This flow’s so mataba
You wanna stop me
But bitch I am lalaki
Tomboy, Bakla
This flow’s so mataba
You wanna stop me
But bitch I am lalaki
Y’all need to listen
Who I am’s my decision
Y’all made this mess in my house
So y’all can clean the dishes
Y’all need to listen
Who I am’s my decision
Y’all made this mess in my house
So y’all can clean the dishes
You don’t wanna see
What I’m bout to be
Even if it means
Euphoria to me, no
You just wanna keep
Every single key
Gate-keeping me
From what I wanna be, no
Is it jealousy,
Coz you wanna be
As free as me
While I free my people?
Every time I breathe
Ancestors speak
Telling me
“stand up and free the people”
Tomboy, Bakla
This flow’s so mataba
You wanna stop me
But bitch I am lalaki
Tomboy, Bakla
This flow’s so mataba
You wanna stop me
But bitch I am lalaki
|
||||
2. |
SELF MADE
02:50
|
|||
“Dear world,
It has come to my attention that you wish to box me in. Contain and refine me to your labels and projections. Well, here’s my official letter of rejection. Fuck you very much, sincerely, BVT”
Fuck a label, I’m a self made woman x2
(Suits, ties, glittered eyes, heels, high)
Fuck a label, I’m a self made woman
(Beard, skirts, floral shirt, put in work )
Fuck a label, I’m a self made woman
Verse 1:
Boxed in
Like a coffin
Sealed with caution
So I sharpen
This verse with the ball-pen
Harpin’
Like a blues-man
I don’t choose men
If I do’s then I’d get it poppin’ like (pop Sfx)
Bubble gum
In your face
Open up
Get a taste
Run it up
I don’t chase
Can’t handle my ego
You chokin like deep throat (ya nasty)
Quit labelling me
I got places to be
Like 12 inches deep
That’s the size of my feet
That’s the size of my dick
You can take it or leave
It ain’t none of your biz
If I’m blue or I’m pink
And my sword’s double ended
I said it? I meant it
These labels offended
I forget to mention?
I’m unrepresented
Still will-i-am Legend
The title defended
Bow down in my presence
Coz I’m nasty
My reign everlasting
No doubt
After droughts
BVT got you splashing
I brag, get the bag then I laugh like (laugh)
Make you bump to the bass
Til you’re white in the face
Let your funds go to waste
I don’t like where I’m placed
In a box with a label
Killin myself tryna get out
Word to my razor ………
Fuck a label I'm a self made woman
(Suits, ties, glittered eyes, heels, high)
Fuck a label, I’m a self made woman
(Beard, skirts, floral shirt, put in work )
Fuck a label, I’m a self made woman
|
||||
3. |
||||
I was day dreaming
So heavy
I didn’t even feel the car swerve
My windshield became a Milky Way of stars
So compacted I thought it was the static signal of my TV.
Or at least it sounded like it.
Gravel beneath the tyres struggling to grip
I spin out of control
I try to correct the wheel but I realise I’m not even driving at all
I can’t even leap from the backseat
Coz suddenly I’m in the trunk..
So who the fuck is driving?
|
||||
4. |
||||
She says
Chorus
Why you always on the road?
Why you never got time for me lately?
Am I dating on my own?
Why you go inside your head, never take me? X2
Verse
Pump the brakes
Burn out mistakes
Let the smoke clear on my fortune and fate
Fast lane on the daily
Broke roads don’t phase me
We’re getting off track
Cause I’ve gone off the railing
Took the wrong path
Gonna be a long night
Now it’s all gas
Redder than a brake light
It’s a forked road
And I’m always right
But if you left
Where would I crash tonight?
Bridge
I’m switching lanes
This road is going nowhere
I’m on my way
But i don’t know if you’ll be there
Headed forward
But I keep on checking rear-views
Whipping foreign
But I’m native to the bad news
I’m tryna get a grip
But now I’m spinnin
On the bitumen
She’s screaming “did you listen
To the question that I asked you?”
Chorus
JM:
Why you wanna try and take it back there?
To the old me stunting with the short black hair?
I grew, from the kid who sat there
And I know I really grew from the past to compare
Why you always tryna restrict me?
Thought you had me on lock, but you know I got the key
You know I’m on track, I’m my own entity
And you know I’m on a track, with my sis BVT
I’m just tryna comprehend,
How I heal, how I mend,
Didn’t know it was the end
But I’ll kill it all again
I’m not tryna make friends
Gender fluid, water bend
Katara is one side,
But Sokka I still defend
I’m covering all the bases,
Uh huh
Giving back to what I wasted,
Uh huh
Will reply in like a day sis
Uh huh
Right here just to say this
Why you always on the road, huh?
Who the hell gave you, the permission to be hoha?
You don’t like it when I grow up?
Even if there was a fight, next day I will show up
Why you always on the road, huh?
Why you tryna lock me in like your is corona?
Now it’s time for my glow up
It’s me and BVT, after this they will know Us
|
||||
5. |
GALAXIES
03:06
|
|||
Precipitation is a menace
Under covers
I discover other feelings
Like a hailstone
in my throat
Kiss it better
While I wait this storm out
But you refuse to change the weather
And uh
Your demeanour’s so cold
It could snow now
But the way you hold me down
Make me moan I
Never thought I’d melt
Cause all I felt
Was emptiness when chest to chest
But still I want it
So gimme that gimme that venom
I want it
I’m beggin’
I’ll step in her shoes
And play the part
If you give me a second
I will never lose
The potential
To be the muse that you
expected
Me to be
Why You look unaffected
When you lookin at me?
Girl you know I’m fluid in the sheets
I could be
anyone
What you want?
What you need?
If this is holding us together
Why you pulling at the seams huh?
[Chorus:
Want you to
Hold me
Leave me
Dissolve me
See me
Then free me
Hold me
And leave me
Lonely
Come see me
I’m lonely
Don’t leave me
Falling
Beneath me
Falling
Beneath it]
Alt [pre chorus]:
You’re gone now
Hold me down
Love found
I’m lost now
X2
Alt [Chorus]:
You let me down
You control me now
You let me drown
You can still have me
V2
Okay I get it
We regret it everytime
Tell me what’s the difference
If I rewind we do it again
and again?
We can’t rewrite lines
That we crossed
Can I replay time and get lost
In your feelings?
Want it, want it
Baby, can I
Jump on it?
Maybe we could
Start fallin
‘Stead of fallin out
Everytime we pick it up
It goes south
Come crash tonight
Make it last tonight
I know I promised that last night
Was the last night
But if we have tonight
We could smash the lights
Keep our feelings in the dark
So we don’t have to fight
But we could do the rounds if you want to
Beat it up like it’s kung fu, Shawty
Never hit red, baby come through
No regrets until the morning
|
||||
6. |
I LOVE YOU/LIVE A LIE
04:22
|
|||
I love you/Live a lie
Oh love when you lay with me,
It always tastes sweeter
Than the bitter rain that we make
When we get heated
I don’t ever want to hurt you
Though you hurt me too
(Chorus)
(I love you/Live a Lie)
And I still love you
(You) Don’t have to
But I’ll still love you
(Yeah I’ll still love you,
I la-love you)
They love me
They leave me
They hate me
They be me
They told me I’ll only
Be lonely forever
Hold up, hold up,
Simmer down, down simmer down
Talk… talk…
Everything ain’t what it seems
Even clichés have double means
I didn’t mean to say those things
So please don’t bring them back to me
They’re crowding out my space to breathe
Star in my galaxy
And I’ll give you the moonlight
Universe,
Cosmic curse
Fuck-in moonlight
Mood right
When you lie next to me
Bittersweet memories in the sheets
Hurt me bad or hurt me good
If you left me now, it’d be for good
We’ll never know
What could’ve been
Would’ve been
Medicine, dopeness
Hopeless in love when it comes to you
Hurt me bad, hurt me good
I will still love you
Hurt me bad,
Hurt me good, I will still love you
(Hurt me good, hurt me good, hurt me good).
|
||||
7. |
RUN,RUN
02:57
|
|||
Run, run:
V1:
I’m done
The answers weren’t on my path
My heart was meant to pause but instead it’s put on bypass
This fork in the road has got snake eyes
And behind that
Is the belly of the beast
Do I enter and find out
What’s inside?
Ego and pride
Seem content with venom
Put them aside,
And what’s left inside this dwelling?
Do I
Deny the pain when I’m constricted?
Conflicted with the mission of self love I envisioned
Guess I’ll never know
Unless I try
But I’m scared to go
My demons fight over flesh and bones
Even though
My soul inside is what’s relevant
Skeletons in the room
Elephants in the closet
I feel consumed
By the doubt
The guilt
The hunger
The pain
The loss
The question remains:
Should I keep running if I’m lost?
If I run into myself,
Will I love me or leave me?
Will I live a lie,
Or hate me then be me?
Chorus:
Run. Run away from Yah(weh)
X4
Bridge:
Forgive this,
Lilith as my witness,
I wanna know my dark side
And I’m on my hitlist x2
V2:
Take me down,
Down into the earth
Kiss me on the eyes
And shower me with dirt
Lemme grow into a flower
Lemme be more than a girl
So when I set myself aflame
I can rise upon rebirth
Prechorus:
Forgive this,
Lilith as my witness
I wanna know my dark side
And I’m on my hitlist x2
Chorus:
Run, run away from Yah(Weh) x4
|
||||
8. |
THE ANSWER
00:53
|
|||
9. |
LOSE IT
02:32
|
|||
Lose it
If I don’t know your name
Then you’re not important
I live on the land of generations stolen
I stand for the ones that are broke down
Fallen
Back chat me
Then my fists come forward
I make things count like it’s poker
All in
And count you out
Like a smack down
Brawlin’
I have my doubts when you say you’re ballin
I forgot your name
But your not important
BVT steppin’ in the place
On my Ludacris
Bitch get out the way
I move the crowd
Ain’t nobody safe
Better lose it child
I didn’t come to play (ugh)
Better stank the face
When I crank the bass
If you turn away
Better dip the waist
How’s the lime light taste?
All eyes on you like P.A.C in the day
Ooh shit
I think I’m back up on my bullshit
This ain’t my first rodeo you better lose it
Or else you in treble
Bass-ment level
If you outta key
It’s only coz I got several
Try to gate keep me
Left, right and to the centre
But now I got it on lock like a teller
You don’t know me
But ima show ya
More than music
My beats are
Abusive
Kicks are fatal,
Bass to lay low
Don’t care if you high or lucid
You better fuckin lose it
You don’t know me
But ima show ya
More than music
My beats are
Abusive
Kicks are fatal,
Bass to lay low
Don’t care if you high or lucid
You better fuckin lose it
Queer bitch in the cut
If the ops got you down
Then please stand up
They can take your crown
But cannot take your blood
We run this town
And we don’t show ‘em love
Fuck the system
Stay on the grind
If you get it pregnant
Don’t give it a dime
They be actin ignorant
All of the time
Pull a Billie Jean
But the kid ain’t mine
Heehee
Tip toe coz these hoes on the ZZ’s
I’m savage like it’s Fenty, Riri
Imitate, but you’ll never be me
Levitate into space like I’m dreaming
I’m exiting from the buyers shelf
And existing as a higher self
I can’t be bought, so you’re by yourself
Coz I value me at a higher wealth
You don’t know me
But ima show ya
More than music
My beats are
Abusive
Kicks are fatal,
Bass to lay low
Don’t care if you high or lucid
You better fuckin lose it
You don’t know me
But ima show ya
More than music
My beats are
Abusive
Kicks are fatal,
Bass to lay low
Don’t care if you high or lucid
You better fuckin lose it
You better fuckin’ lose it
|
BVT Sydney, Australia
BVT is a Sydney based HipHop artist, Rapper, Actor, Producer & Beatboxer.
2014-2020: Judge, MC & Performed for
Beatbox Australia, World Supremacy Battlegrounds & Hip Hop International.
2021: Toured with Haiku Hands, Winner of APRA AMCOS showcase for Queer emerging artists
2022: Guest performer at “Sissy Ball” in town hall.
2023: Performer for World Pride at the Domain headlined by Kim Petras
... more
Streaming and Download help
If you like BVT, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp