LALAKI

by BVT

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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 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

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LALAKI is BVT's debut mixtape. This album follows BVT's journey of decolonising one's self, reclaiming space as a Queer Person of Colour and bearing the culture as a future ancestor. From hard hitting beats, smooth, husky vocals, bars with plenty of food for thought and even spoken word, this first look at BVT truly delivers.

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released October 25, 2022

1. SELF MADE:
Produced by BVT and ARROWBIRD
Mixing by ARROWBIRD
Mastering By William Bowden

2. PRECIOUS CARGO (an abduction)
Produced by BVT
Mixing by Dave Richards

3. ROADS (Featuring Jamaica Moana)
Produced by BVT and Michael McGlynn
Mixing by Michael McGlynn
Mastered by William Bowden

4. GALAXIES
Produced by Charlotte Warner
Mixing by Charlotte Warner
Mastered by William Bowden

5. I LOVE YOU/LIVE A LIE
Produced by BVT and Michael McGlynn
Mixing by Michael McGlynn
Mastered by William Bowden

6. RUN,RUN
Produced by BVT and Michael McGlynn
Mixing by Michael McGlynn
Mastered by William Bowden

7. THE ANSWER
Produced by BVT
Mixing by Dave Richards

8. LALAKI
Produced by BVT and Michael McGlynn
Mixing by Michael McGlynn
Mastered by William Bowden

9. LOSE IT
Produced by BVT, Mirasia and Michael McGlynn
Mixing by Michael McGlynn
Mastered by William Bowden

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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
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