9 X OUT OF 10 - Dallas Woods

Song Written by:
Dallas Woods %80
Tobias Fakhari %20

Scratching By Michael O'Connell

track mixed, mastered by Michael O'Connell

9 X OUT OF 10 - Dallas Woods
9 x out of 10 raps about the power-trip police have in remote aboriginal communities and their overt presence being a normal occurrence to the residents living there. Dallas Woods raps with clever humour about the stigma of being young, black and breaking the cycle of oppression from within community.

9 X OUT OF 10 - Dallas Woods
Chorus
im really not that scared of nothing
but if police roll up then im running
coz 9 times out of 10 im up to something 
man i blame it on the town that i grew up in
blame it on the town that i grew up in (thats that EK that EK)
please the police they please they self
even with ur hand up it don't mean they gone help
if u young black and gifted they reach for the belt
if u young black and gifted u going to jail 

verse 1
my momma raised me well
considering i was raised in hell
raise the issue that most of these kids are raised in jail
no help they had to raise they self 
role models non existent using survival instinct 
tryna revive my district 
trying to give life to this over used suicidal system 
feeling trapped in they own mind there prison self inflicted 
time is ticking they need to make a decision 
weather its gonna be cemeteries or finding religion 
if ur pigment is different 
u fit the description 
then shipped of to prison 
thats how we living

chorus
im really not that scared of nothing
but if police roll up then im running
coz 9 times out of 10 im up to something 
man i blame it on the town that i grew up in
 blame it on the town that i grew up in (thats that EK that EK)
please the police they please they self
even with ur hand up it don't mean they gone help
if u young black and gifted they reach for the belt
if u young black and gifted u going to jail 

verse 2
we used to play cops and robbers
now we hate cops and dodge em  
like excuse me mr officer 
with that gun and badge u seem to be mr popular 
i talk to u and your hands straight to were ur pockets are 
locked and loaded 
man only fear jail coz im claustrophobic
other than that talk smack and get your dome split 
brothers gone away calling in like everyday
so for them i got to make let nothing get in my way 
i see fellow aboriginals 
u see felons and criminals 
breaking stigmas political
im just painting the visual 

chorus
im really not that scared of nothing
but if police roll up then im running
coz 9 times out of 10 im up to something 
man i blame it on the town that i grew up in
 blame it on the town that i grew up in (thats that EK that EK)
please the police they please they self
even with ur hand up it don't mean they gone help
if u young black and gifted they reach for the belt
if u young black and gifted u going to jail 

bridge
-scratching-
a drug that saves lives black excellence 
but the drugs on the street is black preference 
i really prefer excellence for real 
man if the truth hurts im a watch em burn 
i stay lit brother watch and learn 
brother brother brother watch and learn
i stay lit brother watch and learn
man if the truth hurts im a watch em burn 
i stay lit brother watch and learn 
brother brother brother watch and learn
mr woods out this bitch come watch and you learn

9 Times Out Of 10

Title: Hoodlum
Artist: Dallas Woods Feat Jerome Farah
Written by: Dallas Woods and Jerome Farah
Published by: Dallas Woods (No Publishing) Jerome Farah (Mushroom Publishing)
Splits: Dallas Woods %50 and Jerome Farah %50
Produced by: Jerome Farah
Mixed by: Michael O'Connell
Recorded at: Next Level Studios (Brunswick)
Engineered by: Jerome Farah and Michael O'Connell
Mixed at: Milk Bar Studios (Collingwood)
Engineered for Mix by: Jerome Farah
Mastered by: Michael O'Connell
DJ Scraching: Michael O'Connell
Keys by: Jerome Farah
Guitar by: Jerome Farah
Bass by: Jerome Farah
Percussion by: Jerome Farah
Background vocals by: Jerome Farah

Lyrics : Hoodlum
CHORUS 
Tryna label me a hoodlum
Tryna say I got no good blood in my veins
I’m a say I’m a good man 
My melanin got you feeling some type of way
(I guess my colour and my lingo equivalent to a pistol “gunshot”)

VERSE 1
Can’t even shop anymore 
Stigmas got my people not shopping at all
We start emerging then emergencies called
The feds are pres. what’s the urgency for 
Shopping centres we cannot enter
An open letter for society’s sake
Innocent people that society break 
If it’s required then they hiding the tape
Roles reversed aint waste time they proving a name 
It’s a goddamn shame 
Treated like aliens people in power equal fake alias 
Justice system is failing us RIP to Australia 
The news done got us screwed they feed u lies
You call it truth I win u lose no need for proof 
Ask three percent of Australia what’s the ultimate failure 
Everything that I said is exactly what they gone say to ya
I told u the truth hurts 
(I guess my colour and my lingo equivalent to a pistol “gunshot”)

CHORUS
Tryna label me a hoodlum
Tryna say I got no good blood in my veins
(I’ve seen my fair share of unfair look at what you done here)
I’m a say I’m a good man 
My melanin got you feeling some type of way
(I guess my colour and my lingo equivalent to a pistol “gunshot”)

VERSE 2
Run run for cover 
This is Australia no Donald Glover
They wont play this on the radio I play this every single day just to my neighbours know that we wont go
Down with out a fight a simple act of human rights
A Marta don’t nada I’m another human sacrifice 
I’m pro black not anti white 
Love my nanna white women tuck me in at night
You heard
We went from owners to slaves 
They took our children away 
They said sorry but they still taking children today
They Swept it under the mat 
Expect us not to react when we react
Media says attack of the blacks
Ask three percent of Australia what’s the ultimate failure 
Everything that I said is exactly what they gone say to ya
I told u the truth hurts 
(I guess my colour and my lingo equivalent to a pistol “gunshot”)

CHORUS X2
Tryna label me a hoodlum
Tryna say I got no good blood in my veins
(I’ve seen my fair share of unfair look at what you done here)
I’m a say I’m a good man 
My melanin got you feeling some type of way
(I guess my colour and my lingo equivalent to a pistol “gunshot”)

BRIDGE
(Live scratching) 

OUTRO 
(instrumental)

Hoodlum

64 Bars Dallas Woods Lyrics :

at age 7 found connection with the place i call home
were muddy water and fresh air was our favourite cologne
Bastion cockburn ranges cambridge golf the 5 rivers  
that sight alone reminds ancestors are still with us
fresh fish for dinner, goanna turkey for dinner
hunt in packs coz we don’t want that juwadi to get us
walking down the highway the tourist are taking pictures
i do now but back then i really never use to get it 
how beautiful and lucky we are to call this place home
come to think about it thats why we never  stayed home 
always out and about remember St Joes days 
mango tree were we ate grassles  oval we play 
final bell lions park the next stop
salty plums sugar tamerine  and pop rocks 
the boys play football  the girls play hop scotch 
any beast drive past we yell make it drop drop 
wheels spin budoof when we was little kids 
hat fights turn real when we little kids 
street lights meant home when we were little kids
dark time still not home yeah we were little shits
true god! fast forward a few years 
state school familiar faces and new peers 
went from wearing blue to  a orange uniform 
that moment there a unit formed 
cliff kid for life Wyndham boy till i die
no text message just flick your hand in the sky 
thats hi thats bye what now e rite
english kriol 2 worlds hand signs 
cajup, young men always up to something 
day break at the bakery doing nothing 
cruising round  town with the bros  music pumping
or tryna find us a wifey window jumping
teenagers with no favours all we had was the night 
the way u earn your stripes is the way u handled a fight
we knew the protocole so to the elders polite 
respect ur elders or they knock out ur lights its a cultural right 
my big bros got a licence thats dangerous
my big bros 18+ thats dangerous 
all we got is open road thats dangerous 
full tank full esky were they taking us 
now thats the question that they wanna know
kiss my mum and nan tell em that  i gotta go 
country music playing as soon as we hit the road 
hate country music were I’m from not a single soul
well school didn’t finish it wasn’t good with listening 
knew it was for me common sense was kicking in
clear as day I’m different I’m hoping in the way
traveling the country while my buddas finish tenth grade 
4 states in ten days economy no leg space
homesick but living in the moment was my best trait
the thing i seen at the age of sixteen type of things u consider a dream 
mr work hard play hard same routine 
sometimes a little too hard but whats life with out battle scars 
id make it home every once in a while 
and every single time welcomed home with a smile
my friends be growing up quick 
a few of them having kids 
i lost a few on the way that feeling really is shit 
for that reason won’t quit 
wyndham made like this 
turned a boy to warrior 
like the river a king 
a little message for the next gen head up high
coz u can’t make a difference if ur never gonna try peace out

Chapter One

Dallas Woods teams up with producer Jerome Farah with this banging hip hop track as a follow up to previous release to Hoodlum.

If it glitters its gold (Lyrics)

Chorus
My mumma told me less is more
I don’t have much guess I got it all
Rumor has it if it glitters its gold
If it glitters its gold  
but if it glitters its gone  

first verse 
more a less less is more
lesson taught love you mumma (praise the lord)
break the law knock knocken on satans door
 what the hell do you take me for
demon child with an evil smile but you love it tho 
mr constable  leave your guns at home
you don’t wanna see me out of my comfort zone no no 

pre chorus
they sayyin dally da kid man how you do em like that
you must be someone important the way the hood got your back
they looking up for the plug so i throw them the bag
and they get white girl white girl white girl white girl wasted like that
and it goes  

Chorus
My mumma told me less is more
I don’t have much guess I got it all
Rumor has it if it glitters its gold
If it glitters its gold  
but if it glitters its gone  

verse 2
oh  you got pen pal I got pals in the pen  got pals in the pen
since the age of ten with a face like them with a face like them 
not my fault that I fit the role or I got involved 
because im fit to go then we hit the road with the things we stole
when the po po knock brother I don’t know  

pre chorus
they sayyin dally da kid man how you do em like that
you must be someone important the way the hood got your back
they looking up for the plug so i throw them the bag
and they get white girl white girl white girl white girl wasted like that
and it goes  

Chorus
My mumma told me less is more
I don’t have much guess I got it all
Rumor has it if it glitters its gold
If it glitters its gold  
but if it glitters its gone  

verse 3
if words are weapons im an ak47 
bullets fly in your direction sending emcees up to heaven
and if heaven don’t exept him and you in hell unexpected 
and the gate keeper got problems tell the gate keeper who sent em

Chorus
My mumma told me less is more
I don’t have much guess I got it all
Rumor has it if it glitters its gold
If it glitters its gold  
but if it glitters its gone

If It Glitters It's Gone

Dallas Woods

At a young age Dallas Woods developed the uncanny ability to find humour in the most unlikely places. Poverty, suicide, abuses of all kinds are a common theme in his life yet its relentless exposure has provided him with the mettle to cut-through society’s demons so he can apply words to his tsunami of feelings and thoughts. Dallas writes with a wealth of humility, knowledge and experience; it’s his coping mechanism.

A Noongar man raised in the E.K. [Wyndham – East Kimberley] Dallas is a quintessential underdog who dropped out of school at age 14; he was raised without a father figure and ran AMOK headed straight for the justice system. Luckily for him in 2007 the Indigenous Hip Hop Projects came through town at a formative moment and spotted this wayward kid’s talent and cheeky knack for word play. 
Dallas would pop up in break-dance cyphers during after-school sessions and completely blew the minds of the Indigenous Hip Hop Projects [IHHP] facilitators with his energy and dance moves that “were literally electric”. Wanting to join the IHHP family, despite there be now room for him to join the gang on tour, Dallas’ mother offered their family car for Dallas to go on the intensive 3 week dance tour. Prison was no longer the only option. In those three weeks ‘Halls Creek’ [Kimberley WA] Dallas’ work began to make an impact. Seeing his value as a mentor particularly with at risk kids whom Dallas has an amazing ability to connect with he was engaged as a key IHHP facilitator. He went on to win the East Kimberley Young Achiever Award at the age of 15 in 2009.  In 2016 he was on the song-writing team for the NIMA award-winning track titled Break the Silence raising awareness for White Ribbon. Since this time Dallas has visited over 250 communities and earned a feature role on Move it Mob style [ABC 3]. 
In 2014 he met Danzal Baker [aka Baker Boy] at an IHHP artist camp in Melbourne, soon after they worked together for the first time on a job in Gove / Dhalinybuy NT. Dallas took Danzal then 17 y.o under his wing empathising with how he was missing home.  It was here that Baker Boy was inspired to start rapping in his own style, started writing songs for the first time with Dallas and ignited the journey that catapulted him to where he is now. The two are staunch friends and continue to write together including Baker Boy’s new single Mr La DiDaDi.  
Dallas decided to move on from the physical demands of dance and started to hone his skills as head MC for IHHP; he was a natural. A Master of Ceremony with the ability to hype an audience beyond the norm. A few steps further Dallas releases his debut track 9 x out of 10, continues to write and perform with Baker Boy and has plans in the works to release an EP to coincide with his support slot on Baker Boy’s national tour this May and June.

Dallas Woods

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