Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. May your heart be set aflame. 

Duval Timothy - Through The Night
Saba - Mrs. Whoever
Jay Electronica - Fruits Of The Spirit
Little Simz - Heart On Fire
Michael Kiwanuka - Solid Ground
D'Angelo - Unshaken
Sona Jobarteh - Kafaroo (ft. Ravid Kahalani)
Mereba - Souvenir
Sonder - Baldwin Park
Alice Smith - I Put A Spell On You

Image: House to Protect Against the Wind (Agadez, Niger) © Not Vital

Dylan's Room: 003 // "The prayers of the slaves are the wings that carry us."

West Magnetic - Today

Bush Baby ft. tg.blk (prod. Baby's Breath)

XPRSO. Presents: Nairobass. Our debut EP.

Party (feat. Mars Maasai, Chevy Kev & MR. LU*)

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by @mr_lu 
@xprso
XPRSO. 2020

Air W&B freestyle (Bonus Track) ft. RVMP

Lyrics: 

Form polite mtaani na squad ya wakora flaani ata gwez kaive 
Ata gwez kaive, ata gwez kaive, ata gwez ka- 
Si leo I can't take your bullshit
Ata uwike kutoka pulpit 
Chasing the bread na ata mursik 
Anxious about the future
Slow down, pengine roll spliff
No Aberdare you lack the range, so kaa kando dear
Watch you niggas from the stars jo, ki Brother Bear
Zimeshika nimehang juu kaa chandelier
And you know it's loud, fungua bag inashangilia
Rada pia?

See the blue and white, know that shit is tight
Sometimes they come disguised like a ninja in the night
But my eyes stay peeled, like I pulled an all nighter 
Luko with the stash, I just pull with the lighter
B.O. with the plan: hustle now, ball later 
Flight to Japan with my other half 
She was always stuck with me through the tough times 
Sand by the ocean, she's my beach 

And now I'm so out of reach 
I show up, I roll up, I blow up 
Pass it to the left kila mtu tryna go up 
I wear all black, from a place where the sun pours 
Kukata kiu wengine, but me hu smoke poa, uh
Off the gwzl feeling 'dudu makamasi'
Talking reckless no back on forth tu makasi 
Weh bro iwashe toroka wasi wasi 
They turn on you eventually
And stab you mgongo 
Wah? Zii!
Ni kugeukana bro? Wazi 
Chumia juani niggas throwing shade 
Kaa ni joint-
Kaa ni shortage joint ya chwani, either way I'm getting blazed

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by @mr_lu 
@xprso
XPRSO. 2020

Interlu*

Lyrics:
Yeah 
Can't maintain
Can't
Said, Can't maintain
Siezi maintain 
Wallahi siezi maintain
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
I'm fried like a plantain
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain

I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
Fried like a plantain
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
Fried like a plantain  
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't
Zimeshika sana, can't

Room look like a sauna again
Room look like a sauna
I can't 

I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana 
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain 
I can't maintain 
Zimeshika sana, can't maintain 
Fried like a plantain
Zimeshika sana, can't

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by @mr_lu 
@xprso
XPRSO. 2020

Maintain

Lyrics: 

Check, check, check
Nawa check, check, check
Mki blek, blek, blek
Off that henn, henn, henn
(Ati weh msee umesema?)
Na nyi ni ma kuku porno 

If you smell the loud basi funga maskio 
Nataka kupanda ngazi na sishuki mbio
Pole Afande just lighting a few 
Nikule crisps niki watch cartoon

Choma mpaka uchome picha
Baadaye na hizo makesi, weh joint chunisha 
Ma KC pia zinaeza chachisha 
Ukisleki buda seti itaisha 
Sai kaa haijawaka labda lighter inakosa
Chilli usio ila, niki washa ni makosa? 
Seems everything just going South, Ramaphosa 
Ukweli ni kaa si hizi joint ni ka quarter
'Cause I'm tryna get high shosho ruka 
Usiulize swali mingi kaa shash inarusha 
Juu kaa Miguna staboeka 
Kwa mfuko ni trees nimebeba Arboretum
Kama rastaman, me hu burn up the Shashamane

If you smell the loud basi funga mas'kio 
Nataka kupanda ngazi na sishuki mbio 
Pole Afande just lighting a few 
Nikule crips niki watch cartoon 
If you smell the loud basi funga mas'kio 
Nataka kupanda ngazi na sishuki mbio 
Pole Afande just lighting a few 
Nikule crips niki watch cartoon

Burn up the flora 
Gin na ukora
Turn up ujinga, pigwa bakora
Na zimeshika 
You can tell from my aura 
Staki vita niki vuta vitu, please stay in order
Nimewasha ka joint kangu ka supuu
Zimeshika ni kaa nimerogwa na ma voodoo 
Juu inafanya nifloat tu kama maji 
Hadi ghasia flani alete ma utiaji
Told them I'm tryna get high shosho ruka
Usiulize swali mingi hio ni shash inarusha
Safisha rada niki washa udi 
Nyi ni talking toka rasa, smoking grade Daudi
Kama rastaman, me hu burn up the Shashamane
Kama Shappaman, bud fresh haijakauka sana

If you smell the loud basi funga mas'kio 
Nataka kupanda ngazi na sishuki mbio
Pole Afande just lighting a few
Nikule crips niki watch cartoon
If you smell the loud basi funga mas'kio 
Nataka kupanda ngazi na sishuki mbio
Si pole nani, just lighting a few
Nikule crips niki watch cartoon

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by @mr_lu 
@xprso
XPRSO. 2020

Shasha Ruka Fence

Lyrics:

That Shashamane come for everything natamani 
Keep some weed in my drawers 
Tryna chorea ma police, fate and will are at odds
"Whoever's fastest nigga, pull up and draw" "It's on sight"
You'd rather talk shit and scroll, It's on-site 
But me I'd rather break the weed up and roll, and take flight 
Through the lows nimenyanya but trust me, got clear sight 
My eye on the bag, can't get to the zip 
Tired but tire iko tayari, leo sidai kusip
Lights off, my sights on getting through the night 
Smoking bomb, mask off, siezi ficha white
I smoke some loud up on the hush, that should do me right
Nachapa hio half ya jana nishaa K.O hadi mchana juu

Hii gwez ikinichapa
Ni mashada for mashida zangu
Kwa nyasi kaa Nebuchadnezzar
Si kuchonga kuchoma gwzl 
Ni mashada for mashida zangu 
Hii gwez ikinichapa
Ni mashada for mashida zangu
Kwa nyasi kaa Nebuchadnezzar
Si kuchonga , Kuchoma gwzl 
Ni mashada for
Yo

I feel like
There's too much on my plate 
But nimewasha mbili so, munchies my fate
Ran out of faces to put on, na
Mzae ame pass the baton already
Things fall apart kaa confetti 
My niggas told me 
"Chin inua, gin nunua" 
Niko maji, falling face first kwa greens- 
"Pumua"  
Jicho nyanya ducking men in blue
Jicho nyanya get me past the blues 
The floor is lava, nigga I'm grounded 
Shackles on my feet, but Mary Mary got me out of it 
So nachapa nyongi, nihepe shida na laani 
That Shashamane come for everything natamani juu

Hii gwez ikinichapa 
Ni mashada for mashida zangu
Kwa nyasi kaa Nebuchadnezzar 
Si kuchonga kuchoma gwzl 
Ni mashada for ma shida zangu 
Nawasha Nawaza 
Hii gwez ikinichapa 
Ni mashada for mashida zangu
Kwa nyasi kaa Nebuchadnezzar 
Si kuchonga kuchoma gwzl 
Ni mashada for ma-
Ni mashada for mashida zangu 

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by @mr_lu 
@xprso
XPRSO. 2020
Stream Gweztapes on all platforms: https://ampl.ink/obkxA

Mashada For Mashida

Lyrics:
Watching these hard times just blink by 
But Blinky told me 'Mungu halali'
Been battling feelings of 'Mungu hajali'
Blowing (Oh oh O's) 
Sipping KC mnazi
Wondering 'ni mgani Mungu halali?'
And would you please stand up?
Feel like life lately haifikii standards
Searching for light, haven't seen sun up 
Influence we be under, cause nothing adds up
Sijui kaa iko kazi but iko lazé
So weh bana

Acha i-burn ntachoma
Walk a mile in my shoes kuhepa trauma kuna venye inasumbua kijana
Uki light up ntachoma 
Walk a mile in my shoes kuhepa trauma inasumbua ki 

And Flylu* is tryna put me onto Ableton 
Chopping samples
Watch cartoons with the sound off I'm able to 
Small circle, still a piece of shit 
Looking for someone that could plead the fifth
Like I didn't screw up with the able few 
I roll up to escape the room, to clear the smoke 
Cause in so soon, I might be fully broken 
Juu to be honest, I'm so difficult 
Keep insulting my own conscience 
Every time I go against it feel like karma's out to get me 
Juu ni kama walipanga njama, get me for my tamaa,
So don't ask what I'm thinking nikishika tama
Me natamani pockets full of money
Conscience full of peace 
Nights full of sleep
Genuine laughs cause you're funny
Cause God must find it funny, my life msimulizi
Never know what's right na bado simuulizi
Mulika mwizi in the valley of the shadow of death
N'mevuta mbili you can probably smell it all on my breath
I've let some love go over piece of flesh
Lost appetite, losing weight smoking pounds of that sess
Losing wait, running out of patience
Subdued by fate nowadays don't say shit

Ntachoma 
Walk a mile in my shoes kuhepa 
Inasumbua uh
(Nishamaliza)
Walk a mile in my shoes kuhepa trauma inasumbu ki-

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by @mr_lu 
@xprso
XPRSO. 2020
Stream Gweztapes on all platforms: https://ampl.ink/obkxA

Interlu*

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