# The 90s Cipher 
*Arch L, Equatorial Equinox & Griot Yucatan*

Yeah yeah
Heralding from the heights of Mist
Trinity of The Most Under Celebrated 
Word Slayers...
Equatorial Equinox, Arch L, and the Griot Yucatan

[Hook]

Let's get under the Shade..
(Under the Shade yeah...)
Twejukanye nobuyimba, Nokuyiya..
Everything's not going on
(What's going on..)
Microphones get defrosted for The Utmost

Let's get under the Shade..
(Under the Shade yeah...)
Twejukanye Arch L, Equinox, Yucatan
Everything's not going on
(What's going on..)
Microphones get defrosted for The Utmost



[Equatorial Equinox]

It was Monday
Walking from Home, I go to school
Had like four other kids from the same neighborhood
We used to wear uniforms, all the shirts tucked in
I was attending nursery school, somewhere in Namasuba
Used to carry lunch box, some buns and popcorn
We used to go school early, the sun rising up
Namasuba Kindergarten, all the kids were there
I had a friend in a teacher, she was called Violet,
She used to draw Mickey Mouse on the charts for us
And make us sing the alphabet, in reverse sometimes
I never doubted, the methods of the master
Used to teach mathematics with the abacus
After class we were out in the fields to play
I had a friend called Matovu, we used to chill together.
Sometimes on the way back, coming from school, we used to go to the video shack and grab a flick.

(we used to go to the video shack and grab a flick)


Story2: as a teen, first time I had sex

[Arch L]

I reminisce a teenage life
Full of hectic strife
Me and ma big brother had a thing about graffiti
We used to chill out writing on the walls for pay
Drawing art in the bars and salons around
I Used to Listen to Krazie Native and Babaluk
Used to hangout after dark grabbing a joint
Momma never allowed us, but the Gs groomed us
So that's how I met, Lilly the Girl, the Outlaw
She took ma virginity at the age of sixteen
I remember her kissing me, telling me "Quick"
We were chilling in Abaita Ababiri that day,
Her mother and father, had gone away that night, 
We were messing in the house, she was older than me,
I can not forget how she really made me calm.


(How she really made me come..)


[Griot Yucatan]

Kekaseera, jukira the yesterday we know
Nzijukira ebisera lwenasoka, okuja mukibuuga
Myaka gyali nga munana, biseera byadda
Nzijukira okutula mubasi ya UTC
Bwetutyo, nga tuyingir'ekibuga kumakya
Myaka gyali gyamukyenda (( biseera bebyo... ))
Nga Uber Taxi, DSTV tebinabba
Nali nga nesaze Kaunda suit kyekyo kyekyo...
Radio Matalisi kumpewo zibogola
Ng'omugaga Alina Cassette Tape Walkman
Mpozi nezi headphones, tewaliyo Bluetooth
Myaka gyali gyakuyiya, Netata Luyima
Tuze mukibuuga KAMPALA tuyiye kulupiya
Tutambuza amawulire, tutunda nobunyembwa
Mama nebaganda bange, Bali nga bba Mityana
Biseera bya Ssekukulu, olwo ffe nga lwe tudayo 

(olwo ffe nga lwe tudayo...)

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The 90s Cipher

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