Saba & No ID - head.rap (feat. Madison McFerrin, Ogi, and Jordan Ward)

Saba & No ID - head.rap (feat. Madison McFerrin, Ogi, and Jordan Ward)

“head.rap”

From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID

Feat. Madison McFerrin, Ogi, and Jordan Ward

Directed and Edited by: Ian Lipton and Saba

Produced by: Krista Worby, Cristela Rodriguez, and Jamal Hood

DP: Elijah Guess

Casting: Jamal Hood and Aye’lesha Gibson

Production Managers: Olivia Wolf and Cat McCabe

Production Coordinator: Matthew Price

Post Production Coordinator: Gabriel Freeman

Color: Clark Bishop, III and Nick Lindell-Wright @ETHOS Studio

1st ACs: Gary Walker and Lyle Mouton

Gaffer: Hiram Borges

Key Grip: Kev Garrard

Electric: Nasser Akkari

Grip: Keith Shattle

PA: Jhaylen Cherry and Malik Young

Movement Director: Tanji Harper

Wardrobe for Saba, Ogi and Jordan Ward: Rosalinda Ruiz and MALU

Production Company: KW Productions

Starring:

Saba

Madison McFerrin

Ogi

Jordan Ward

Cast:

Frsh Waters

Jamal Hood

Jordan Miller

Kyla Eveillard

Aye’lesha Gibson

Muni Jordan

Snacks Pivot

Tru

Keenon Rush

NAHCreate

Keenon Rush

Mia Kennedi

Paulette McWilliams

Jay Wood

Chops

Jamila Woods

Ben Moskow

Josie Melton

Kyla Eveillard

Joseph Chilliams

Dancers:

Levi Carroll

Seye Seye

Xae

Alan Freitag

Love

Special Thanks:

Tanji Harper and the Happiness Club, Mr. Jackson and Innovations High School, Wolf Studios, and The John Walt Foundation

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"head.rap"

From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID

Feat. Madison McFerrin, Ogi, and Jordan Ward

Produced by: No ID

Additional production by: Saba and Daoud

Recording Engineer: Tru

Mix Engineer: Jimmy Douglass

Mastered by: Joe LaPorta for Sterling Sound Studios

Lyrics:

Intro - Madison McFerrin

I ain’t got the time

To lose

On you

Verse 1 - Saba

Visits to county, we all fine

Seen my homie cut his dreads this time

I was growing my hair but I never considered trying

Locking it up, you know turn a root to devine

Saw free form slimkid3, Pharcyde

For the first time in the Runnin’ video

I thought what I’d look like

In an alternate light

Getting off into detail this all about my

Loc journey

Took the bus on Diversey

Hoping that I don’t die the day’s bright and early

She looked at me like

She love the nappy boy

Fro pressed down like a tabloid

Searching for a avenue

Ways to reflect my current attitude

Views of the world

I’m Malik to my grandma who

Used to braid my hair

But i had to cut em at the school

And it was Black ran

I’m just a Black man

Looking for good days

Good steak, lap dance

I’ll play the game but I won’t tap dance

Now you might see me out in a headwrap

Fitted but I didn’t get it on Fairfax

I’ll show you where i’m at like AirTags

I deserve a subtle flex and a rare brag

‘cause I’m the one who put the dreads in the care hat

Cut 'em and immediately grew my hair back

(That’s when they started letting me fly without a random search)

Hook - Ogi

From the moment I get up outta bed

Must protect what comes from my head

I don’t care what nobody said

Keep growing your garden

Hook - Jordan Ward

You keep growing your garden

Waves and winds, they harden it

I don’t even know what sparked it

Inspiration spark

Young dreadful n*ggas finna start shit

Verse 2 - Saba

Rinse the relaxers out of nappy afros

And breaking plastics from

Scratching scalps with rat combs

Curl patterns that fight back and that grow

So wild that you can’t put a fucking cap on

Momma scratching my dandruff we back home

Still tender headed boy you are not that grown

Them neck braids helped you build backbone

Everybody flamed yo ass

You either laughed or

Just hope one day the style catch on

Shorty my goals more than what you can brag on

When it add up won’t be an app on that phone

Need guap like a cheese head Brett Favre

Oh, you seen a weed head's got dreadlocks

Oh, you seen a couple savages too

Couple lil babies who done start they journey anew

I'm rooting for you we can start at the root

I’m who they told you i was it’s all true

The journey so far had to tell mine

I just asked my shorty for a hair tie

(And the mufucka broke before I even got to wrap my shit)

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