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WILT​/​CORNERSTONE

by Wahid

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WILT 02:18
Verse: ride like a pony, holla if ya know me/ synonym for the the kingdom up high/ RIP Kobe, never can destroy me/ anytime I build with a pillar in the sky/ never fold like a caterpillar in the cocoon/ depend, if my wing pretty like a butterfly/ walk in my shoes.. might lose soul (sole), hot as my vice is, go ahead and try/ why they like puddy, I’m quicksand, shorty been a lil flip.. she a kickstand/ bih my eye enterprise, like a rental, got the world wrapped like a wristband/ broom jumpin’ who coming to function, married to the drop.. where the opps/ finna dust em, bubble with the pot.. we accustomed/ to the top, blow thru the spot, leave a mushroom/ Hook: sly wit a pump fake/ nigga kill vibe with a constraint.. fuck that nigga get rich/ lie with a mush brain, nigga so high, hear the buzz of the rain drop/ fore it hit stick, boy they better act right, leh go of the toy.. so I burn down block, like a bomb in this bitch/ hunnid it on like Wilt, old pair of nikes on the concrete, fuck that nigga get kilt/ Verse: ain’t no rest for the weary, got no time for the wicked, the Po’ Right.. no parasite come near me/ boy ya talk too much, them lil gums got you feeling fresh/ better run like Ricky/ Williams or Morris, chestnut (chest nut), she a nympho! Talk shit like Hid why so ya porous/ cause we holy in the mind so we focused/ pay attention, no choke.. no joke.. like, Roc-A-Fella in the ‘03, finna take it back to ‘09.. Josh Mic, when them lights wasn’t on me/ just a young nigga watching from the nosebleed/ O killing, mo Riddim.. no police/ tripping, no phony niggas.. just homies/ god sent, lil ma.. come pour me/ cause we.. Hook: sly wit a pump fake/ nigga kill vibe with a constraint.. fuck that nigga get rich/ lie with a mush brain, nigga so high, hear the buzz of the rain drop/ fore it hit stick, boy they better act right, leh go of the toy.. so I burn down block, like a bomb in this bitch/ hunnid it on like Wilt, old pair of nikes on the concrete, fuck that nigga get kilt/
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CORNERSTONE 02:16
Intro: I.... I, woo tree for oxygen/ my.. lungs, butterfly in my cavity, baby/ and you say I can’t breathe near you?/ stone that this builder re.. stone, stone.. that this builder re.. stone that this builder refuse/ Verse: been ignited like the wood they couldn’t hear fall, they done ignored.. the floorboard/ when the builder did refuse the infrastructure, did they let almighty perform/ ooo, way uh.. ruffle the leaf and look beneath us, ooo did you see light?/ wooo, sight of it keep you rooted in belief, don’t believe the hype/ Hook: eye wide open, that shit gon keep from runnin from you../ thru flame on my heel, leave the string from my boot, ooh/ damaged like stone that the welder removed/ I’m broken, love.. I’m chosen.. love.. woo/ Verse: didn’t let me in the picture, so I haunted them../ now the thought of leaving me aloof, dearly departed them/ what an awful sin, woah it keep me on top of them, with a Rod like a limb/ I, low.. like moccasin.. that flow like deep within the water, bih my.. limit long as the knee on stilt that was in the Philly.. migrate to California/ lately my paranoia, locked me up in the den but, take the pin then pull it off me, off me Hook: eye wide open, that shit gon keep from runnin from you../ thru flame on my heel, leave the string from my boot, ooh/ damaged like stone that the welder removed/ I’m broken, love.. I’m chosen.. love.. woo/

about

If you’re looking for comparisons on Wahid, let’s start with if Black Thought was born two decades later and raised in Central Florida by a Jamaican DJ father who raised his progeny on a booming system of rocksteady, dancehall and reggae dubplates. As a teenager in the late 00s, Wahid's older brother exposed him to the classics of hip-hop’s second Golden Age. As Wahid describes it: “Nas made me want to rap, listening to the GZA’s Liquid Swords made me good at it, and Black Thought helped me refine my skills.”

But what makes Wahid sui generis is his gift for merging classic MC traditions with forward-thinking cadences and melodies. In his double-time acrobatic flows, he’s distinctly post-Kendrick Lamar, and Lil Wayne – blessed with a novelist’s eye for minor detail and a virtuoso’s gift for ransacking hidden pockets of a beat. He can turn a warped post-Dilla instrumental to ashes with 16 bars and croon a plaintive falsetto wail on the hook that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Jeremih album or sounding like a lost fifth member of TDE’s Black Hippy Crew which is no coincidence as 'Wilt' was inspired by the flows Wahid heard on Isaiah Rashad’s ‘House is Burning’ album as he wanted to emulate those cadences plus the carefree vibe.

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released October 16, 2023

WILT: written/performed by Wahid (Joshua Brown); produced by Kaelin Ellis and BAD ONE (Iggy Scannone)

CORNERSTONE: written/performed by Wahid (Joshua Brown); produced by Kaelin Ellis

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