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RedCloud - When Kenpo Strikes
(from the album Is This Thing On?)
© copyright 2001
(hook) Everybody was kung fu fighting,
fists as fast as lightning, and my sense is guiding me
through endless writing,
and it might seem frightening, but it's not it's my
thing.
So come out your hiding it's just Kenpo striking....kia!
(verse 1) I accept your challenge, right here right now
Right or left,
south paw bro I know them all. Muay thai, kenpo (dragon -
tiger claw)
Y'all I'm rude when I brawl like I'm Steve Seagal. See, all
I've gotta do is get
loose like I'm fluid dude, Rolling up my sleeves on my Gi
and get into it.
You and who, him and them ? Line up in a single file. One on
one, all for one...
end up in a bigger pile. Rojas Kenpo I'm full contact.
Attacking in the mental
I'm beyond the mat. The ambiance of martial arts is
constant, Nunchucks
chucking when I step the mosh pit. Win Chung dummy getting
splintered
apart My escrima sticks whipping and I'm chipping the
bark... What are you?
A pink belt? I'll give you a head start. Kumite killin',
with the spirit of
Ed Parker... Way of the intercepting fist to your floating
ribs, Leave your
guard open again and get a second hit. Breathe in through
the nose out
the mouth I admire your courage for trying to come and duke
it out. Poppa
never taught me how to knock a brother out. Vatos in the
barrio would try
to take me out. Enrolled in the temple till I'm all Kenpo'd
out. now I clothes
line the biggest baddest cholo in the crowd. Underground
cockfight, like a
pitbulls bite... Stricken in the jaws as the k9 gnaws.
Gnashing of the teeth,
from the blood you've lost. People stand in disbelief as it
floods across. You
knew the pros and cons the pain I cause. Your blood is
oozing lots.. need towels
and gauze. I stand in my neutral bo with feet aligned. You
are better off...jumping
the fence to feed the lions.
-hook (bridge) 'kumite" -hook
(verse 2) Me and Hugo go to china town's roads bro Him and
his clean fade and
me in my cornrows. Picking up uniforms for tournament storm
Black belt sparring
music weapons and forms Ain't that the dude in the tae kwon
do shoes That
was hating on them Kenpo cats from my crew. Didn't we spar
with him early
'92, at the challenge of the dragons I dropped him in a few.
He's giving you the
evil eye and mad dawgs Let's pay for the uniforms and were
gone. I walk out the
front he follows closely... Reaching for his pistol...he's
trying to smoke me. Back
flip kick and chip his front teeth. His homeboy's blocking
off the whole street Run
the guns are gonna fire rapidly They think you are Dolph
Lundgren and I am
Brandon Lee. I'm right behind you bro...don't abandon me
Let's hide inside of the
trash till set free. So freaking close I wrecked my clean
clothes Koreans
multiplying like sheets from Kinko's But they don't know tae
bo like Hugo....
fifth degree Black belt chinese kenpo... An honorary black
belt melts my whole
soul... Let's jump out of this dump dude lets go... Ready to
pop lock...dog we
stretched out... Attacked by a flock and threw there backs
out. Some couldn't
stand the pain and passed out Paralyzed in the physical,
life says lights out.
License to kill at will if I must.. You'll sense infinite
skills when I bust In the street
in the ring, better praise the King. Find something to cling
on...Dragon tail swings.