GOD MC

GOD MC

Shades Mkumbuzi

Yeah…

Before the sermon, let me salute my brother—

Madanono… Siphelele.

You already know.

Waterfall to the world.

Shades Mkumbuzi.

This ain't a song…

this is scripture through a microphone.

Amen.

—BEAT DROPS—

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God MC, God MC,

When I touch the mic, that's prophecy.

God MC, God MC,

From the kasi to eternity.

Nkulunkulu, ngikhuluma ngeqiniso,

Came from the bottom, now the whole room listens.

God MC, God MC,

Put the whole damn world in a rhyme for me.

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I came from where the pavement teaches more than classrooms,

Dreams get buried underneath where the grass grew,

Now I make the speakers shake like the past moved,

Every bar heavyweight, that's a fact too.

Pen game surgical, incision with precision,

I don't chase a wave, I create the transmission,

They want the crown but never studied the position,

I'm building something bigger than applause and recognition.

I put pain in the paragraph, fire in the syntax,

Turn a setback into platinum with a mindset,

Every line got a fingerprint, find that,

If the game is a chessboard, I'm already five moves past.

Waterfall made me—pressure made diamonds,

Silence taught me everything that violence couldn't,

I learned the value of a word when nobody would,

Now every syllable I spit got the weight of a neighbourhood.

I'm not here for validation, I'm here for elevation,

Independent operation, intellectual invasion,

Turn imagination into intellectual property,

Then turn the property into generational currency.

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God MC, God MC,

When I touch the mic, that's prophecy.

God MC, God MC,

From the kasi to eternity.

Nkulunkulu, ngikhuluma ngeqiniso,

Came from the bottom, now the whole room listens.

God MC, God MC,

Put the whole damn world in a rhyme for me.

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I don't need a throne, I'm constructing one,

I don't need a co-sign, I'm becoming one,

Every loss that I took became another rung,

Now I'm climbing where the doubters thought I'd never come.

See, the genius ain't the machine—it's the mind behind it,

I can give a soul to technology and still define it,

They see artificial intelligence, I see an amplifier,

Human hands on the controls while I engineer the fire.

I speak in dimensions they can't measure with a ruler,

Street philosopher mixed with a futuristic scholar,

Made a laboratory out the pain of every dollar,

Now the kid from Waterfall making kings reconsider their collars.

Madanono know the journey, tell 'em where we started,

Dreams in the darkness but the vision never departed,

Every scar became a signature, every struggle left a target,

Now I walk into the booth like the heavens just regarded.

I don't rap for the moment, I rap for the memory,

For the kid with a pen who ain't sure what he'll ever be,

For the ones who got overlooked and still remember me,

I'm turning my existence into documented history.

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Ngiyaphakama, angesabi lutho,

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