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SHORTY WOP

by Genovese

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A dive into my roots as an NY native, reflecting on one of my favorite childhood tracks "One Time 4 Your Mind" by Nas.

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“When I was 10 I was a hip hoppin SHORTY WOP, known for rockin microphones and twistin off a forty top”

“When I was 10 I was a hip hoppin SHORTY WOP, known for rockin microphones and twistin off a forty top”

If you ain’t notice, I was drankin’ on that double cross
Jump out the sunroof and hit am with a tomahawk
Shit, in Oakland I’m a Raider like I’m Laura Croft
Shorty used to hit my line but the love is lost
She was fuckin’ with my math that’s no, no
She did the 100 meter dash like she Flo-Jo
I blew a hunnit grams of hash I’m in SLOWMO/
Bumpin’ Coltrane and Louis Armstrong I’m old school-

“Yeah, I’m an old soul baby. Shit, these loafers is Margiela you heard”

Loafers, slacks polished gats and a leather coat
Grew up with soldiers but we never had no general
Stripes in the streets if they skimming gotta dead a crew
This just another Bronx Tale, I’m Calogero
Whether it’s a baddie or a witch ima hold the door
I’m a gentleman and a gangsta like Styles P
Be yourself, could give a damn bout what you trynna be

Uh

‘010 runnin red like Garapolo
Fuck it, we used to flip them pies like we Papa Johns
Out on the corner in the cold flipping coppers off
Back when Bloomberg had em stop and frisk the lot of us
We was old school bumpin Big L, rockin Nautical
Young Spanish cats off the block with the coca in our folicals
Back when Cartagena pushed the beemer out to Holly Grove
We make it rain, at the club and at the hookah lounge
Call it Bumpy Johnson cause I’m comin’ with that duji sound
Jealous motherfuckers steady plottin’ keep the tooly round
stacks as tall as Foooly now
Antarctica can’t cool me down

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released December 22, 2023
Written by Jason Anthony Boggs, Mixed/Mastered by Wyatt Woodley

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Genovese The Bronx, New York

Of Puerto Rican & Italian heritage.

Genovese represents the borough of The Bronx.

While paying homage to The Bay Area, CA where he resides.

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