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Here I Am

by Jehst

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Jehst 'Here I Am'
(W. Shields, A. Hendricks)
Produced by Apollo
Cuts by DJ Ideal
Mixed by Kill Money
Mastered by Shane McEnhill

🗓 JEHST - UK TOUR 2024
WED 28 FEB @ Jazz Cafe, London
THU 29 FEB @ Patterns, Brighton
FRI 01 MAR @ Quarterhouse, Folkestone
FRI 08 MAR @ 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool
SAT 09 MAR @ Headrow House, Leeds
SUN 10 MAR @ Band On The Wall, Manchester
THU 14 MAR @ The Louisiana, Bristol
🎫 TICKETS: jehst.co.uk

Jehst carves open 2024 and reiterates he’s nobody’s equal by announcing ‘Here I Am’. Boarding the measured piston pump of Apollo’s production dipped in a bleak greyscale, the UK hip-hop legend effortlessly exercises his superiority while fighting the drag of modern life and the downward-looking, post-glam construction of his fellow Champion of Nature. Referencing Ace Rimmer, Biggie, Grand Puba and Shaquille O’Neal, and diced with raw cuts, Jehst flexes - “this is strictly top shelf, better raise the bracket” - confounds - “what ya doing down the deep end when you don’t swim?” - and provides slow-burning release and relief for the new year.
 
Championed far and wide throughout 2023, Jehst's ‘Mork Calling Orson’ LP received praise from Brooklyn Vegan, Okayplayer (“a seamless body of work”), Bandcamp, Clash (“Jehst’s voice feels three-dimensional”), PopMatters (“another jewel in the venerable MC’s crown”) and The Wire (“a series of hazy transmissions from a strange, alien world”). Radio coverage crossing from Radio X to Kiss FM, the album’s crowning glory, ‘One Horse Town’ featuring Eva Lazarus and Confucius MC, featured on the BBC 6 Music playlist for four weeks. Jehst also curated 6 Music’s post-midnight ‘Lose Yourself’ mix, and featured on Radio 2’s For The Love Of Hip-Hop show, whose host Romesh Ranganathan described Jehst as “a living legend - maybe the most influential name in UK hip-hop”. Jehst heads back across the UK on tour with seven headline dates beginning at London’s Jazz Café. 


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lyrics

(Chorus)

Billy give you the raw
If you didn’t want it What you listening for?
Christopher Wallace When I kick in the door
The system abolished Is the mission for sure
This is the cure

I give you the raw
If you didn’t want it What you listening for?
Christopher Wallace
When I kick in the door
The system abolished
Is the mission for sure
This is the cure

I give you the raw

(Verse 1)

Indoors
With the pipe and the slippers
I’ll be back for breakfast
Smoke me a kipper

Stars align like the big dipper
The script flipper
These little sprats
Looking like a fish dinner

Sip the Kingfisher
Your boy Billy spit flames
Better get the fie extinguisher

The Militia
Peep the vision
We pop the champagne
Spark the cigar
When we complete the mission

You paid the fee for admission
Best to exit through the gift shop
When you leave the exhibition

The channel’s live
The electrician
You know all we do is spark mad izm

Mad charged
Now the madman is at large
Wild like rock stars
Who smash guitars

I get nasty
Old school
Nasty Nas
Weed plants in the plastic jars

We hug trees
But don’t save the planet
The main aim
Is to make a packet
This is strictly top shelf
Better raise the bracket

Classic like a jacket by Hackett
These man are buggin’ out
Acting erratic

Loop the break
Vinyl with the static
Staring at the screen
And trying not to panic

(Chorus)

I give you the raw
If you didn’t want it
What you listening for?

Christopher Wallace
When I kick in the door
The system abolished
Is the mission for sure
This is the cure

I give you the raw
If you didn’t want it
What you listening for?

Christopher Wallace
When I kick in the door
The system abolished
Is the mission for sure
This is the cure

I give you the raw

(Verse 2)

Outside
With the mask and the hand gel
What goes around
Like Grand Puba Maxwell

Fling your E.T. games in the landfill
Bring your whole campaign run
To a stand still

Crop the daffodil
Non stop when I’m at the wheel
Over your head
Like Shaq O’Neal

Crack a real cold tin
Then he goes in
What you doing down the deep end
When you don’t swim?

Situations get so grim
These man are psycho
Twist your light bulb
‘Til it goes dim

Eat the steamed Dim Sum
And the fried fish
With the same chopsticks
I use to catch flies with

The next wave
I make your ship capsize quick
Indicate a seismic shift
In the climate

Planetary alignment
All out of whack
Look at all these slave-masters posing
As I count my stack

For the counter-attack
It’s the soundtrack
Listening to Lootpack
Rolling up the loud pack

From the Serengeti desert
To the Australian outback
High Plains
We all about that

(Chorus)

I give you the raw
If you didn’t want it
What you listening for?

Christopher Wallace
When I kick in the door
The system abolished
Is the mission for sure
This is the cure

I give you the raw
If you didn’t want it
What you listening for?

Christopher Wallace
When I kick in the door
The system abolished
Is the mission for sure
This is the cure

I give you the raw

credits

released February 16, 2023

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