Yo, got the fake patois
KRS One did a fake patois
Miss Cleo got a fake patois
Even Jay-Z did a fake patois
Bad Brains had a fake patois
My man Snow had a fake patois
Even Jim Carrey fuck with the patois
So you know he come through with the fake patois

Patois, got the fake patois
You come through with the fake patois
Patois patois patois
Fake, fake patois

What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?
What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby

What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?
What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby

Ya not goin' speak patois
Me goin' talk the fake patois
Everyone I listen to, fake patois
Snow from Toronto, fake patois

Original rudeboy
Original rudeboy

Shabba Ranks
Cutty Ranks
Your M.O. is mo', me say no thanks
Shabba Ranks
Cutty Ranks
Your M.O. is mo'

Yeah, me right near the beach
Right near my reach is the fire for the streets
Yeah, and now me can't read
Baldhead teef me book and now me can't speak
Yeah, fake patois
Is fake patois
Fake patois

All the sudden had a fake patois
Even Busta Rhymes kinda sound patois
Maybe just enjoy it, make it look patois
When he speak, he just speak, but to me patois
The way he did do the patois
With the leaders of the new, but it's sure (??)

What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?
What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby
First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby
Fake patois, fake patois

Yeah, the boy a murderer
Here come the hotstepper with fire (?)
Yeah, winner play games
It's fake patois, winner take names
Don't want test me, make one take aim
Crunch like Nestle, snipe from the planes
Snipe like Wesley, punch like Hawaiian
Snipe from the planes, yeah we shoot while we flyin'

(???)

This fake patois
This fake patois

(???)


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    My Opinion

    i love this song so much.

    noahcoburnon May 29, 2011   Link
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    General Comment

    seems a pretty simple meaning, it's just criticizing people not of Carribean descent for using Patois. DR have said they dislike Matisyahu, and he's a white jewish guy giving it the creole, so I think it's a racial thing, like I as a white guy wouldn't go around putting on a Zimbabwean accent, so why is patois a perfectly fine thing to bastardize?

    That's my view on it at least.

    Strayeon May 31, 2011   Link

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