Last year, East Coast rappers Izzy x Shift the MC x Myko released the song The Debut. The trio just dropped the music video for their single sampling and modernizing the well known traditional filipino dance “Tinikling.” Here’s more from Izzy on the track:
I sampled a song used in the Filipino folk dance form called “Tinikling.” If you want a history or description, wikipedia and youtube are great resources. I felt that this would be a great precursor and intro to the theme of this mixtape, to my personality, and to my Filipino heritage. Also “The Debut” represents the debut, a Filipino celebration of new things (a la Quincineras, Sweet Sixteens, etc.) but you know… for a dude. I’ve known Shift the MC since high school, seeing this upcoming emcee break necks all over Youtube and NY. M Dela Cruz, aka Myko Cruz, is also a Youtube sensation and is now currently part of Filipino Boyband group A-Five. This song had a couple of iterations and versions, and as I grew and matured into my music, so did my writing.
You can download the single as part of Izzy’s Symphony mixtape for FREE here.
The Debut music video by Izzy x Shift the MC x Myko
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Lyrics to The Debut by Izzy x Shift the MC x Myko
(Izzy)
Welcome to the
Symphony Mixtape
My name is Izzy
I’ll be your guide for the day
So let me say
I am just a Filipino MC
Learn to spit in tongues burning like the third degree
If you know Kweli then you prolly heard of me
Just another part of the Blacksmith Community
Unity
Unify
Intangible until I die
Rapping rapid automatic
Cosmonaut is genocide
Hy to Zy, I & I
Dynasty Style
We bout to fly
(M Dela Cruz)
There’s no way that you can’t find the other side
Come with me and maybe we can get so high
So maybe you can start to live the way I do
It’s time for new beginnings this is our debut
(Izzy)
Swag so don draper, mad men
Loosen up the noose and you tighten the wrong end
We been in the song then
With Shift this aint news
Debut our first track
We rap we rack views
Tied for the second place, everybody is
I
So far ahead
No need to slow down
Hold it now, grip
Cry for your release
Cardiac arrest it won’t cease
Call the police
Died now you see the beast
Turn into a pillar
I know we spitting murder
Cuz the fans want a killer flow
Jack the ripper
Jackson thriller
Feed on emcees
You are my second dinner, go
Yung flow mo pare, mashadong panis na
Saket sa ulo ko
saket sa tenga
Merong kang
Isang verse
Better to rehearse it
You spit like my moms
Better take up nursing
(Shift the MC)
Always dreamt from a young age, id be that front page
It aint trickin’ if you got it, you’re not made
Demolish objects simple to complex
I want to move the streets like I called in a bomb threat
Caught in the same hustle, doing insane numbers
And there’s “no letting go”… Wayne Wonder
I wonder what they hear if it aint hunger
And when I see fame, I’ll remain humble
Don’t you see? We’re part of the same struggle
Shift and Izzy blowing up, but it aint bubbles
This is our de-but, so listen up now
It’s a celebration; this is how we get down
You got to get up and on your feet
Keep stepping on them haters; it’s called “the feet”
Stay lifted when I spit bars, it’s hard to reach
Got them tripping over flows like it’s hard to speak
(M Dela Cruz)
There’s no way that you can’t find the other side
Come with me and maybe we can get so high
So maybe you can start to live the way I do
(Izzy)
It’s time for something new;
Now.