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Genre
Charts
Peak #727
Peak in subgenre #66
Author
Aaron Garback/Donnie Whittle
Uploaded
March 21, 2011
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MP3 5.9 MB • 128 kbps • 6:29
Story behind the song
As the second debut song for Kajin Chunsa, "Wakin' Up Dead" has the full-scale feeling of what it's like to be stuck in one of life's great, but many, slumps. Initially planned and worked on 3 months ago, Chunsa reports that he got depressed along the way and some heavy situations went down.
"Well, everything I say in here is true; I have so many things wrong with my life and I just don't know how to deal with them. Sometimes I feel like suiciding, but I know that's not the way out. That's cowardice. The biggest thing to affect me, as of late, is my best friend, my homegirl, O.G. TeardropZ, dying by brutal murder under severe conditions from [rivaling gang members]. I've been with her for 8 years--she was like my sister, not my girlfriend, don't get it twisted, but I still loved her--and now, that's all down the drain. It's been a week or a little less, and I still haven't gotten over it." O.G. TeardropZ, a, now ex-, member of the Sur 13, was murdered under conditions that Chunsa would not like revealed.
On the other hand, artist Kami Klack says, "I heard about what happened, and I had the same happen to me, but it was with my aunt--one of the people I was closest with--she died at 32 by a heart attack, and I'm sayin, that [stuff] is just not natural. We've both survived a great loss, but we know better than to end it. We stay strong for those who, at the moment, can't. Kajin really proves why he's the next greatest thing, in my opinion. If you saw him workin' the mic in the studio like I did, you'd think the same thing I do. Kajin had such chemistry with it."
The instrumental has a feel of, as Chunsa would say, "The air is dry," which really creates the aura of depression. Given that depression isn't enough to explain this, it definitely has that feel of silent suffering which is, in this case, not so silent. Chunsa's words are crisp and seem to hit the hammer on the head with his straightforward thinking and censor-less tongue.
Lyrics
I (Kajin Chunsa/Kami Klack [On The Phone]):
KC: Yo, hello?
KK: Yo, whassup Kajin? It's ya boy, Kami! Y'all ready to start recordin?
KC: I don't know about that man, I'm not feelin' so good this mornin'.
KK: Yo, whassup? C'mon, talk to ya n*** ! Tell me what's goin on?
KC: It's just another one of those days when I wake up and wonder where 6 years of my life went!
KK: sh** , I feel ya, bruh! Why don'cha tell me about it?
KC: Yo! Check it!
C (Kami Klack/Kajin Chunsa):
My soul feels robbed and my head is throbbin,
I’m havin ups and downs (ups and downs!),
My crew wont stop talking about they problems
I’m turning round and round (I'm turnin' round and round),
gotta make a plan, lookin up at the sky (up at the sky),
If my luck runs out on a different cloud,
Then my life is wasting time, (I'm wasting time)
I’m just waking up dead
V (Kajin Chunsa):
It looks like it’s gonna be just another one of those days
(When it’s the same sh** ), but it’s served up on a different plate
I got my speakers blastin’ with both Eminem and Lil Wayne
“Drop The World” cause even though I’m confident, I feel like I’m goin insane.
I got an unstable flame kinda like a derailed train
My head can’t be up on my shoulders cause it’s hangin’ from a string.
Pessimism engulfs me, though I got people (screamin my name)
Like B.o.B, everywhere I go, (people want me to sing)
(It’s like the air is dry) but I could almost smell death as soon as I wake
I point my face up in the sky & see the line that intercepts my fate
But it keeps on goin like I keep on flowin’
It’s like I’m already dead just as soon as I wake.
And it’s my birthday today and I got a birthday cake
but there’s turmoil in my crib cause my brother betrayed
me, and it was ridiculous, but Paris Hilton woulda thought it hotter
He cranked dat J-Christ miracle, changin’ blood straight into water.
V (Kami Klack):
Ay, yo, I gotcha back, Kajin.
I just feel like erybody dumpin' sh** on me these days.
Ain't nothin ever good enough!
But I got my own story to tell you...
Check it!
Does the world hate you? Nah this world hates me,
Life is my prison cell and I just wanna fly and be free,
Sayin punk n*** they got my ass all paranoid, all strung up on steroids,
Caught me unaware boy,
They tell me, its just the monsters in my basement,
Just the problems I’ve been facin,
I’ve got some locks that I’m replacing to the doors I have to go through,
Locked up in my phone booth, callin out for help,
But my help don’t ever come through,
My boss tried to fire me, lyin, keeping an eye on me,
When I try to reason, they blow it up outta propriety,
My priority is to come and start what I finish,
But this world’s got me low down off of haters and snitches.
I try to find a balance but my balance keeps switchin,
like a light I’m in the darkness and these demon’s are vicious,
I’ve had some better days but this Bacardi keeps ringin,
But I say f*** it, go take a chug and ever since I’ve been drinkin.
V (Kajin Chunsa):
Yo!
You got some good points and sh** !
But uhh... Lemme tell you sutt'n else,
then we gotta start lookin' up!
If we don't, I might slice my own wrists,
you know what I'm sayin?
For reals, though.
LET'S SEE!
Positive, positive!
I've gotta find a positive;
I've gotta stay always positive
just like Massacre Mike rockin' it!
Mike told me (always stay positive)
That would keep me (larger than)
life and eventually, something good would gon come out of it!
But tell me, how could you run with it
When you're caught up and trapped in a dead end?
Trust, I been tryin' 22 years and now TeardropZ dead!
Knew her since 14, I never wanted to take her to bed,
but in times of warfare,
she was closer to me than a b*** givin' head!
(I'mma hood n*** ), and that means I ain't got many friends
I usually gotta cut'em off, soon as they make their grand entrance!
Fakes in abundance; people who would use and abuse me,
even my family seem to have a routine of when
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