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Really Jazzy

by SaskiaLaroo

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1.
Jazzn' Jamz 03:44
(Eyesful:) En l’espirit du Amsterdam (Warren:) You dig (Eyesful:) Bai duvant (Phantom:) Play that tune (Warren:) Puttin it down yeah (Saskia & Warren 1:) Jazzn Jam (Saskia & Warren 2:) We get at the party (Phantom:) Chant to them father, say what / I know you ‘re gonna dig this / Them no ready for this one Youw wey // Steppin out die place d o dalin na me waist / Jazz we approve in a dance na die place / Now we all go jam in a plot clot race / Now we see sweat drop down from me face / Find a little gal ana wine up me waist / Tell die boss man die man a turn up die bass / Jazz and Dance Hall man a give you a taste / A brand new thing that they cannot erase / A thing so precious that they cannot replace / The wickedest fashion with the style and grace / Wide enough for them that they fool up the face / What they see amiga in a funked up daze (Firestorm:) Aha Check it out / It sounds so sweet we take it nice and slow / spinnin on the nice beats of Saskia Laroo / Doin those jazz shows all over the globe / Listen carefully to my flow / don ‘t act if you don ‘t know / Guess who ‘s back again / we just jazz and jam straight out of Amsterdam / Keepin it live and official with Phantom by my side / We ‘re shinin’ like a chrystel / these lyrics hittin you like a mistel / Let ‘s party all night long / it ain’t an issue dancin’ to this song / Baby come on, get your freak on / and just jazz and jam, just jazz and jam, come on / (Phantom:) What am I thinkin about (Warren:) You dig
2.
(Saskia & Warren:) Talkin bout Coltrane, remember John Coltrane
3.
Really Jazzy 04:05
4.
(Firestorm:) Ah Yeah check it out hey yo // Hey yo I ‘m climbing up the mountain to find my baby girl / All the time I ‘ve been looking for you all over the world / I came this far so I can ‘t turn back now / Even if I could go back I still don ‘t know how / I pray to God that I find you at the top / So I keep climbing up the mountain until I drop / My journey for findin you will never stop / So here I come baby girl, hope you ‘re there or maybe not / (Saskia:) Climbing up the mountains / hope that I will find some peace of mind / I ‘m holding on to hope / Climbing up the mountains hope that I will see / that you will be the peace inside of me (Firestorm:) A tear drops for all the years that you ‘re gone / I can ‘t believe that I ‘ll be writing you this song / Baby please hold on, yeah I ‘m comin’ / But what if I ‘m wrong and I won ‘t find nothing / Suddenly my conscience is messing with my mind / You can hear the frustration in my voice when I rhyme / The pain of your memory is flashing by / I just can ‘t describe but the feelin’ in my heart don ‘t lie // Ain nothing changed since you left, it ‘s been so long girl / I really need you back I still remember / The time that we met the time that we made love / You was like an angel that was sent from above / I really can ‘t believe that you ‘re gone / I really miss your arms around me to keep me warm / I hate myself for ever doing you wrong / I need you here in my life / And maybe at time I ‘m gonna make you my wife // Hey yo I ‘m climbing up the mountain / hope that I will find something
5.
Same Song 05:13
(Saskia:) Say the same thing, sing the same song
6.
Munchin' 05:35
(Warren:) And they kept singing: We shall see we shall see / And then: If y’all keep comin’ up / with stuff like that we shall see (Stewlocks:) I ‘m the S to the T to the E to the double U / and when I got the microphone I woulda trouble you / My instincts starts linkin like park / you know I ‘m comin tru runnin’ tru very stark // Munchin // I ‘m pumpin like I ‘m in the gym / You wanna know who is me yes I is him / I ‘m the survivor, lyrical octivier / When I got this microphone you think I ‘m on fire / I ‘m a vulcano for hire yes I ‘m coming / thru shocking like electric wire / Ah I ‘m on fire yes I’m the girl ‘s desire, / yes I ‘m going higher / On the streets I listen to the beat / when I walk with my swing people think it ‘s unique / I keep going sync I ‘m cool, / my respect to you and you and you / Now I ‘m a street walker, I ‘m a fast talker / people, girls they call me a stalker / I ‘m author of this new book / when I got this microphone you know I ‘m a lyrical crook / You shook that ‘s why you ‘re shakin / Yes I ‘m reiterating the facts / as I adjust my baseball cap / I ‘m strapped and incaptulated in a rap / Aha the lyrical survivor / I ‘m on fire electric wire, a sigher yes / I rock the microphone because I becomin’the best / And you don ‘t wanna test me I ‘m not really inspired / In this place I gotta pump the bass / so you can understand the taste / As I reiterate lyrical facts in a rap (Saskia:) Munchin’on life, how will I survive (Warren:) Oh wee uh uh (Stewlocks:) Munchin // Check one two ‘s this is a street style blues / Here I comin true microphone check / break ya neck respect / I put it in my pocket then I start to hip hop it / I comin’tru hypnotic like a psychotic / Because I comin ‘ tru with my hands doing gesticulations / Feel the vibration this is a crazy sensation I ‘m feelin / Like an orange when it ‘s peelin’ / All kind of juices flying in the air / girl shake your derriere / Now I ‘m gonna stare, fun cup the athmosphere / Now Ha I keep looking for words / I ‘m gonna get absurd with the adverb / cause I ‘m a survivor coming thru like an electric wire / yes I ‘m always on fire vulcano for hire I never tire / I never lazy / I don t do dirty dances / cause my name ain ‘t Patrick Swazy / Worth while I ‘m a third world child / I smile like a crazy crocodile / I don ‘t do shift by the kilomethers I do it by the mile / Ha, it ‘s been a while since I freestyle in my home / But you know now I ‘m in my danger zone / you better leave me alone // ding ding dingeding / pa tikketiketown / dong ding, this is how I sing yow
7.
Kumpa 04:19
(Saskia:) you say kumba, what is kumpa? (Gene:) Kumpa (Phantom:) Ha ha (Warren [opera voice]:) kumpaaaaa (Phantom:) Wanna tell you a story no / tell ‘em ce, about me and my friend / wha happened? Wha I thought amiga was for real / turns out she ‘s not, you get me? / That ‘s how things go man, ain ‘t no worry / cause me and you we keep it tru like that / cause wha, we still like wo // I was lost now I ‘m found / My best friend them tried bring me down / what you say my kumpa try to stick around / don ‘t be a dummy don ‘t act like a clown // Things ain’t no funny now you cjan ‘t come around / You thought you with the money / now you face me see you frown / Things I get worse see me pump on the town / Kumpa, man a put your soul under die round / Come then out die city pum them out die road / a good good friend is more worth than gold / Who speak the truth clean heart and gold / Member man a tell the same word than gold Hey (Gene:) Aah Kumpa (Firestorm:) Yo yo ah / Kumpa means a friend to the end / My Italian companions / I can see if you ‘re a real kumpa when you realize / that we can rise together, no backstabbing no lies / I got your back and you got mine’s / no backstabbing no lies / I got your back and you got mine’s / no backstabbing no lies / cause I got your back and you got mine ‘s / Status quo brings surprise (Warren [opera voice]:) Kumpa (Firestorm:) Ease like that (Phantom:) Ease like that (Eyesful:) Kumpa (Phantom:) Aha now we gonna do it seriously / you know, easy though / shut me not // Things ain’t no funny now you cjan ‘t come around / You thought you with the money / now you face me see you frown / Things I get worse see me pump on the town / Kumpa, man a put your soul un die nam round / Come then out die city pum them out die road / a good good friend is more worth than gold / Member man a tell ee say you good to ye gold / Clean hearts them pure hey // I was lost now I ‘m found / My best friend them tried bring me down / what you say my kumpa try to stick around / don ‘t play no dummy don ‘t act like a clown (Firestorm:) Keep it real and make it happen / you know I ‘m still rappin / Everybody starts clappin’ / After every show so just let me know / if you like my style / So all my kumpas worldwide / let me see you smile / It don ‘t matter if you ‘re fullgrown / or just a little child / I can make you bounce so listen to the sound / And just relax now and put your head down / And let this beat clear your mind / so you can pay attention / to every word of my rhymes (Warren [opera voice]:) Kumpa (Gene:) Kumpa
8.
Big Blues 05:11
(Firestorm:) Yo big blues, I know the rules (Phantom:) Life is a big blues you know (Firestorm:) Yeah big blues (Phantom:) Sometimes you win, sometime you lose (Firestorm:) I know the rules (Phantom:) Be wise of what you choose (Firestorm:) Firestorm, Phantom, Saskia Laroo (Phantom:) Don ‘t get it confused / you have to know the rules / man participate and get yourself amused (Firestorm:) no doubt (Phantom:) Seen (Firestorm:) Feel man, don ‘t get confused / my life is like a short fuse / I ‘m about to explode on this tune / Better spread jewels for my big blues hiphop fools / You know that Fire rules / I ‘m just keepin it cool playing with the big tools / Make if you can even walk a mile in my shoes / Make me sacrifice it ‘s no lies I only speak the truth / The game is so real so I stay true / I try to educate the ghetto youth / Everything ain ‘t what it seems so we can only trust You / Life is one big blues / sometimes you win sometimes you loose / I pay dues like I pay tax / don ‘t get me stated by the honours that I stax / Yo I better show some respect and know how to act / When you look at the facts, you realize this is a rap / Better listen to the King with the baseball cap / Most of these cats hittin little beat grab / On the stage I like to pry from the front to the back / Still I ‘m getting paid, ain ‘t no doubt about that / In case sonics got my back baby / Life is one big blues, we makin big moves / Sometimes you win and sometimes you loose (Phantom:) Yeah man / Why me no know what fe choose big time blues / Sometime you win of you loose / Why themma get confused, miss of the rules / see them sniff, soak up die rose / And of them smell when man sniff up die rose / One yellow whole da man sell out them sole / Soak, move ya sell ye them sell out them sole / Twentyfife euro you will get a tied whole / Nice faced big breads tide puts see a whole / Just the right type fi die manthem you know / Down in Amsterdam everything a move slow / Phantom real King from the spotlight row / Saskia Laroo blow the trumpet yo / Times I get say would why better know / Man them take body down die world wide zone / Hoppin case hold man a clap on die coat / Or to Babylon put tap on me / phone scan them scan them
9.
Night Garden 05:27
10.
Funky Roads 06:17
(Ron:) I think I smell something again / I smell something funky funky funky / wow there it goes again y ‘all / it ‘s that Amsterdam funky-ass road / can ‘t you smell it? Yeah I do, mmm (Phantom:) Oh yeah, yeah (Firestorm:) What we gonna do? (Phantom:) We ‘re on the Funky Road right now / take a walk with me right now / just walk my brother / don ‘t be afraid I ‘ll hold your hand (Frank:) Yeahyeahyeah (Phantom:) Come on now everybody / sing it with me, we gonna tear this sukka down / Everybody sing it now, come on tear this sukka down / I can ‘t hear you louder now, come on / good God come on people (Firestorm:) I got some brand new flows / girls like to dance on our brand new shows / my mike glows when I ‘m on these funky roads
11.
Jealousy 04:24
(Saskia:) tatata / Jealousy / So you say you can have this attitude / and call it soul searchin’ / in the meantime let me tell you / you can have it all purgin’// All I see is you havin’ your way / Apparently how to level with me / No compassion do I have a say / Is the goal source control / Thought that I could trust / Understandin just didn ‘t make / what does it take to clarify / that I ‘m human and lonely
12.
Go For It 04:46
(Firestorm:) Yeah man, just go for it man / set for hunderd percent in it, go for it, no doubt / There ain ‘t no stoppin in it you know I gotta go for it / Keep on rockin the club / I‘m still on that shift so exclusive on the M I C / Make the crowd go all out to wanna be like me / And my amigo Phantom / we need our head bounce to the Anthem / And make girls pennyworth cause we ‘re so handsome / Don ‘t stop dancin keep on movin your body onto the beat / Show me what you ‘re workin with baby cause you ‘re so sweet / I make you do things cause I know exactly what you need / I got a remedy for your sexy body / I know how to explain it cause it ‘s my hobby (Phantom:) Rub it up, God bless the eyes on me guame bell it up / Enough well enter me guame fill it up / Why them a try them a bwame woll it up / fire guame on bull it na ya top / guame see the people a move the heads up / Phantom a chant in a style rubbadub / Sittin in a top with a yellow rubbadub / My life some great sometimes it really sucks / Send me a tire we keep we heads up / Babylon a try fi see we mess up / Hope than na gua funk we self up / But that can gua that na we mess up / I wanna stand and fix meself up / Tif than see Djah and dress meself up / Steppin na die street me na go fess up / Oh leese than ma drink go leve me chest up // Everything na you want boy / Go for it / Rude boy never stop and / Go for it / Try your best work hard and / Go for it / Keep your faith in Djah and / Go for it (Stewlocks:) Hatsjoe it ‘s the sick Guayanese / with the lyrical disease aya disse ma be please / Pleased with the distant I got no resistance / my pot move ara forward a crazy persistance / For instance me no dibi dibi / me no daga if you waka abeiga I be pleased paga paga /Mattin in a pattin me tjoure me iven meda besin imme passin / Comin from the flin iffe iffe wak ewin / But them kinda businessmen mina mina jeke / The lyrical event to de tempt me no lyin / Smokin like a phone anyway so me kyen / Comin from the rhythem like a byrd / from a lim like a stem from a sim / like a kyja from a reme do the dome digedee dame explode / from a guame like a code cause I got enough soul // Check it I start to ratadatada / you wanna know what ‘s the matter / Ease that a shatta / back up yo fade a lotta / You want fake to how go up the gote latter / so you rather be bothered /do what you gotta don ‘t even bother / You claim you coming from the projects showing disrespect / breaking necks collecting fat checks / You never listen with the dissin’ / no high steppin no ass kissin” / So punk so behave and listen / listen it ‘s not the sum of mission / or wishing you can change your mission / but you have an age of your wisdom /Famous, remember if there were promises / from another planet Uranus / Shame is you ‘re like Amos / He to he come if we just the gab of Tito / Fast fasting Burritos drinking sinkin / no praise and don ‘t think of me / But you ‘re drinkin’ smokin’ blonds / of expensive brands / and programs is in your goal runs / If you che w the funds that have been taken / medalful months happy from the dones nones / what ever happened to the critical and the political / when in jury that cause the side of being critical / What made it happen bringing the wreckless / to be the suckers become full of ragtaggin / beggars beggin more than foggers / Mine is a standvast / These comediens are so medium the medium / is nothing about defeating them / You erase even then you / try to read in them so deleting them / Hiphop can ‘t stop defeating them / But you feeding them wreckless promotion / blunt so defeating them / Even though there ain ‘t no funkin’ greed in them / Many many men many many mistaken / the sew to use creativity as a tool // Check it yo it ‘s me again grab your post and your pen ya / run around again and tell fi ya friend / Excuse me I ‘m sorry Ha snooze me / So o o o o at it and confuse me / You can ‘t accuse me of having a flavour / that ‘s pumpin like saviours sigh gothic behaviour / Hu hu ha It like the mike even though / I gotta go cause I got nough soul / whu

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Saskia 's fifth release, presenting a melange of Funk, Dance, and Jazz using instrumental themes, vocals, rap, beatbox, and improvisation over hip grooves. Really Jazzy features Saskia Laroo playing trumpet, saxophone, upright bass & vocals. With Keyboardist/ singer/co-arranger Warren Byrd (USA), trombonist/vocalist Frank Lacey; drummers Gene Jackson and Ronald Wright; rappers Stewlocks, Firestorm and Phantom, beatboxer Eyesful.

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released March 31, 2008

Recordings

Produced, programmed, recorded and arranged by Saskia Laroo at Saskia ‘s studio.
Additional arranging by Warren Byrd.
Mixed, Additional production, programming and arrangement by Rob Gaasterland at Studio de Boot, floating somewhere in Amsterdam.
Thanks to Adams for the flugelhorn

Artwork

Photographs by Nick van Ormondt; make up by Lena Tenaglia & Roxanne
Art Direction & Design by Steven Bergwerff / Vansteven
Liner notes by Hans “Big Boy” Dulfer
(translated into English by Saskia Laroo, adapted by Warren Byrd)

Cat nr: SL0801 | P & C Laroo Records 2008, the Netherlands
Email: saskialaroo@hotmail.com / info@saskialaroo.nl
Website: www.saskialaroo.com / www.laroorecords.com
NL mob: +31(65) 571-3113 / US cell: +1(860) 869-9531
Cat nr: SL0801 Distributed by Bertus Distribution, Netherlands (for Benelux, Europe & beyond)
Cat nr: LRO0801 Distributed by City Hall Records, USA (for USA & Canada)

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SaskiaLaroo Amsterdam

I am
trumpet player
Saskia Laroo
from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
My musical styles vary from
jazz to dance to world to pop
I have released six CD 's
with electric and acoustic music
on Laroo Records
I perform with my own formations
or as special guest
throughout the world.
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music, video, photos, information
and more.
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