Cannon Raps Pt. 2
[Skit]
We feel that we have a responsibility to shine light
Into the darkness, you know?
See, you know, there's a lotta darkness out here
We watch it all the time, I'm busy lookin' at the darkness sayin', "Damn, there's some darkness over there," you know?
Haha, whatever, and we have a responsibility to focus on it, see
You know, y'all be cool, we know that we know how to make some music
And the music ain't supposed to stand still
And little bit of, w—what do you call it? Little bits of in-roads
Into some music ain't enough that we have a sеrious responsibility to do it anyhow
But we prefеr to think about the responsibilities we have to the music
And the music is all-consuming, I wanna tell you, it's tyrannical
Now we found out sometime ago that if you take a whole group of really super bad dudes and hang 'em in together
They'll make some music, whether or not somebody else thought it was hip or not, you know, it'd be okay
You dig? Somebody's gotta start it
And we, Mike Deasy, Ernie Watts, and Roy McCurdy, Walter Booker, George Duke
And Airto Moreira, along with my brother, Nat, and me, we figured that we can make some music just by doin' it
And it's very easy to make music if you start out with musicians
So—so we're going to—yeah, we're going to um, begin to do something that is comprehensive
By establishing some kind of musical premise
And it will develop, you know, everybody'll make his own statement according to Hoyle or whatever
We're going to start this particular thing with Walter Booker, our bassist
And Ernie Watts, our tenor saxophonist, or flortist, or whatever he wants to do
I think he likes to play the saxophone sometimes, you know, he's—he's good so, you know what I mean? What the hell
Anyhow, the statement that they make
Will determine what everybody else plays very shortly, ya dig?
And that's the way it go