Chords for Kelissa + Chronixx Levels Anbessa Studio, Reggae Mountain Jamaica

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[F] _ _ _ _ _ Yes, Splash!
It's studio time, you know?
Come, [Bb] my name is Kalissa, let's go.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Greetings, and what's your blessed love to one and all.
This is Kranix, and we're going
into Anbessa [Eb] Studios right now, _ Levels.
[Fm] And we're going to take in some Anbessa [Cm] music
and_
[Fm] Splash, you there?
We there, yeah? _
[C] I'm [F] curious, [Fm] what have I? _
See you last year.
_ _ _ Your voice and words alone defeat any other feeling I've _ felt. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ [Fm] Music, for me, is a tool and [Ab] it is a weapon.
And just like any other weapon, like, weapons
come with responsibility, and you have to be responsible.
As an artist, I feel like I have a certain social responsibility, [Bb] because _ [Db] a lot of people
listen to [Ab] them, and a lot of people follow them, you know?
[A] It's just human nature, when
we see something we [Ab] like, and when something is attractive, _ we are attracted to it, you
know?
And so, if I know that as an artist, I want to [Fm] go _ into this business, into the
artistic business, into music, into art, trying to fulfill a social responsibility.
A hammer [Ab] is used to build, and it can be used [Cm] to break down.
So like, [D] _
most_
the same weapon
of [Fm] construction can be a [Ab] weapon of destruction, so you have to use it for good.
[Fm] You know,
so I choose to sing about [F] what I sing about, because people need upliftment, people need
good music, _ [Fm] people need to know what [C] Rastafari is, and what _ [Ab] living a positive life, and the
benefits of living a [F] positive life is.
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_ The most interesting place _ that's taken me is into people's souls, you know, into people's
hearts, because that is my destination, that is the _ most_
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that [C] is the most anticipated
place [Fm] for chronicles, [Gb] in the hearts of the listeners. _ _
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[G] I can't remember a time in my life when I never wanted to sing.
You know, it was natural for me to get [Gbm] into [C] music, because my parents are musicians, [Em] from
as _ a youth, you know, I know them [Am] from a band called Shakula.
I'm still rolling with [C] that
name now, [G] touring all over Africa.
You know, [Am] music is my calling, you know?
_ [Em]
And the only time I was wondering about what exactly
I'm going to do is when I was wondering about which area in music I was going to travel.
[G] _ [Am] But there was never any question whether or [Em] not, or any ifs as to [B] if I'm going to do music
or not, you know what I mean?
[Em] Me and my family, we grew up here, in St.
[Am] Andrew, Jamaica, in the hills.
So [Em] I've always
been inspired by, you know, just natural [C] environments, so I used to make my natural jewelry [Bm] and Rastafari.
[B] The two [E] biggest influences on people [G] is the church and Rastafari, from my point [C] of view,
actually.
And I grew up in church, you know, like most youths in Jamaica, I [B] grew up in church.
Living in Africa, I got to [A] travel around East Africa, in Kenya [E] on safaris, visiting West
Africa, going to school.
There are just [C] so many experiences that just [Em] made me realize
how wholesome Africa is.
And I just [Am] feel like it's my mission to get that out there to the
people.
[B] Whether it's through music, or through t-shirt design, [C] or just even in [Gb] talking.
Really and truly, [Em] _ _ _
I think [Am] church was a very good instrument.
_ That's where [C] I was, you know,
fortified, from a foundation level.
[G] Where I knew cards, keys, notes, I was choir director,
[B] _
worship [Em] leader at church.
And then even _ after our journey, [Am] you know, in Rastafari, we see
where _
_ [A] _ [Em] most of the songs that are even, where they even chant [Am] at Naya Bingi, is from [Em] church,
you know.
So coming in to perform, you know, like the first [D] place I performed for more
than 5 [E],000 people was on a gospel concert.
[A] For me, coming in now and [D] working at Rebel
Salute was like, you know, the easiest [Ebm] thing. _ _
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_ _ [A] I think that my music has a very, it's very, the Afrobeat.
So the Afrobeat in my music
is very expressive of [Em] my experience with the drums in [Am] Africa, you know.
And sometimes
when I'm writing a song, [Em] it's just to a beat.
We have the African sounds [Am] that we include
and just everywhere from the Caribbean, [E] we have the dancehall beats and the roots rock
reggae and the [Am] one drop.
We try and incorporate all of that because I'm [Em] trying to bring, to
bring light on a bigger [Am] picture.
Because I think too much into size, we're too [Em] focused
on one thing.
And so we kind of get stuck [Am] in a box.
So I just feel like I have to step
both out [D] of the box.
I step out of the box [F] when they try to lock me down.
[D] _ Calculate me like clocks, [F] but to
time I'm not bound.
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You can make [C] a mockery, but I will be [B] renowned for being any [F] _ _ that's
different than the norm.
[D] _
_ _ [C] Live music, people [E]
[G] recognize their feet, but it is not appreciated to the _
_ [Gm] _ [C] heights that
I [Eb] envision that it should [Ab] be appreciated.
In Jamaica, we have a very promising movement
right now in the [Eb]
[Gm] uprising.
You have to look [D] out because we are here and we are doing good
music. See.
_ I think art [C] _
[Fm] incorporates so many elements that _ _ _ [Ab] in Western society, unfortunately, [F] we
kind of bypass.
_ [Cm]
A lot of the African cultures, most of their history is oral history and
is passed down [Fm] through music and is passed down through power and symbols.
And [Ab] so, you
know, also trying [Eb] to incorporate that into the T [Cm]-shirt design.
For instance, the one that the ambassador _ _ logo is based off [C] of is from [Fm] Nigeria.
It's
a Igbo [Ab] proverb and it means [Fm] until lions write their own story, the tale of the hunt will
[Cm] always glorify the hunter.
When you're traveling, you know, when [E] you're going to the top of the mountains and valleys
and [Fm] going on safaris and seeing the broad savannah, there's just, [Ab] it kind of puts everything
into perspective for you, you know, because we learn about slavery and we learn about,
[G] you know, how _ [Eb] we as Africans [Ab] came onto this island, but we never learned about the beginning.
We don't learn where we come from and we don't even get to see the connections. _
So, for [G] instance, when I was in Ghana, I felt [Cm] like I was in Jamaica.
I felt [E] like I was in
an African version [Fm] of Jamaica.
The people look the same.
They kind of have [Ab] the same
swag.
The culture [Bbm] is so vibrant and colorful that [C] it's just like I have to do some [Cm] imagery
with it, you know, and so, for instance, the adinkra [E] symbols, I'll use [Ab] those on my
t-shirts [Fm] and I use [Ab] beads from West Africa as well.
I like to bring that into [Cm] my art
history.
I've been exposed to certain things and how can I now expose you to [C] these things
that have [Fm] uplifted me, you [G] know?
So, that's what Ambetha [Ab] Kelisa is all about.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Greetings and this is Kronix again [C] saying [Fm] thanks to Splash for spending the day with
me, I and I and [Ab] _
Kelisa.
You don't know, so there [Cm] you know.
We had a nice time, but now
it's football time.
So, until next time, think positive, keep [D] positive.
_ Splash!
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [N] And if we have