Alleyne & Temus talk about the meaning behind the song “Fingers & Toes (Dontae’s Theme)” from their latest album “PUSH”
“The song is about how hip hop has changed so much over the years. It went from being underground to being pop. This generation is different from the generation Temus and I grew up in. Through this song, our album and others like us we can bring the real hip-hop back…if not for this generation the next one… Enter Dontae, Temus’ son. His birth represents a new beginning, a new path so check his fingers and his toes and let’s hope that he grows…that’s pretty much the meaning behind the name of the song.” - Christopher Rudder
Fingers & Toes (Dontae’s Theme) LYRICS
(Temus)
For 2009,
everybody still looking for a chance to shine
but I just had a son and I’m feeling fine,
economic times got me on the grind.
Emotions outta control,
sometimes I get choked up, feels the tears roll
down my face, thinking about a time and place in the past,
it’s phukked up when the memoy’s flashing.
Makes me wanna press rewind,
but I find there no sense dwelling back in time
though I’d like to remince but the past don’t change
I wish that it could but is that so strange?
Now that I got my seed,
through a new path of life I got to proceed.
to the future, nothing you can do to stop time,
nothing we can do to stop crime,
Nothing you can do to stop me from dropping rhymes
or control the conscience of the mind
besides the fact that I’m keeping all my rhymes in tack,
Alleynohhh designed the track
What’s all the commotion?
tryin to keep it smooth like baby lotion
still got the shit to keep you overdosing
keep’em coming back but they call it poison
Still I’m keeping them in line with a mic check
don’t give a phukk if they like it or not
I know that it’s hot and it’s like that
you can disagree cause you got a right to fight that.
At the door you can check you bullshit
funny, just to see how ignorant fools get
eradicate the hate,
it’s the only way to elevate.
(Alleyne)
Pushed into oblivion, pushed into my thoughts again
Pushed into a generation that don’t understand where it all began
It’s so… fundamental,
connecting mental with instrumental
Beats and life, words to mics
short days and even longer nights
It’s about, life and love, loss and hate, record creates,
Grafetti, DJ’s, freestylin’ blunts, beer and buck wilin’
As a child our style was day to day,
today we living like pay to pay
I feel as though I’m in a different time,
for the kids, I wonder what we’ll leave behind…
Everybody wants to be a star,
tatooed, auto tuned and open bar
…Phat asses, super thighs,
girls half naked, drunk and high
Cars and rims, no future plans
and everybody’s no different than a grain of sand
The balcony of LimeStone faces east
watch the sun rise like the Sphinx
Their always be a mic in my hand,
musical travels, footprints in the sand
It’s funny how time flies with fun,
Over ten years of platnium albums
This goes out to Temus and his son
LimeStone’s chosen one
Count his fingers and his toes
lets hope that he grows…
Christopher Rudder, James Mitchell (Alleyne & Temus), SOCAN, 2010
