Karma is an afrobeats/rap collaboration between Sydney's MC Connect and his younger brother, 19 year-old, Sr.Malakai who arrived in Sydney from Nairobi in October 2023.
The song is about a relationship Malakai had with Lenny, who broke his heart and left him for man in a better financial position. The song is a stoic response to heartbreak, which contemplates a future where Malakai has gained career and financial success and despite all this, won’t take Leni back.
Malakai's soulful afrobeats singing soars, elevating the heartbroken heartbreaker while Connect delivers a fiery rap that encapsulates the raw emotion felt when a lover goes astray.
WIth Malakai in Sydney, the duo are busy impressing Sydney bars and clubs with their new brand of Australian Afrobeats. On stage, Malakai and Connect have chemistry to burn with Malakai not afraid to show Australian crowds the latest dance moves coming out of Africa.
A very exciting collaboration by a duo at the cutting edge of the new African wave in Australia. Not to be slept on!
lyrics
sr.malakai (Chorus)
Ohh Lenny, Lenny I just found a way,
Behaving kind of strange cause I was dealing with some stress,
It’s crazy, crazy, how you disappeared,
Just left me for somebody who will never give you all.
sr.malakai (Verse)
I’ve been making all this money I’m a business man,
I don’t have nobody else that I can spend it on,
Baby I am singing in my mansion house yeah,
Five years two kids and a belly now,
To be honest I am sorry that is not so fair,
All you wanted was some money that I did not have yeah,
sr.malakai (Chorus)
MC Connect (verse)
I never gave you up, I never let you down,
Now I'm out here stranded in Midtown,
I thought you were the one,
Now you're the one that's gone,
Guess I had my fun that ain't enough now,
What did I do or say to deserve it?
You wouldn't even meet me in person,
Cause' I ain't have the cash I ain't worthy?
You found the man that does, oh that's perfect!
What are you gonna say when I see you,
How you gonna leave me in your rearview,
And I said it before, I don't believe you,
She loved me first, guess what I got the preview,
And I'm a leave you, where I left you,
And when I'm out here ballin' I'ma text you,
How’d it work with your part-time lover,
He left you now, too bad, you'll find another.
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