-Performing "Let Me Be Great" from her album
"As Above, So Below," please welcome
Sampa The Great featuring Angelique Kidjo!
[ Cheers and applause ]
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[ Women vocalizing ]
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-♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Ah-cha cha ah-cha ♪
♪ Ka ka-king ♪
♪ These certainly are the signs ♪
♪ Many men left to their own devices ♪
♪ Tell the story, leaving out the cries ♪
♪ It's "Say me, say me" ♪
♪ Quite sucks to be the boss ♪
♪ The hunter should be licking at my...♪
♪ I'm a lion now ♪
♪ King, yes, applause, I'm feelin' it ♪
♪ But of course, what is the cost I'm healing now ♪
♪ I'm dealing with my heroes always messing with my flaws ♪
♪ When I was younger, you was on my walls ♪
♪ Now it's "Replace this" ♪
♪ There will never be another ♪
♪ So I figure I could carve my own path ♪
♪ Soaring, I'm an exhibit on my name ♪
♪ I'm Sammy, I'm Tembo, I'm Eve, I'm Sampa, I'm great ♪
♪ Remember when there's doubt, fear ♪
♪ You would have my voice and the song in your ear ♪
♪ You can time travel, any month, any year ♪
♪ You're the greatest, yeah, I told you ♪
♪ 'Cause it's what you need to hear ♪
Ladies and gentlemen, Angelique Kidjo!
-♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
-♪ Forever ever, and ever ever and ever ever, and ever ♪
♪ I'mma be great ♪
♪ Huh, and you can never fail ♪
♪ And even if you fall, you prevail ♪
♪ And you can never lessen with a lesson ♪
♪ And I've been pressing, something ♪
♪ It's not about impressing, I'm expressing ♪
♪ And every path I pave still stressing ♪
♪ And Simon said, "Stay in your lane" ♪
♪ If I stayed, I'd be playing with them little rhyme books ♪
♪ Singing Tupac hooks ♪
♪ Still ignoring the fact that a queen named Lauryn ♪
♪ Said that I could conquer any hill ♪
♪ That's how I feel, that's how I feel ♪
♪ My vision, I'm impeccable ♪
♪ Every strength gain, like I said, detectable ♪
♪ Looking to the future for a vision, no spectacle ♪
♪ It's legacy, it's what I see, huh ♪
♪ Remember when there's doubt, fear ♪
♪ You would have a voice and a song in your ear ♪
♪ You can time travel, any month, any year ♪
♪ You're the greatest, yeah, I told you ♪
♪ 'Cause it's what you need to hear ♪
-♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Let me, let me ♪
[ Women vocalizing ]
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[ Singing in foreign language ]
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-♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
-[ Vocalizing ]
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-♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
-[ Singing in foreign language ]
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-♪ This song says it right now ♪
-♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
-♪ Great ♪
-♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
-♪ No matter what you think of me ♪
-♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
-♪ On my journey ♪ -♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
-♪ Let me ♪ -♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
-♪ Let me ♪
-♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
-♪ Let me, let me be great ♪
-♪ Let me ♪ -♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Ahhh, yeah ♪
♪ Sampa The Great, Sampa The Great ♪
♪ Sampa The Great, Sampa ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Yes! Yes!
"Let Me Be Great"! You are great!
Come on, you know! Come on, bud!