Combi

This is one of five songs I wrote in December 2021 that weren't originally planned for this project. I found the beat on BeatStars while looking for a mellow boom bap beat to follow the skit with Aman, and seeing as I told him I'd be going out with some friends afterwards, coming up with ideas for this song was fairly easy.

In many ways, this song pays homage to St. Mary's School (Saints), which I attended for all 11 years of my primary and lower secondary education. The title references a combination of a doughnut or mandazi and a samosa that was by far the most popular snack among students during our mid-morning break time. BH later explained in the studio that the term also references certain traditional sexual practices in some Kenyan cultures, and Nigel alludes to mixing weed and alcohol in his verse, so make of the title what you will, I guess.

Given the Saints references, I felt it was only right that I feature fellow Saints alumni on the track, and that led me to Nigel and K-Spot, both of whom were in my year in primary school, left when I joined high school and I've occasionally kept in touch with since. Nigel ended up being the only one not to reference Saints in his verse outside of the song title, but I still really liked what he and Spot brought to the table. His intro is also where I got Sippin' and Trippin' from as the title for Part II of this album.

I wrote the outro at the end for BH to do as a segue into the next track, and I liked how he complimented the subdued nature of the beat at that point with his deep voice. His participation also made sense in that he also went to Saints; he was a year ahead of me in high school.