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Track: Numba 1 (Tide Is High)
Artist: Kardinal Offishall
Album: Not 4 Sale

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Name: Kardinal Offishall
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Canadian rapper and record producer, born May 12, 1976 in Scarborough, Ontario, in Toronto's east end, and raised by Jamaican immigrant parents. He later settled in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood of York, Ontario, in Toronto's west end. He started rapping at the age of eight and was winning competitions by the time he was 12. Also at the age of 12, he performed live and on stage for the first time, with Nelson Mandela in attendance during Mandela's first visit to Toronto. By 1993, he decided to change his alias "KoolAid", and went by the moniker "Kardinal Offishall" after being inspired by the great 17th century French politician Cardinal Richelieu. He is often credited as Canada's "hip-hop ambassador", and is best known for his distinctive reggae and dancehall-influenced style of hip-hop. Kardinal was signed to a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music Canada at the age of 20. In 1996, he released his first single "Naughty Dread", which was featured on the "Rap Essentials Volume One" compilation and earned him a Juno Award nomination for Best Rap Recording. In 1997, Kardinal released his debut album Eye & I on Capitol Hill Music. The only single from the album, "On Wit Da Show", had considerable video play on MuchMusic, and inn 1998, he was featured on the Juno-winning single "Northern Touch" with the [a=Rascalz], [a=Choclair], [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/CheckMate+(3)]Checkmate[/url] and [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Thrust+(5)]Thrust[/url].

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Release: Kardinal Off!shall* Featuring Keri Hilson - Numba 1 (Tide Is High)
Year: 2008
Genres: Hip Hop
Styles: Ragga HipHop

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LYRICS

(feat. Rihanna)
[Kardinal Offishall:]
Life is up everybody...
[Rihanna:]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your numba 1
I'm gonna want numba 1

[Kardinal Offishall:]
She just my one time lover
Pretty little thing
...
Nothin but a pretty woman that I'd fling
She even knows she want to be the queen to my king
She ain't nothin but where I...
Someone that I would use to boss my...
She wouldn't know...
...
She...
On the left on the rest numba 2 on my mind
There no way she could be my girl
She steady while tryin to come into my world

[Rihanna:]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your numba 1
I'm gonna want numba 1

[Kardinal Offishall:]
She just my trophy piece
Only I I
Never ever want to call her
Never ever want to bring her around my friends
She'd be cryin on the phone but she know who I am

... voice to the people
... family says I leave her
I don't have time for the play play
She a good chick yo but I'm married to the...
Related to the... related to the paper
Tryin to get my name put it on the skyscraper
There's no way she could be my wife
She steady while tryin to come into my life

[Rihanna:]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your numba 1
I'm gonna want numba 1

Those other girls ain't nothing like me.
Just give me the chance and boy you will see that
I'm not the kind of girl who just gets down like that.
[Kardinal Offishall:]
On the rim I ain't gonna front you
The box to the a lot hound dogs on the hunt
You the push to the to a letter push roll
You the artist and the... but you ain't what I want
I want this this tryin get in the business
Just tryin walk visit...
There's no way you could get that ring
But I hear... in the place
[Rihanna:]
The tide is high but I'm holding on(the tide is high)
I'm gonna be your numba 1 (numba 1)
I'm gonna want numba 1

The tide is high but I'm holding on(holding on)
I'm gonna be your numba 1
I'm gonna want numba 1

[Kardinal Offishall:]
Life is up everybody...