Street Fighter Mas

Album: Heaven and Earth (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • This instrumental finds Washington drawing on a misspent youth, when he played the video game Street Fighter with local gang members. He explained to Mojo how the joyous cinematic song exhibits his street corner education.

    "I was really good at Street Fighter, and I was this little kid playing with the scary gangster killer dudes at the local liquor store, but I felt safe. I realized no one is all bad or good. A pretty important lesson to learn from Street Fighter."

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