In "Star," Sampa the Great and KAMAUU turn a simple affirmation into a hard-won truth. The song moves through self-doubt, describing a mind fractured by distorted thoughts about authenticity and the pressure to perform a false self. The repeated image of being a star contrasts with the internal "apartheid" and fault lines, suggesting that recognizing one's worth requires surviving deep division. The verses wrestle with balancing public talent against private exhaustion, rejecting advice to shrink or pretend. Ultimately, the chorus lands as both reassurance and demand: you are already enough, exactly as you are.
Star Lyrics by Sampa the Great
(Feat. KAMAUU)
You are a star
You are a star
Did you know you could be just the way you are love
To be someone like me
Did you know you could be just the way you are love
To be someone like me
Did you know you could be
You are a star
You are a star
Yes yes
Often stumbled into the coffin
Of my distorted cautionary
Thoughts of my authen-ticity
The audacity of thoughts that the author
Of all the things
Faltered
And forged an unfortunate falsehood
Hehh hehh
Is the fault mine?
That I formed on a fault line
Perpetually falling apart
An apartheid deep within my parched mind
Paused
Applause
For little victories that I ignored
And I pardoned, appalled
I was part of it at all
‘Twas a Paul Bunyan
To pubescent palms in my palms, I
Ponder
Thus the purpose of power of community
The flower’s in the unity
‘Cause you are
You are a star
You are a star
I’ve been on a journey and I feel like I’m awake again
I be at my highest then I feel I’m at a wake again
Tell me how to balance who I am and what I’m living in
The world say having talents not enough I’m back to work again
I figure
My influence a pioneer a cautionary tale
I’m all talent and less drama
Move the fake from the real
I figure I’m authentic and they lacking from it and well
I cannot speak it any clearly so I’ll go ahead and yell
They saying
Act less street
And talk more dumb
I mean a bitch can’t eat
Saying walk don’t run
And now the waist size changing
And I can’t get sleep
I’d rather be myself than end up in some shit like they
‘Cause baby
You are a star
You are a star
Did you know you could be just the way you are love
(You are a star)
Did you know you could be just the way you are love
(You are a star)
You are a star
You are a star
You are a star
You are a star
