Puff Beaddy
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"What's Up Neighbour?" — a multicultural block-party sitcom in a song. Beaddy West narrates a street where everyone's in everyone's business and secretly loves it. Comedy punches sideways and up (the narrator is the biggest mess), never down. Cast: Beaddy West (loveable disaster), Ree-Cardo (the most vocal neighbour, opinion on everything, soft heart), Sultry Lady (the fragile romance), and the Pamily next door (the warm Filipino family who are the HEART of the block — best food, biggest hearts, dissolve every feud with a plate). 3 versions: V1 Block Party (main), V2 The HOA Meeting (storyline), V3 Porch Light (tender late-night). 6 productions: Front Stoop Funk / Stoop Riddim (reggae) / West Coast Cul-de-Sac (G-funk, the "Beaddy West" gag) / Calle Ree-Cardo (cumbia) / The Pamily Anthem (OPM love-letter, played warm) / Back Porch Lo-Fi. Tone reframed from the "semi racist" brief into affectionate comedy: no slurs, ethnic texture is celebration (lechon/lumpia/karaoke/hospitality), the family- next-door are the heroes. Copyright gates passed. Brief from Tee (2026-06-09). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What's Up Neighbour? — Lyrics (Version 3: Porch Light)
Artist: Beaddy West Track: What's Up Neighbour? (V3 — the tender late-night version) Length target: 3:00–3:30
TITLE: What's Up Neighbour? (Porch Light)
ARTIST: Beaddy West
[INTRO — crickets, distant karaoke fading, one porch light hum, ~10 bars]
(What's up… neighbour…)
(Everybody gone in… just the lights on the street…)
[HOOK — half-sung, soft]
What's up, neighbour? (the porch light's still on)
I'd be lyin' if I said I want you gone
Curtains closed but the block hum a song —
what's up, neighbour… I'm glad you're still 'round, c'mon.
(What's up, neighbour… what's up, neighbour…)
[VERSE 1 — Beaddy West]
It's quiet now. The grills gone cold, the trays gone home,
Ree-Cardo's clipboard sleepin', the cul-de-sac alone.
And I sit on the step with a plate auntie packed,
realize all this noise is the thing I'd miss in fact.
Ree-Cardo's gonna fine me again, I already know,
but his light come on at six when I'm scrapin' off snow.
He'd never SAY he likes me — that's not how he's built,
he just shows up with a shovel and a permanent guilt-trip, tilt.
That's love in a dialect I had to learn to read,
loud man, soft heart, plantin' a neighbor's seed.
[HOOK — soft]
What's up, neighbour? (the porch light's still on)
I'd be lyin' if I said I want you gone
Curtains closed but the block hum a song —
what's up, neighbour… I'm glad you're still 'round, c'mon.
[VERSE 2 — Beaddy West]
And Sultry Lady — number twenty-two — her light just clicked,
she caught me bein' a fool but somehow I ain't evicted from her wave.
Maybe the raccoon night wasn't the end, just a scene,
maybe she likes a man who chase chaos in between.
I'm-a knock with that casserole, gonna own the whole bit,
"I'm a disaster, but I'm a WARM one — let's split it."
And the Pamily light — that one never goes dark,
lola fall asleep to the TV, dog asleep in the yard.
They taught the whole block what "come, eat" really mean:
you ain't a stranger if you hungry, that's the family scene.
[BRIDGE — almost whispered]
We don't pick our neighbours. That's the beautiful part.
Random doors on a random street, and somehow — a heart.
A loud one, a sultry one, a lola with a mic,
a fool with a raccoon and a casserole tonight.
Puck the petty stuff. I'm keepin' every one.
Leave your porch light on — I'll leave on mine, hun.
[HOOK — full, warm, the block hums under]
What's up, neighbour? (every porch light on)
We're a mess of a family but the mess is where I belong
Bins still crooked, but the block sing along —
what's up, neighbour… I'm home when you're 'round, c'mon.
(What's up, neighbour… what's up, neighbour…)
[OUTRO — porch light hum, one last karaoke note far away]
(Night, Ree-Cardo… night, Sultry… night, auntie…)
What's up, neighbour…
(…thanks for the plate.)
…leave the light on.