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Motherland

from African American by African/American

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lyrics

Jah Boogie

Africa is my home/it is where I belong
This Is no fantasy/written in history
Where my father comes from
Where the struggle goes on
They can not hide it from me
It's written in history

Dudu Stinks

Born in the slum took a turn for state side
Africa the continent i mourn yet take pride
scorned and hate why
3rd grade torn to be norm and say bye
i’m on the safe ride
they took it all toss those movies at ya
Tarzan a white man, we booty scratchers
we dark so we can’t light fools in capture
nation geographic and the true disaster
they asked me in school do you have have nintendo?
saw shaka zulu and played pretend though
nah that’s not me yo
so i cover my face so the eyes can’t see the peep holes
saw right through myself, can’t fool that
learned later on, Africans are true black
not slaves and coon rats
last name not Smith or Jones, but I thought you knew that

Jah Boogie

Africa is my home/it is where I belong
This Is no fantasy/written in history
Where my father comes from
Where the struggle goes on
They can not hide it from me
It's written in history

Colonize us and despise us anything they do it don't surprise us/ lift our eyes up learn the science/we invisible they can not just find us/they try to bind us and just blind us/but the ancestors live inside us/African conscious must rise/African conscious must rise!

Dudu Stinks

We speak this protest in masters tongue
string the rope verb leave the master hung
took the wrote word and attached the drum
sold in old world for a pack of gum

they go pop
but flows just don’t stop
like the blood of my peoples in line on those blocks
he calls me brother cause you never know
we separated families like cattle bro

my wife is white, I know you heard that
but she carry my seed so for now, 1/3 black
as soon as she drops, the kid is bi-racial
try my best not to make her bi-hatefull

skin color is tricky business
if you light you alright like a shifty litmus
black you get back to the shit we witness
when hoses expose us we need consensus


Jah Boogie

Africa is my home/it is where I belong
This Is no fantasy/written in history
Where my father comes from
Where the struggle goes on
They can not hide it from me
It's written in history

From Alexandria to Botswana/Angola to Ethiopia/yes the ancestors they live inside us/so they can't bind us can't blind us yes iyah! Africa....

credits

from African American, track released May 21, 2011
Lyrics by Dudu Stinks & Jah Boogie
Produced by Man Mantis
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Man Mantis

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