Africa
Dre the Monarch
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I know you don't like me I know that you spite me This might be a Cain to an Abel don't take it lightly From the stories they took you home through five seas All our brothers was thinking well nigga why me? The British empire sent squires to defile our land Unfortunately slaves sold by our own hands The Kings sent them out walking in chains Because the English went and offered them chains An offer to pay with the lives of women and kids I realize we gave y'all a raw deal Went to America, suffered an ordeal Pick cotton, sick violence and suffered through more still But the British stayed back, don't you go forget that We got our vote in the 60s on our own land Risked the whole plan to get aristocrats out of our sore hands You shouldn't hate me We share DNA even more strands Bonded by trauma, a thousand miles away You thought we didn't want ya But we promised we would wait The years don passed and we went, different ways Now I stare in the clouds with a sentimental gaze Could we ever go back to the fundamental days Fore the slave ships touched down on the waves? What if we wasn't colonized? And politicians were honored right on the naira with the dollar, they immortalized What if corruption never caused so much destruction And the crippling didn't go the way the white man instructed What if we just smacked 'em off more advanced than they analogs Cause Orunmila, Erinle and Sango didn't stand and watch? What if Columbus got swallowed up by the ocean and the Indians sank anyone coming closer? What if they kept it all from Texas to Nova Scotia? Would Kendrick Lamar be a menacing rapper star? And if Herc was stealing Molly would hip-hop exist at all? Would Cole cease to exist? Would niggas need to commit to a hustle? Or would they have nothing to us their muscle for Would we have the Black Panthers, Billy Garland, Pac Shakur? I know they broke the buildings of our countries But we wouldn't have the roses out the concrete What if it happened and shipped them back to their countries And we made space and made sure that they come clean Taught each other everything and made us all be better men And then Africa was a country? And we were prodigies of an Afro-democracy that turned us all to leaders of prophecy so modestly? And our sisters weren't threatened We acknowledge them as blessings and we peacefully evolved in every second? Damn Yeah Demi semi-conscious Asriel
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