Canadianized (feat. K.Vox)
Rupert Common
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I've been Canadianized with a side of Quebec fries And my teachers never told me that my home was colonized And my ancestors arrived back in '85 And my sister was born 100 yrs after they died and Even though they were Irish immigrants They still displaced people who were Indigenous We're multi-cultural but is't it sad? How the white man came up with the Indian Act , if You don't know your ancestry then you don't know your self Check your history your their-story your her-story as well You've got to go self educate take the book right off the shelf But read up on the author first 'cause they might be shady as hell I've got to find my identity To learn what my blood really means to me I'm diving deep into my ancestry To learn, to honour the ones who came before me Ooooo Yeeaah Canadianized Oooo I'm a Filipina youth and I'm severed from my roots My generation needs to learn how to seek a deeper truth We were taken by church, and they took away our worth Disconnected from the earth, assimilated us from birth Never been to the Motherland, moved to another land 3 Generations back, yo are we even keeping track? Slackin' on the culture game, Asian 'cause it's all the same But who would be to blame for all the Spanish last names? If you don't know your ancestry then you don't know your self Check your history your their-story your her-story as well You've got to go self educate take the book right off the shelf But read up on the author first 'caus they might be shady as hell I've got to find my identity To learn what my blood really means to me I'm climbing up into my family tree To learn, to honour the ones who came before me Ooooo Yeeaah Canadianized Oooo I am just a visitor man , son of an immigrant man to this infinite land I grew up on Coast Salish land but didn't even know it till i moved to East Van I went to the poetry slam Got schooled up by some people who were woke with the pad They were like "Rupe, you've got to check your privilege man" You've got to check it much like Macklemore asking what I've been rapping for This 'aint no new found land so why you talking labrador? We opened up a dialogue and we'v been going back and forth If you don't know your ancestry then you don't know your self Check your history your their-story your her-story as well You've got to go self educate take the book right off the shelf But read up on the author first 'cause they might be shady as hell
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