《Maangamizi》歌词

[00:06:27] Maangamizi - Akala

[00:06:27] [Hook

[00:06:27] How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi

[00:06:27] It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD

[00:06:27] If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?

[00:06:27] It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi

[00:06:27] [Verse 1

[00:06:27] Maangamizi, meaning African hellacaust

[00:06:27] Because we paid a hell of a cost

[00:06:27] And don't really know what was lost

[00:06:27] And the process ain't ever stopped

[00:06:27] Since black civilization dropped

[00:06:27] Through internal greed and external plot

[00:06:27] Same ones that taught the Ancient Greeks

[00:06:27] Greece and Rome helped to bring to their knees

[00:06:27] Then I***m spread across Northern Africa

[00:06:27] With slavery and massacres

[00:06:27] Too many hurt, refused to convert

[00:06:27] Spread South and West and people dispersed

[00:06:27] Christianity is not alone in using

[00:06:27] Race and religion for power to expand

[00:06:27] Desert caravans took slaves across Sand

[00:06:27] Where they staged a revolt of the Zanj

[00:06:27] Enemies always invented mythologies

[00:06:27] Curse of ham, so-called prophecy

[00:06:27] After the migration

[00:06:27] There was some reinstatement of autonomous nations

[00:06:27] Then floating on the waves of the seas

[00:06:27] Came a plague, a genocidal disease

[00:06:27] With arms and heads, they looked like men

[00:06:27] Really they were just dogs on two legs

[00:06:27] When they first came some of our people said "Go!"

[00:06:27] Most welcomed them into our homes

[00:06:27] We didn't know they had hearts of stone

[00:06:27] Frozen by Western Europe's cold

[00:06:27] Also, there were scumbags among us

[00:06:27] Willing to work for white conquerors honours

[00:06:27] And with that collaboration

[00:06:27] Began the largest forced migration

[00:06:27] In the history of nations

[00:06:27] [Hook

[00:06:27] [Verse 2

[00:06:27] How many millions dead at the bottom of the ocean?

[00:06:27] Thrown overboard like property stolen

[00:06:27] Or jumped overboard rather than be sold on

[00:06:27] A mother with her baby in arms, hold on

[00:06:27] What awaited was not just enslavement

[00:06:27] But a genocidal impulse craving

[00:06:27] They committed unspeakable abuses

[00:06:27] To make a n****r from an African human

[00:06:27] Took a woman ready to give birth

[00:06:27] Tied her limbs to four posts held firm

[00:06:27] In a main square made every slave watch

[00:06:27] Covered her in raw meat

[00:06:27] Let off a pack of dogs

[00:06:27] If anyone watching, even a relative

[00:06:27] Made a sound, k**l them for the hell of it

[00:06:27] This was every day, not the exception

[00:06:27] The science of gynaecology was perfected

[00:06:27] On black women, no anaesthetic

[00:06:27] They said a n****r b**ch couldn't feel pain, pathetic

[00:06:27] Hang a man from a tree cut off his penis

[00:06:27] Force people to eat their own faeces

[00:06:27] Put people in zoos, in a cage

[00:06:27] Chimpanzee, black human, ape

[00:06:27] And it was upon this here atrocity

[00:06:27] Europe became the dominant economy

[00:06:27] Now they play games, pretend it's about names

[00:06:27] It's a scheme for unequal trade

[00:06:27] Imagine the largest companies today

[00:06:27] If all of their employees got no pay

[00:06:27] For all of the centuries profit was made

[00:06:27] Black skin was always branded slave

[00:06:27] Even the child of the masters rape

[00:06:27] Could be killed or sold because black blood in her veins

[00:06:27] But the ancestors fought back, got free

[00:06:27] Probably have not heard of Jean-Jacque Dessalines

[00:06:27] Probably don't know the Haitian revolution

[00:06:27] Caused the French to sell half of America

[00:06:27] Nor know the role that Africans played

[00:06:27] In the Civil War for that same America

[00:06:27] If you ain't heard of Nanny of the Maroons or Boogle

[00:06:27] You probably believe what they told you

[00:06:27] But if they set Africans free

[00:06:27] Because all of a sudden they grow a conscience

[00:06:27] Tell me this,

[00:06:27] Why were the slave masters given compensation,

[00:06:27] And those that suffered not given a thing?

[00:06:27] Why did they then invade Africa?

[00:06:27] And make Africans slaves in their home?

[00:06:27] With the Belgians killing 10 million

[00:06:27] Souls in the Congo alone

[00:06:27] Why then Jim Crow, why Apartheid?

[00:06:27] Why did Black Wall Street burn that night?

[00:06:27] Why collaborators will work for such evil,

[00:06:27] Willing to be tools against their own people?

[00:06:27] Why Africom? Imperialism for the new age

[00:06:27] But with a brown face on it

[00:06:27] That's right imperialism for the new age

[00:06:27] But with a brown face on it

[00:06:27] [Hook

[00:06:27] [Verse 3

[00:06:27] Some will try their best to justify this torture

[00:06:27] By asking you who the slaves were brought from

[00:06:27] As if we do not know, tell them "Get the hell out

[00:06:27] Every genocide ever has had sell outs"

[00:06:27] And the largest wars of humans

[00:06:27] Were fought between the people of Western Europe

[00:06:27] So by your rationale it's cool to k**l Frenchman

[00:06:27] They killed Germans that look like them

[00:06:27] Absurd right? But when your skin is white

[00:06:27] Different set of rules you can abide by

[00:06:27] Dark suffering is not humanized

[00:06:27] No surprise, we still see ourselves through their eyes

[00:06:27] Darkies became legally human

[00:06:27] During the course of our parents life

[00:06:27] And the freedoms we have only occurred

[00:06:27] Cos our ancestors spilled their blood to the earth

[00:06:27] They changed that much? Are you so sure?

[00:06:27] The world's darker people still the most poor?

[00:06:27] So it's our task to put an end to this

[00:06:27] Even those like me with our heritage mixed

[00:06:27] If a knife is in your back 9 inches

[00:06:27] And it's only been pulled out six

[00:06:27] When the wound starts healing

[00:06:27] And we stop bleeding and bleaching

[00:06:27] Can it begin to fix?

[00:06:27] When the plague of self hate

[00:06:27] Is no longer a weight so great

[00:06:27] Push you to k**l one another

[00:06:27] When we put a stop to false charity

[00:06:27] That gives with one hand and bombs with the other

[00:06:27] When the IMF and World Bank, along with their puppets

[00:06:27] No longer strangle our nations

[00:06:27] When the invaders don't have military bases

[00:06:27] In so many places

[00:06:27] When the jail cells are not packed with black backs

[00:06:27] And the gats and the crack are no longer factors

[00:06:27] When we celebrate true self-determination

[00:06:27] Not a few token bit part actors

[00:06:27] When the truth is told and there is

[00:06:27] The dignity to remember the dead

[00:06:27] Because as long as they are distorting the past

[00:06:27] It means they have the intention of doing it again

[00:06:27] [Hook