INTRO (Marimba Ani):
It’s almost like we’ve been conditioned so well, through such a long process.
That now it is us, that who are enslaving ourselves, mentally.
[Because the job is done], the job has been done.
It would be so easy in one sense, for us to undo it.
That’s what I’m saying in this book.
Verse 1 (DT Ade):
Dastardly deeds
They had teach us something wrong so we can never be free. If self worth is what we had then we would balance our chi
And realized the power in us
Unify like a team.
How can you can make some lose self worth and they self esteem. You gotta tell em that you perfect and you smell like a dream. You gotta tell em you got beauty they can never achieve. You gotta tell them they aint shit without yo products and fees.
Without yo fucking degrees
My DNA is important
You see we jaded distorted.
Our babies brains have been forfeit
We gave our names, we gave our aims, we gave or pain so restore it.
Im sayin this plain no more torment.
See the beauty standard never had our features at the ready. It was always meant to try and break us down and make us heavy.
Now im seeing all my sisters rock they fros and im so proud. All my brothas locked they hair and hold they head up when they smile.
We had put aside yurugu now our blackness can be found.
Hook:
We used to be strong as a Zulu
Now we identify with foreigners as we lose
[See?]
That’s that Spirit of Yurugu
[Damn man] What happened to the fam I used to knew
Centuries of civilizations we accrued through
Damn shame what we been diluted into
[See?]
That’s that Spirit of Yurugu
[Damn man] What happened to the fam I used to knew
OUTRO (Malcolm X):
Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? To such extent you bleach, to get like the white man.
Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips?
Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?
Who taught you to hate your own kind?
Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much so that you don’t want to be around each other?
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