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Africa Lyrics by Dre the Monarch

2018

[Verse 1: Dre]
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?
[Verse 2: Asriel]
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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Dre the Monarch

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