Worth the Weight
By
Jidenna, Seun Kuti
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85 to Africa
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(bouncy techno music)
♪ I think that you'll find me ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I go for the record, I don't
just go for the medals bro ♪
♪ Niggers used to know that we
stronger than the devil, bro ♪
♪ Since up every papa in the
village with the shovel, bro ♪
♪ Every movies bold ♪
♪ They go top up the inside of bro ♪
♪ In the face of evil ♪
♪ I can find the needle haystack ♪
♪ Could of free my people ♪
♪ If this weave was legal ♪
♪ Way back ♪
♪ Popo spun the wheel of misfortune ♪
♪ But I ain't play that ♪
♪ They come round and
pat, pat, pat us down ♪
♪ But I ain't sage jack ♪
♪ I escape the track ♪
♪ I escape the cubic goals, bro ♪
♪ I escape the job by dropped
the funeral pros, bro ♪
♪ And I beat the case ♪
♪ And I beat the chase by,
well, can I keep the pace ♪
♪ Can I keep the pace ♪
♪ I don't know ♪
♪ I escape them trying to
bleaching niggers brain ♪
♪ Coulda went to wall street
instead I put up my own name ♪
♪ My own name ♪
♪ Rather have a street in my own name ♪
♪ A money with my face on
it like I'm Prince a King. ♪
♪ Prince a King. ♪
♪ You not gonna see me flowering ♪
♪ in these days and time. ♪
♪ You see ♪
♪ The days of the people man ♪
♪ Are numbered like football justice. ♪
♪ We now know ♪
♪ That all of our suffering and smiling ♪
♪ Has been worth the way ♪
♪ My nigger who knew ♪
♪ Who knew, who knew ♪
♪ Who knew that that boy from
Manobo with the boo boo ♪
♪ On his knee back then was acting ♪
♪ Like a poodle on the leash ♪
♪ One day he'd have to learn
the juju on the street ♪
♪ Staring at death like is
your shooters going squeeze ♪
♪ Freeze, please ♪
♪ That's a little boy slanging
chains back in Chinatown ♪
♪ Take it to myself ♪
♪ I gonna build it,
blackest kinda of town ♪
♪ With my, with my wealth ♪
♪ And I pray that I'm
the brightest sound ♪
♪ that you ever felt ♪
♪ I'm gonna take a million flights ♪
♪ From ground till that shit is felt ♪
♪ That's that neither way, hey ♪
♪ That's no piece of cake, hey ♪
♪ That's that troll online that live ♪
♪ Inside the tree all day, hey ♪
♪ That's that Hesop gate, hey ♪
♪ That's that Sheso faith, hey ♪
♪ That's that insecure, hey ♪
♪ That's that Issa Ray. ♪
♪ You do you ♪
♪ Me do me ♪
♪ So long as you don't fuss with me ♪
♪ We baby ♪
(sings in foreign language)
- [Voiceover] I believe it's
time for African people's
Powered
Highway
The highway that would connect
the diaspora motherland.
A global highway for African people
all over the world to discover
themselves, to remember them.
The only thing that unites
black people globally.
The only thing we all have in common.
Is that we are from Africa, Africa.
