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Comment by White Knight on May 26, 2011 at 12:20am

The thing I don't get is they're saying one thing in the lyrics yet their representations of pyramids and such bring into question as to what they're trying to attempt. I find that alot of artist like Eminem and Rhianna use our human emotion against yourself by pretending to ally themselves as "one of us" through culture ( which is now a huge motivator for change) and then slip some words in in reverse and hastily. 

 

On the other hand Nas and Damian Marley aren't publicized as much to limit their message so im kinda lost in the all matter. What does everyone else think?

Comment by carley on May 25, 2011 at 1:27pm

Another Beautiful song is by Gyptian - serious times with lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwzv9zqhBI

Comment by carley on May 25, 2011 at 1:22pm

I think they are trying to wake people up (Damian Marley) if you research conscious riddims on youtube you get a lot of reggae artists that are AWAKE and trying to wake the rest of of using music.

 

Lyrics below

 

Some of the smartest dummies
Can't read the language of Egyptian mummies
An' a fly go a moon
And can't find food for the starving tummies
Pay no mind to the youths
Cause it's not like the future depends on it
But save the animals in the zoo
Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money
This is how the media pillages
On the TV the picture is
Savages in villages
And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids, huh
Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
Stereotyping the image of the images
And this is what the image is
You buy a khaki pants
And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones
Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I ever known
Put the worst on display so the world can see
And that's all they will ever show
So the ones in the west
Will never move east
And feel like they could be at home
Dem get tricked by the beast
But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown?
Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone
My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever Own Lord

[Chorus]
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô

[Verse 2]
Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?
 
Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming?
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running
And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
Can you read signs? can you read stars?
Can you make peace? can you fight war?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh
Can you survive, Against All Odds, Now?

[Chorus]
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô

[Verse 3]
Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qur'an?
And was it a lightning storm
That gave birth to the earth
And then dinosaurs were born? damn
Who made up words? who made up numbers?
And what kind of spell is mankind under?
Everything on the planet we preserve and can it
Microwaved it and try it
No matter what we'll survive it
What's hu? what's man? what's human?
Anything along the land we consuming
Eatin', deletin', ruin
Trying to get paper
Gotta have land, gotta have acres
So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson
Watch niggas play the game like the lakers
In a world full of 52 fakers
Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
You superstitious? throw salt over your shoulders
Make a wish for the day cuz
Like somebody got a doll of me
Stickin' needles in my arteries
But I can't feel it
Sometimes it's like 'pardon me, but I got a real big spirit'
I'm fearless.... I'm fearless
Don't you try and grab hold of my soul
It's like a military soldier since seven years old
I held real dead bodies in my arms
Felt their body turn cold, oh
Why we born in the first place
If this is how we gotta go?

 

translation of chorus

It is bambara language from mali (west africa)

Patience! Patience is worth everything! Patience! Patience is good 
If you love someone, patience is worth everything 
If you love a man, Patience is worth everything 
If you love a woman, Patience is worth everything 
Patience, Patience, Patience is good

Comment by Remy Djed on May 21, 2011 at 10:26pm

This is one of my favorite songs from the Distant Relatives album with Damien Marley & Nas

From Swahili:

Sabali sabali sabali yonkontê - patience, patience is worth everything
Sabali sabali sabali Kayi - patince, patience is good
ni kêra môgô - when you love someone.

Comment by AJ on April 26, 2011 at 3:57pm

Here is a link for the lyrics....

 

http://www.killerhiphop.com/patience-lyrics-nas-damian-marley/

Comment by Lavi Alano on April 26, 2011 at 2:38pm

I was just thinking of that earlier today when I caught my self humming the tune...I'm going to see if I can find one

Comment by White Knight on April 26, 2011 at 2:16pm

I wonder what the weird lyrics are saying if they're slowed down or reversed? anyone have a video editor?

Comment by Lavi Alano on April 25, 2011 at 9:34pm

@White Knight and Aj ...It has been in my head since the first night we listened to it...

Comment by White Knight on April 24, 2011 at 12:21pm

Me too, now I know why they re so catchy

Comment by AJ on April 24, 2011 at 12:47am

man this song is stuck in my head everysince I seen da video...

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