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Akala is back yet again with a new album for us to sink our teeth into titled 'The Thieves Banquet' featuring a total of 11 tracks or 12 if you're lucky enough to get the bonus track. You can expect to hear Akala draw influences from many different genres, lucid flows, abundance of knowledge, food for thought, insane production and yet again a boundary pushing release.
The Thieves Banquet by Akala
The Thieves Banquet Lyrics
Year of Release: 2013
Verse 1 Intro
- Uh, listen
- Uh, okay, yo
- First up was the thief of the worst reputation
- Dictator of a third-world nation
- He looked the Devil in the eye as he spoke
- In an oh-so-serious tone
Verse 1: Third-World Dictator
- Dear Mr. Devil
- I am the greatest thief there has ever been on Earth
- Please tell me who else more than me personifies your work
- I came to power in a military coup, I murdered the elected president
- He wanted to use the resources of our country for our peoples’ benefit
- I proved to masters in the west
- I could kill my own people just as well as the best
- So I took over the so-called independent country when the foreigners left
- Sent squads of death to those who would suggest
- In power should be the one they elect
- Erected a statue of the great man
- That raped our mothers, stole our lands
- That’s how little self-respect I have
- Don’t fight slavery, it makes me glad
- Account in Switzerland, Rolls Royce
- Murder and rape cos I want new toys
- Don’t want a portion, but a whole fortune
- With that profit, what’s a little bit of torture
- Even outlawed my indigenous culture
- And language and history
- And taught our people to only worship colonizers
- And of course, ME!
Hook
- Thief!
- It’s the banquet of the thieves!
- Come and dine with me!
- It’s the banquet of the thieves!
- The banquet of the thieves…
Verse 2 Intro
- The Devil was so impressed with this wonderful man
- He almost ejaculated on his hands
- But the monarch of the empire said,
Verse 2: The Monarch of Empire
- Excuse me, Mr. Devil, I’d like to speak if I may
- Who do you think trained this amateur dictator to behave this way?
- Yeah, I’m sure before I came along his country was far from heaven
- But look of the carnage I caused all over the Earth, it’s got to be the work of the Devil
- Countless deaths, mass enslavement
- Deliberate starvation of whole nations
- The dictator tries his best, but looking at me, he’s just an imitation
- Who do you think pays his wages?
- He would love to be trading places
- I’ve been doing this ting on the roads
- Way back, way back, way back
- Since the Middle Ages
- Everybody knows he’s a criminal element
- They think I’m democratic and benevolent
- And that shows that I’m really devilish
- Cos people think I’m heaven-sent
- I couldn’t care about democracy
- You all know no one elected me
- The people love me despite my crimes
- Sucka MCs wanna bite my shine
- So blingin’ out of control you would vomit
- Don’t even touch dough, but my face is on it!
Hook
- Thief!
- It’s the banquet of the thieves!
- Come and dine with me!
- It’s the banquet of the thieves!
- The banquet of the thieves…
Verse 3: The Head of Religious Orders
- I’m a pervert who’s in the cloak of the clergy
- Yes, I’m a pervert who’s in the cloak
- I’m a despicable character
- I use my position of authority and spiritual reverence
- I’m a despicable character
- Mr. Devil, allow me to speak
- For all of the religious leaders that leech
- In the world of creeps, I’m initiated
- I take the peoples’ faith and dissipate it
- With false promises, hollow oratory
- Don’t need a gun, it’s daylight robbery
- Dear Mr. Devil
- I thought you would like it
- How I use their faith in God to keep them blinded
- Put on a nice voice, read them a book
- And they believe that I am not a crook
- Tell them God will repay them in the next
- They give me their life savings so I can buy jets
- All the reports about child sex
- None of us have ever gone to jail yet
- This system of stealing, so appealing
- Convinces the victims their lives have meaning
- Monarchs boast about conquest
- But needed my blessings to get it done
- And all of the dictators use my books
- Therefore, they are just my sons
Verse 4 Intro
- The Devil was sure this was the winner
- And was just about to put an end to the dinner
- But then the man from the banking cartel
- Stepped up and said,
Verse 4: The Cartel Banker
- I think I’m the biggest sinner
- All of those three depend on me
- All they ever do is defending me
- Cos I paid for all of the things they have
- Of course, and all of the lives they lead
- Paid for the guns, bombs and the tanks
- That’s why you see, there is always more
- I turned science’s basic appliance
- Into a client of weapon and war
- Paid for monarchies, armed robberies
- I make monopolies out of property
- Never shot a gun nor killed anyone myself
- But billions die cos of me
- Who needs a threat? I make a debt
- Out of thin air, just sit back and collect
- Every single day, whatever they say
- The people need me just to connect it
- Yet none of them knows what I look like
- Yet all of them spend my money to look nice
- They want more, no one’s pure
- I hold the keys to every single door
- Sell sex and drugs, profit and lies
- Earth and skies, I’ll even sell life
- I’ll even sell freedom for the right price
- But no one is smart enough to ask me nice
- So Mr. Devil, give me the medal
- Don’t be biased
- If you don’t give it to me
- I’ll just BUY IT!
Hook
- Thief!
- It’s the banquet of the thieves!
- Come and dine with me!
- It’s the banquet of the thieves!
- The banquet of the thieves…
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