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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.
Maangamizi Lyrics
Year of Release: 2013
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
Verse 1
- Maangamizi, meaning African hellacaust
- Because we paid a hell of a cost
- And don't really know what was lost
- And the process ain't ever stopped
- Since black civilization dropped
- Through internal greed and external plot
- Same ones that taught the Ancient Greeks
- Greece and Rome helped to bring to their knees
- Then Islam spread across Northern Africa
- With slavery and massacres
- Too many hurt, refused to convert
- Spread South and West and people dispersed
- Christianity is not alone in using
- Race and religion for power to expand
- Desert caravans took slaves across Sand
- Where they staged a revolt of the Zanj
- Enemies always invented mythologies
- Curse of ham, so-called prophecy
- After the migration
- There was some reinstatement of autonomous nations
- Then floating on the waves of the seas
- Came a plague, a genocidal disease
- With arms and heads, they looked like men
- Really they were just dogs on two legs
- When they first came some of our people said "Go!"
- Most welcomed them into our homes
- We didn't know they had hearts of stone
- Frozen by Western Europe's cold
- Also, there were scumbags among us
- Willing to work for white conquerors honours
- And with that collaboration
- Began the largest forced migration
- In the history of nations
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
Verse 2
- How many millions dead at the bottom of the ocean?
- Thrown overboard like property stolen
- Or jumped overboard rather than be sold on
- A mother with her baby in arms, hold on
- What awaited was not just enslavement
- But a genocidal impulse craving
- They committed unspeakable abuses
- To make a nigger from an African human
- Took a woman ready to give birth
- Tied her limbs to four posts held firm
- In a main square made every slave watch
- Covered her in raw meat
- Let off a pack of dogs
- If anyone watching, even a relative
- Made a sound, kill them for the hell of it
- This was every day, not the exception
- The science of gynaecology was perfected
- On black women, no anaesthetic
- They said a nigger bitch couldn't feel pain, pathetic
- Hang a man from a tree cut off his penis
- Force people to eat their own faeces
- Put people in zoos, in a cage
- Chimpanzee, black human, ape
- And it was upon this here atrocity
- Europe became the dominant economy
- Now they play games, pretend it's about names
- It's a scheme for unequal trade
- Imagine the largest companies today
- If all of their employees got no pay
- For all of the centuries profit was made
- Black skin was always branded slave
- Even the child of the masters rape
- Could be killed or sold because black blood in her veins
- But the ancestors fought back, got free
- Probably have not heard of Jean-Jacque Dessalines
- Probably don't know the Haitian revolution
- Caused the French to sell half of America
- Nor know the role that Africans played
- In the Civil War for that same America
- If you ain't heard of Nanny of the Maroons or Boogle
- You probably believe what they told you
- But if they set Africans free
- Because all of a sudden they grow a conscience
- Tell me this,
- Why were the slave masters given compensation,
- And those that suffered not given a thing?
- Why did they then invade Africa?
- And make Africans slaves in their home?
- With the Belgians killing 10 million
- Souls in the Congo alone
- Why then Jim Crow, why Apartheid?
- Why did Black Wall Street burn that night?
- Why collaborators will work for such evil,
- Willing to be tools against their own people?
- Why Africom? Imperialism for the new age
- But with a brown face on it
- That's right imperialism for the new age
- But with a brown face on it
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
Verse 3
- Some will try their best to justify this torture
- By asking you who the slaves were brought from
- As if we do not know, tell them "Get the hell out
- Every genocide ever has had sell outs"
- And the largest wars of humans
- Were fought between the people of Western Europe
- So by your rationale it's cool to kill Frenchman
- They killed Germans that look like them
- Absurd right? But when your skin is white
- Different set of rules you can abide by
- Dark suffering is not humanized
- No surprise, we still see ourselves through their eyes
- Darkies became legally human
- During the course of our parents life
- And the freedoms we have only occurred
- Cos our ancestors spilled their blood to the earth
- They changed that much? Are you so sure?
- The world's darker people still the most poor?
- So it's our task to put an end to this
- Even those like me with our heritage mixed
- If a knife is in your back 9 inches
- And it's only been pulled out six
- When the wound starts healing
- And we stop bleeding and bleaching
- Can it begin to fix?
- When the plague of self hate
- Is no longer a weight so great
- Push you to kill one another
- When we put a stop to false charity
- That gives with one hand and bombs with the other
- When the IMF and World Bank, along with their puppets
- No longer strangle our nations
- When the invaders don't have military bases
- In so many places
- When the jail cells are not packed with black backs
- And the gats and the crack are no longer factors
- When we celebrate true self-determination
- Not a few token bit part actors
- When the truth is told and there is
- The dignity to remember the dead
- Because as long as they are distorting the past
- It means they have the intention of doing it again
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
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