M.anifest-SANKOFA(history)

Intro
Uhuh, go back…
Go back and reclaim it…

Verse 1
You got a penny for my thoughts? Let me double the fee
The cd is for a price, but the wisdom is free
Spiritually I’m in tune to the memory of those dead and gone
Feeling like biggie smalls, y’all dead wrong
For twisting up my history
Like blunts and trees
Like public enemy, elvis ain’t meant shit to me
I don’t care if u agree,
I’m just speaking my piece
Yall know u did niggas dirty like the bottom of cleats
And its bogus,
Columbus ain’t no real discoverer
And slaves were captured like images on cameras
I’m an analyst, a journalist, a modern day Copernicus
My moms gave me a solid foundation like make a wish
I feel like fish
Need a water cleanse, rinse
Let the waves rid me off my sins
Taking u back, rap like Hitchcock with the slow
It’s still bigger than Hip-Hop u know
Mr slow flow, here’s the evidence
Dilated, unearth history and celebrate it
Sankofa means I’m going back to reclaim it
Climbing over hills where Lauryn was miseducated

Hook
My history, your history, our history
So tragically, has been erased
Don’t be afraid
Sankofa, back to our ways x2

Verse 2
If u don’t know where you’re from,
Now tell me where are you going?
m.anifest is fresh and fly like a Boeing
757, way back in ’97, way before 9-11
I had no way of telling I would be
The mc I came to be
Discovered myself when I found my history
Buried underneath the corners of libraries
I learn my ABC’s before I throw some D’s…
On em
And if they had a way
They’ll prolly never tell us who paved the way
I must say, I feel like Biko
A young Nelson Mandela with the ANC
I’m for my people
And I’m so cerebral, and so so regal
In my batakari, yes! Pass me the gari
If Fernando Po brought us cocoa
And if Yaa Asantewa was a warrior
Why hide it? Ohooo

Hook

Verse 3
From the kingdoms of Western Sudan, Mali and Songhai
Nubian Lands where black kings made empires
More fire to kemet or kush
Cheikh Anta Diop penned the truth in his books
Sankofa; we remember the good with the bad
The bogas, the kubolors, oga this is not a fad
Sankofa; I said we reclaiming the past
Sankofa ay ay ay
Sankofa one time, Bamako to Naija
Heroes, Angelique Kidjo, Kofi Ghanaba
Sankofa; ougadougou to Jo’burg
Where linguistics drop proverbs, say word
Sankofa; Word once a again
Street level oratory transcribed with a pen
Hands in the air you can lick a shot
Sincerely yours m diggy diggy dot

Author : lyricsgh

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