BLACK WITHOUT APOLOGY- BENDI HURU LYRICS

Spoken Poetry: Mayuu

21^st century slavery

Black men don’t think black is the colour to be

The black you see is unclean

Take these filters and bleach cream

Be the change I want you to see

Cut off your mother tongue

Take this religion so you could speak in different tongues

You don’t understand a thing you say, do you?

No wonder there are no fathers in our motherland

Mental slave ship sailing to another land

Black pride is melting on our culture’s hand

Culture clash a culture abused and trashed

In the midst of the slavery,

I see Mandela’s fist in the air, this is backlash

Breaking shackles, it’s time to free up our mind

They don’t see the beauty in every shade like we do

Magical culture, it can’t be compared to demonic vudu

Kings and queens dipped in melanin and honey

This beauty runs deep its worth more than money

So tell the cocoons the butterflies are now fully ‘metamorphosised’ and flying

With the very early birds who tried to catch them while they were still worms

But they never forget where they’re from, Africa

From the roots to the fruits

Its berries are black and proud, they know,

They got the juice

And we can be anything we want to be,

But this is what we choose to be

‘Black Without Apology’

Intro: Leeroy

It’s a Bendi Huru thing,

Turururututu

Alright, alright

Yeah

Chorus

This is my continent, yeah

And this is my pride

Black is my people, yeah

Black is my world

So stand up and fight for the colour

My colour is black

So stand up and fight for the colour, colour

My colour is black, yeah

This is my continent, yeah

And this is my pride

Black is my people, yeah

Black is my world

So stand up and fight for the colour

My colour is black

So stand up and fight for the colour, colour

My colour is black

Hook

I said, I’m black without apology (oh, oh, oh)

I said, I’m black without apology, yeah (oh, oh, oh)

(where your root?)

I got my roots in Kenya

I got my roots in Uganda

I got my roots in Nigeria

I got my roots in Africa

I said, I’m black without apology, yea (oh, oh, oh)

I said, I’m black without apology, yeah (oh, oh, oh)

Verse: Tito

Listen up African people

African people, mmhhm

Would you rise? And…

Would you speak for yourself, yeah

What you feel inside

Ah me I say, Free up your mind, yeah

Ah, Free up your mind, yeah

Ah, Free up your mind

So stand up and fight for the colour

My colour is black

So stand up and fight for the colour, colour

My colour is black, yeah

Hook

I said, I’m black without apology (oh, oh, oh)

I said, I’m black without apology, yeah (oh, oh, oh)

(where your roots?)

I got my roots in Djibouti

I got my roots in Namibia

I got my roots in Malawi

I got my roots in Africa

Bridge

See we got Lupita Nyong’o

Said she’s black without apology

Nyakim Gatwee…

She’s black without apology

We got Haile Selasie

The late Brenda Fasi

Wangari Maathae stood up for Dedan Kimathi

Samora Matchel we gotta big up, big up

Big up, big up, yeah

Chorus

This is my continent, yeah

And this is my pride

Black is my people, yeah

Black is my world

So stand up and fight for the colour

My colour is black

So stand up and fight for the colour, colour

My colour is black

I said, I’m black without apology (oh, oh, oh)

I said, I’m black without apology, yeah (oh, oh, oh)

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