Maangamizi Lyrics

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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