Do You Know Who You Are? Take Some Time and Meditate On You

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Do you know who you are? What is your name? [Hook: Tay Iwar] Sometime you wonder why? And wonder how? Don't be alarmed, just stay calm Cos' even if you choose or not to find Through all the bullshit With no dirty shoes Finding the truth Is not hard To figure out your life Take your time and let it rain on you Blessings from mother earth are always Always true Take your time and meditate on you (do you know who you are?) (what is your name? what is your worth?) [Verse 1: M.I Abaga] My child recite the words of this ancient mythology The wisdom I disperse in this verse, no apology Memorise to keep you from evil theology For you that I can hear you're denied your equality See for generations we perpetrated psychology Divide and conquer each other, Willie Lynch policy You cannot build each other up? How would you build economy How you think is how you are Its just basic neurology So please recite the words of this ancient mythology The wisdom I disperse in this verse, no apology Do you realise the Negros a hunted commodity? Look around you nigga, observe your ecology See they gon try to tell you it's in your biology They gon tell you niggas ain't good at technology That's why we have to re-write our anthropology Until they acknowledge me nigga follow me into knowledge, gee [Hook: Tay Iwar] Take your time and let it rain on you Blessings from mother earth are always Always true Take your time and meditate on you (Do you know who you are?) (What is your name? What is your worth?) [Verse 2: M.I Abaga] Yeah, tell me the value of a free born Nubian In all his habitation death will keep pursuing him Black is beautiful is truism or is it? Generation raised just to ruin em, revisit Shipped across the seas or be conquered, the options Labour in the mind or be shackled for auction Whatever path you take, your existence is function Centuries later things will still be the same with caution Blackman meditate on your pain Hesitate in the rain Let it wash you of the curse And immerse in the hurt Let your words be rebirth Have a thirst for the truth Find protection for youth Niggas open your wings Let your woman be king Let your children be dreams Then you find em the means Give em reasons to smile Maybe last for a while As I bequeath you a better future my child [Hook: Tay Iwar] Take your time and let it rain on you Blessings from mother earth are always Always true Take your time and meditate on you [Interlude] We got two major issues An identity crisis and psychological homelessness We hate our Africanity Even within the Black consciousness community we are still anti-African because deep down within our subconscious; we were all conditioned by the same superstructure that made us feel that Africa wasn't anything worth claiming Our problem is totally mental, we are a trillion dollar people. We got all the degrees we need, all the expertise but you know what we're lacking? That cultural commitment to ourselves Until we hate racism, more than we hate eachother; nothing is going to change [Outro: M.I Abaga & Caryn Solomon] It was a learning process for me to understand that the world does (hate you!?) yes The world discriminates, the world is full of prejudice and bigotry and racism and hatred, it's real. I completely agree with you and that's the sorta explicit world against you, there's a more insidious world against you which I think is to do with socialisation process. The expectation of men to be the strong one is a hell of an expectation, it's actually terrible; because what do you do with all the real human vulnerability? and then it goes back to what we started off talking about, you have to become the superhero. The big muscle man and you aren't, you're just a person. Some of you are strong and some of you are weak, you're just a person and a full person has all the vulnerability in the world. We need men's liberation, to liberate men from the shackles of having to be a warrior and perfect and a soldier and a killer and a big strong muscle man; to just be a person