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Neocolonial Blues ft. Kojo 'Easy' Damptey and New​-​Era Neisha

from Elephants by Mother Tareka & The Rebel Funktion

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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Michael Keire
at Threshold Recording Studio. Hamilton,Wntario.
Assisted and additional engineering by Cohen Wylie.
Music by Mother Tareka & The Rebel Funktion.
Lyrics by Mother Tareka.
Album art by Adam Carter & Mother Tareka.

Mother Tareka : MC / Tenor Saxophone / Organ
Drop D : Drums
Tom Altobelli : E. Bass
Scotty McIntosh : E. Guitar
Keisha Neoma-Quinn : Violin
Chelsea Cox : Violin
Connor Bennett : Baritone Saxophone / Alto Saxophone
Aaron Hutchinson : Trumpet / Percussions
Kojo 'Easy' Damptey : Guest Vocals
New-Era Neisha : Spoken Word
Rachel Nolan : String Harp

lyrics

Mother Tareka:
Yes yes y'all
so fresh off the boat mad stress fall
like souls that ain't float won't rest at all
'cause a sniper got'em scoped in an effed brawl
it's murder she wrote, hear death call
barbed wires and moats keep the nest small
but the nest is enormous, the land can afford
its expansion from orbit we monitored
separate the lights from the commoners
with borders that stomp and bust shots 'til the day breaks
our life is AK-47's and heart break
your world's getting shattered from the slightest dirt shake
our corpses climbing out from under earth quakes
with pitchforks running up on the palace gates
royal goons saying "why don't y'all just eat cake?"
and it's all by design ain't no mistake
fragile white lives cushioned by brown back aches

Verse 2:
we yes yes y'alling but no's the answer
nobody knows how to heal this cancer
from the Middle East to Black Lives Matter
yeah you can tell whose stacks get fatter
who got no funds, who own millions
who move mad guns and sics they minions
whose dominion they think we living in
what resources brown bodies represent
exploited labour, less than people
the guns that kill them become the hero
prisons get filled with young black children
knights get paid leave for killing brown men
our names have been wrote on a Western Deathnote
on either hemisphere the dark are dead broke
drones send love from golden balconies
kill then apologise for the tragedy

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from Elephants, released October 28, 2016

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Mother Tareka Hamilton, Ontario

Sax blasting, flute tooting, loop-pedal pumping MC Mother Tareka is a Syrian Palestinian artist, and an adopted Hamilton son. Tarek makes powerful Jazz Arabesque Afrobeat Funk HipHop music, and is musically known for his energetic live band arrangements, and intense political messages. ... more

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