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Yes i am quoting this whole post because this man speaks the gospelOriginally Posted by sillyputty
Even though i don't rock with the whole "god"/sprituality thing on this album...I completely understand it because my folks are jamaican. They weren't rastas but I know a bunch so I understand the concepts they speak of...
but...
The Sheer Knowledge Dropped on Distant Relatives dumps all over WTT.
Damian Marley and Nas hurt feelings with this one if ya'll pay attention.
In terms of content, "Patience" is better than the entire WTT album.
Ya'll need to read the damn lyrics:
[Nas Talking - Intro]
Here we are
here we are
Yeah
This one right here is for the people
[Hook] (Sample -MAMADOU & MARIAM, âSABALIâ)
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô
[Nas Talking]
Ay yo D. Lets go all the way on this one.
[Damian Marley - Verse 1]
Some of the smartest dummies
Canât read the language of Egyptian mummies
Anâ a fly go a moon
And canât find food for the starving tummies
Pay no mind to the youths
Cause itâs not like the future depends on it
But save the animals in the zoo
Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money
This is how the media pillages
On the TV the picture is
Savages in villages
And the scientist still canât explain the pyramids, huh
Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
Stereotyping the image of the images
And this is what the image is
You buy a khaki pants
And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
Anâ a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones
Some of the worst paparazzis Iâve ever seen and I ever known
Put the worst on display so the world can see
And thatâs all they will ever show
So the ones in the west
Will never move east
And feel like they could be at home
Dem get tricked by the beast
But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown?
Solomonic linage whe dem still canât defeat and them coulda never clone
My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever Own Lord
[Hook]
[Nas talking]
Yeah, Sabali. Thats patience. Thatâs what the old folks told meâ¦
Discovering the World before this World. A World buried in time.
Uncover with rhymes. It gets no realer.
[Damian Marley: Verse 2]
Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?
Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming?
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
The average man canât prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still wonât research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Scholars teach in Universities and claim that theyâre smart and cunning
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and thatâs when their nose start running
And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
Can you read signs? can you read stars?
Can you make peace? can you fight war?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh
Can you survive, Against All Odds, Now?
[Hook]
[Nas]
Itâs crazy when you feed people the truth you donât know how theyâre gonna react. Youâre scared of wrong doers, people that just ignorant, Youâre scared of the truth, be patient for now.
[Nas: Verse 3]
Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qurâan?
And was it a lightning storm
That gave birth to the Earth
And then dinosaurs were born? damn
Who made up words? who made up numbers?
And what kind of spell is mankind under?
Everything on the planet we preserve and can it
Microwaved it and try it
No matter what weâll survive it
Whatâs hue? whatâs man? whatâs human?
Anything along the land we consuming
Eatinâ, deletinâ, ruin
Trying to get paper
Gotta have land, gotta have acres
So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson
Watch n-ggas play the game like the lakers
In a world full of 52 fakers
Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
You superstitious? throw salt over your shoulders
Make a wish for the day cuz
Like somebody got a doll of me
Stickinâ needles in my arteries
But I canât feel it
Sometimes itâs like âpardon me, but I got a real big spiritâ
Iâm fearlessâ¦. Iâm fearless
Donât you try and grab hold of my soul
Itâs like a military soldier since seven years old
I held real dead bodies in my arms
Felt their body turn cold, oh
Why we born in the first place
If this is how we gotta go?
Damn.
This goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the World. Sabali, Patience, yeah.
[End]
Read more:�http://www.killerhiphop.com/patience-lyrics-nas-damian-marley/#ixzz1fBvZKuVC
There is NO contest.
And thats just ONE song off of this album.
DR > WTT
I felt smarter after i listened to DR. The things that were said the idea's that were brought up, the struggles i never knew existed.
WTT was a great album but DR to me is a classic.