M.I Abaga, Tay Iwar - Do You Know Who You Are? Take Some Time and Meditate On You lyrics

Do you know who you are? What is your name?

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?)

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
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?)

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
Take your time and let it rain on you
Blessings from mother earth are always
Always true
Take your time and meditate on you

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

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