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#BlackLivesMatter

from #CivilRightsMixtape EP by D'BI. & THE 333

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    #CivilRightsMixtape is a 4 track EP of protest songs reverberating in a digital age while keeping sacred the wisdoms of the past. It honours the 12" record's 33 1/3 revolutions per minute through radical dub-musical anarchy and insists that we dance, sing, organize, protest, strategize and love our way to equality and emancipation. A lullaby to our dead behind us.

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#BlackLivesMatter
In Honor Of Our Dead Behind Us, Rise in Power

lyrics

VERSE 1
si mi deh sitting in a café on a tuesday
mi turn to di waitah an mi seh
waitah come yah

don’t you serve me anoddah beer
wash away these tears
drown my fears

mek mi spirit fly up inna di air
cuz mi dear mi nuh waan fi be hear no more
mi nuh waan fi be hear no more

mi fren njoni njoni dead
pump wid bullet right inna him head
last week him jussa walk pon di street
police brutality

CHORUS
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter

VERSE 2
si mi deh sitting in a café on a thursday
mi turn to di waitah an mi seh
waitah come yah

don’t you serve me anoddah beer
wash away these tears
drown my fears
mek mi spirit fly up inna di air
cuz mi dear mi nuh waan fi be hear no more
mi dear mi nuh waan fi be hear no more

mi fren sandra sandra dead
dem seh dem find har hang up inna har cell
last week for a traffic ticket
police brutality

CHORUS
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter

VERSE 3
black bodies brutalized
black bodies criminalized
black bodies demonized
black bodies victimized
black bodies ostracized
black hyper sexualized
black hyper sexualized

like NATASHA and SOFIA and TAMIR, MICHAEL, LANQUAN
SANDRA BLAND SANDRA BLAND SANDRA BLAND

we cannot live without our lives
we cannot live without our lives
we cannot live without our lives

CHORUS
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter
black lives matter matter

credits

from #CivilRightsMixtape EP, released February 29, 2016
Lyrics & Vocals: d'bi.young anitafrika
Musical Composition: Waleed Abdulhamid
Bass & Support Vocals: Waleed Abdulhamid
Drums & Support Vocals: Odel Johnson
Guitar: Patrick O'Reilly
Trombone: Chris Butcher

Recorded live at New Fish Studio
Toronto Canada
Sound Engineer: Rich Greenspoon
Mixed & Mastered by Waleed Abdulhamid at New Fish Studio

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d'bi.

d'bi. is a global dub poet jamaican-dancehall-diva-womxnist-warrior-chanting-conscious-fyah on the mic. their lyricism stems from the socio-political genre of dub poetry fused with dancehall reggae, hiphop, punk rock, blues & performance art; producing a pepperpot of theatricality that crosses cultural boundaries, reconfigures social norms & inspires r/evolution. ... more

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