Nigerian Sunrise lyrics

[Intro]

House of Beige, bring the tribal thunder, come on

My arse abstract like a renaissance

I painted for all of my people, but

This one's for all my immigrants

Go and shake this shit off, shake off the ignorance

Get shit grinning, yeah, smiling up

All my people just smiling up

[Verse 1]

I'm on, I'm on my senior African man shit

Head of the family, dressing outlandish

Something like toes dripping like manuals

And pissed off 'cause these fuckers can't understand him

But if you think that will stop the hustle, you're damaged

'Cause our hunger with the famine like this is Sudan and

My tolerance for bullshit is six K's below sea level

So any antics get anchored

And when the chickens see the bella

Their feathers go ruffle, ruffle

Fight any kerfuffle, leave you knuckleheads buckled

With the lyrical ruckus that you see me spit, shaka

Straight at your jugular and to your throat bubbles

And I leave you in a puddle of your excrement

Can't fuck with this Nigerian excellence

I'll turn your world black, blacker than my heritage

Though my skin's beige, yeah, I'm the colour Mexican

So I work hard like them and play hard

Find him hitting on the South African fine-arse chick

Trying to apartheid shit, yeah, split a ride up

Bust one in this shit, like fast-twitch fibres

[Chorus]

Floating on the mothership to the motherland

Going home for the first time in who knows when

Rise higher than the pyramids

When I kick this, strictly for my immigrants

[Verse 2]

Oh, you're asking who's got ya?

Remi, the dreadlocked rasta witch doctor

Puff-puff-pass the molly that rock-rocks your body

After putting your career in a casket

Watch me Holocaust all of these cockroaches

With skills I caught from my ancestors

The whispers of talking drones tell me "Remi killed them all"

It's war, yeah, you were born a master

Say way to my white side, yeah, that's my light side

That's why I can say "Fuck you" holding a smile that's like

I can earn a bucket 'til we stay out of crime, right? Racists

Caught ya, I can see it in your red faces now

Watch the name of this half-caste reject

Transformed from slave to the pharaoh of Egypt

Getting pocket change for me and my peeps

Over House of Beige records, yeah, that H.O.B. shit

That's my crew, my dudes, my brothers from another mother

That's my bloodline, frontline, I can see others

Inspired or get supply your system

We rise like white fist and we ride the system

[Chorus]

Floating on the mothership to the motherland

Going home for the first time in who knows when

Rise higher than the pyramids

When I kick this, strictly for my immigrants

Floating on the mothership to the motherland

Going home for the first time in who knows when

Fly high as the pyramids

When I kick this, strictly for my immigrants

[Outro]

Floating

To the motherland

• Artist:REMI (Australia)
• Album:Raw x Infinity (2014)