No More - Intellectual

[Intro: JSomething]

Stuck, take a look at ourselves

We were created, created to be something great

Not hating, brothers and sisters join hands celebrating

What we have in common as humans

[Chorus: Thabsie]

I wish for a better world

Where people are smiling everywhere

Where there’s no more pain and suffering

Children happy as can be

No more wars, just peace and loving

Loving, yeah

[Verse 1: Reason]

My name is Asim from foreign lands

I’m a Somalian to be specific if I can

I left the dreaded land of oppression and I ran

I was looking for a heaven but in hell is where I am

I don’t understand when we got to be this bad

They be tearing up my store after shooting me in my head

All in the name of bread but now my vision is dead

I just wanna go back home instead

[Verse 2: ProVerb]

It’s bloodshed cause sons and daughters of Africa are slaughtered and massacred

I can’t just sit back like I was sort of a passenger

And who the hell are you calling a foreigner after all

Forget the statues, it’s the borders that have to fall

My name is Abdul, brother what have I done to you

My country is at war when I thought that I could run to you

History said that I’ve spread nothing but love to you

Not a tyre around your neck or put a gun to yo

[Chorus: Thabsie]

I wish for a better world

Where people are smiling everywhere

Where there’s no more pain and suffering

Children happy as can be

No more wars, just peace and loving

Loving, yeah

[Verse 3: Chad Saaiman]

We call it freedom, but we’re still locked within the chains

Of each others weakness

Oh I pray for better days, where we treat our equals

Even if from foreign lands

How can there be evil, without no end circumstance

[Verse 4: Nadia Nakai]

Great depression from oppression

I’m Tendai, taken like a possession

My brother’s coming, they’re attacking

Displaced aggression, misinformation is what’s messing with our progression

Uh, let’s create a new Africa

For our brothers and sisters that’s coming after ya

Uh, and no I’m not an exception

Clear the dust from the mirror

And look at your own reflection

[Verse 5: Shugasmakx]

Bese tshela mina wena ubonani

Is’lwane esi nga shis’indlu iphethe umama no mntwana

Kanjani broer wam, kumele ngikhale kuban’

Ma kunzima, kumele ubuze siso phanda si sum

IMkhonto ehlatini, ang’zange ngiyi bone ka so

Back in Tanzania they were welcomed like door-to-door

They call me Issa, I’m your brother for sure

Show me the same love you would a European at your door

[Chorus: Thabsie]

I wish for a better world

Where people are smiling everywhere

Where there’s no more pain and suffering

Children happy as can be

No more wars, just peace and loving

Loving, yeah

[Verse 6: Brickz]

Ngithi woah!

Kanti kwenzenjani nga bantsundu

Ngithi nyoso!

Lento e si iyenzani ku bafethwu ene ku wrongo

Biza abantu amagweregwere

Belesela nge ferefere

Kumele siphile sonke

Ngithi no!

Phakamisa isandla emoyeni

Sicele ukuMdala ukuthi a yehle uk’sulaka

Ngoba ikasi iwozo

Siphila nabo ndlavini, abo guluva abo qholova

Ngicela nathi si yehlise uk’sulaka maan

[Verse 7: Twyza]

You got to take a different approach on this verse

I know that it hurts

Intervention is needed so that hope will emerge to build a future

But we’re moulding a curse

We really need to be moving forward as a people

Mara nou re reverse

Dig deep in our hearts, not a hole for a hearse

God’s people is ours, stop promoting the worst

What would you do if you were segregated

Alienated, degraded, assassinated, hated and uncompensated

[Spoken Word - Interlude 1: Psyfo]

So after everything that you have seen in the papers and social networks

How are you just fine with just living your life, you know?

As musicians and as artists this is our little contribution

[Spoken Word - Interlude 2: DJ Speedsta]

Art is what we do

This is how we portray our message

Use your platform to make a difference

My name is DJ Speedsta and I hope you got that

[Chorus: Thabsie]

I wish for a better world

Where people are smiling everywhere

Where there’s no more pain and suffering

Children happy as can be

No more wars, just peace and loving

Loving, yeah

[Verse 8: Kwesta]

My brother Asim went to the same school as me

We used to sit around and talk about how great Abdullah is

His sister Tendai loved jewellery

Abdul leaving, the two of them needed tutoring

And Issa came through for them

It was cool man around that year

But it all ended with that Goodyear around our necks

Cause we were different but the same, a family bro

So please pray for our mother, Africa