Hold On To Your Culture - Macka B

Some people nah make nuh rice and peas no more

Some people nah make nuh rice and peas no more

It’s been a couple of years or more

Since a piece a' yam come through that door

Some people nah make nuh rice and peas no more

I sing:

Some a' di youts nah get nuh rice and peas

Yam and bananas and tings like these

Dem a-get di beef burger with the ketchup and cheese

Well, I’m begging all the parents: Please

Let them hold on to their culture

Any a' dem lose it dem inna big danger

Say hold on to your culture

Don’t become nuh cultural stranger

Some people a-go 'round

And they ain’t got nuh culture

Coming like a dead meat

A-wait for di vulture

Learn from di past

It can help inna yuh future

out yuh ancestor

Take fuh instance di food that we nyam

Like the green bananas and yam

Them full a' vitamins

And they full of iron

And they make yuh body fit

And make yuh 'trong

Take fuh instance di way dat we dance

How we know di riddim by chance

How supp’m dat we born with

Inna wi genes

So we nuh dance like Mr. Bean

Now ya mean

Hold on to your culture

Any a' you lose it you inna big danger

Say hold on to your culture

Don’t become nuh cultural stranger

Dem haffi know who dey are

And whe' dey came from

It might a-answer the question

Where dey belong

Inna school dem get

Culture education

It’s only Queen Victoria

And Napoleon

Marcus Garvey

Dey never mention

Dey never tell yuh every Black man

Was African

Dey never ever tell yuh

'Bout di plantation

To make mi history a mystery

Was the plan

Africans:

Hold on to your culture

Any a' you lose it you inna big danger

Say hold on to your culture

Don’t become nuh cultural stranger

All mi ancestors

Were so brave

I muss apologize

For the way we a-behave

Mentally we still a-gwaan like slave

Some a' wi a-gwaan like we fi live in a cave

Material things a we just a-crave

Bruddah killin' bruddah

Wit' di gun and di blade

come a dance

People a-get 'fraid

Marcus Garvey must be turnin' in his grave

must be turnin' in her grave

The great Shaka Zulu must be turnin' in his grave and

Malcolm X must be turnin' in his grave

Over di way we a-behave

Mi seh hold on to your culture

Any a' you lose it you inna big danger

Say hold on to your culture

Don’t become nuh cultural stranger

Seh hold on to your culture

Any a' you lose it you inna big danger

Say hold on to your culture

Don’t become nuh cultural stranger

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