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AfriCanuck

from Mike All (album) by MikeAll

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AfriCanadian anthem

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-AfriCanuck-
(Chorus)
AfriCanuck yup that's wzup [4x]

(Verse 1)
AfriCanadians ain't just come/
1st known recorded one Olivier Le Jeune/
'Fore European colonization begun/
They hired Mathieu Da Costa to speak tongues/

With Mi'kmaq give dap bridged the gap/
Free Black paid for that's a feather in his cap/
Many others shackled subtracted to booty/
Read Code Noir to savoir or ask Chloe Cooley/

Hardly lowly ruly resistance was bubbling/
Hardest Black ever Harriet Tubman/
Carried gun man but not to hurt her kin/
Or enslave to poison point for liberation/

Really hear hymns for hidden coded secrets/
Wade in the water from dogs off leashes/
MikeAll's speech and Royce Birth's beat/
Mean more soul fire than Marie Joseph Angelique-

(Chorus)
(Verse 2)
Flow circulates like E. McCoy's lubricating cup/
1st Black Dr. Anderson Abbot made the cut/
Need a cab pickup hail Thornton Blackburn/
The City's 1st taxi King St. track served/

Real facts word no embellishment/
Freedom Dawn with Josiah Henson's settlement/
Carrie Best penmanship write for liberation/
Mary Ann Shad taught for integration/

Viola Desmond not let in but brutally removed/
Now pic sits in Nova Scotia's Govt. House Ballroom/
Yall behooved to build a hall for my dude William Hall/
Inspiration to stay blazing if you hit the wall/

Queen Victoria Crossed him off her award list/
Do support like No 2 Construction forces/
MikeAll ride riddim John Ware style with horses/
Hoist voice like torches help we recite chorus-

(Verse 3)
Not just the past but must view the future/
And aim youth to more than ball or tool shooters/
It's cool to move units not measured in metric/
Arrest history like Maestro and Drake records/

Raise expectations from basement to veranda/
With labour Lincoln like Alexander/
Do me have to flee in the streets running from beast/
Can be Chief like Saunders and run the police/

Need to realize that Black Lives Matter/
Would Loku be dead if he was White with the hammer/
I don't know the answers just posing questions/
To get collectives stepping in progresses direction/

Know that me descend from Negus thrones/
Please show that me ascend above negative drones/
MikeAll sends these poems as a wake up/
AfriCanuck yup that's wzup!-‎

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from Mike All (album), released May 26, 2018
Lyrics: MikeAll
Production: Royce Birth (roycebirth.bandcamp.com)

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MikeAll Toronto, Ontario

MikeAll (formerly known as Mikeraphone) is a Scarborough, Ontarian. He has released three solo albums; "Mike Check" (2008), "Mike Support" (2015) and "Mike All" (2018). In 2019, he helped form the Hip Hop Headucatorz. MikeAll's goal is to put the poet back into Rhythm And Poetry.
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