Yo, what's up, what's up? BET Hip Hop Awards.
And for the first time, it's the Best International Flow,
and we happen to be a part of it. I go by the name Sarkodie.
Reppin' the motherland, Ghana.
And I got my brother Kalash in the building.
-Bro, let's give it to them. -Yes, sir.
Sarkodie.
(speaks foreign language) From Martinique.
BET Awards,
you know we have the best international flow.
(both chuckle)
-Let me fix the mic. -True dat.
It's going to be real quick, live on BET.
2019, man.
♪ This guy is with you, he wishes you the worst ♪
♪ The p***y is there near you but take advantage of you ♪
♪ He's waiting for you to build an empire ♪
♪ To suck you like a vampire ♪
♪ He smiles at you, but he's watching your life ♪
♪ Your own wife is not your wife ♪
♪ Her p***y is dirty like a sewer ♪
♪ You have never touched her, but several guys ♪
♪ Have already tasted and retasted her ♪
♪ Fake friends deserve a bullet in the cheek ♪
♪ From French Guyana to Boston ♪
♪ If they diss your mother, you have to take out your gun ♪
♪ That kind of ..., for the respect ♪
♪ I do not need guns ♪
♪ I eat them all at the same time ♪
♪ A real guy does not kill for a woman ♪
♪ A long time, a long time... ♪
♪ Tactical, practical, static target ♪
♪ My clique applies, a lot of punks suck d***s ♪
♪ No time to talk is fast ♪
♪ If you want to disrespect, tell me where you live ♪
♪ From Fort-de-France to Pointe-à-Pitre ♪
♪ Life has become hard, people flex without being friends ♪
♪ You know it's Kalash, respect all the jokes are not good ♪
♪ I am a nigga from Mada where bullets cry like mamas ♪
♪ And every day I ride for my niggas ♪
♪ I can die for my niggas from my hood ♪
♪ Here the police are not like in Paname ♪
♪ Here whoop-whoop has hot guys ♪
♪ And here cocaine takes Air Caribbean in the luggage hold ♪
♪ Oh, no, guns, a motorcycle, boom, boom ♪
♪ Oh, oh, my Negroes are making money ♪
♪ Count the change ♪
♪ My friends have the slab, pissed off from an early age ♪
♪ Inequality makes you mad ♪
♪ To throw off the 20th floor ♪
♪ The street is doing stupid things ♪
♪ And envy is the worst of vices ♪
♪ Jealousy, hypocrisy, betrayal ♪
♪ Everyone thinks they are right ♪
♪ 2019, BET, we represent since the beginning ♪
♪ Red, green, black, no matter what they say ♪
♪ Represent Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Haiti ♪
♪ Big up to my guy Sarkodie. ♪
(chuckles, speaks foreign language)
For the motherland. Ghana, stand up.
-♪ Yo, what the hell is way sexy ♪ -Stand up!
♪ Than African booty with stretch marks on it? ♪
♪ Not only the blacks want it, you don't even want to touch ♪
♪ Just relax on it, so to the ladies ♪
♪ This is your last warning, beautiful melanin, dark skin ♪
♪ Let me see your hands if you worship a black queen ♪
♪ Clean the chemical up with a napkin ♪
♪ Throw all of that in the dustbin ♪
♪ Don't let nobody tell you you not beautiful 'cause you black ♪
♪ If you change it, then you slack ♪
♪ It's only because of the confidence you lack ♪
♪ Brainwashed, but now we taking it back ♪
♪ F*** Hollywood, African beauty looking f****** good ♪
♪ You want to change? I don't think you should ♪
♪ To the beautiful sisters in the hood ♪
♪ I don't want to be rude, in the beginning ♪
♪ Me and you were stuck on the slave ship ♪
♪ But right now we're free, we on some ape shit ♪
♪ But we not free totally, we still in the Matrix ♪
♪ Slavery is stages, and right now we at stage six ♪
♪ It's not physical, systematical mind games ♪
♪ If I sit and think about it, I get migraines ♪
♪ Freedom is expensive, y'all, go check the price range ♪
♪ Pure black children, but now we bearing some white names ♪
♪ Self-hate, our brothers and sisters ♪
♪ Now turned to cellmates ♪
♪ I think it's time that we open the hell gate ♪
♪ We got to push to be free before it's hell late ♪
♪ We can see between the lines but we still can't read ♪
♪ We still in chains, but the eyes can't see ♪
♪ We do have a choice, but we still ain't free ♪
♪ Someone hold me, I can't breathe ♪
♪ I just want to be free ♪
♪ Free is when you decide for yourself ♪
♪ Free is when nobody controlling your wealth ♪
♪ Free is when you stop begging people for help ♪
♪ Free is finally when you breaking out from a spell ♪
♪ We in the 21st century, they can't be using guns no more ♪
♪ They playing games with the mind ♪
♪ They be claiming democracy so we think we know everything ♪
♪ But we are blind, the destruction of a man ♪
♪ Begins in the home, so when they break up the home ♪
♪ They take over the throne, right now they don't use guns ♪
♪ But they ask you, come for a loan, but when you owe ♪
♪ Remember, you cannot be on your own ♪
♪ 'Cause you got to teach a man how to fish ♪
♪ So they can survive a lifetime ♪
♪ But that's not the wish of the white man ♪
♪ 'Cause they will have a hard time ♪
♪ The United States of Africa is what they don't want to see ♪
♪ But that's the only way my people can survive ♪
♪ They divide and conquer, with just the brown paper bag ♪
♪ They used cash to buy our pride ♪
♪ So now we cherish the money and not the money machine ♪
♪ They say they want to invest, but their hearts ain't clean ♪
♪ They can't even grow common groundnut ♪
♪ But they be claiming supreme ♪
♪ The return of Martin Luther King, we still have a dream ♪
♪ The voodoo magic is nothing evil ♪
♪ They use it and claim it's logic ♪
♪ When it comes to knowledge, a lot of us, we lack it ♪
♪ They lie to us and create evidence to back it. ♪
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