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Die Wurzel Vinyl - 12"
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Celebrate the one-year anniversary of Neak’s 'Die Wurzel' album on vinyl, widely respected as one of his greatest works, by acquiring this rare piece of art. It's a raw, unhinged portrayal of American truth. At its core, the album delves into the past and present day challenges African-American’s face within the complexities of our society. This album explores black life from 1619 to the present, prompting reflection on the black American experience with compassion and sensitivity. Interwoven with the essence of gospel, soul, jazz, funk, and rap—this album offers an intellectual, witty, and soulful journey through black urban society.
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lyrics
Neak (verse 1):
Pour liquor, ghetto ritual lord fix us, another gone, another weapon is formed against us, prospered, scene so unforgettable, Oscar, screenplay Diallo or G. Floyd, we monsters, labeled, affirmation “I’m a king” to feel able, so many brothers by design grow & be an Abel, boys in blue follow suit and shoot up the same table, boys on blocks crooked cops, what’s the difference? Only portrayal, all demonic in all depictions, same momma sang with the same pain when she miss em, sane momma sane no more lost in afflictions, couldn’t take the heat but she still sat within the kitchen, lost between “why blacks a kill blacks” and “our lives matter”, I’m only ready to ride out when it’s from the latter, I’m going bout my day smooth when it’s the former rather, it’s when they kill us the only time when it really mattered…
Peter Jericho (chorus):
We want change, but who gone change us? Pray for somebody else's God to save us, stuck inside this crazy matrix, keep playing the hand that’s dealt against us, but if you love me my brother, if you trust me my sister…(we’re gonna have to find a way out).
Neak (verse 2):
No between in this, life is like 3er fifths, pain level high, when the pain parlay with stewardess, peace never seen, with no origin for a Buddhist it’s, peace only seen when you pull it to settle Judas shi…whether Cochise killer, Stone, or police, bury me a G when retired from life Sho-reef (shareef), skin-deep, hatred feel Easy, Mo-Be, slowly, my God fill our ghettos with the Foley’s, own kind, no matter color they come in I call em one-time, no matter what my perception of me, I’m hoodlum, my experience form prison, hate black, love black, kill me, show love, the dualism, reincarnate itself and centered as self-hatred, when they kill us, our reply is “we kill us”, outrageous, that we turn on us when they kill us, and same time, when we gone stop to not kill us, uh huh uh....
Peter Jericho (chorus):
This feels like a formula, we catch it on camera, whether or not we resist, comply, it’s clear that it don’t let up (in America), oh great faithful we are, I don’t feel like a chosen one, my life could get took anyday, my skin color makes me afraid..
(excerpt):
During the week we’ve recently spent in the city, ten people were killed in shooting incidents and 88 were wounded…
(excerpt):
We have a challenge right now, specifically, but not limited to, the south side and west side, where we have a level of shooting and a level of gun violence that’s unacceptable and must come to an end.
(excerpt):
We have seen so much brutality around this country, videos circulate everyday, videos from our police department, videos from around the country, this is not something we’re gonna stand for, and we’re so tired of marching and protesting (in America)
Neak (verse 3):
Don’t care who pull the trigger muthafucka stop it, don’t care who kill the children all this violence is nonsense, lives taken, life’s short, I pray for souls falling in our marchin’ but silent when it’s from our own dead honest, like I’m blind like young Ray, no vision for the AK spraying at young Tre, no pressure from my internet fingers with black killers kill black niggas law enforcement go and kill em now it’s on nigga, on and on, on, the anger Baduism, clap with steel wrong indicted and go to prison, trauma to heal from is rooted never risen like when master beat the slave and the other slaves listened,other slaves ran away and others wasn’t ditching so in short now we can’t decide really who to kill quicker, black on black or black on blue, it’s all bad clap on back or think things through, it’s a war going outside no man is safe from, but it’s sad cause being black it’s anyone.......yo, it’s anyone.....it’s said cause being black it’s anyone....
Peter Jericho (chorus):
Do you feel my pain?...(do you)....my sunshine turned to rain (do you)....
We want change but who’s gone change us? Pray for somebody else’s God to save us.
But we won’t love one another, tell me do we trust one another (I’ve been so afraid).
We want change but who’s gone change us? Pray for somebody else’s God to save us, stuck inside this crazy matrix now (in America).
Where it’s black on black or black on blue, but you’re causing me pain.
credits
from Die Wurzel,
released February 27, 2023
Produced by Neak
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