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Young Man
2,114
R&B/Soul
Young Man was released on June 13, 2010 by 51 Lex Records Ltd as a part of the album Global Storm 360, Ep. 4
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Release DateJune 13, 2010
Label51 Lex Records Ltd
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM99

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Dare Art Alade
Dare Art Alade
Lead Vocals
L.D.
L.D.
Rap
KB
KB
Rap

Lyrics

Young man
Now tell me where did you get your skills from?
You must have gotten it from foreign lands
You spit too tight to be African
Young man
Now tell me where did you get your skills from?
You must have gotten it from foreign lands
You spit too tight to be African
Well that's right
I spit too tight
But I'm African
Omo, in fact
Jerry, Ekofor show
Sheba won lo wa gbe wa lo
I remember the time they came
And took our fathers away
Now the rain ain't falling
The sun is shining bright
But they keep asking me
Where did you get your skills from?
I hear my people say your rap is not an African art
Aw come on, it's a black thing so I choose to play my part
Ancestors took rhythm and applied it to poetry
It's a thing of the mind, the style is the fluency
Tales were told in rhymes from back in time
From the pyramids of Egypt to this hypocritical days of mine
Civilization started in my backyard
The genesis of all nations written by God
I'm Nigerian, I represent the area I'm from
I spit tight in my mother tongue
'Cause no idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun
It's never what you do but how it's done
Young man
Now tell me where did you get your skills from?
You must have gotten it from foreign lands
You spit too tight to be African
Young man
Now tell me where did you get your skills from?
You must have gotten it from foreign lands
You spit too tight to be African
It ain't my fault that I'm sort of a linguist
I speak Yoruba, Hausa, German and English
Because they can't distinguish
A crowd crack from a broken door, they both off their hinges
Therefore, we don't sound Nigerian
'Cause we tight like being wack is a criterion
And on the other hand
'Cause brother man is into hip-hop
He cannot represent the motherland?
Art and sport are universal
Originated only for dispersal
To parts of the world where they're not indigenous
What identifies should not imprison us
Vision is not united, divided in football
If I shouldn't rap then we shouldn't play football
Music has no race or gender
And that's a message from a former faceless sender
Young man
Now tell me where did you get your skills from?
You must have gotten it from foreign lands
You spit too tight to be African
Young man
Now tell me where did you get your skills from?
You must have gotten it from foreign lands
You spit too tight to be African
Young man
Madala, you see hip-hop was taken away from us
Now it's back up here
Young man
And we are loving every minute of it
Feel the flow, call my name
Young man
I'm loving it
Say my name once more, come on
Young man
Oh yeah, be proud of who you are
Keep being black, one love baby
Where did you get your skills from?
Lagos, Nigeria, Africa
Young man, we out
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