Let us begin at the beginning, because African people stood alone at the beginning of the

World and started humanity

I turned the pages of a book, it taught me about Kemet

The face of Africa, perfect without a blemish

They called it manna, or manny, or man, or menace

Asia was the Earth before the dynasty ended

Pages of a book, it taught me about the kingdom of Ghana

Advanced civilization, inherited drama

Indigenous trading, predating enslaving

Don't you know our history is amazing

Turned the page of a book, it taught me about General Tariq ibn Ziyad

Brought a campaign to conquer Spain to the altar

They gave its name to the rock of Gibraltar

Gave Portugal their culture

Pages of a book, it taught me about the kingdoms of Congo

Teo, Dembo, and Ndango

Okay, shout out to King, Manikongo

Fighting against the slave trade, he's so brave

Let us not call it civilization

White people have told me, use the word civilization

Until the word has lost its meaning

Let us call it a culture

I turned the pages of a book, it taught me about the 25th dynasty

Alluding to the independence of Nubia

Breaking from Lucifer, other kings of Kush have been true to ya

The details all up in the minutia

Pages of a book, taught me about Hannibal

That's way before becoming a rhyme animal

Banging on southern Spain, running Tunisia

Sicily didn't love him like they loved Caesar

Pages of a book, Rome repping Venetia

Rome clapping back, devil is on our back

Bet you didn't know that either

First came Carthage, and now Africans got Amnesia

Pages of a book, it taught me

Maroons, retreating to the Blue Mountains, known for coffee

Living life as a slave was too costly

Liberty or the grave is how a boss be

A way of life, religions, and history

That is going to be so rich, that mankind will steal from them

From then on, would change the world for all time to come

Now when a people, are lost from their culture's mooring

Living in another people's country

Or living in a country, ruled over by another people

Worshipping a god, chosen for them by another people

Worshipping a god that don't look like them

Wearing clothes not of their design

Living in a culture, don't belong to them