wearenothesame... from Reparations by Naakz

Time is slipping away
Emotions fade
but Mayb I’m just blazed
Too much of that purple haze
As foggy as my gaze
Put my hands together,
10 fingers up I praise
but The room lit up
Started smoking a blunt
but In reflection mayne,
I think was just tryna stunt
Gotta think more bout the crowd that I keep
But it’s hard when these roots so deep
I just can’t sleep

Turned a blind eye when leaves started to wither
It’s a weird world when the goat starts talkin bout Hitler
But anyway

A darker thing is the future
One day the man is patting ya back,
the next day he shoot ya

It’s all a fugaze
It’s all a phase
It’s all just floating away

Steadily the stream is floating away

floating
floating
floating

floating on by

yeah

The water runs through my hands
Plans get replaced with demands
Not making enough money to just give up and fly off to Japan
My people are here
I need them
They need me
My race is an army is as much as it’s a team
Don’t worry bout the sparkle
ur soul should shine and gleam
Whenever I’m around the whānau,
heart is filled with esteem
I like how we live it ain’t what it seems
Don’t go praying for us,
no spirit needs to be redeemed

We Are Not The Same

wearenothesame...

I dont wear Gucci, louis or prada
as white as my mother
as brown as my father
Witnessing their success made me wanna work harder
Put in so much work,
what’s in return?
NADA
I live in constant fear that I won’t make it
Thought my will was strong but I feel it breakin

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• Indigenous Peoples
• abstract hip-hop
• conscious hip-hop
• experimental hip-hop
• maori
• Wellington