​GOD’S LOVE FOR THE ORIGINAL AFRICAN MAN

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Burg City Records in Poetic Collaboration with tHE JB StUDiOs presents: ​GOD’S LOVE FOR THE ORIGINAL AFRICAN MAN Juju — Low Transmission This Na BRXB — DECLARATION I. THE SOVEREIGN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT — I be the Original African Man — GOD know my origin, own my origin, own my sovereign, own my foreign? No — my own-storing! African Memory lock in my blood, stock in my blood, rock in my blood, shock-proof flood! Modern Intelligence spin, win, grin, begin — spin for the world wey we dey build, build for the world wey we dey till! With ancestral wisdom for dreams wey remain unfulfilled, un-killed, un-stilled, un-willed to be unfulfilled! GOD's love no dey measure by crown or the gold throne, old throne, cold throne, sold throne, bold throne! No be wealth, no be power, no be acres you own, own for loan, own for show, own for thrown! Before empire draw border, order, slaughter, mortar — before king claim land, brand land, damned land, jammed land — Life carry sacred value straight from Creator hand, Creator's hand, greater hand, later hand, Creator STAND! Love before the label, label before fable, fable before cable — life before the title, vital, final, primal! Truth before trumpet, trump-it, dump-it — peace before rivalry, no rivalry, live rivalry, give rivalry! Root before route, route before loot, loot before dispute — seed before fruit, feed before fruit, need before fruit! If foundation no get wisdom, wisdom no get kingdom, kingdom no get freedom — wetin legacy fit produce? Produce no reduce? Produce go induce? II. THE MEMORY AWAKENING — Original African Man, make your memory awaken, awakened, un-shaken, un-taken, re-awaken! Let truth wey you preserve be the truth wey you no weaken, no weaken, no leaken, no beacon-stealing-weak-en! No let historical injury turn your heart into prison, prison into poison, poison into division, division into derision! Make your pain become compassion, compassion into fashion, fashion into passion, passion into mission — make your struggle produce vision, vision into provision, provision into decision! I no need another man's disgrace to establish my grace, grace not disgrace, grace with disgrace erased, grace with place embraced! I no need another people's shame to give my people place, place not shame, place from shame, place same shame replaced! My pride no be oppression; my pride na progression, confession, possession with discretion! My power no be control; my power na console, soul-role, whole-role — wey dey strengthen mind and soul, mind and soul, bind and soul, grind and soul! Rooted in remembrance, remembrance to resilience, resilience to brilliance — refined by reflection, reflection to selection, selection to correction! Grounded in GOD, GOD is guard, GOD is hard-guard, GOD is regard — guided by correction, correction to direction, direction to perfection! Culture into conscience, conscience into conscious, conscious into cautious creation, Creation into continuity, continuity into community, community into unity, Continuity into continuation, continuation into generation, generation into bequeathing nation! III. THE DIVINE INSTRUCTION — SLOW FIRE STACK GOD give life — make we protect am, protect am, perfect am, project am, respect am! GOD give mind — make we direct am, direct am, correct am, inspect am, connect am! GOD give voice — make we respect am, respect am, reflect am, select am, project am! GOD give truth — make we no neglect am, neglect am? No! Collect am, elect am, dissect am, affect am! If witness speak, speak we seek, speak we keep, speak no sleep — LISTEN! Listen deep, listen cheap? No — listen keep! If record show, show we know, show we grow, show we throw? No — REVIEW! Review true, review through, review you! If evidence dey incomplete, incomplete no be defeat, no be deceit, no be street — make investigation continue, continue, retinue, into value, into virtue! No let anger write verdict before facts arrive, facts arrive, facts revive, facts survive! No let silence bury questions wey nation must survive, survive, archive, alive, contrive to survive! IV. THE CORROBORATION COVENANT — HARDEST CHAIN CORROBORATION BEFORE CONCLUSION, conclusion no confusion, conclusion with inclusion, conclusion to illusion-breaking! REMEMBRANCE BEFORE CONFUSION, confusion to diffusion, diffusion to intrusion — remembrance bring lucidity! COMPASSION THROUGH THE STRUGGLE, struggle to cuddle, struggle to huddle, struggle to muddle-through-to-muzzle? HUMAN DIGNITY AS THE SOLUTION, solution with evolution, solution no pollution, solution with absolution! From End SARS to future, future to suture, suture to tutor — make memory remain, remain not feign, remain not pain-again! Not as fuel for fresh hatred, hatred no sacred, hatred no mated — but as wisdom from pain, pain to gain, pain to brain, pain to train! Lekki enter history; history no mystery, history need ministry, history need registry — its questions still require care, care not scare, care with prayer, care to repair.