Dem go erase reprogram our memory

Remix, repackage Blackman history

Reinvent another yẹ̀yẹ́* theory

All to keep us in perpetual slavery

Dem go erase reprogram our memory

Remix, repackage Blackman history

Reinvent another yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

All to keep us in perpetual slavery

Òyìnbó don do we plenty wayo

Dem go use coded language to chop us dey go

Dem go call us World Music

Join us with Asia, mix am with India, add in Colombia

Yepa, their colonial agenda never finish yet

Now na Afrobeats with capital "S"

Wey dem wan use destroy, break and suppress

Our greatness

Dem go erase reprogram our memory

Remix repackage Blackman history

Reinvent another yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

All to keep us in perpetual slavery

Dem go erase reprogram our memory

Remix repackage Blackman history

Reinvent another yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

All to keep us in perpetual slavery

Turn television – na yẹ̀yẹ́ theory (so so show man)

Turn radio- na yẹ̀yẹ́ theory (so so noise)

I read newspaper- na yẹ̀yẹ́ theory (that one na fake news)

Social media gan ńkọ́? – na yẹ̀yẹ́ theory (that one na fake die)

I talk to senators - yẹ̀yẹ́ theory (bribe, obviously na bribe o)

I talk to the governors- yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

(security vote, ihn say him want him security vote)

I go ministry - yẹ̀yẹ́ theory (contractually)

I go presidency - yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

(excellency is not around he's in London for some treatment)

Wọ́n ń ṣe yàla', wọn se yo'lo'

Wọ́n ń ṣe yàla', wọn se yo'lo'

Wọ́n ń ṣe yàla', wọn se yo'lo'

Wọ́n ń ṣe yàla', wọn se yo'lo'

Wọ́n ń ṣe yàla', wọn se yo'lo'

Wọ́n ń ṣe yàla', wọn se yo'lo'

Wọ́n ń ṣe fa'la'fo'lo' fa'la'fo'lo' fa'la'fo'lo' fa'la'fo'lo'

Dem go erase reprogram our memory

Remix, repackage Blackman history

Reinvent another yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

All to keep us in perpetual slavery

Dem go erase reprogram our memory

Remix, repackage Blackman history

Reinvent another yẹ̀yẹ́ theory

All to keep us in perpetual slavery

So I didn't want to participate in the madness of commercialism

I didn't want to participate in the madness of gimmicks

I do not want African music to belong to the fashion

Where music comes and goes

Cause where African music goes it stays!