When i first went back and seen the rice terraces and
Seeing what many broke their backs to build and preserve
Showed me that i didn't need material things
Just knowledge of our culture and wisdom to pass on to the next
So know every time i see a Filipino or Filipina i just head hunt right away
Now Everybody move where my people all at?
They took our truth and they re wrote that
What you gonna do? we gonna put it us on the map
Show me where you from let me see those tats
Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)
All these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)
You can tell that all my people in this when you see that flag out
Show em where you from we gon act out
Betta back up because we do not back down
3 stars and the sun we got the map out
Navigated the globe
That's why they know us
Ancestors all covered in gold for the Kultura
They show up crocodile teeth along with the cobra
Not alone with apat na alone I throw the 4 up
Kita ang isa ka tribu sa atun
Mismo sa'tun nga kaliwat nag batu
Isa ka dugo gin tuntu gin priso
Kag sila nag tunga sa'tun
Sa pamaagi sang relihiyon
Masubo pero luwas kita japun
Wa-e mo
ba-bata ako
I-ilo ilo
DAYON!
Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)
All these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)
From the start we was strong with the art cuz it be like that
Big flips big moves our truth those roots let me see those tats
Mula sa wala
Mundo ay nilikha
Nililok na mukha
Sa siklab nagsimula
Raise your hand if you reppin filipino
Passing this mana like a blessing to my people
Always bear witness nothing is scripted
Those who rob our culture get chopped out with a quickness
I rep the 4 cuz it reps our ethnicity
Melting pot diaspora barangay every city
Roll with the tribe for the community
Always first to go to war this head hunter from the philippines
Dara Cebuano kudil Americano nyem puso kararwa ag dwa nga Ilocano
Idiay nak nga dimakel igid ti karayan Na labaga nga pitak lugar ti Cagayan Lal-lo!
Agta Ybanag agpapada ti dara tulang ken lasag
Idiay nak nagpatatak paltug naka tatak Pumatay-ak para kabagis ken kadarak
Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)
all these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)
From the start we was strong with the art cuz it be like that
Big flips big moves our truth those roots let me see those tats
Mula sa wala
Mundo ay nilikha
Nililok na mukha
Sa siklab nagsimula
JUNGLE BLOOD I FEEL AT HOME IN THE TREES
HELLA HIGH ENERGY LIKE THE SNAKES 30 FEET
I DONT TAKE WHAT I DONT NEED THATS THE WARRIOR IN ME
GOTTA CARRY DAT TEAM CANT BE GUIDED BY GREED
ANCIENT TRILOBITE STEEZ ~ WHEN IM ON THE MIC SNEEZE
MAMI SICKWIDDIT BABY ~ GOTTA HONOR MY LEAD
MATRILINEALL PROCESSION ~ MY MAMAS MAMAS KEEP
LAXAMANA IMA BRING THE HONOR HOME LIKE MY SEEDS
José rizal dans le paysage
J'marche dans ses pas depuis le jeune âge
Look mes tattoos sur mon visage
C'est ma vraie vie sans camouflage
Karakoa sur le rivage
Je crache du feu comme un dragon
Décroche la lune pour apat na alon
Bakunawa c'est le salon
4 waves 3 stars 2 hearts 1 mission
Para sa kultura
APAT
Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)
All these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)
From the start we was strong with the art cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)
Big flips big moves our truth those roots let me see those tats
Mula sa wala
Mundo ay nilikha
Nililok na mukha
Sa siklab nagsimula
We owe it to our ancestors to bless and be blessed for the preservation of our culture
Western assimilation is starting to overtake thought processes now
And it makes the youth believe that being blinded by material holds more value
Our weight and gold is our stories and how we raise our youth for the future to come
