Words of The Week: 'Protect Your Culture' by Spragga Benz

Protect Your Culture by Spragga Benz

Many years since wi ah lose it
And di rest of the world ah use it
Yea, mi ah talk bout wi culture an wi music
Na na na na
Watch yah now

Wi haffi protect wi culture
From the heathen, hypocrite and the vulture
If we watch, they’ll mash it up like a sculpture
Next dem ahgo walk wid insult ya
So bredda bredda wi haffi maintain di order
And haffi defend di boundary and di border
Mi nah talk bout di gully and di gaza
Mi ah talk from stress weh mek wi life harder
So ghetto people haffi preserve di youth dem
Cah babylon no have no reserve fi shoot dem
So educate di younger ones wit di truth dem
Tell dem no fraid di bully weh have di guns, vest and boot
And wi haffi mek a stand ‘gainst corruption
Di system will suck you in lak a suction
Becah dem inna population reduction
Rastafari promote life production

Wi haffi mek a stand
Wi all share di pressure, wi all bear di pain
But it can’t be better less we mek di change
Fall in everybody and join dis love train
An stop watch yah future juss ah go dung di drain
Cuz how can it be different when wi all doing di same?
Don’t follow nobody just use your own brain
If we all pull together, there’s much more to gain
Stop watch your future be a runaway train
Wi haffi stop all di fighting
Unite and show di youth dem di right thing
If everyday wi ah war like a viking
A destruction, chaos wi inviting
Wi haffi give wi one another upliftment
No drain yuh brother energy, you must give strength
Full courage him and mek him travel nuff distance
Nah beg yuh nothing, juss a offer mi assistance
How it so hard fi unu endorse di oneness?
And dung a yard, some only want dog fi brandish
Why it happen so? Mi caan overstand dis
A weh di lovin deh, weh Jah bless every man wid?
What mek wi caan hold it and set di standard?
What mek wi caan tek di lead lak di vanguard?
We live inna one world, wid one God, one landlord
Some man a gwan lak seh him tun girl dem a reverse,
Mi haffi move one world cah

Wi share di pressure, wi all bear di pain
But it can’t be better less we mek di change
Fall in everybody and join dis love train
An stop watch yah future juss ah wash dung di drain
Cuz how can it be different when wi all doing di same?
Don’t follow nobody just use your own brain
If we all pull together, there’s much more to gain
And stop watch your future like a runaway train

Wi haffi protect di culture
From the heathen, hypocrite and the vulture
If you watch, they’ll mash it up like a sculpture
Next dem ahgo walk wid insult yah
So bredda bredda wi haffi maintain di order
And haffi defend di boundary and di border
Mi nah talk bout no gully and dno gaza
Wi ah talk from stress dat mek wi life harder
So ghetto people wi haffi preserve di youth dem
Cah babylon no have no reserve fi shoot dem
Educate di younger ones wit di truth dem
Tell dem no fraid di bully weh have di guns, vest and boot
And wi haffi mek a stand ‘gainst corruption
Di system will suck you in lak a suction
Becah dem inna population reduction
Rastafari ah promote life production

Wi haffi take a stand
Wi all share di pressure, wi all bear di pain
But it can’t be better less we mek di change
Fall in everybody, join dis love train
An stop watch yah future juss ah go dung di drain
Cuz how can it be different when wi being di same?
An if you mek di wrong move you might lose yuh brain
If we all pull together, there’s much more to gain
Stop watch your future be a runaway train
Wi haffi stop all di fighting
Wi haffi show di likkle youth dem di right thing
If everyday wi ah war like a viking
Destruction and chaos wi inviting
Wi haffi give wi di younger ones upliftment
No drain yuh brother energy, you must give strength
Full courage him and mek him travel nuff distance
Nah look fi nothing, juss a offer you assistance
How it so hard fi unu endorse di oneness?
And nuff a yard, some only want dog fi brandish
Why it happen so? Mi caan overstand dis
A weh di lovin deh, weh Jah bless every man wid?
What mek wi caan hold it and set di standard?
What mek wi caan tek di lead lak di vanguard . . .

Taken from the album "Shotta Culture"
Shotta Culture