Lyrics!: NiyoRah

Like I've constantly said over the years, when you can actually SEE the words written with your own eyes, it can be a very powerful thing. Of course listening is just as powerful, even more so, but really, aren't you more likely to trust two of your senses more than just one? It is when they're working together that you really began to SEE things that maybe you didn't hear. By that very notion, we take a look today at someone who I feel REALLY is going to go down as one of the most strikingly underrated and underappreciated lyricists and writers of this era. He certainly does get credit and receives more and more as he does more and more work - but as an artist overall - and not for the actual construction of his messages. Today we try to challenge that by observing ten totally random stunning stanzas of the spoken word by one of the most powerful Virgin Islands act on the scene today and EVER - NiyoRah. 

NiyoRah

'African Chant' featuring Pressure Busspipe

"Rastafari recognize di root of it all!

Dis yah iniversal concept is di truth of it all!

You must remember babylon denomination dominate dominion amphibian opinion-

Di spook of it all!

Afrika levitify and purify Earth

I am not doubting my essence

Mi nah scrutinize worth

Plant mi okra, mi ganja-

Maximize earth!

Multicomplex complexion: Blacker than dirt!

Permedial structure, six pointed, erect and invert

Like locks to Rasta, firmaments are antennas to earth

Breath of life, better life inna Kilimanjaro!

Afrika strive, gathering might, now the cock it ah crow

Trumpet sound!

Gather around! Just lift up unuh voice!

Man anoint ganja joint, the ash give it spice

We got - foods for yah belly and di herbs to heal

Plain and simple, know it as it is"

'How It Is'

"You know how it is

You know how it is out there

Babylon dem waan fi kill a couple more this year

You know how it is

You know how it is out there

They got di gun to shoot us down but wi no really care

You know how it is

You know how it is out there

Babylon ah push dem biochemical warfare

You know how it is

You know how it is out there

They got the drugs to kill us off but wi no really care

By any means, I will defend di poor

I will shoot a wicked man and close di coffin door

Militant. Sometime the lion roar

You must defend and don't pretend that Jah Jah isn't pure

It doesn't mean that we must just relax

Dem slaughter us wid prices and dem murder wi wid tax

They make it hard, for any of us to make-

A decent cup of juice, sufficient meal upon di plate"

'A Different Age'

"The Ancient is hardly seen in babylon

But what I never see I & I know lives on

Because inside of me, I feel di vibration

No temptation to break your concentration

Life is the testimony to The Absolute

There is no discrimination in this ghetto youth

Fornication and hate, it will be rebuked

Chase di wicked man away with the drums and flute

We are living life to make it better

The places, which are dry, to make it wetter

Life is not a game, like pool or checkers

I REPRESENT DI ONE WHO HOLD THE SCEPTER"

'Propaganda'

"In this world of modern technology

Di Rastaman ah trod it anciently

Wi build di Pyramids and Golden City

Fighting for the betterment of my community

Di ghetto youth dem powerful, can't you see?

Farmers bringing food in from di far country

I see my people full of loyalty

Di Emperors and Empresses in royalty"

'Fullest Confidence' 

"Even if gossip talk, no mek it stray yah medi

Love is within yah heart, which mean you ever ready

Mek di Kette Drum talk -

My people hold it steady

Firm like a Lion, with Tafari Jah Selassie Haile

Look at how dem ah trace-

You call up on di telly

So much time deh ah waste, wid bad intelligency

Dutty power in place, of Black woman

Authentic germ dem ah buy out, every block wi build throughout di century

Hand up deh let it raise!-

If unno cup no empty

NiyoRah trod it brave, fi bun dem penitentiary

Wi must not be afraid whenever being friendly

Learn how to fly out of di trap within di mental slavery

Being locked inna cage is not a life for babies

Naked on di front page is not a life for ladies

Rest assured, put your faith within the better phases

Life wouldn't die out, but you are di one to make di changes"

'We Shall See'

"I KNOW!

ONE DAY!

WE SHALL SEE!

Babylon go UNDER!

DOWN DEH!

In di heat

I & I seh RASTA!

CONQUER!

ENEMIES!

Ghetto people RISE UP!

TRAMPLE!

JEALOUSY!

Whoa!

Di temperature boiling

Bwoy you shoulda know, a nah my ting yuh spoiling

Mi send fi Soweto and Johannesburg fi smite dem

Di Black Revolutionary Warrior, mi like dem

Sudan!

My people in di Congo

Step it up, come on!

Rastafari shake yah bongo

Afrikan tradition - All is set in Ithiopia

Bless I, yes I

Nyahbingi and di Bobo"

'Feel Your Presence'

"Don't you know-

Life is a blessing from The Most High

It is electro-magnetic, with The Father, I'm going to keep a close eye

From San Francsico, to the Big Apple-

Changes will occur in the whole sky

So spread the info, to every chapel:

Loving from good people, no it won't die

Now I feel your presence again

Whoa Jah

Now I feel your essence again

Whoa Jah!

So take me, liberate, educate me

I'm asking you, oh please, oh please

Rain is falling

Tears from ancestors is dropping

No more stalling

Years under pressure, now they're flopping

Babylon bawling

Look yah now the righteous man is smiling

Zion is calling

Can't you see the angels are arriving?"

'Gone Crazy'

"The Moors of Ithiopia trod through all Denmark

The tiny Pigmy people really have a big heart

Reparation di face of di world press

In the end dem send a letter lacking interest

Pagan system neva gi wi any justice

Just fi dat - I & I seh light up more spliff!

Mahatma Ghandi fast fi 30 days and bring rain

Historically putting fyah pon dem membrane

Babylon push bad news through di ghetto

Psychologically, this is why guns echo

Television have a purpose: Fi extract you-

From di ivine type a energy Jah Jah gi you

You got di power cause di ghetto people hardcore

Fi di Rasta artist nations screaming that they want more!

Deeper messages make life eva betta

God's wrath is more powerful than any berretta

Dem gone crazy

System broke through this bad economy

Nuttin at all nah gwan lately

Oh dem gone crazy"

'Wha Yu Feel Say'

"Wha yu feel seh you betta dan wi?

Wha yu feel seh you run di country?

It a Jah run things, dun things, fyah bun things

Not anyone a wi

Inna mi dem build so much anger

But remember struggle mek wi stronger

If dem bring gunshot, wi rise above dat

Trust mi, wi nah live fi get conquer

Have you heard about di land of Malawi?

Wi defeat off di whole a dem army

When di war di start, dem realize dat-

Shots could not penetrate wi body"

'No Guts, No Glory'

"Di yute weh buss dem gun fi fun and ah mek blood run

Jah carry dem home!

Di poor Princess weh sell her body fi money

Jah Jah carry her home!

For I have been a victim of, my environment and ignorant thoughts

But my intent is genuine

So be a  better man than I have been

No guts, no glory

Become the fullness of the story

No guts, no glory

I am  di only one who knows me

No guts, no glory

I'm a Rasta, not an OG

No guts, no glory

From di Black dust, I rise"