Somali, Somali

As we near the finish line for the new official “Shake the Dust” website and the teaser from Yemen, I got a little distracted (as I did in Yemen) with a sort of “side story.” I’m not sure how much you all know about the situation in Somalia, but it’s pretty tragic. As such, there are Somali refugees all over the world. I saw/met them in Uganda, Egypt, Yemen and even down the street here in Harlem.

I’m still trying to decide if this is tangential to the original “Shake the Dust” storyline, but in the mean time I thought I’d post a little footage from Hada in Sana’a, where many of the Somalians live.

If you can’t catch the lyrics in the video, here they are:

The problem at home, the difficulties at home
And my brothers, my people
The land of my grandfathers
The land of my ancestors
Where I wasted all my youth
Line up in front of me / Listen to my rap
Nigga SO legends Somali is my home
Hey world repeat after me what I say
My man AJ Yemeni, Arab
My blue flag like the sky when the sun shines
From the middle east Imma free ya’ll
My people killing, children dyin’, nigga, for what?
Somali, Somali, muslim, Arab
Run after power, no one lives forever
“I advised, I warned, but you ended up dead” – (somali proverb)
Heaven of earth, in the corner of Africa
Somalia, forever.