VIDEO FOR RAPHAEL 2021

Dear friends,

Every year we try to celebrate in the month of April the legacy that Rapha left us.

Four years have passed since he left us…

Ten years since the very beginning of the Immigrant Swing band…

Ten years since the Tesco riots in Bristol…

In memory of those gone by days we would like to share with you an extract from some video shots from the 2011 archives of Mao Bazurto. 

The video shows the birth of an Immigrant Swing’s song : Wise Up, whose final version was published in 2016, in the Album “First Words Problems”.

16th of April 2021 

The birth of a song

WISE UP

As you know, the current situation does not allow us to organize the big gig which we would have liked but, if you wish to jump into the present Bristol atmosphere we will very soon send you a link to a zoom concert that we are organizing at PRSC on the 21st of April.

It is interesting to go through the Lyrics :

WISE UP


Whether is karma, the law, conscience or war
Whether is nice or sore, for sure
One way or another, be sister or brother,
be friend or be foe, whether drunk or sober
In peace or in woe,
standing at the top of the world,
Or laying at the bottom of the gutter, People reap what the sow,
'cos what you give is what you got, what you give is what you got.
Wise up wake up, take off the makeup. While the mask is on the face don't face up.
Rise up step up twice before you shape up, time is running out and we all get messed up.
Time is running out and we all get messed up....

Gather what little matters, the rest left in tatters
Complaints in their chatters, when banquets in platers
In dumpsters they splatter, like nothing matters?
Eat butter that makes you fatter...
Chumps chicks and rooster, coping posters
Of heroic Impostors, whom pester investors
And in their funds they fester, not even contesters
Just jokers just jester, just jokers just jesters.
 
Rap isn't just for the sake of the skill, many talk a lot and say nothing still
We have to rap what ever we feel, speaking our truth our sense and our will
What ever you give is what you receive, what ever you got is what you owe
What ever you had you paid in, whom ever you are is what you've done...

Rap isn't just for the skill,
many chat crap loaded on coke and pills
Some jabber up for the sake of the thrill,
others battle rap in traps of maiming kills.
Cats can't stop double trot vocal fills
Out with the track and in with central spills
Soul ja quique down my Spine shooting chills
War isn't fought with swords but with quills,

My people grow their food on window seals
Not down under ground, under bunker hills
We sell our produce for cash in the tills
They sell our debt till people stand still
Led to believe that we all got free will
But the movies teach us to plunder and kill
Rape the Mother Earth and the program fulfil
So you can dump the rest once you've had your fill

Rap isn't just for the sake of the skill,
many talk a lot and say nothing still
We have to rap what ever we feel,
speaking our truth our sense and our will
Wise up wake up, take off the make up.
While the mask is on the face don't face up.
Rise up step up twice before you shape up,
time is running out and we all get messed up.
What ever you give is what you receive,
what ever you got is what you owe
What ever you had you paid in,
whom ever you are is what you've done...
 
Wise up wake up an kuss the faker
The kind of fella that is only a taker
Gonna stomp the ground till the earth shakes up

Rise up step up, sip shape up. 

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