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Land Bass

by Shibastik

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Shabatwan 03:44
Sitting by the heat in a shabatwan… Dripping like the grease from a sagabon / Crumbling the sage for the past that’s gone… Praying for the rain in the Amazon // What you know about burning leaves? What you know about our worst enemies? / Ain’t even safe for the coral reefs… Plastic islands… The orca grieves // Clear the land for the cattle… Beef… Deliberate flames… That’s shallow… Thieves / Stealing the life from the stands of trees… We’re breathing the canopies // This is treason and anarchy… This is evil… It can not be / For the man’s greed it’s the land that bleeds… Black blood… A sign the wound’s bad and deep // Gotta bring that culture back… Gotta bring that culture back / Only one way to win this war… Get back to who we were before // Chop down the system… Blow up the dams / Save the children… Defend the land // Niskuk and a moose rack still on my back… So many just stuck on the modern path / Too many of us have been caught and trapped… In a system made to wipe us off the map // When we pray for the strength to stand… We don’t put together our hands… / We rise them up and we dance… Eyes wide shut in a trance… // Pow wow strut with a b-boy stance…. Facing the wind like a decoy… Bad / Style with a good intent… Sweet grass Burning while the world is turning mad // It’s been stabbed but my heart’s intact… It’s not broken… But dark and cracked / It’s been starving for what we had… We’ve been struck we must react // Gotta bring that culture back… Gotta bring that culture back / Only one way to win this war… Get back to who we were before // Chop down the system… Blow up the dams / Save the children… Defend the land // Chop down the system… Blow up the dams / Save the children… Defend the land // Chop down the system… Blow up the dams / Save the children… Defend the land // We are all oxygen users… And he’s killing all the producers / His industry causing these ruins… Barren from where the kapok to the spruce is // There’s medicine in the bear meat… Messages within your dream when the bear speaks / We should be out growing fruit and berries… And digging up truth they’ve buried… But the truth is scary // He doesn’t want us to know… He doesn’t want us to grow / He is dishonest… Addicted to profits… He poisons our body and soul // Praying for the people cause the man is Preying on the people like a mantis / All across the atlas… Everybody at risk… We all know the man is the real savage // Praying for the people cause the man is Preying on the people like a mantis / All across the atlas… Everybody at risk… We all know the man is the real savage // Sitting by the heat in a shabatwan… Dripping like the grease from a sagabon / Crumbling the sage for the past that’s gone… Praying for the rain in the Amazon //
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8 Lead slugs in the Remi with a bush machete… Out where the woods are heavy… I’m Steady with the semi / Better tell the cook get ready… I’m bringing back a Yeti… I’ve got his head in a sack and his body’s going sledding // My snow machine is heading straight into the storm and getting closer to the shore where the ice is open.. River coursing deadly / Hope it seems a hopeless means to cope with these types of hopeless scenes… But still it flows beneath like under frozen streams // As I’m Creeping through the willows… Sneaking up on the beast peeking in our windows… Pow… / Witnessed the wickedness and could only say “How?” If we only new then what we’re knowing right now // I’m a nomadic hunter… Don’t got a trap line… It’s vital to my survival… It’s not a pass time / I’m hunting no man’s land digging up land mines... I’m still at war with the culture killers who damn mine // We’re the ones that refuse to be docile… We speak truth and we make the Rez dogs howl / Big bon fire starters with some hot styles… They hear us and they know that we’re hostiles // Across rivers and through swamps… We’ve walked miles… Where hawks circle and ravenous Rez dogs growl / Big bon fire starters with some hot styles… They fear us cause they know that we’re hostiles // (Def-i verse) I still pray to Gitchi Manitou… The Great Spirit in all Nature… Understand I do / Not picture a white bearded old man… I’m too Traditional in my ways… They’re saying I should gaagaadoo (shut-up) // The food on my plate made me acoosoh (sick)… 5 needles a day… Sparatic tracks and holes / Got me feeling like Blade when he stabs his throat with the serum… Cause the syrup has no antidote // Vampires in lab coats counting cash and souls… “Where wolves” have roamed now the tractor rolls / Silver bullets made from melted artifacts they stole… Gold treasure turned to coins and sent back in boats // They’ve been cutting all the trees but the grass still grows.. So treaties that they wrote in blood can’t be broke / We’ll fight until we get back all that we’re owed... Our land, our home… And every single language spoke // Unforgiven past… I won’t give in… I’ll gas the moat… Light it up and let the castle smoke / Signalling the warriors have awoke and in the spirit of Wovoka it’s a good day to dance with ghosts //
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Hurt People 03:40
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Thunder Bay 03:53
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True MC 04:03
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Flow (BradleyAJ, Deanne Rose Moore, Shibastik) The light broke through the crack in the window Not wanting to move, I pulled you closer Don't know, don't care what time it is We've got nowhere to go Let's waste the day together, baby Go with the flow Go with the flow, yea It's been a long week travelling My mind keeps racing My heart starts pacing I see the light through the window I see you see it too and it shows I feel your warmth Let's stay here forever Wasting the day sounds so clever (Let's just lay here) Wrapped between the sheets morning to night In a crazy world of many wrongs Let's get this one right The light broke through the crack in the window Not wanting to move, I pulled you closer Don't know, don't care what time it is We've got nowhere to go Let's waste the day together, baby Go with the flow Go with the flow, yea Meegwetch for the faith that you’ve restored We’ve faced cold days but our sheet’s warm Like the touch of the mist on the beach Shore Fire… Just us… We exist Couldn’t be more happy by your side Just to have you in my life You’re our better half Please have the half of me that’s right The man that you deserve is who I have in me I might not be quite as strong as you But for you I will have to be The ground feels more solid when you stand with me Hand in hand Coming together like the land and sea But never clashing Just wave after wave Everlasting The Pain of the past missing in action Got a good foundation Some storms along the way But this moment right now sends a good vibration I've learned to love myself So I've got love to give It's the best kind of love So finding someone strong as me is all I've dreamed of You remind me taking down time is not a sign of weakness (You're so strong) After all, we're only human And no, It's not a secret Let's waste the day together, baby Go with the flow Go with the flow Don't know, don't care what time it is We've got nowhere to go Let's waste the day together, baby Go with the flow Go with the flow, yea

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released April 7, 2020

Produced by Shibastik
Final Mastering by Sequenced In Sound

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Shibastik Thunder Bay, Ontario

Legendary James Bay (Mushkegowuk) Cree emcee, producer, artist and workshop facilitator. Creator of the Healing Through Hip Hop Workshop, Land Bass Healing Tour and the Rez Rock. An experienced traditional hunter and an accomplished basketball player, Shibastik grew up in the isolated northern communities of Moosonee and Moose Factory on the Moose River. Two time captain of Team Ontario at NAIG. ... more

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