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Hostiles ft. Def​-​i

from Land Bass by Shibastik

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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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from Land Bass, released April 7, 2020
Produced by Shibastik
Beat by Shibastik

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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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