{"id":222034,"created_at":"2021-06-15 22:44:01","updated_at":"2024-04-30 21:29:17","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2021-06-15 22:44:01","original_id":null,"artist_id":55020,"title":"16 June Uprising","slug":"16-june-uprising","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"[Hook] \r\nThey rose up and asked why\/\r\nThe shows up it's our time\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/ \r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\nThey rose up and asked why\/\r\nThe shows up it's our time\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\n\r\n[Verse] \r\nWhy would you take lives of the innocent\/ \r\nPeacefully striking for their betterment\/\r\nHe was only 13 years hector pieterson\/\r\nWe Lived in the country but were not citizens \/\r\nChances of being physicist very low\/\r\nSchool was just to get us in a row\/\r\nUnder control, scared to go toe to toe\/\r\nWe Earned Little dough, the photos \/\r\nTaken by Sam Nzima putting him in a corner\/\r\nResign from media or you are no more\/\r\nChoose to live or die with pride and honor\/\r\nWe have mourned alot I cant no more\/\r\nJohn Vosster telling the world there was no crisis(lies)\/ \r\nThe government itself was ISIS just a death climate\/\r\nMinus the Melanin doesn't matter who is lifeless \/\r\nOur lives still mean less But God's still bless\/\r\n\r\n[Hook] \r\nWe rose up and asked why\/\r\nThe shows up it's our time\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/ \r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\nThey rose up and asked why\/\r\nThe shows up it's our time\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\n\r\nWe got Bantu education meaning shit for blacks\/\r\nVerses the model c school which gave purpose\/\r\nIt's just a hamster wheel we ran until we breathless\/ \r\nWe only graduated to become their servants\/\r\nThat's why Mashinini sparked the rise and asked Why\/\r\nshould a black child Learn in Afrikaans\/\r\nAfter singing Nkosi sikelela they shoot at us\/\r\nWith bullets the young black Kids were baptised\/\r\nMany never made home they just disappeared \/\r\nNo one knows were Mbuyisa Makhubu is\/\r\nHe wasn't scared They feared His courage\/ \r\nUnfortunately he cant rise like a phoenix\/\r\nThe only whites seen in the township were policeman\/ \r\nTo inflict fear and constant beating, that the reason \/\r\nThe kids didn't know we are unequal \/\r\n\r\n[Hook] \r\nWe rose up and asked why\/\r\nThe shows up it's our time\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/ \r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\nThey rose up and asked why\/\r\nThe shows up it's our time\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/\r\nTo cut the cuffs to deny \/\r\nEducation that colonized\/","download_count":561,"play_count":1,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":1,"download_count_24_at":"2024-04-30","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/60c\/910\/af3\/thumb_687148_300_300_0_0_crop.jpg","status_reason":"published","status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}