Pull up in a dumpster fire with nine uncles
I’m the bad bitch that come from Sri Lanka
Perehera mask with the devil entendre.
Monsoon rain witha hella long thunder
saffron skin, saffron skin,
Fresco face paint, rock face chin
All hair everywhere, silk road spin.
Ayo, chee, what the cat dragged in.
british and portugese, dutch and some moors
Fortresses, colonies, embassies, war.
Suicide bombers & genocide laws.
Rulers got ruined and scatter the shores.
People get crushed like a maloong for it. And
An analog for it be like tearing down the forest
And then planting more salt for the animals to forage in
And marinade in a vain bid for some nourishment.
I’m in the tea and the spice on the rack,
I make a fee, i get 25 lakh
I hit the poya with tree in the sack.
That’s my colonial beef in the pack.
Sudha get ominous chill in the spine
Human condition got me in a bind
Over tradition and visions of british
devisions decisions and lines.

Diaspora, shattered vast and raw
Colonial collateral, the last to draw
Empires built by our backs at cost
All for cash our past been fractured, lost

Diaspora, gathered fast and broad
Surviving and thriving while castles fall
Culture constructed by our passioned thoughts
No caste, no class will outlast us, nah!

Expelled like whoa
Judea to Germany, Russia from Rome
Keep tryna wipe us out, but you know
they can't help, but let my, people go

They try and pass us off as an afterthought
we blast off last thought better latch the locks
and that false, they demonized the whole damn crew,
Turned us into scapegoats—yeah they stole that, too


Displaced and dispossessed
Got misassimilated in the distance west
Found a new home on Duwamish land
covered up and filled in by the colonist's hand


They killed the lagoon, neglected crops,
banned camps from the city and elected cops.
Give the people a rest like three Shabbats,
Let's honor ט״ו בשבט like Chief Siʔaɫ

Diaspora, shattered vast and raw
Colonial collateral, the last to draw
Empires built by our backs at cost
All for cash our past been fractured, lost

Diaspora, gathered fast and broad
Surviving and thriving while castles fall
Culture constructed by our passioned thoughts
No caste, no class will outlast us, nah!

Toussaint Louverture, sunshines upon you, you shown what you do, you've made the streets move, we're free because you, you rose and they knew, fought hard as it grew, you told them it's thru, 1791 it started, 2 years later, slavery abolished! Y'all fought thru, many French troops, demolished! Get 'em back for plenty actions demonic, Napolean swore that he had the upper hand, didn't count on slaves to betray 'em, it's puzzling, practicing religions that were taught in the motherland, worshiping a God, helped em out with the suffering, WE WIN!! That's it, Haiti freer than jaybirds, population singing, French troops they tapered, Bonaparte hating, his plans went wayward, 1804, we destroyed the invaders

The Haitian Revolution of 1791, led by General Toussaint Louverature, was the only successful slave uprising in modern history. Napoleon sent his best troops. Toussaint was tricked, then imprisoned in France, where he died in 1803. His lieutenants continued the fight. New year's day, 1804 the Independent Republic of Haiti was born

Diaspora, shattered vast and raw
Colonial collateral, the last to draw
Empires built by our backs at cost
All for cash our past been fractured, lost

Diaspora, gathered fast and broad
Surviving and thriving while castles fall
Culture constructed by our passioned thoughts
No caste, no class will outlast us, nah!