Renaissance Land ft. Jerome Rex Lyrics

Here we go are you ready?

From Ethiopia to Egypt the world's academic force

Admires structures that survived all the tests of yore

Sculptures of Aksum, the sphinxes, inventive works

The bronze figures of Benin and the Fez of course

The Zim ruins, universities that led the cause

Epic scores, far more so than we get credit for

Google it. Legends forged on these blessed shores

Let these thoughts keep you on your toes like with pedicures

(That's right) kingdoms get established

Monumental architecture Ceasar couldn't manage

Advances in metallurgy deeper than your average

From a people supposedly so ignorant and savage

Darkest Africa? Don't believe the Reddit scores

A continent synonymous with fear, evil, death and wars

It's time to shake that bad press and invest in yours

Actively as Africans to activate the Renaissance

My roots go around the whole world and back again

I know who I am, I'm an African

What they thought about me never mattered when

I know who I am, I'm an African

From Mitchells Plain to Sarepta the world's brightest heads endorse

Great achievements all drawn from our reservoirs

Let us all think on what the globe is indebted for

Economic policy and sport in respected forms

Wayde runs the track as his intended call

Chess grandmaster Kenny Solomon defends the pawns

Who can meet the art of Peter Clarke except of course

B-boy Brandon, the floor's a canvas when he gets to dance

Dollar Brand and POC, yes they've been on tours

But of course men revere the band, yet reject the source

Only know the Cape Flats for gangs and excessive force

So the state won't show us love like a tennis loss

The Cape of storms? Don't believe the metaphors

We'll blow the doors off those lies and attest as false

So come on, shake that bad press and invest in yours

Cape Town stand up, it's time for the Renaissance