Damian's Lyrics on Distant Relatives -- appreciation thread
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Damian Marley, the youngest son of Bob Marley, did a lot more than just sing the hooks or produce the beats on Distant Relatives. His lyrics were crazy good. Post his best quotes from that album.
(Huh) Are we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
Are we growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?
Can you predict the future? Can you see storms... coming?
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running
And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
Can you read Signs? Can you read Stars?
Can you make peace? Can you fight war?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? (Huh)
Can you survive, AGAINST ALL ODDS...Now?
-Damian Marley, "Patience"
(Huh) Are we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
Are we growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?
Can you predict the future? Can you see storms... coming?
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running
And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
Can you read Signs? Can you read Stars?
Can you make peace? Can you fight war?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? (Huh)
Can you survive, AGAINST ALL ODDS...Now?
-Damian Marley, "Patience"
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Word, nvr knew he was a beast until Distant Relatives became my favorite album.
EDIT: Most underrated song on the album also -
Gong held that album down... brilliant vocals and production
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Yeah...he's his fathers son thats 4 sure....
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^^ The hook on this track is just ill... -
^^ The hook on this track is just ill...
WORD....
The first week sales are disgusting tho, considering this album ? on anything out right now. -
Jr Gong on Patience smh i have not words for his verses as a matter of fact his hooks and verses throughout the album were just pure art much respect to him and Nas
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af.r.i.c.a. wrote: »Jr Gong on Patience smh i have not words for his verses as a matter of fact his hooks and verses throughout the album were just pure art much respect to him and Nas
Word Nas & Jr Gong did their thing nh -
Yea, he was definately the highlight of the album for me
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Yea, he was definately the highlight of the album for me
I feel the same way too... not to take anything away from Nasir -
I went out and bought the album for the first time in a long time. I aint even gonna buy Bone Thugs (my fav. group) new ? because its weak. What made it so dope for me to buy the album was that they have the lyrics in the booklet and reading the lyrics and listening to the songs makes it that much more dope because sometimes its hard to understand Damien. but when u break it down and read his ? , you realize the man is pure genius.
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this aint even Distant Relatives but his lyrics have been dope since day one. this is off Halfway Tree, one of his best albums.
"Well did you know the pen
Is stronger than di knife
And they can ? you once
But they cant ? you twice
Did you know destruction of di flesh is not di ending to life
Fear not of the anti-christ
Did you know that I
Exist before the earth
And did you know my eyes
Are windows to the world
Did you know you cant go ah Zion and ah wear jerry curls
Cant tell the boys from the girls
The bodys just a vehicle
Transporting the soul
Its whats inside the people
Is beauty to behold
Fear not of evil
Everyday dem flesh it grow old
Changes of the times take the toll........ So watch for sticks and stones
Stumbling blocks in piles
Life is one big road
Miles on top of miles
So blessed be the soul
That always remains a child
When most people don't even smile
There's a natural mystic
Blowing tru the air
So keep it realistic
And always be aware
The truth is crying out
And it's so loud and so clear
But most people won't even hear
Spiritual pollution in the atmosphere
And with so much confusion
Can one be happy here?
The gift of Rastafari is for all man to share
But some would rather to be so unfair" -
fortyacres&amule wrote: »Tuff gong would be so proud of jnr gong
And his hooks are off the chain on DR
dude knows how to to ride a beat
but knaan had the best verse on the whole album on tribes at war
K'naan's verse was pretty sick.
Damian just killed me with his lyrics on this album though, didn't know he could spit that like. Ironically, I was just listening to that Patience verse when I clicked on this thread and saw the first post... just insane poetry. His verse on In His Own Words caught my attention right away. "Can you think of a colour that you never seen/ Can you reminisce on places you never been." ? just locked me down and I'm sitting there tryna picture it. -
Damian came razor sharp
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K'naan's verse was pretty sick.
Damian just killed me with his lyrics on this album though, didn't know he could spit that like. Ironically, I was just listening to that Patience verse when I clicked on this thread and saw the first post... just insane poetry. His verse on In His Own Words caught my attention right away. "Can you think of a colour that you never seen/ Can you reminisce on places you never been." ? just locked me down and I'm sitting there tryna picture it.
I was waiting for someone to mention In His Own Words. too ill -
Damian is Ill with the lyrics. The only thing with him is his thick accent, but if you interested in the lyrics then that should add to the replay value.
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JokerzWyld wrote: »Damian is Ill with the lyrics. The only thing with him is his thick accent, but if you interested in the lyrics then that should add to the replay value.
co sign. whole album been on replay for about 3 weeks now, and still catching stuff Damien was saying that went over my head or just couldn't understand b/c of the accent. -
JR. Gong >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hip Hop
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Damien's lyrics definitely surprised me on DR. Even the other day, I was listening to the song "Welcome to Jamrock" , which I used to just listen to and not decipher. Dude caught me when he said "come on lets face it, a ghetto education's basic, a most a them youth's a waste it, and when them waste it dats when them take a gun and replace it and they dont stand a chance at all"...that ? got me right there.
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From "Stand a Chance" off Halfway Tree. This song is still amazing to me:
Where there's more hungry mouths
Than food to eat
It's where the homeless
Roam the street
Where broken glass
And broken dreams
Are shattered and scattered
Amongst debris
Sufferation wrath
And still they laugh
And dream of a mansion
Above the half
No one to speak
Upon there behalf
Now tell me do they stand a chance?
Where there's, more food
Than mouths to feed
Where you find those who
Claim to lead
Because of all their personal greed
They always want more than they need
They don't help those
Below the half
Instead they stand aside and laugh
As if it's all we'll ever ask
When will they make a change?
Illegal guns
They roam the night
In hungry hands
Waiting to bite
The first sign of
Any food in sight
Youths in the dark
Searching for light
Hard time they face
Is not a choice
Police curfew
Is no surprise
And with no one
To be there voice
Do they stand a chance?
Where there's, more hungry mouths
Then food to eat
Where you find those who
Claim to lead
Because of all there personal greed
They always want more than they need
They don't help those
Below the Half
Instead they stand aside and laugh
As if it's all we'll ever ask
When will they make a change? -
ah bare big lyrics! big up damian. Tek afta yuh fada after all.
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Im glad someone made A thread about Damians lyrics, coz I was thinkin that He went extra extra extra hard on that album... His lyrics are so powerfull I wonder where He pulled them from... Dudes got A super mind... Throw out the whole album He gave Me goose bumps real talk... He shon over Nas IMO, not theres any shame in that, Nas did His thing to, but the album was all about Damian, I been bumpin Him 4 years...
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BOOM! Gong tore that album apart, much like his last solo effort in what I believe is another classic album - Welcome To Jamrock.
Nas is one of the greatest ever, but Gong outshined him heavily on Distant Relatives.
Don't sleep on Stephen Marley's brilliance on Distant Relatives either. Too bad they couldn't get Julian to drop a verse or two. -
the whole album has played thru in my car without skippin for the whole week now...
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@ dubbz
yeh i got that album to... that and welome to jamrock... i got stephens mind control to...
i love reggae, ragga and some dancehall with good lyrics... this is some of the best schitt i ever herd in my life, checkk the video and your see what i mean
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water ur seeds wrote: »@ dubbz
yeh i got that album to... that and welome to jamrock... i got stephens mind control to...
i love reggae, ragga and some dancehall with good lyrics... this is some of the best schitt i ever herd in my life, checkk the video and your see what i mean
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Good chunes, and I feel we could trade them fi days. Don't want to get too far off the topic - Damian. Good stuff, though.
@Teddy
Stephen Marley a good producer. He did that Marley remix album, he worked on Damian's albums, and his own album is fiyah. Stephen can deejay too, just doesn't quite have Damian's level of lyricism. His singing voice is amazing though, he's featured on a lot of slept on hip hop tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZQQYbRAEjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-_ZeqoDXvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpoIzVWsFoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQgdmGhlN8k