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A song discussing and questioning why some of our youth are mislead and how the society has engineered and promoted the dysfunction.

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Children R Illin'

Written By Le Nomad and Malik I.M. aka Sun Toucha for © ZionHorizon Music Publishing SOCAN

Intro (Nomad)

I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know WHY! (Repeat Intro 2x)

(Sun Toucha)

I wanna know why the children R illin'
I wanna know why we can't stop the killing
The future is our children
We need to start building
The proper foundation
So we can start healing (2x)

Verse 1 (Sun Toucha)

I wanna know why we pay the oppressor
To enslave us wonder why we can't
take the pressure
Down on our knees
Praying to the God lesser
Plantations with bosses or professors
With six degrees
None of dem separated
Immigrant deported, society celebrated
We fly away and escape into fantasy
And sometimes it's too hard
To even face reality
So we wear the mask and put on the makeup
Wear it so long that it starts to cake up
Got stick up kids and shortys running wild
Skippin class, smoking 'dro, consumed
with street style
They're street struck
Got visions of being Scarface
Young bucks, they hustling for the big bucks
End up getting f**ked
Body bags or jail
Nobody to pay bail
Another ship has sailed
Blind to the facts
Still writing in braille
Endangered species known as the Black Male
Stereotypes that the media hypes
So now we're sucking on deferred dreams
Through crack pipes

Chorus.

Daddy is missin'
Momma mek a llvin'
Why do you think
That
The Children R Illin' (2x)

Verse 2 (Le Nomad)

Stand up, look up at the horizon
Many children are rising
To stop the hate uprising
Suffering for no reason
Just like a change of season
You feel the cold in the nation
There's more talk about weapons
Instead of education
What's the solution?
When they decide
They want to live in conditions
They see freedom and run
What revolution?
What they don't like them
Contentious living
Love every second
I wanna know why Daddy's gone missing (WHEEELLLL!!!)
I wanna know why Mommy's gotta mek a livin'
I wanna know why the system keeps pimpin'
I wanna know why the children R illin'
Someone please explain
How come children are raising children?
How come parenting is done through a Playstation?
I wanna know why the children R illin'
I wanna know why there's a storm on the horizon
Cuzz.........

Chorus.

Daddy is missin'
Momma mek a llvin'
Why do you think
That
The Children R Illin' (2x)


Verse 3 (Sun Toucha)

Kids are ill, just for the thrill
Ready to die, cuz their lives are survival
Alive on arrival
The streets are trifle
Pies in the sky giving the yutes
False hope
Shortys get suspended, expelled, and rebel
Silenced when you know they have a story to tell
Mad frustrated, not represented
Dwelling in environments where they're isolated
Where do we go?
Where do we go from here?
Information Age, Ignorance doesn't care
BET culture
Swoops in like a vulture
Eating our young
Flying away with our future.

Chorus.

Daddy is missin'
Momma mek a llvin'
Why do you think
That
The Children R Illin' (2x)

credits

from Speaking To The Globe, Volume 1, released August 8, 2019
Performed by Le Nomad, GQ, and Malik I.M. aka Sun Toucha

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Zion Horizon Toronto, Ontario

Zion Horizon is a Toronto-based nascent musical movement comprised of three (3) dynamic, versatile and multilingual (English, French, Jamaican Patois, Haitian Creole) emcees. Sonically, the ZionHorizon musical footprint contains elements of hip hop, reggae, jazz, zouk, kompa and afro-percussive rhythms. Layering atop these soundscapes are thoughtful, well-informed and skillful lyrics ... more

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