We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Survivors

from SURViVOR by Beni Bjah

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 AUD  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 3 Beni Bjah releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Cruel Country, SURViVOR, and 2 DARDY 2 TEST. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $7.15 AUD or more (35% OFF)

     

about

"We came from sacred places to racist times... Australia it's time to recognize we're SURViVORS"

It's been a long time coming but i'm proud to present my first ever single and title track from my debut LP SURViVOR, (coming soon)
Australia, (single link beni-bjah.bandcamp.com/track/... )
It's important as a nation moving forward we as good people together as one celebrate the cultures that make us the greatest country on Earth now that's something to be proud of,

Many thank yous to Cortext​ for the beats and inspiration for the single and album, Rob Shaker​ at Shake Down Studio​ for recording, mixing, mastering and cuts, David Vincent Smith and his team for the visuals and last but never least my Family of Peeps and everyone else involved in the process of the single and album!

You can purchase the single now and/or also pre order the album here for $10 - beni-bjah.bandcamp.com with 100 percent of all procceds going towards Indigenous Youth Education programs in western!!!

lyrics

(INTRO)


(VERSE ONE)
They would rather compensate us then give us recognition
in other words i would rather are you out of your tradition
Cause when you recognised ah
that's that's how your culture survives
many millennia and thousands of tribes
around the fire light corroborees
the writings on walls
it's like the truth in the past
they would rather us all dead
But we survivors
through the spirit of my ancestors thousands of years from behind us
Hear that survivors
through their ignorance and arrogance there miss education divides us
Product of environment
Before all the grog and the drugs It was dreams that would guide us
Now we stuck in violence
prison systems confine us
Genocide undercovers
The Stolen kids under silence
no wonder we tyrant
Revolution is now Australia can't stop us
We taking back what is ours

(HOOK)
Genocide it was genocide
See the pain in my people's eyes?
Deny my culture steal my pride
But we survived betta recognize

Genocide it was genocide
See the pain in my people's eyes?
Deny my culture steal my pride?
But we survived betta recognize

(VERSE TWO)
They wanna breed out the pedigree
close down communities
broadcast the negative
and highlight the bigotry
yeah yeah they want to whiteout our history
with no recollection just the white man legacy
don't believe me Ask Lang Hancock
yeh thats gina farther had a 5 had a plan to poison the lot
you want to stop the sons and daughters
put some poison in there water
then you wait a generation then peg out the lot
now that's iron ore pimpin
iron ore pimpin
Blood on their hands from these iron ore victims
fuck Barnett the government system throw a little dollar call it royalty for regions
yo yo this is black man's land
always has always will be black man land
over seventy thousand years walking this land
then cook came and when bang now we living in a....

HOOK)
Genocide it was genocide
See the pain in my people's eyes?
Deny my culture steal my pride
But we survived betta recognize

Genocide it was genocide
See the pain in my people's eyes?
Deny my culture steal my pride?
But we survived betta recognize

( VERSE THREE )
They must have thought they seen aliens
when them convicts ships came sailing in
Crooks galore
criminal minds hit the shore
guns go bang and them bodies hit the floor
invaded
taken
rapend
killed
slaved
chained
oppressed
still we survivors
P about when survivors we came from sacred places to racist times australia it's time to recognize were survivors
They would rather compensate us than give us recognition
in other words i would rather are you out of your tradition

(OUTRO)

credits

from SURViVOR, released April 7, 2016
Lyrics; Beni Bjah
Production; Cortext
Mixing,Mastering and cuts: Rob Shaker (Shake Down Studio)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Beni Bjah Perth, Australia

West Australian Hip-Hop artist Beni Bjah made history in 2016, becoming the first-ever Indigenous artist to win the 'WAM Song Of The Year Overall Grand Prize' with his popular debut single ‘Survivor’

contact / help

Contact Beni Bjah

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Beni Bjah, you may also like: