VIDEO: Shadia Mansour featuring M1 of Dead Prez - ‘The Kufiyyeh is Arabic’

Shadia Mansour

First lady of Palestinian rap

features Dead Prez’s M1

official video for

‘The Kufiyyeh is Arabic’

 

by Seham on September 4, 2011

Shadia Mansour featuring M1 from Dead Prez,

Al-Kufiyyeh 3arabeyeh video

  

Lyrics

Good morning cousins, y’all welcome, come in
 

What would you like us to serve you, Arab blood or tears from our eyes?
 

I think that’s how they expected us to receive them
 

That’s why they got embarrassed when they realized their mistake
 

That’s why we rocked the kuffiyeh, the white and black
 

Now these dogs are startin to wear it as a trend
 

No matter how they design it, no matter how they change its color
 

The kuffiyeh is Arabic, and it will stay Arabic
 

The gear we rock, they want it; our culture, they want it

Our dignity, they want it; everything that’s ours, they want it

Half your country, half your home; why, why? No, I tell em

Stealin’ something that ain’t theirs, I can’t allow it

They imitatin us in what we wear, wear; from this land enough, what else do you want?

About Jerusalem, Jerusalem, would they be worried, how can you humans?

Before y’all ever rocked a kuffiyeh, we here to remind em who we are

And whether they like it or not, this is our clothing style

That’s why we rock the kuffiyeh, cuz it’s patriotic

The kuffiyeh, the kuffiyeh is Arabic

That’s why we rock the kuffiyeh, our essential identity

The kuffiyeh, the kuffiyeh is Arabic

Come on, throw up the kuffiyeh (throw that kuffiyeh up for me)

The kuffiyeh, the kuffiyeh is Arabic

Throw it up, come on “Bilad Al Sham” (Greater Syria)

The kuffiyeh is Arabic, and it will stay Arabic

There’s none yet like the Arab people

Show me which other nation in the world was more influential

The picture is clear, we are the cradle of civilization

Our history and cultural heritage testify to our existence

That’s why I rocked the Palestinian gear

From Haifa, Jenin, Jabal al Nar to Ramallah

Let me see the kuffiyeh, the white and red

Let me throw it up in the sky; I’m

Arab, and my tongue creates earthquakes

I shake the words of war

Listen, I’m Shadia Mansour, and the gear I’m rockin is my identity

Since the day I was born raisin people’s awareness been my responsibility

But I was raised between fear and evil; between two areas

Between the grudging and the poor, I seen life from both sides

God bless the kuffiyeh; however you rock me, wherever you see me

I stay true to my origins, Palestinian