Saturday 20 November 2010

Tumi From The Volume

To every girl I cheated on
Disrespected, beat on, called a whore,
Peed on, had sex with illegal, put hands on
Raped, slapped, love you, didn’t say it back,
Ladies I disappointed lied to and misinformed,
If you cry, I’ll listen for you
Now I am living for you
To every sister annoyed, pissed with these ignorant boys
That took what you build, destroyed
I’ll dream what my son draws, a pencil stick happy home
And sing what you’ve come for

No one man should have all that power
We put our seeds into school they get deflowered
From sweet sixteen to 20 something sour
When Mandela dies, who gone really care about us

I shine my Thomas Edison on this heart-wrenching incident
Butt naked telling it, like surely there’s some better men
Looking at my reflection, cracking on better inspection
What all these headlines mention, is a judgment not just a sentence
Don’t examine the evidence
That is just irrelevant
Cuz Akona’s testament implicates my better sense
I wanna kill that specimen, hang him from a leather belt
But then again, it’s probably best to raise a gentleman
So when he turns fourteen he’d be the one protecting her
And when they talk orgies it wouldn’t make sense to him
But that’s later, this is now, the part to play is big and proud
Brave heart, love the scars away speak it out aloud

No one man should have all that power
You put your hands on a woman, are you a coward?
Lady that’s not your shame, that there is ours
When Mandela dies, who gone really care about us

Can we march, picket, shout, scream,
Pass a law; wipe clean all her bloody bad dreams
Call Miss Patricia De lille, fix the ill, Helen Zille
J. Malema, help us heal
If JZ’s not with us he cannot get elected still
DJ Fresh, play a tune, make me forget it’s painful
Can we affect a change too, so sex doesn’t scare you?
I wanna kiss your earlobe, whisper you my hero
Take you out to party people where the music isn’t lethal
I am T from the V
That means my speech isn’t speech bro
You don’t have be Jules High
To have to sink to these lows,
That act is old De Niro
Apartheid Ghost, Lesilo
Adapted to the evil, we are drawn to it Zapiro

No one man should have all that power
We put our seeds into school they get deflowered
From sweet sixteen to 20 something sour
When Mandela dies, who gone really care about us

To every girl I cheated on
Disrespected, beat on, called a whore,
Peed on, had sex with illegal, put hands on
Raped, slapped, love you, didn’t say it back,
Ladies I disappointed lied to and misinformed,
If you cry, I’ll listen for you
Now I am living for you
To every sister annoyed, pissed with these ignorant boys
That took what you build, destroyed
I’ll dream what my son draws, a pencil stick happy home
And sing what you’ve come for

So if you fed up with it
Everybody do the power clap
Clap! Clap! Clap!

Help your sister bare witness
Everybody do the power clap
Clap! Clap! Clap!

You’d better be standing aint no sitting down
When we do the power clap
Clap! Clap! Clap!

Hate the act, love the child
Everybody do the power clap
Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!
Boom!

Back story: This track is by Tumi, frontman for Tumi and the Volume, one of South Africa's best and most relevant bands - if you're South African and have never heard of them, hang your head in shame and go sit on the naughty step, everyone else head over to You Choob and check 'em out. Anyway this remix of Ye's Power is largely inspired by the case of a 15 year old girl who claimed to have been raped by two of her male schoolmates aged 14 and 16. The authorities ruled initially that the boys wouldn’t be arrested as they were busy with exams, and the charges against the boys were dropped for lack of evidence and the girl later recanted her claims, saying she gave full consent and as a result she has been charged with statutory rape along with the boys. However she was drugged at the time, so an argument could be made that she was not in the right mental state to give consent and given that there are testimonies from the girl's friend verifying that she was drugged and shaken up after the incident, means the prosecutor's claim that there's lack of evidence to go ahead with the case is a complete myth, it's actually a sad reflection of how the SA justice system is unjust for rape victims. Tumi also makes a reference to Akhona, another young girl who was inspired by this case to tweet and blog about her own rape ordeal to spread awareness: I Said No.
Tell 'em why you mad Tumi!


In DOPE Music WE Trust.


p.s if you can't hear the song on the blog, click the link otherwise step into 2010 and switch to Google Chrome, Explorer's too much drama.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

This has been such an outrageous story, can't believe the courts are charging the kids with statutory rape. She was drugged! And why isn't the video footage admissable evidence?

Really great song by Tumi, I wonder if there are people who supported Zuma's rise but are now supporting this girl.
ST

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