Verse 1

Black youth it’s your time, rise up don’t delay to make your mind up/
Open your eyes don’t be blinded, take back the years they rewinded/
Intelligent beings – so beautiful the most innovative, so dutiful/
My African Queens it’s your continent, my African Kings please don’t be content/
Don’t let the politician tell you what you can or can’t do, they can its cash rules/
No plan so what’s new, how many years they’ve been telling us the same they can’t move/
Take the land build the future with the one they sold, whats living in your mind is that Gold/
Forget the stories they once told, you’re the diamond they’ve been looking for the one they can’t hold/

Hook (Maka)

Nke mu nọ n'aka mu
Nke gi nọ n'aka gi
Dem no fit take away what is yours
And if they try, we take it back by force
Rise up
Right now, right now
Now now

Nke mu nọ n'aka mu
Nke gi nọ n'aka gi
Dem no fit take away what is yours
And if they do, we take it back by force
Rise up
Right now, right now
Now now now now
Maka Verse

There is nothing that you could ever desire that you can't get
If you ain't got the fire
Rise up, stand up and go for what you want
Be right at the front
There's nothing that you desire that you can't get
If you ain't got the fire
Rise up, stand up
Take what you want
Just be right at the front

Verse 2

Children of the most high, you are the spiritual a miracle – the most lives/
He has give us the pivotal and most drive, Its time to raise our flags so we can all thrive/
Bantu clan – the only with Ubuntu fam, take our power and our knowledge was a wasted plan/
Bana batu baaza choka mu mimfolo, yamene baana kumba – tiza shika mu chikolo/
Huh that’s school for the haters, so called philosophers that wanna debate us/
Classify and even rate us, historians that changed the narrative to make us/
You can take us to Vegas, never change what lives within we’re creators/
See the future’s in our own hands, we can strive to build and toil our own land/

Hook (Maka)