Video: Once More We Survive by Annakin Slayd with Inspectah Deck

Canadian recording sensation Annakin Slayd teams up with Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck to produce “Once More We Survive.” It is the first single from the album of the same name from the Montreal hip hop artist. The video features powerful images shot in New York and Montreal.

In a recent interview, Slayd described the collaboration this way, “To actually say now that I did a song with him, that I’ve toured with him, and I have his phone number and I text him and we have regular communication – it’s just so absurd. It’s like going to have a drink at McLean’s with Pedro Martinez. It’s like high-fiving your fifteen-year-old self.”

LYRICS
(A.Farrar, J.Hunter, E.Mussie, E.Strauss)
It’s a cinematic engagement, epic outlasting the ages
An exhibition of the big picture through narrative phrases
See. I’m traveling through Sun Tzu’s battling stages
To feed this animal inside that keeps on rattling cages
Time to grapple for freedom fight bureaucratic enslavement
But when I do it I’m will shed all democratic behavior
I recall that they created this with plastic and paper
But (“expletive”) I haven’t heard good music since I last had a pager
Yeah, I guess I’m never sure what we’re exactly afraid of
Black, Ethnic and Asian are these the nads that we’re made of?
These embarrassing, shameless and masquerading malaises
You bet I’m blasting the standards of (“expletive”) class we’re maintaining
I’m exacting this patience to last through blackest of phases
It’s like our culture is one big rap circus act amazing!
Attacking through statements try to recapture the days and
Sustain the wind blown flag of veritas es deus

I was taught we wouldn’t make it through all these sins and hatred
Once more we survive
We’ve created a monster with sedated responses and complacency yeah
Once more we survive

Yeah I used to rock bulletproofs under the goose
Hibernating on the rooftops with two glocks, nothing but troubled youth
Nothing new, Chuck shoes, Bs stay crispy
Dickie suits, blue jewels and fifty-nine fifties
Draped in the lobby, big bombs and big arms
Little man wanna be the next Nick Barnes
Click Don, no pressure cassettes got (“expletive”) on
Got the mansion, the yacht, then he got snitched on
That’s the hood life. Your seeds should be playing by the Johnny pump
Instead they in the broken home watching Mommy (“expletive”)
Plus Daddy doing life in the joint
Heard he murdered a couple of pimps on Tenth and Hunts Point
The real world. Sometimes you gotta fire to fall
Poor righteous. The truth might wire your jaw
Fights with the law for sure I’m a ride for the cause
We the strong that survive and still striving for more

I was taught we wouldn’t make it through all these sins and hatred, yeah yeah
Once more we survive, y’all. Once More We survive
We’ve created a monster with sedated responses and complacency, yeah
Once more we survive

I was taught we wouldn’t make it through all these sins and hatred, yeah yeah
Once more we survive, y’all. Once More We survive
We’ve created a monster with sedated responses and complacency, yeah
Once more we survive

They try to kill me with hate, fear and lies
Living how I want (“expletive”) a nine to five
Still alive man, (still here) still alive, (still strong) Annakin Slayd, INS we still alive
I feel like I’ve just arrived
But they’re telling me we only got a brief time
I’m still alive man (still here), still alive man (still strong), Once more survive man

I was taught we wouldn’t make it through all these sins and hatred, yeah yeah
Once more we survive, y’all. Once More We survive
We’ve created a monster with sedated responses and complacency, yeah
Once more we survive

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