Date 2019-10-01
Category Lyrics, Music Video, New Music
Listen, Download Mp3, Get Lyrics and watch the Video to “Another Story” released by Burna Boy in celebration of Nigeria’s 59th Independence Day. The song features M.anifest and was produced by Kel P.
Burna Boy has dropped the video of ‘Another Story’ track in his global hit African Giant album, on the eve of Nigeria’s 59th Independence Anniversary.
The video is well timed, as Another Story is about the story of how Nigeria came to be, from colonialism till now.
Burna Boy – Another Story (ft. M.Anifest) (prod. Kel P)
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Here is RollingStone‘s review of the video:
Burna Boy reckons with the legacy of British colonial rule over Nigeria — and marks the country’s independence day, which took place on October 1, 1960 — in his new video for “Another Story.” The track appeared in July on Burna Boy’s African Giant album.
“Another Story” provides listeners with an immediate jolt of historical context. “To understand Nigeria, you need to appreciate where it came from,” a voiceover intones. “In 1900, Britain officially assumed responsibility for the administration of the whole of what we now know as Nigeria from the Niger Company… the British Government paid 865,000 pounds, a huge amount in 1900. So let’s establish a simple truth: The British didn’t travel halfway across the world just to spread democracy. Nigeria started off as a business deal for them between a company and a government.”
After this introduction, Burna Boy introduces a slick beat from Kel P — the same producer behind the pre-album single “On the Low.” In the video for “Another Story,” children raise weapons aloft and a crowd destroys a burning car. Burna Boy takes stock of the action from horseback, while the Ghanaian rapper M.anifest shows up to deliver a sharp verse decrying inequality and propaganda.
Burna Boy has been streamed over 110 million times in the U.S. this year. “One thing that’s constant [in my career] is growth,” the singer told Rolling Stone in July. “It’s not an up and down thing. I climbed every step. I don’t skip steps — I’m too heavy to skip steps.”
LYRICS
To understand Nigeria
You need to appreciate where it came from
In 1900, Britain officially assumed responsibility
For the administration of the whole of what we now know as
Nigeria from the Niger Company
And then, gradually over the years
British protectorates were established throughout the territory
In 1914, the protectorates were amalgamated into one Nigeria
Actually, there’s one additional detail that bears mentioning
In order to take over the territories from the Niger Company
The British Government paid eight hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds
A huge amount in 1900
So let’s establish a simple truth
The British didn’t travel halfway across the world just to spread democracy
Nigeria started off as a business deal for them
Between a company and a government
Incidentally, the Niger Company is still around today
Only it is known by a different name, Unilever
But that’s another story
Ay!
They wanna tell you o, tell you o, tell you o
Another story o, story o, story o
Since 1960 them dey play us, why o?
Shey we go dey cry forevermore
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ay)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain you, ga-ga o (well, well)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ay)
E dey pain you, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o, ay ga-ga o
They want make we all enter one corner, shebi o
‘Cause e be lie them dey tell me since I was a baby o
All the times them go promise and fail o, uhh
We don dey, we dey slim them dey shade o
They wanna tell you o, tell you o, tell you o
Another story o, story o, story o
Since 1960 them dey play us, why o?
Shey we go dey cry forevermore
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ay)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain you, ga-ga o (well, well)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ay)
E dey pain you, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o, ay ga-ga o
Which kind country be this? Chale I conf
Sometimes I for dey move away, maybe a month
More or less, more yawa
Less people power
Same shit, Ghana, Naija, man tire
Stuck in traffic I dey hate delay
Big man get the motorcade, big Benz and the Escalade
Hustle just dey escalate
But March 6, we go celebrate
Every year be the same cock and bull
Propaganda you dey push no dey pull
E dey pain, people tire for this matter
Everyday for thief man, one day for master
“Efie ne fie”, me ntumi ‘nfrimu
Ɔman no sɛi aa, yɛn nyinaa yɛ ti mu
Ashi me aa, ashi me aa, ashi me aa
Ashi me aa, ashi me aa, ashi me aa
‘Nso me ntumi ‘nfrimu
They wanna tell you o, tell you o, tell you o
Another story o, story o, story o
Since 1960 them dey play us, why o?
Shey we go dey cry forevermore
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ay)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain you, ga-ga o (well, well)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o (ay)
E dey pain you, ga-ga o (ahh)
E dey pain me, ga-ga o, ay ga-ga o
