Elsy Wameyo - River Nile
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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Elsy Wameyo - "River Nile" from the 2022 Nilotic EP on Music in Exile.
Over the past few years, Nairobi-born, Adelaide-based artist Elsy Wameyo has made a name for herself in hip-hop, garnering both the Young Kenyan of the Year award in 2018, and the People's Choice Best Hip Hop Award at the annual South Australian Music Awards in 2019.
Her debut EP, titled Nilotic, is a tribute to her indigenous roots to the people of the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. In a press release, she explains that today's Song of the Day is an exploration of her newfound strength. “‘River Nile’ was a revelation, a turning point that led me to understand who I truly am. I had been so weak, fighting a battle that was never mine. This song came about after I learnt how to strategically use the power within. I journeyed with this song to find a place of rest. I reached a level where I no longer had to work. Instead, I used the forces around me to gain altitude. The moment I found it, it was game over for everyone else.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're right now experiencing my ludic energy, last time my role was a medical piece, |
| 0:24.0 | but now my heart's at ease, been in a fight to defend my peace, struggle to find a relief, |
| 0:29.0 | or the pain so since indeed, invest for a couple of weeks, |
| 0:33.0 | man stressed on stagged up heaps, only pressed down by all means, |
| 0:37.0 | or the begging and beating of all keys, that is the beginning of an allergy, |
| 0:40.0 | COVID-19 never leaving in Greece, to the far east in a borderline, |
| 0:43.0 | been far less tears, but I still cry, I've been on the edge, |
| 0:46.0 | but I'll get my build up the empire, I'm setting out to the fine, |
| 0:49.0 | build up the new kind, should have invested the first time, |
| 0:53.0 | should have invested the first time, |
| 0:57.0 | should have invested the first time, |
| 1:01.0 | never know, never know, |
| 1:05.0 | river now with a flood, I can never run out of course, |
| 1:09.0 | move it on in stores, come my car while I'm in a good journal, |
| 1:12.0 | force, that's like a two round of applause, |
| 1:14.0 | honey only, it but what you could do is, can he statement, stay on your toes, |
| 1:17.0 | not for juggle pay, mentally aid, |
| 1:19.0 | myself and the ones when I call and I do, |
| 1:21.0 | been time they won't let me be free, |
| 1:23.0 | stepped up could that pain to go deep, on a borderline rage, |
| 1:25.0 | I know I don't, already they were giving me the antidote, |
| 1:28.0 | how you failed to be misled with the feder role, |
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