APAT (feat. Ethnic Descent, Siklab, Deva Carolina & Sampaguita Jay)

When i first went back and seen the rice terraces and

Seeing what many broke their backs to build and preserve

Showed me that i didn't need material things

Just knowledge of our culture and wisdom to pass on to the next

So know every time i see a Filipino or Filipina i just head hunt right away

Now Everybody move where my people all at?

They took our truth and they re wrote that

What you gonna do? we gonna put it us on the map

Show me where you from let me see those tats

Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)

All these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)

You can tell that all my people in this when you see that flag out

Show em where you from we gon act out

Betta back up because we do not back down

3 stars and the sun we got the map out

Navigated the globe

That's why they know us

Ancestors all covered in gold for the Kultura

They show up crocodile teeth along with the cobra

Not alone with apat na alone I throw the 4 up

Kita ang isa ka tribu sa atun

Mismo sa'tun nga kaliwat nag batu

Isa ka dugo gin tuntu gin priso

Kag sila nag tunga sa'tun

Sa pamaagi sang relihiyon

Masubo pero luwas kita japun

Wa-e mo

ba-bata ako

I-ilo ilo

DAYON!

Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)

All these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)

From the start we was strong with the art cuz it be like that

Big flips big moves our truth those roots let me see those tats

Mula sa wala

Mundo ay nilikha

Nililok na mukha

Sa siklab nagsimula

Raise your hand if you reppin filipino

Passing this mana like a blessing to my people

Always bear witness nothing is scripted

Those who rob our culture get chopped out with a quickness

I rep the 4 cuz it reps our ethnicity

Melting pot diaspora barangay every city

Roll with the tribe for the community

Always first to go to war this head hunter from the philippines

Dara Cebuano kudil Americano nyem puso kararwa ag dwa nga Ilocano

Idiay nak nga dimakel igid ti karayan Na labaga nga pitak lugar ti Cagayan Lal-lo!

Agta Ybanag agpapada ti dara tulang ken lasag

Idiay nak nagpatatak paltug naka tatak Pumatay-ak para kabagis ken kadarak

Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)

all these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)

From the start we was strong with the art cuz it be like that

Big flips big moves our truth those roots let me see those tats

Mula sa wala

Mundo ay nilikha

Nililok na mukha

Sa siklab nagsimula

JUNGLE BLOOD I FEEL AT HOME IN THE TREES

HELLA HIGH ENERGY LIKE THE SNAKES 30 FEET

I DONT TAKE WHAT I DONT NEED THATS THE WARRIOR IN ME

GOTTA CARRY DAT TEAM CANT BE GUIDED BY GREED

ANCIENT TRILOBITE STEEZ ~ WHEN IM ON THE MIC SNEEZE

MAMI SICKWIDDIT BABY ~ GOTTA HONOR MY LEAD

MATRILINEALL PROCESSION ~ MY MAMAS MAMAS KEEP

LAXAMANA IMA BRING THE HONOR HOME LIKE MY SEEDS

José rizal dans le paysage

J'marche dans ses pas depuis le jeune âge

Look mes tattoos sur mon visage

C'est ma vraie vie sans camouflage

Karakoa sur le rivage

Je crache du feu comme un dragon

Décroche la lune pour apat na alon

Bakunawa c'est le salon

4 waves 3 stars 2 hearts 1 mission

Para sa kultura

APAT

Had to fight through so much to be us cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)

All these marks and these scars show that part you can see my tats (let me see those tats)

From the start we was strong with the art cuz it be like that (cuz it be like that)

Big flips big moves our truth those roots let me see those tats

Mula sa wala

Mundo ay nilikha

Nililok na mukha

Sa siklab nagsimula

We owe it to our ancestors to bless and be blessed for the preservation of our culture

Western assimilation is starting to overtake thought processes now

And it makes the youth believe that being blinded by material holds more value

Our weight and gold is our stories and how we raise our youth for the future to come