Fairtrade Raps
Students at Al Khair School in East Croydon were challenged to a house competition to create a Fairtrade themed rap as part of their school’s activities for Fairtrade Fortnight, which also included a Fairtrade Café and breakfast.
Below are the lyrics to some of the winning raps.
WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK , WORK , money
WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK , WORK , money
Treat me like an animal, boy it not funny
Treat me like an animal, boy it not funny
Working all year and you give me ONE POUND
Working all year so you can wear the CROWN.
I don’t like to complain, but it not fair
Who made you the boss of me, man it bare
Wrong! y’all give me the con
So sing wid me, when i sing the song:
Work work work work work work MONEY
Work work work work work work MONEY
Treat me like an animal boy it not funny
Treat me like an animal boy it not funny
Wanna see more of dat green, lemme see your queen
Let my children go school, kill multinational rule
Let the farmers survive, I hear grief from my wife
How yer spend yer cash on useless trash
While we out in the sun, boy sweating no fun
I wanna decent wage, get me out of this cage
I don’t mind to work work work work work work for money
Treat me wid respect, gimme food for my tummy
Let the trade be fair, show me you people care
A new era will rise, proud and dignified
Work,work work work work, FAIR MONEY
Work work work work work FAIR MONEY
Life will be good and the future sunny
Life will be good and the future sunny!
In the commission, you see is fair-trade in my vision
they don’t like me cause im tryna change the worlds mission.
You heard of us the exploitation murderers,
been on the low lately governments hate me
cause im just reppin fair-trade all the way.
They hesitating we’ll be in parliament waitin. Duck tapin.
Our world’s
Destiny
lays in our hands.
Got proof in the Bible and Quran.
Fairtrade f to the de phenomenal
And the emblem
that glows is abominal.
Drop a few bars so i can help a few farms
Then i kick a few flows so i can help a few more
Excellence
This Is our present
Never tens
Never hesitate
leave the prayer mat with four prints.
And no one can stop us
This is our revolution
soon fair-trade will be on anything
Teen jeans
Baked beans
Mains stream
Action
Pack
tonnes
Its just Ridiculas
In a day in the life of the commission.
The school held a joint primary and secondary school event with parents involved. Afsha Mohamed, School Development Coordinator said: “The Cafe went really well, there was a nice buzz in the school. I overheard children as young as 5/6 talking about Fairtrade, asking each other, do you know what that is? That’s a Fairtrade chocolate bar! Lots of the school children are opting to buy the FT products and snacks we have in the school shop. It's a small step but it's something.”
“Even secondary boys got into the spirit of FT. They helped out a lot in setting things up, manning the stalls, but they also made FT seem cool with some brilliant raps they made and performed! It was very amusing to watch!"
