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Don't sell bodies!

by Omekongo

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This track was inspired by the organization "Don't sell bodies." We have to stop child sex trafficking!

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All I did was run a way to get some attention
He said he’d give me love if I just did what he mentioned
But what happened next, I’m too embarrassed to mention
He pimped me out and locked me up in his detention
This ain’t supposed to happen to me, I knew the guy
Supposed to happen in a far away land I wanna cry
Wanna fly, wanna die, anything but lie
With another stranger vioaltin’ my thighs
Heard I was bought on the Internet man, easy as pie
This country preached freedom why won’t anyone try
To free me, see me, just let me be me
A runaway shouldn’t become a sex slave, feel me?
Now I’m hearin sirens, cops took me and my pimp
But why am I the only one at the arraignment?
Prosecutin’ me and letting him go, I’m twice raped
I’m just a kid what did I do to feel such hate?

More people enslaved now than ever before
Most of 'em in the sex trade, man I implore
You to listen closely cause we’re selling bodies
An act most ungodly that should anger everybody
Don’t have enough dough for a phone, buy a slave
Costs $90 to to buy a kid in this trade
And I ain’t just talkin overseas hear what I say
Cause it’s happenin’ right here in the USA
You gotta pay more attention to J-A-D-A
For the sake of our children gotta end this today
How much is your daughter worth? A thought you can’t imagine
But on the daily mothers lose their daughters they stranded
We Import drugs, TVs and girls, whatever’s demanded
But slavery ended with the 14th amendment
To the constitution but there’s still no solution
But to catch our kids and prosecute them for prostitution?

We have to do more to protect our children
Too many end up sex slaves, too many missin’
We tracked down Bin Laden we can track those who traffick
Police the Internet, arrest pimps, it don’t take magic
Just the fact that I’m writing this song is so tragic
Cause some a y’all won’t understand unless I rap it
Well track it, 83% of those sold in the States
Are born in the States not some other place
46% of them know their recruiters
Pimped out and sold to all types of suitors
Who want to invest in the destruction of children
But what we need to do is invest them in prison
Dontsellbodies.org, yeah, they on a mission
To liberate all those enslaved, won’t ask permission
Gotta work together for the sake of our seeds
So they can blossom into flowers, beautiful and free

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released September 28, 2012

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Omekongo Washington, D.C.

Dr. Omekongo Dibinga is a trilingual rapper and spoken word artist (English, French, & Swahili). He is an UPstander, not a bystander. He teaches courses on JAY-Z, global hip-hop & resistance, and cultural appropriation at American University. For more, visit www.upstanderinternational.com or @omekongo on Twitter, Facebook, & Instagram. ... more

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