WEST AFRICAN EMPIRES song by Mr. Nicky
Vložit
- čas přidán 13. 11. 2018
- TEACHERS: Mr. Nicky is booking his 2024 virtual assemblies and online history songwriting lessons! These programs (via Zoom/Google Meet/etc.) meet state learning standards in both social studies and ELA, and they’re tons of fun. Please send an e-mail to mrnickychicago@gmail.com for full information. (Students will not receive a response, but thank you for your support!)
- LYRICS BELOW -
Here's the MERCH! : www.bonfire.com/store/mr-nick...
A big thanks to Ms. Petty at Carver Middle School (Spartanburg, SC) for inspiring this video with her West African empires parody to the tune of Prince's "Purple Rain"!
West African Empires song
By Mr. Nicky
To the tune of “Walk it Talk it” by Migos ft. Drake
Salt and gold and profit (profit), salt and gold and profit, salt and
Salt and gold and profit (woo!), salt and gold and profit (yeah)
Salt and gold and profit (profit), salt and gold and profit, salt and
Salt and gold and profit (woo!), salt and gold and profit (hey!)
Salt’s in the Sahara and they want it in Wangara (want it)
Gold is in Wangara so you’re crossing the Sahara (woo!)
Once you're in Wangara, gotta trade through silent barter (hey)
Gotta go through Ghana, a lot of taxes go to Ghana (yeah)
You gave Ghana some gold when you came through (woo, hey!)
You took goods from the south, now you gotta pay too (pay too)
Savanna through the Sahel, I rule these trade routes (trade, trade)
Bringing in so much gold, I give it to my chained pooch (woof, woof)
My people gather around me (kneel down x2, beat the drum x2, boop x2)
They use iron tools for farming (iron tools, melt it up, smelt it up, use it)
The men gotta join my army (gotta train x4, yeah)
My royal blood’s from my mommy (mommy x5)
The Senegal and Niger Rivers are my highway lanes (woo!)
We built Jenne-Jenno all on our own, the world's amazed (what?)
And now your caravan is passing Kumbi’s marketplace (hey, hey)
You bought some kola nuts ‘cause where you’re from it barely rains (barely rains)
You bring us
(Refrain)
Hey, Arab traders arrived
Muslim merchants came to Ghana, settled down over time
Showing tolerance for Africans’ religion, inspiring
many to convert to Islam, so when Ghana declined…
Muslim Almoravids captured Kumbi
Then the great king who practiced Islam devoutly
was the famous Mansa Musa, he ruled Mali
Put his kingdom on the map, holding gold up proudly
He made the pilgrimage to Mecca called the Hajj, woo
Word spread about his splendid entourage, woo
Met a Spanish architect in Cairo, took his good designs home
Used some mud and limestone, and some
(Refrain, last line: Mali after Ghana, kingdoms trading trans-Saharan)
(Oh yeah!) Islam brought us new customs (customs)
Following the Five Pillars as Muslims (there are five)
Under central ruling of the sultans (sultans)
and quadi courts’ Shariah law judgments (judgments)
Now succession has changed
through the males it's traced and we communicate in Arabic,
praying five times a day in it, use it to trade and record information (written)
We’ll educate you in Timbuktu (hey/woo)
Study at Sangkore when you come through (brrr)
Choose your own field to pursue (choose)
Put your kids in a Quranic school (school)
Teach them Sunni Ali would subdue (would subdue)
Timbuktu and the Songhai would rule (Songhai rule)
Did more conquering than Mali could do (they could do)
Under Askia Mohammed Toure (hey!)
(Refrain, last line: Songhai, Mali, Ghana, kingdoms trading trans-Saharan)
We have griots to preserve our (culture) history and wisdom
Keeping our ancestors’ records (records) as poet-musicians
Teaching about Sundiata Keita (teaching) without seeing it written
learning through verbal transmission, it's our rich oral tradition
We tell folktales to our children (tales) with good morals, we try to instill them (rabbit tails)
over the centuries they’ve been appealing
to cultures around the world like our drum rhythms (yeah), our dance and traditional instruments (dance)
In this song you can hear the huge influence
of the diaspora Africa’s given us
Even Picasso was trying to exhibit us
(Refrain, last line: Songhai, Mali, Ghana, kingdoms trading trans-Saharan)
Who else came here cause of there teachers 😂🤣😂
What song is this
mmmeeeeeee
Jake Salvator yes
What school you go?.
Yep
Ten rappers drake was to scared to diss
True
why did u copy from the mesmoptamia vid
@@TheGene75 bro its the same channel
Lil Nicky
too*
My teacher made us watch this and I can’t stop singing it in class
Same 😂
WE MAKING IT OUT OF HISTORY CLASS WITH THIS 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
haha my history teacher keeps playing this 😂
just doing my homework for history 🚶🏽♀️
Hey jaheem Matthew
Samzzzzz
yessss
I doing my test...
I'll go now...
Same
mr nicky we want merch
Nugget's nuggets yes
YESSS
I'd like to rock a 'By The Euphrates River' hoodie and cap
Nugget's nuggets facts
No we don’t we need it
Bro my history teacher played this when we were learning about West-African and Sub-Saharan trade routes. It's educational, it has a great education, and miraculously the best song I've heard in a while. Props to Mr. Nicky for this one.
Fr
Same
bro same and now its stuck in my head
Exactly
Yup
My history teacher played this 🔥🔥
My teacher do that 😂🔥
Mine to
Gulp Ima dying
Same
@@Dynam0-X977 same
Ok, this is epic
Fr
My teacher plays all of your songs and they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. keep it up love the channel
Yes
J Luton omggg same
Ya my world history teacher plays this all the time everybody loves it
same
thanks for all the likes
This is fire and even more fire on 1.25x speed
And it's Eminem level on 1.5x speed
And God rapper level on 2x speed
Omg 2x omg I can't 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@littleredridinginthehoodli663 i tried and its not possible
2x is awesome!!
I did it in 2x wow I’m just dead thanks
1.75x
Every song you produce Mr. Nicky is a bop, you are literally one of my favorite teachers even though I’ve never met you
My ss teacher played this in class and all of the boys started singing it
I wish every subject in school could have been taught through song I would have learned so much more! Keep up the good work keep doing this please it'll help so many kids
my friends teacher is making them sing and memorize it; it’s a pain
When you make a song to teach kids and they actually like it:
I'm gonna do what's called a pro-gamer move
pRo-GaMeR mOvE yes yes true yes
Man eat some salt find gold and have lotsa profit
Based
I just watched this today at school 😂
SAME 💀
Same
Same 😂
I had too listen to this song in history class today.
In my school the entire 7th grade listened to this, and you have forever tinctured us. I’m literally in a group chat and all they talk about is thing song, and a kid blasted this on his surround speakers. Great song!
Joey Nguyen no...
I didn't know anything about those Empires in West Africa, only that they existed and that Mansa Musa was probably the richest man of the world at one point. This video clearly explains the salt and gold trade route, how Islam spread in Africa, and the name of many of those Empires. "Salt-and-gold-and-profit" and "Salt's in the Sahara and they want it in Wangara-Gold is in Wangara so you're crossing the Sahara" will stay forever in my head!
How does this one not have more views??? PURE FIRE!!! My classes agree.
Back again. Too FIRE!!!
Guess who's back? Back Again????!!!! PURE FIRE!!!
After all this time? pure fire :,)
Do Lucid Dreams by Juice Wrld
Ayy
Yes, very much
FUN 101 PRODUCTIONS no
Stephon Kolagbodi yes
🥺🥺🥺😢
It was an honor to be the twenty-fourth view Mr. Nicky! Keep it up!
yall got some dope teachers
how many of
yall in 6th grade
You're straight fire, keep it up brother.
Hey, nice to see you back at it! Love to listen to your songs in school when my world history teacher plays them!
I wish u were on Spotify Mr.Nicky
My most favorite song from you Mr. Nicky! Keep it up so I can listen to your songs at school from my Social Studies Teacher!
My teacher playes this song at the end of class lol i love this song
My 6th grade students love your songs and I have enjoyed adding dance moves to to bring it alive!! You are an awesome lyricist and your flow is on point👍🏽👍🏽 Thanks for keeping it current!!
LaShawn Summers shut the frick up
Anthony Spadafora You mad or Nah💁🏽♀️
Anthony Spadafora no u lmao
@@lashawn0214 yo are a cool teacher lol
@@anthonyspadafora shut the Frisch up built like a Pringle
Bro wtf my teacher assigned me to take 10 notes of this shit . Lmao I clicked on this expecting a old lady talking about this
looolz^^
who's here cos of their teachers 🤣🤣🤣
Mr.Nicky GOT BARS THO 😫😫😤😤✔😱🤯💯💯💯
Wow he's alive
thought the same
WE MAKING IT OUT OF MY SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I bet yall came from ur teachers here
Yeah I did I’m doing homework
LOL IM DOING A PROJECT ON GHANA RN HAHA
No
@@thatsprettycringebro9078 yes
Lol my history teacher used to play this when we were doing Ancient Africa. 😂
DUDE THIS IS FLAMES WHY IS IT SO GOOD.
IM DEADDD 💀🤣🤣 MAH TEACHER PUT THIS ON IN FIRST PERIOD BECAUSE ITS ABOUT HISTORY AND LIKE BAHAHANWKS
These videos are great! Please keep them coming!
I love your songs mr Nikki,will you make another and how hard is it,making all those words
My history teacher played this and me and my friend were vibing😂
This was highly insightful fun and useful !
I'm from morroco and when my teach told that morroco did something to songhai I waa like whattttt I didnt even know if ppl lived there
My class loves this song Soo much and my teacher plays this song all the time
your vids help soooo much :)
Your songs are so catchy i subbed hope you have a great day
I love this my history teacher plays this all the time
Ayyyyyyyeeeeee!!!!!! eskeeit!!!! Well done Mr. Nicky! Nice song choice! :-)
Just found this fire track
This is so great! Happy to see new material come out!
mer nicky we want merch
BROO WHY DID I JUST STUDY I COULD HAVE JUST REWATCHED THIS VIDEO
I had to watch this in class today and I enjoyed it
This is the best! Keep it up
Loved it
my history teacher played this today and now i'm playing it on repeat
Me tooloo
this kinda fresh tho
love you so much dude
BARSSSSS
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
Iconic song, true bar spitting - even better in bait and switch memes.
EPIC 🤯
Who takes the time to dislike a work of art.
My teacher taught us about this to the conga. “Mali, Ghana, SongHAI! Mali, Ghana, SongHAI!” I’ve remember it almost 20 years later.
Love this song great social studies teacher
Gotta do a live consert
Please tell me 6th grade learns about this .-.
Nope
He0t Develops yep
nope
Yup my teacher played this
Yes
You’re back!
that wuz fiiiiire
my social studies teacher keeps replaying this in class
My kids are going to go crazy when they hear this! They like to listen ahead anyway so they’ll probably find it. But this is awesome!
YAY
This song is a certified bop. Mannn it had me turnt 😭
Every one is lucky to be your student who every they are and my teacher plays your songs all the time
teaching about Ghana and Mali. Love trap, so do my students. We gon be lit in class. Thank you!
absolute fire my guy
Good informations 👍
We love this song
My fav
that was fire. I'm studying this right now.
I have to memorize this for a project
we all know you can do it
strength be with you brudda
How did you do
This is awesome
Yesssss
This saved my life.
My 7th grade teacher would play this song almost every day when we were learning about Africa. Then on the midterm I had part of the song stuck in my head and the part that was in my head it was a question on the midterm
YES!
We listen 2 these at school lol 🤣🤣
This one is a certified good classic
This song is straight fire 🔥
Fire beat
🔥
This was fire
Praise be Mr Nicky
Banger
whats the name of the beat u used i need it for the school song contest.
Mr. Nicky, we need merch. i would so get that. like a shirt or bedsheets. just think about it. ;)
its educational and slaps.... Its a banger
Cool
My 6th grade history teacher showed me this guy and these songs are stuck in my head bc of her
Dang Ms mion hooked me up with a new walk up song