I did like this song at young age with no knowledge about the lyrics. Now I’m grown and understand the lyrics now. What a tune by the big man himself, Beenie man. Bless up.
A Tribe Called Quest also has a song titled Steve Biko - I'm glad that this legend in my country is counted as one in other countries as well through music
40 years this month since the great man Steve Biko was murdered by white babylaan 5-O...still listening to this massive tune paying tribute to him inna 2017. Large up Beenie Man
When you change the way of thinking of man such is the result the human being has always approved his disagreement by violence and it will never change
In Bulawayo, walking home listening to this psalm and it dawned on me that the only way we can prove to have learnt a lesson from great men like Steve, Nelson, a great cloud of witness is to emulate how the lived. My mind races home to one great example in Hopewell Chin'ono is restlessly fighting for the freedom of Job Sikhala and all his Zimbabwean brothers.
I'm surprised that more people still don't know about Steve Biko, the Man from Soweto, South Africa who took up the fight against apartheid after Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment (he was released after serving 27 years) and was killed by the South African government in 1977. Great tribute song from Beenie Man.
steve biko is not forgotten, he s quote in a movie bout south africa "cry freedom" and there s a song about peter gabriel called "biko", he was a lawyer who fight aparteid just like mandela exept they killed him and mandela survive and become president (stone one ref culture)
Again big up Rasta man benee for enlightening fellow Africans for knowing their great freedom fighter as they enjoying Independence.... Almighty giv u good health and strength as you preparing sweet lyrics ragae songs lyk this one... blessed ppa beenie 4refamooo..
A "King Payne" is saying the song is bullshit because of some errors Beenie Man made in this song. Yes I did my research and he was right, Biko was not from Soweto. Nonetheless Biko was all the other things. Goes to show we should not take everything we hear without doing a little research ourselves! ;)
But Bienie Man meant well he might have made a mistake about where Biko comes from!! but the song is good!! Many South Africans did not compose many songs about Biko!! That's why Beenie Man asks Do you know tell me what you really know about Biko???
You are the one who is confused..Beenie is right-when he says Biko comes from Soweto he is using Soweto as a metonymy(the act of referring to something using a word that describes one of its qualities or features) eg-the turf for horse racing, Washington for USA etc. In other words he is saying..tell me what you really know about the great man Steve Biko from South Africa.
Agreed! I meant nothing bad in my comment. A general statement of researching stuff ourselves when information is presented to us. We as humans tend to just takes others words without doing a background check ;)
This song is bullshit...Biko was not fighting for Mandela and he was not from Soweto!!! beenie is talking about someone else here not Biko... the radical black conscious soldier who wanted to bequeath a black man in South Africa with an alternative way of thinking different to that of Mandela and other liberals of the time!!
I think Beenie Man is saying something like, "tell me what do you know about this great man Steve Biko" .....you have the correct version of Biko's story, then share it as asked by the man himself
