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In Libya (Lucky Boy Single)

by Uprising Youth

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A reggae song collaboratively composed by Lucky Boy (Lead Vocals) and Alex Polydoroff (Bass and Production) that raises awareness of the system of migrant exploitation, human trafficking, and widespread corruption and civil wars in Libya. Yet, the European Union has impossibly tasked Libya with their own migrant deterrence operation, which plays out as Libyans kidnapping, extorting, and sometimes enslaving young black migrants for their own gains. As this clandestine system keeps migrants from arriving to Italian shores, the European Union has NOT acted to address this life-threatening trend of imprisonment, extortion, and trafficking of vulnerable trans-African migrants seeking a better life in Europe. This song is a story and a call to action.

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From prison to prison, it never stops.
Many times on the boats, people getting shot.
It's not easy being black in the street.
They kidnap you, chain hands and feet.

Each and every one, they have a gun.
Paid for by, the European Union.
Police is criminal, criminals are police
So much corruption, there can't be peace.

People listen up, to my story.
One year in this purgatory.
Beaten every day, made into a slave.
My brothers and sisters forced to their graves.

Like the great prophets, I made a long journey.
From Gambia to Senegal, to Mali.'
Mali to Burkina, to Niger.
On this journey I seen so many tears.

In Libya, black people suffering.
In Libya, black people suffering.
In Libya, black people dying.
It's so hard, it's so hard.
In Libya.

credits

released January 4, 2019
Lead Vocals: Lucky Boy (Abu Bakr Fanneh)
Bass and Production: Alex Polydoroff
Drums and Production: Alessandro "Jah Sazzah" Azzaro
Keyboards: Raffaele Genovese
Vocals: Yo Dimo Offi
Vocals: Godfrey White
Vocals: Success Cash Money
Vocals: Pain Pain Not (Bubacarr Camara)
Background Vocals: Tsunami Joe (Ibrahim Sanneh)
Trumpet: Riccardo Formica
Trombone: Jakob Bower
Tenor Saxophone: Hayden Davis

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Uprising Youth is a global music band featuring young artists from West Africa, Italy, Brazil, and the USA.

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