I don't want to do politics
My mission is artistic

If I tell you that there
Are still slaves today
On this Earth and maybe
Even in your country
People who have the right to
Life or death over others
In other words, the right to own others
Historical: 1769
Abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania
It's said, it's written yet Iqbal Massih
Didn't experience it that way, sold at the age of 4
By his parents in Pakistan
He had managed to free himself from
His condition as a child slave
And campaigned for children for
Children's rights
Against the exploitation of children
On April 20, 95
He was assassinated at the age of 12
What, you're surprised, huh? You didn't know that?
Didn't they tell you that many
Young girls in Bangladesh are destined
For Indian and Pakistani brothels?
Didn't they tell you that young
Boys in Bangladesh have
Their destiny too?
In the Gulf countries for the
Camel races they need jockeys
Women, men
Children are exploited
Punished, tortured and put to
Death with impunity
And persists the slavery of
Castes in Mauritania
Go check for yourself if you don't
Believe what I'm saying!
In Sudan the Islamist government
From the North has reduced
30,000 Christian animists to
War slavery too
Debt slavery is in
Force throughout Asia
Also gangrenes Latin America, Guatemala
Brazil and Colombia
Wake up it's not just a song
Slave 2000 is about taking a stand
Wake up it's not just a song
Slave 2000 is about your taking a stand

Slave 2000 are the children who are prostituted
Slave 2000 are the little
Maids with lost faces
Slave 2000 are the cries we no longer hear
Stifled by laws that
Endorse this kind of abuse
Slave 2000 is behind the embassies
Slave 2000 is behind the palisades
Slave 2000 is not a fiction
Millions of people concerned
Behind houses

We don't forget that many
Fortunes today highly respectable
Were built in Bordeaux or
Nantes on the slave trade
You'll tell me "It's the past"
But the past reverberates
And today the slave is not
Only chained behind a hut
Even French justice remains blinded
Go ahead, bring out the
File of Veronique Akobe!
Modern slavery is not
Recognized by UNICEF!
Modern slavery is not
Recognized by UNESCO! On the subject
Wooden language it's better not
To attract the wrath of a
Good fifty states
Members of the United Nations anyway
The subject is of no interest to
Amnesty or the Foundation of France or
France Freedom of Madame Mitterrand
Anti Slavery is the only association
That goes forward on the subject "big up"!
Obliged to represent it
So they know that in HipHop
There are people concerned!

Slave 2000 are the children who are prostituted
Slave 2000 are the little
Maids with lost faces
Slave 2000 are the cries we no longer hear
Stifled by laws that
Endorse this kind of abuse
Slave 2000 is behind the embassies
Slave 2000 is behind the palisades
Slave 2000 is not a fiction
Millions of people concerned
Behind houses

Hey BBoy, BGirl do you like Adidas?
Reebok, Nike, do you like that?
The annual salary of the 6500 employees
Working for Nike in Thailand
And South Korea equals half
Of what the 13 members
Of the company's board earned, I affirm
That a pair of shoes sold for 400 francs
May have generated a salary
Of only 70 cents
It's crazy, right? It's crazy, right?
Have you ever heard of Harry Wu? - Who?
In any case, the Levi's jeans brand
Cancelled 150 contracts at once
With China they hadn't seen the vice
Everything was made by
Political prisoners
Read Harry's books, you'll see
He explains it to you! So in my turn I
Get involved like Dominique Torres
Respect to this sister thanks
To whom we progress!
We want all slaves to become
Princes and princesses again
And for that you must not
Show weakness!

Slave 2000 are the children who are prostituted
Slave 2000 are the little
Maids with lost faces
Slave 2000 are the cries we no longer hear
Stifled by laws that
Endorse this kind of abuse
Slave 2000 is behind the embassies
Slave 2000 is behind the palisades
Slave 2000 is not a fiction
Millions of people concerned
Behind houses

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