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from Baracutanga - "Importados"
Free mp3 Download: https://baracutanga.bandcamp.com/track/deja-de-matar-stop-this-killing

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Credits:
Released on February 7th 2015
Music: Randy Sanchez, Kilko Paz, Chadd James and Micah Hood
Lyrics: Kilko Paz, Carlos “Kalin” Noboa, Nick Furious and Hakim Bellamy
Creative ideas: Jackie Zamora

Baracutanga stands in solidarity with our community - locally, nationally and globally - to denounce police brutality and every form of violence against the oppressed. We created the song “Deja de Matar”, in collaboration with the artists Hakim Bellamy and Nick Fury, as a way to give a voice to our feelings about recent events in our community and to remember the victims of abuse of power worldwide. “Deja de Matar” is now free to download with an optional donation that will significantly help us to finish Baracutanga's first CD. Please share this page with everyone you know and spread the voice! #DejaDeMatar
lyrics
English Version (see below for the Spanish version):
Stop This Killing

Pulling the trigger, won’t make you man
Won’t make you superior not even brave
The hot and poisonous bullet
Explodes inside a body that is just like yours.

The sound coming out of the barrel
Will silence a beating heart
It will take my brother, my friend
Open your eyes; it’s coming for you

Stop this killing, you and I are the same
Come join us now, your people are waiting.

Impunity is leaving my people desperate
We deserve dignity. Why not act now.
Firm and imposing are our voices,
Reclaiming justice, reclaiming respect.

Stop this killing, you and I are the same
Come join us now, your people are waiting.

--Nick Furious-- The culture has shifted it's feelin' like martial law
militarized mad men monitor
so-called outlaws
The empathy is gone, excessive force holds the torch
Reactionary course of action with no viable recourse
It's urban warfare against the public discourse
The force isn't trained how to engage and support
No more protecting and serving now they destroy and distort
Bad nutrients and low mental health add to the scourge
From sea to seashore the corporate states wanna outsource
With lack of discipline and proper training ya can't flourish
Some cops just aren't ready for the stress of a heavy service
There's many great cops, but good guys are converted
Bad boys bad boys, the numbers don't lie
Ya can't deny, police brutality is on the steady rise
Wish James Boyd and Eric Garner didn't have to die
Pieces of this diatribe, epidemic amplified
We're stupefied, encouraged to be stupid and blind
It's a disguise so what you gotta do is open up your eyes
If you can, tear gas envelopes the land, and the mind
And it gets worse as crowds disburse behind the lines

--Hakim Bellamy-- I remember Hip Hop, the ha the ha
Even back then we knew the cops were taking it to far
We was above the rim, while they was above the law
Now they under investigation, community up in arms (Hands Up)
So High that they don't shoot
Only smoke that nonviolence
Your piece is of no use
You like don't move (but)
We can't freeze because we jammin'
Heart Beat Baracutangin'
Like love is the new language
Of revolution in action
Confused anger with passion
This be protest music
Cause fascism's old fashioned
My people is so passive
Fuck the Sound of da beast
For everyone of us you kill
We'll put a million in the streets
Respect my authority to be a fuckin human being
Say goodnight to the bad guy
Give me bueno policia
Still believe in goodcops
But Bad Boys is all I'm seein' (One Time)
Dead bodies, they don't lie
More black men in jail than enslaved its profound
And we know now
New Jim Crow ain't just a sayin
This is for the officers the wont leave my
People hangin

To serve and protect was the vow,
Instead target shooting was your game.
No longer asking, this time we’re demanding
We had enough of your killing.


Spanish version
Deja De Matar

Tirar un gatillo no te hace mas hombre
No te hace mas valiente, no te hace mejor
La bala que sale caliente y maldita
Explota en un cuerpo que es como tu

Ese sonido que sale del caño
Silencia el latido de un Corazon
Se lleva consigo a un amigo, un hermano
Abre los ojos que es para vos!

Deja de matar!
Todos somos iguales
Ven unete ya
Tu pueblo esta esperando

Impunidad que desespera a mi gente
La dignidad que merecemos, actuemos
Se oyen las voces muy firmes y altivas
Respeto por la vida, justicia al criminal!

Deja de matar!
Todos somos iguales
Ven unete ya
Tu pueblo esta esperando

--Nick Furious--
--Hakim Bellamy--

Juraste servir a la comunidad
En vez tiro al blanco tu vas practicando
No estamos pidiendo, estamos exigiendo
Ya estamos cansados, deja ya de matar!

Released 07 February 2015
Recorded at Wall of Sound Studio, Albuquerque, NM
Mixed at FW Studio, Santa Fe NM