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Big Sugar (Refined) (clean edit)

from Museum of Indulgence​/​Mastication EP by More Or Les

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Produced, Rapped and Scratched by More Or Les.
Mixed by Measuring Man. Mastered by Andy Krehm for Silverbirch Productions.
Tea Cup set made of sugar by artist Shelley Miller.
Made for the Museum of Indulgence art exhibition in Toronto, ON, CAN
Nov. 11-Dec. 03, 2011

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Lyrics by More Or Les
Leslie Seaforth (SOCAN)

INTRO: Clap along, we'll sing a sad song together.
Shit ain't sweet, unless it cost's something.

VERSE ONE:
The guy that despised the N-word's back,
with a rhyme that describes a net worth that
was built on criminal acts to get a product to your ass
like quick, to get that cash quite thick. You would think

I was talking about narcotics. The topic's
a different drug getting plugged that just got y'all bugged-
the-fuck-out. It starts out in the seventeen hundreds,
with English Parliament bribed by barons who wanna’ keep pumping

Martinique and Guadalupe for slaves, just to make
mad scrill. And still done some today; it's that ill.
Around seven mill' (just) taken against they're will,
forced to work until all the crops got tilled.

Their massive quota for sugar cane got filled.
When women disagreed, they got raped, and men got killed.
Two hundred years later, some dudes'll still favour
the bills over human life to move that white It's Movie-like, right?

CHORUS:
Big Sugar: a multi-billion dollar industry
made off the backs of slaves with little sympathy
for the pain and misery.

Big Sugar: a multi-billion dollar industry.
All of us are caught up in it - it ain't no mystery.
Just leading to obesity.

VERSE TWO
In two-thousand-something, some dudes are still pumping
the poor as slave labour to score some big paper.
But now it takes place a little bit more west
of the UK in two ways. US corp's the New Age

slave master and the work force is Haitian.
They're getting paid for it, but still, they pay for it
by working to the point of incapacitation,
expect to cut a ton per day on a plantation

that might as well be considered as incarceration
when their passports get removed, and they just get
paid two
fifty per day. Who's wit' me
to say that pimping is foul?! And put simply:

they aren't only ones getting screwed over for sugar.
Yeah, you too, Sugar - up in the supermarket
trying to do some good for your family with groceries.
Too bad these fools add sugar that ain't supposed to be

in there at all. In a year, you've dissolved
fifty kilos of the stuff. Making bucks is the fault
for your obesity. It's some low shit to see
people take advantage of their fellow man or kill to be --

CHORUS

© 2011, Leslie Seaforth.

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from Museum of Indulgence​/​Mastication EP, released November 11, 2011

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With multiple critically-acclaimed releases, international touring under his belt, over a decade of performances & features with notable peeps including Blueprint, Chip-Fu and UK Hip Hop band The Herbaliser, rapper, producer & DJ More Or Les is a Hip Hop triple threat. Music videos & previous releases can also be found on Spotify, iTunes, GooglePlay, YouTube & www.moreorles.ca. ... more

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