Creole songs

English Translations

[tradwir]

Lent Eclipse

Like Mother Mary gave birth to Jesus, a new era is being born in her sign of Virgo. in a full Blood moon in 8.5 hours. Moons that do not signify new beginnings or seeds, but can be the end of a gestation. We collectively have had enough, those in power or who hogged all the power, have let us down for so long and it has already been fatal. Pisces has signified too much destruction of our peoples, due to capitalism. Pisces used to mean other things. Mo pa kapav remersi Bondie entan ki Morisien ki Pwason rapel nou kinn touy Kaya, ek sak lane rapel nou ki pa respekte so memwar. Parski sa pann aprann nou nanye. Anou komans aprann. Dibout! Zezi osi so lamor pa paret inn aprann laplipar limanite nanye. Sanze! https://www.tiktok.com/@astrobynatalie/video/7481101582705233183? a more light-hearted thing about Pisces.

[tradwir]

Non a Seggae Day

Le 22 osi ti enn zour som. Mo pa oule ekrir dan sa langl la me ena kisoz ki pou rearive la, kapav zis lor plan perso, pou tou dimounn. Kan soz nu pankor konn so nom ti touy Kaya, Venus (planet lamizik, lar, pa zis lamour ek lager) ti dan Pwason. Sa pann protez Kaya. Mo kroir Kobit osi so Venus dan Pwason parski mo konn kikenn extra bien depi avan mo nesans, bann leak la rapel mwa li. Venus la C payet, prozekter, fairytale, 1 mari show (telenovela selon Moustas), smoke n mirrors. Dimounn sou limpresion enn mari romans, 1 mari fam (Macbeth in the sheets) ou bel fiesta. Dimounn koma Trump/Biden ou Dounk co-krafte sistem ki fer dimounn pens koum sa. Biden etc. kontinie system la, zot bann poupet dounk. Si Venus ti tuzur dan pwason la, kot li pe retourne, mari lafaya ti pou fer ar Seggae day. Bon, dan Indien li tuzur dan pwason. Mercur osi ti dan pwason, koma aktielman ek koma pou Baron Trump ek so asandan. Pwason 1 pwazon pou bann Lion, sori a pwason ki dekolonial (pa zot, ok). 26 an apre, zourlanis res ekrir ki Kaya ti dir linn fime. Li ena drwa revandik so drwa relizion si li pann gagn konsey personn, ek kroir mwa mem aster li pa fasil gagn konsey legal ouswa kone kot pou gagn sa, pou 1 sitwayin sirtou 1 fam/ 1 andikape. Kan mem ki linn dir, ti plan 1 levennman an Fev pa an Mai, kan soley ek 2 planet ti dan pwason kot li kritik pou 1 Lion. Riske gagn ferme, inn ekrir limier sir nwar (dan lesiel) depi touletan. Pa pe tir blam lor li met lor 1 lot dimounn, li osi li 1 Lion? Antouka, Venus pe retourn dan Pwason lot mwa, vey to ledo, pa les kouyonn twa, pa les to ex revinn kuyonn twa si li pou met twa a risk pou feminisid par examp. Personn pa pou kas latet sov to lavi, zom pou koz nimport dan komanter pou sov zimaz tou zom.

Sa vwayant Kaya ti gete lafrans la , mo pa konn nanye lor li, mwa mo kroir ki zot pwiz dan bann dark forces ki konstitie sistem la. Mo pa kroir ti ariv Kaya so ler, sistem la ki kroir sa ek kinn fer ariv sa. Sinwa ti kapav dir twa ziska ki laz Kaya ti ena pou viv. Sistem la lamem avek Seggae day kom manifestasion banal. Parski kan sistem la inn touy nou ou nou leader, zot fete, se enn fet dan tou sistem.

Mo pankor truv personn [sof 1 kandida/ rep 1 parti lor 1 paz artis] ki ti dir zot pou sanz sistem la inn dir kisoz kont ou an soutien a Mme Veronique Topize, sa zot ena tor parski zot pa ti ezite servi sante Kaya dan kanpagn. A mwin 1 kandida reprezant tou parti, ou mwa ki pann truv komanter, mo pann chek lexpres. Kapav Mme Topize ekrir tousel a guvernman pou ki sa pa paret enn act politik wi. Mazinn ou dey osi pe persevwar koma 1 act politik, apre otan soufrans, san lazistis. Kuraz madam, mo leker fermal. Nou tou nou leker ti bizin inn res lour avek ou 26 an, me dimounn nepli ena leker mem dan pei la.

Hommage kaya de nombreuses personnes ont fait les déplacements pour lui rendre visite.

[tradwir]

Translation: What's this new feeling they're inflicting on us When you multiply your revolt The whole head hurts The heart's ailed What law will they use among rebels Synthetic men, a viper's nest Living artificially Against the natural Stop giving your soul to other traditions We're done done done done overturned With fake culture and superstition

Enslavement changed, turned to misery Everyone rejoices doing the contrary Making wrong what's good Taking wrong for good O ooo oooh oooh ooooh Ki santima nouvo zot pe inflize Kan to miltiplie to revolt La tete entie malad Leker soufran Ki la lwa pou servi parmi enn bann rebel Enn bann synthétik enn bann ras viper Pe viv artificiel Zot kont natirel Ase konfie to namm avec bann tradition Noun fini fini fini fini devoster Avec foss kiltir ek siperstition

Lesclavaz finn sanze finn vinn mizer nwar Tou dimounn pran plaisir ar fer le contrair Pren bon pou pa bon Pren pa bon pou bon O ooo oooh oooh ooooh

[tradwir]

Tradiksion aktivism

“Translation is activism. Writing is activism. Featuring Indigenous voices is a form of activism. We need to show all of these forms of activism are possible.” Tradiksion se aktivism, ekrir se aktivism, met an avan bann lavwa Indizenn se aktivism. Nu bizin montre ki tou form aktivism posib. “We need to stop being observers and put on the hat of learner & activist. The internet is a place where we can regroup.” - Juke C. Bransiecq.

[mapsontheweb]

Where do the items in the British Museum come from?

The British Museum houses a vast collection of artifacts from countries like Iraq, Italy, and Egypt, many of which were acquired during the height of the British Empire. Through colonization, wars, and expeditions, the British often took historical treasures from around the world, leading to ongoing debates about cultural heritage and calls for the return of these items to their countries of origin. Source: Aljazeera

by nazar.data/instagram

[noonefromknowhere]

“acquired”

[tradwir]

Educate, Organise

I love that Dr. Barlow opened an inverse-Pandora's box (which I believe is the correct sort of box, Hawaii can tell you, they had the original box? I can't find the name of their earlier myth) as Rahu entered Pisces. Pisces can be like this:

FernGully: The Last Rainforest- Toxic Love #foryou #fyp #fypシ #ferngullythelastrainforest #toxiclove #timcurry #viral

It's many things where boundaries dissolve - from fiction, film, showbiz and theatre as well as charity and institutions (religious, Christianity specifically, hospitals); through prisons, drugs and crimes; to pollution that seeps everywhere, climate change, viruses, LA and other fires, the real life drama. Rahu is one lunar node, the head. The opposite sign Virgo, being drained by Ketu (the tail) moving there now until 2026, represents schooling, education, farming, science, the working class and just like that, TikTok didn't disappear but became a place for educators in the US donating their time to educate Black people for free, ahead of BHM, to resist. I can't organise so I'm putting it here jic folks check here n not my TikTok. The beauty of this organising to educate differently as the whole world is suddenly changing, with credit to the originator as Pisces fails to do (a film may reference, borrows and one may not know without watching many films or reading (Virgo) interviews or analysis (Virgo). To get youth away from drugs (Pisces). HIV (viruses, as I list under Pisces) clinics (Virgo) in South Africa where the election funding money came from, being affected or closing services. I think AI and financial markets too are Pisces, DeepSeek ironically had a big marine mammal logo. Here's a snake: Happy lunar year!

[bloodbending]

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bots, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

[curliestofcrowns]

where's that speed skating gif

[scarygodmother]

[tradwir]

The real Nas Daily issue

A video by Palestinian-Israeli content creator Nuseir Yassin, better known as Nas Daily, about his views on the Israel-Palestine conflict has garnered millions of views on social media in less than 24 hours. Yassin, who rose to fame with a long-running series of one-minute-long videos on Facebook and has millions of followers, has frequently been accused by critics of whitewashing the Israeli occupation of Palestine. #LearnOnTiktok #Palestine #NasDaily #Israel #BDS

Nuseir Yassin said some crap about this country, once again, he did in the pandemic. Only one woman noticed when he says "humans discovered the island" (graphic of human figures, implied white if you know history) and "brought slaves" [and labourers...]. Were the enslaved not human? Did they not invent Creole language being used by all now? Not withstanding that their descendants reinvent it then it's like AAVE except we all speak it. Did they/we not create the African/fusion folkloric culture that tourists and all so fond of? This guy anyway was mocking tagalog and he scammed people using a Pinay elder tatt artist's name. That was nothing, here it's geopolitical and he erases anti-Blackness. He doesn't speak for Palestinians ofc, and he was thrilled about a country with no functional army. We rely Indian naval power, yes, while being a home to US military. None of that helps us if we have a big fire, where we ask France but they dgaf. Fun country, great president.

[triggocracy]

The Shadows of Libya & EU

“Libya taught me what it means to be dehumanized. Europe teaches me what it means to be erased.[...] I'm writing this from Europe, the land that has fought so hard to keep me out but cannot seem to do without me. I am here now, not because I want to be, but because this place has made itself unavoidable. It is not enough to say that Libya is chaotic or lawless. That would be too kind. Libya is a machine built to grind Black bodies into dust. I saw men chained and sold like cattle, women raped until their spirits broke, and children used as though their youth were not sacred.” Kwame Ture said: “You vote once in four years, and that’s your political responsibility? That’s the height of bourgeois propaganda, making the people politically irresponsible. Thinking their responsibility is limited to a one day vote. Politics is every day.”

"Kan nou lwin ki vremem nou senti nou patriot" (lerla linn desid pou vinn fer politik)...

Non madam, kan nou lwin mo kroir nou ena le devwar engaz nou dan pei kot nou ete mem si nou pena drwa vote laba.

Kan nou ti isi nou ena ledevwar angaz nou isi, mai dimounn get zis zot lavansman personel ou zot lamizman,

Kan ou lwin ou inn gagn privilez, wi, lerla avek privilez ou pans ouswa ou ena dezir pou sans kisoz, ou pou rod puvwar sanz kisoz.

Mo espere se plito koma Toni Morrison ti dir, ki simpleman enn swaf puvwar ki tou diaspora ou ex-diaspora paret ena.

Ena dant nou ti lor koltar depi ki nou pe rampe dan sa pei la, ff si sa ti al a lankont nou sans kit pei ou nou sans viv. Pann fer sa pu rekonesans (zordi pena ditou) ou politik dan le sans zt servi li.

Li paret plis posib fer kisoz kan revini avek sa label 'sorti deor' la, nou esay fer impe plis mo pa dir ou non.

Si sistem la bizin sanze, admet ki ou pe rant ladan par sistem lamem ek ki nou bizin fer ou konfians li pou sanze... ki sistem kinn met ou la, ou pa le li. Ouswa sistem kinn ponn ou la - pou sertin/n.

Bann papa-piti mama-piti osi inn ponn, koma dir nu bizin aksepte. Monn rapel sa sitasion la, monn azout li apre.

Quote Kwame Ture via SpiritofLenin a Greta ena 2 mwa parla, pann lir ki Greta inn dir mai o mwen pou so laz li pe komans reflesi. Propagand bourzwa pa pou fer dimounn al vote...

[tradwir]

^I heard the news tonight. A Black baby girl was murdered

I wasted the morn trying to make a slideshow 1st time in decades, here's a slide. There's racism from other communities protecting neither 'their' children or 'their' women, or their own brains - pray tell how would the culprit be arrested in a racist childist misogynist system if he's not oppressed economically? Are you etihw? maybe you're related to a former minister or big shot? So is the culprit. And you both are related to the system that secretly changed the law to allow marital rape of children. Now as we find out, we're in 2025 with men like you blaming Black people for murders committed on them.

[tradwir]

Françoise Guimbert, Ban'tit y soutien ban'gro There's no need to be filled with anger I tell you that's a bad thing Better weigh your heart in the yard Under your coconut palm

The lowered help the big The big only help the big So I don't see who's Gonna help the lowered

It won't be for tomorrow That I'll get a helping hand From an oppressed like me

Nananananana Nanana nanananana Nananananana Nanana nanananana

I know here, there're Creoles all praises for the big When comes the time Litchi season 2 sacks are for so and so To his next-door neighbour Oppressed like himself No he won't give any He says he has no teeth That's for so and so

The lowered help the big The big only help the big So I don't see who's Gonna help the lowered

It won't be for tomorrow That I'll get a helping hand From an oppressed like me

Nananananana Nanana nanananana Nananananana Nanana nanananana

One day you go to an office Where there's quite a crowd If you're a decent person You stand and wait your turn But here comes a big shot Oh she doesn't wait There's always a ti-Creole to be a doormat

Dialogue: "take my turn ma'am, I'm not in a hurry" Another frowns & says "you're too much of an ass to get my turn, queue up like the rest"

The lowered help the big The big only help the big So I don't see who's Gonna help the lowered

It won't be for tomorrow That I'll get a helping hand From an oppressed like me

Nananananana Nanana nanananana Nananananana Nanana nanananana

I know here, there are Creoles Who have more money When a poor one stopping him Says Sir please, give me 5 francs He got angry without looking at the hand What he answered: Non, je n'en ai pas. Non, n'insistez pas. Ou voulez vous que j'en trouve!

Dialogue: you should've worked. He doesn't know if the poor guy job searched and did not find one

The lowered help the big The big only help the big So I don't see who's Gonna help the lowered

It won't be for tomorrow That I'll get a helping hand From an oppressed like me He's not on my side

Nananananana Nanana nanananana Nananananana Nanana nanananana There is no gendered pronouns, I didn't translate the French so you know he answered in the classist language we have in common. Her song is incredibly powerful in a way Sayaa's translation missed, powerful for now, with advice for the Mars retrograde (right now). In general, our Creole tries to be more respectable, esp. in an office. There are Creole men here who called out Sayaa for not giving proper credit. Ppl from Reunion island all know it's a translation of a 1980 song & some of us who listened to the radio that once. Even I didn't know I was translating late Françoise Guimbert, h/t Virginie Prosper & Michel Chiffone.

[tradwir]

Translation: What's this new feeling they're inflicting on us When you multiply your revolt The whole head hurts The heart's ailed What law will they use among rebels Synthetic men, a viper's nest Living artificially Against the natural Stop giving your soul to other traditions We're done done done done overturned With fake culture and superstition

Enslavement changed, turned to utter misery Everyone rejoices in doing the contrary Making wrong what's good Taking what's wrong for good O ooo oooh oooh ooooh Ki santima nouvo zot pe inflize Kan to miltiplie to revolt La tete entie malad Leker soufran Ki la lwa pou servi parmi enn bann rebel Enn bann synthétik enn bann ras viper Pe viv artificiel Zot kont natirel Ase konfie to namm avec bann tradition Noun fini fini fini fini devoster Avec foss kiltir ek siperstition

Lesclavaz finn sanze finn vinn mizer nwar Tou dimounn pran plaisir ar fer le contrair Pren bon pou pa bon Pren pa bon pou bon O ooo oooh oooh ooooh

[tradwir]

Cassiya - Our Ancestors' Dreams

When a feast goes on at the beach People gather around a big fire When lil (ti)-John begins beating his Ravann It tears my heart, my eyes tear up

When I hear O lo la-e-lolo The blood of enslavement rises & flows in my body It reminds me of all the cruelties so intense that we forgot our mothertongues

My mind still wanders, child Thinking of that ship that Uprooted us from grandpapa's land I look up to the horizon I imagine how it is where our real n***** live

Here now we dance sega ravann A memory of how many years of torture We should thank the Sky For the chains that He removed from our hands We should thank the Sky For the chains that He removed from our feet

When a feast goes on at the beach People gather around a big fire When ti-John begins beating his Ravann It tears my heart, my eyes tear up

When I hear O lo la-e-lolo The blood of enslavement rises & flows in my body It reminds me of all the cruelties so intense that we forgot our mothertongues

Here now we dance sega ravann A memory of how many years of torture We should thank the Sky For the chains that He removed from our hands We should thank the Sky For the chains that He removed from our feet

O lo la-e-lolo The blood of enslavement rises & flows in my body

O lo la-e-ola-lile The blood of enslavement rises & flows in my body

[tradwir]

Kaya - Chant L'amour

Artist: Kaya Genre: Seggae Translation: I recall when I was a child My teacher would waste his time To make me understand Everything upside down

I lived in superstition Surrounded by all that scared me For my freedom It's they who decided

Now I've a chance that opened up With a light I can now review The connections I have

Now I've a chance that opened up With its intelligence My life's ensnared as it's so precious

Now I've a chance that opened up With a light Now I'll tell you how I feel

We need to speak the truth, youth Relatives didn't care to hear it once How many died When they needed wisdom

We always reject what is good All our life was wasted in hate I'm singing love For us to get freedom

Now I've a chance that opened up With a light I can now review The connections I have

Now I've a chance that opened up With its intelligence My life's ensnared as it's so precious

Now I've a chance that opened up With a light Now I'll tell you how I feel

Ti rap pap ti ro ri roy Ti rap pap ti ro ri roy Ti ra ra ri rap tap ta ri re ro

Now I've a chance that opened up With a light I can now review The connections I have

Now I've a chance that opened up With its intelligence My life's ensnared as it's so precious

Now I've a chance that opened up With a light Now I'll tell you how I feel

Now I've a chance that opened up Now I'll tell you how I feel Eyyy Now I've a chance that opened up Now I'll tell you how I feel Eyy

[tradwir]

Bilygane - Ki Zot Problem?

Hit it for the kids from the hood

They classify ghetto as nappy crowd On their records, we’re floozies We gotta turn down the sound Bc tourists are sleeping We try be legal but you don’t permit

Black n*gga with Indian cap To crush us they don’t hold back They come down with their Wildtrack Thinking that we are kick-bags

Black n*gga with Indian cap Show offs with Indian flag Coming down with their Wildtracks Thinking that we are kick-bags

100 days for the thief and one for the master 5 years for the liar and one for the people

But what’s their problem wid us?? What’s their problem wid Roche Bois, Batterie Kase, Cite Barkly What’s their problem wid Sainte Croix, Cite St Clair, even Tombeau Bay

The ghetto in me takes root Respect all kids from the hood Even we pay our dues We’re not your castoff

Nnrrrrnooo We don’t live or deal with no one JahJah sends good herb for our blaze He gave me life for me to shout freedom To water unity for humanity’s souldom yeahh

Those who get bribes then who stay mum Among them are those who’ll two-time Who sell their souls only to get crack

But what’s their problem wid us?? What’s their problem wid Roche Bois, Batterie Kase, Cite Barkly What’s their problem wid Sainte Croix, Cite St Clair, even Tombeau Bay

They classify ghetto as nappy crowd On their records, we’re floozies We gotta turn down the sound Bc tourists are sleeping We try be legal but you won’t permit

We may have a temper but we’re not numb We’ve been schooled like every young’un What’s their issue with us? They get hives when they see us But we understand from every angle Understand we’re not those you can swindle

[tradwir]

Oté Kréol - Baster

Mercy… mercy…

Oté Creole, Open your eyes at last, One day when you’ll get here, you’ll be like a foreigner Your lil country won’t be the same Your lil straw hut gone in the smoke… Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh Enough enough Enough of wasting our country We don’t need tourists expats on our land We don’t need influencers on our soil We need planters born of the soil We need Reunionese workers Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh [Oy] Oté Creole, Open your eyes at last Your kids are suffering enough Your lil language is trampled over One day when you open both eyes, Your dignity will be gone in the mud Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh Enough Enough Enough with poverty We don’t need supermarkets in Reunion We don’t need petrol poultry in Reunion We need farmers born of the soil We need Reunionese workers RIP Alain Joron, here's the 1983 version:

Creole lyrics h/t Patriyot Renione Oté kréol (Baster) Mizérikord’, mizérikord’ (bis) Oté kréol, rouv in pé ton zié, Ton ti péi lé an trinn sanzé, In zour kan toué va ariv’ isi Toué s’ra konm in’ étranzé Ton ti péi, s’ra pi parèy Ton ti kartié, va fé pitié, Ton ti kaz an paye, s’ra dan la fimé Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh Assé, assé Assé, gaspi nout péi La pa bézoin touris’ zorèy, si la tèr La pa bézoin, bann’ paradèr, si la tèr Kan nou la bézoin, plantèr réinyoné Kan nou la bézoin travayèr réinyoné Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh Oté kréol, rouv in pé ton zié, Ton bann’ marmay la pré soufèr Son’ ti langaz’ sa lé piétiné In zour, kan toué va rouv’ ton dé zié Ton dinité s’ra fin’, dan la bou Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh Assé, assé Assé avèk la mizèr La pa bézoin, sipèrmarshé la rényon La pa bézoin, volay pétrol la rényon Oh nou la bézoin, zélévèr réinyoné Oh nou la bézoin, travayèr réinyoné Wohoo… oh Ahaaa… ah Ouhouou… ouh Eéhééé… éh

[tradwir]

I decolonize by translating songs I dig from Creole :D mine or others. Perfection is the enemy of good. mo tradwir sante parfwa, pou li bat pli bien internasional. 1. Fode to pena tro respe pou langaz angle la 2. Bilygane kinn form mwa. Mo met li 3em post akoz so laz mai 1er sante monn tradwir KZP ek monn bizin invant 'souldom' ki 1 zour kapav kal dan 1 sante, mo sante ou pa. Lemme write this here not on the Bilygane upcoming song post, he made me a translator (though I've wanted to translate others, THE OTHER... I translated Refaat the other way then found it was translated). On November 9-10th I decided to translate KZP while listening on loop, scared to death about our future. I had to coin the word 'souldom' to shorten 'what nourishes us' which he meant but Creole literal translation is 'what humanity consumes'.