Lost in the Serengeti
-Nawaj Ansari X Leugain Beatzz
Album: The Retribution
We in the same place with different lives
It ain’t love or hate, it’s just the price
It ain’t mastery, it’s what you write
It ain’t blasphemy, it’s wrong and right
It ain’t bravery that cause you fight
We leave legacy, we take advices
It’s different recipes and different spices
It ain’t jealousy, it’s will to thrive
It takes a bullet to ignite the mob
It’s not the devil, it’s you who lies
What if the Sunset and never rises?
What is so complex? What’s so bizzare?
It’s just a mindset, A Hoola-Hoop
I wanted to commit suicide but I revise my
thoughts
I jumped off the plane and blow my parachute off
Achieved the orgasm like Kamasutra
The Sun is going down for us!!!
We all here to make history
I wish my pain remains a mystery
Resurrection of New Regime
Right when the rain pours heavily
That’s when the real ones separate
The fake from the real and
Decapitate them ruthlessly
That’s enlightenment over lunacy
That’s survival over jeopardy
You better hold your horses carefully
That’s not your horse not your refugee
You stuttering cuz you embellishing
It’s thundering cuz this is Leugain Beatzz
This is truth over Fallacy
This is Moses over Ramsey
I throw roses over casualties
Pose a Picture
That’s Nawaj Ansari.
The Sun is going down for us!!!
This track “Lost
in the Serengeti” is taken
from the Album “The Retribution”, performed by Nawaj Ansari. If you know
this legend and have purged your soul with his lyrical hymns, then I needn’t
say more about him. If you haven’t even heard about him, then I doubt if you
really live on the same planet as I do. But as I always used to say, it’s never
too late to start praying. Morning is when you wake up (unless, of course, if
you wake up in the afternoon or as Nawaj Ansari puts it—when “the sun’s going
down”. Now that you know about him… Welcome to the Club.
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Lost in the Serengeti…
The title itself is self-explanatory. Serengeti is
derived from Maasai language and the term refers to “endless plains”. For your
information, Serengeti is located in north Tanzania in Africa. But in this
song, Serengeti signifies basically our life. Life is like Serengeti and we are
lost in it. Lost in a vast ocean or an endless plain of life. What we lack most
in the modern world is a sense of a larger purpose to our lives.
All of a sudden and out of nowhere, I remembered
Albert Einstein and his “Theory of Relativity” while listening to this song.
Einstein said that everything in the universe is relative. And this song is
full of theories of relativity in one form or another, especially in the first
verse. For instance… Different lives, love or hate, wrong or right. It all
depends on how you see these aspects of life. There are over 7 billion people
in the world, and each of them has individually different experiences of their
own. They have the lenses through which they see the world around them and form
perceptions about it. In fact, it is not the reality itself but the perception
of the reality that counts. Einstein must have been really proud of Nawaj
Ansari to see this extension of his “Theory of Relativity” into the Music
field, particularly in the rap genre… Did Einstein lived to listen to rap music
back in his days?
The lyrics in this song is more of a philosophical
poetry if you look at them closely. I could go word for word and line by line
of the verses, but that may possibly end up as a large manuscript for an epic.
Because it’s deep. The rhymes in this song make sense of the world in a way
which the regular everyday speech fails to do. These rhymes convince you. The words
connect.
It mentions the false path that we are attracted
to in our life. It is something we are enticed for wrong reasons—money, fame,
attention.
Take for example the case of Mastery (It ain’t
mastery, it’s what you write). Who do you call the master? In fact, how does
one become a master? What does it take to be a master in his or her field of
vocation? What’s enlightenment? In simplest terms, it is the form of power and
intelligence that signifies the apex of human potential. Somewhere I read that
it requires at least 10,000 hours of practice to gain mastery. Trying something
again and again grounds the person in reality. It makes you aware of your
inadequacies and directs you to the area where you have to work hard on.
Courage and bravery is overrated. I often find
people saying that they are courageous and brave… that they are not afraid of
anything… that they are fearless… I pity and laugh at them, not for lying to
me, but for lying to themselves. There is no such thing as No-Fear. Fear exists
and it should. It is the basic to human survival. Fear is something that we can
never get rid of. So what do we do with our fear? And how is it related to
courage and bravery?
As Nawaj Ansari put it “It ain’t bravery that
cause you fight”, it’s for your survival. You fight not because you are brave,
but you are afraid, and that fear makes you the man, because courage is not the
absence of fear… it is the ability to accept the presence of fear and overcome
it by facing your darkest nightmare.
“It takes a bullet to ignite a mob”… This now just
gets psychological. In the context of civil movements like #BLACKLIVESMATTER,
this makes a sense. It all started with a bullet, both literally and
figuratively, the latter implying the use of force. Fire a gun and the crowd
goes mad, turns into a mob and explodes into the riot.
Every person has his or her good side and dark
side as well. Imagine it as an angel and a devil on the either sides of your
head. They are always conflicting. And often your decisions are based on which
voice you hear the most. In fact you are your own worst enemy. To overcome
this, embrace the thought of death, because it is the only ultimate truth of
life, and the realization of death is what makes the life so meaningful and
creates a powerful connection to present. That’s why soldiers fight fiercely
when death is viscerally present. The term “suicide” that Nawaj mentions in the
line “I wanted to commit suicide…” signifies the psychological death ground. As
Aristotle said: Life is defined by movement. What doesn’t move is dead. That’s
suicide because you are offering yourself to the selfish world. For almost all animals in the world, speed is
the critical factor in survival.
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I remember a quote by Christopher McDougall on
speed and survival that’s worth mentioning here.
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It
knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in
Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle,
or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you are the lion or a gazelle-when
the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
So keep up that adrenaline rushing. Jump off the
plane. Take a leap of faith. Sometimes death comes from lack of energy and the
lack of energy is due to lack of challenges. Take risks and your body and mind
will respond with a rush of energy. Life has more meaning in the face of death.
People reveal their true-self when in crisis. That’s
why your pain has to remain a mystery. Create a persona that is mysterious,
intriguing and masterful. Don’t be too excited to reveal the inner secrets of
how you achieved something. Make it seem effortless, because what you don’t reveal
to people is all the more eloquent and powerful. People are jealous of your achievement.
Your so-called friends shed off their
skin in rainy days. That’s why you can’t even trust your friends. Maybe that’s
why Voltaire said: Lord, protect me from my friends. I can take care of my
enemies.” They know where to strike on you to create maximum damage. Trust your
inner instincts. Your gut feelings. Pick up a bee from kindness and learn the
limitations of kindness. You have to learn to identify your real homies from
the fake ones and crush the fakers to the earth with no mercy. “Those who seek
to achieve things should show no mercy”-Kautilya.
You better hold your horses carefully. Above all,
amidst the turmoil of the events that you suffer, you should take great caution
not to lose your presence of mind because mind is always weaker than your
emotions. Your emotions are like the horses and you are on the chariot being
pulled by those horses. How you hold the reins determine where you go in life.
Are you able to control the horse or is the horse controlling you? Mans’
greatest weakness is losing his heart, doubting ourselves. You gotta actively
resist the emotional pull of the moment, like the way the horses are pulling
you. Stay decisive, confident and aggressive, no matter what hits you.
One of the things that makes this song at its best
is that it doesn’t force you to pretend to be only one thing or another. Life
is simple—you make a choice and never look back. You want to be a saint or a
sinner, it’s your choice. Neither one is perfect. You can be true to yourself
but still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Devil on one shoulder
and the angel on the other… everyone has been there. Nawaj Ansari creates a way
to take a very powerful experience and message and mold it into a story that
every single person in the world could feel and relate to.
And the Sun’s going down for us… Who knows maybe
this is the last time we could see it!!!
Lost in the Serengeti.
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the Myths 2020: Decoding “Lost in the Serengeti” by Nawaj Ansari
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