CHAI(BRIBE) SONG LYRICS
It's around 11am
am coming from a show at least I get some cash
for upkeep
I bump into some cops
Harassing some youths
The arrest me for reasons
I don't know
In order for them to
release me. They want a
1000 bribe
And I don't have even have a hundred
When I start weighing
Options they slap mi
And throw me in a moving
Car
It's a must I bribe them
So that they can release me
Am so exhausted I feel Like dying
Chorus You are asking for (chai) bribe
Officer I don't have tie
(am not that well financially)

Corruption is evil it kills a nation
Like candle fire. The youth have no option
But to smoke weeds (drugs)
Their pockets & accounts are empty
Listen to my story
I wake up in the morning
I head to the chief camp
To get some documents signed
But before services I have to quit with
A small amount He/she seems not to care
He/she can't sign the documents before he doesn't
Get a bribe. He claims that it is during the cold
Times so the bribe must be good enough
What kind of life is this the highmost still
Suppress the poor and there is no one to defend us
Chorus



Government has let us down
Too much corruption
Even when I see a cop I always
See a bribe
Its like a trend rules bending
Scandals everywhere involving
Big amounts of money
Where the higher get rich
And the poor remains poor
It's always a computer problem/error
Yet it is another scandal
Big amounts of money disappear
And the blame is always a
Computer error
Project that was to be done
Turns out to be a white elephant
And the poor have no say they
Remain in slums (mukuru kwa njenga)
You can ask ma fellow artist mejja
And he will second me that
There leaders are beasts and
They don't care about the (wananchi)
Citizens
The wise and the old one said
If you desperately want something
You must take care of your jiggers
First to stop living a desperate life
Music is ma life and earns me
Ma daily bread
Hustling everyday I do and for
Crying out loud Kenya am proud of
But you still ask me for a bribe
Chorus