Mogambo by Riz Ahmed
Mogambo by Riz Ahmed

Mogambo

Riz Ahmed * Track #11 On The Long Goodbye

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Mogambo by Riz Ahmed

Release Date
Wed Oct 03 2018
Performed by
Riz Ahmed
Produced by
Redinho
Writed by
Riz Ahmed
About

The song is about identity, the struggles and the oppression of people of colour. The name of the song is a reference to the villain in Mr. India a 1987, classic from India. The song ends with the famous Mogambo line : “Mogambo khush hua” (Mogambo is pleased).

The lyrics emphasise the Pakistani her...

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Mogambo Lyrics

[Intro]
Yeah
Harkat mein barkat
Ye-ye-yeah
786, Rizzy boy, Redinho

[Verse 1]
Pick a side, do or die
'Cause all we ever do is die
They either bomb us or we suicide
We’re the doner meat, don't ya wanna try?
Woke up to a war
Why you wanna beef with your own like?
I keep my beef with the pork
Why you bring a tweet to a gunfight?
They wanna kill us all
But they can't kill us all
They call me Cockroach, but I’m cocky, not broke
And my cock, it just grow when they kick us in the balls
This is for the mosque and the mosh pit
We ain't got shit, but we got this
Londonstani, boss shit
Suck my lundh and give me all the dosh, bitch

[Chorus]
They wanna kill us all
But they can't kill us all
They wanna kill us all
But they can't kill us all

[Verse 2]
Que sera sera
Kismet: Mo Salah
Christmas, not for us
What they took from us?
The spoils and the scars
The oil and the garms
I'm the shit
So brown and so hard
They sell you them bras
And ban them niqabs
Bradford to ‘Neuf Trois'
We built this bitch
Get the fuck out my yard
They say the airport search is random
But if it's always me it ain't random
They won’t let me go without a ransom
They want selfies shout out the fans dem
And the feds all annoyed ’cause I'm jet set
Yeah, they say the east is east and the west west
But my voice led my people off the deathbed
Headlines to the headline set

[Chorus]
But they can’t kill us all
They wanna kill us all
But they can't kill us all

Mogambo Q&A

Who wrote Mogambo's ?

Mogambo was written by Riz Ahmed.

Who produced Mogambo's ?

Mogambo was produced by Redinho.

When did Riz Ahmed release Mogambo?

Riz Ahmed released Mogambo on Wed Oct 03 2018.

What inspired this song?

Basically, I went to Pakistan first time in about thirteen years early on this year, and it was a big influence on me and just to surprising me about what the country’s really like. I grew up in Britain. I’m a Londoner, British-Pakistani, so our idea of Pakistani culture is incubated from the 1970s,...

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Where did the song's title come from?

The title of the track, I named the track after I recorded it. Basically, I just did some ad-libs after the first verse just from some famous Bollywood film. One of the things I say is where basically the bad guy says, “Shah Khan, you dog, you bitch, how dare you.” I don’t know, me and my friends us...

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What was it like working with producer Redinho?

This beat is produced by Redinho who produced the whole Swet Shop Boys album. He’s an amazing producer, he’s somewhat gone deep on his research into South Asian music, Bang Rah, Sufi music, 1970s Pakistani psychedelia, Qawwali, and he’s really done his homework, and he’s understood the influences th...

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What do you want listeners to take away from the track?

For this track, man, it was just really easy to start despairing. You’re watching the news as a person of color right now, or so many groups that feel like they’re unwanted right now, and they’re being undervalued, and it’s a scary time we’re living in politically. As a Muslim guy, as a brown guy, y...

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