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Thread #57526 Message #2682534
Posted By: Azizi
17-Jul-09 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: College songs - folk or not?
Subject: RE: College songs - folk or not?
It doesn't pay to make sweeping pronouncements. I just heard a Black chant on a YouTube video that mentioned drinking wine.
I can't vouch that this transcription is 100% accurate. But this is what I hear after listening to it multiple times:
[All members in unison]
I say 5.
I say 4.
I say 3, 2, 1.
We throw the ball.
We shoot the yo.*
We party hard.
We drink the wine.
Nupe Nupe,** motherf****er ***
It's party time.
We party hard.
We stay out late.
But most of all
We graduate.
[Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMV4TWHGnLU&feature=related
Eastern Michigan University NPHC Midnight Madness Step Show, April 17, 2009
-snip-
* I'm not sure what "we shoot the "yo" means, if indeed that is what was being said.
** "Nupe" is a referent for members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. My guess is that "Nupes" comes from the original name for the fraternity Kappa Alpha Nu. "Yo Nupes!" is one "call" used by this Black Greek lettered fraternity. I'
*** This entire word was spelled out.