“I Go Chop Your Dollar”: Anthem of the Nigerian 419 Spammer

The music video for “I Go Chop Your Dollar” by Nikem Owoh, an “extremely popular” song in Africa that describes in verse after plaintive verse the trials and travails of the Nigerian 419 / Advance Fee fraudster, who sends spam after spam to ungrateful whites as his own personal attack on the White Hegemony that has kept the poor African spammer down in the gutter for so very long.

Lyrics after the jump. Everybody! Sing along!

I’ve been through hard times
Even though I’m very smart.
I’ve had a fair share of poverty.
But now, I’ve found the right business.
419 is not stealing,
It’s just a game
And everybody can play a part.
If anybody is so stupid, my brother,
I will scam him.
The national airport, I own it.
Even the nation stadium, I built it.
The president is my sister’s brother.

You are the big fool,
I am the master,
My dear white friend
I will eat your dollar,
I will take your money and disappear.
419 is just a game
You are the loser,
I am the winner.
The refinery is mine,
I will award you the contract.
Just give me some money for paperwork
You are the big fool,
I am the master…
It’s I that’s the master!

If a white man commits a crime
He’s hailed as being smart.
But when a black man does the same
People reach for his throat, want to kill him dead.
But white men are greedy.
They’re greedy,
I insist, they’re greedy!
They are greedy
And I know them too well!
That’s why when they fall into my trap
I love to show them fire!