I had this single on CD in the early to mid-2000s. Moved to America, lost the CD, eventually forgot the band name, song title, and the lyrics I'd learned. I suddenly thought of this song two weeks ago, and after extensive googling I HAVE FOUND IT!
wow! I have literally been looking for this song since 2005! I was in a nightclub in france about 8 years ago and the DJ out of the blue played this song, so I went and asked him the name of the song and he wrote it down for me....I lost the piece of paper that night haha! and this was back before shazam and youtube so not know the name of the song, the band or any lyrics made my search pretty futile...until finally coming across it now as the name of the band came back to me out of nowhere! so glad!!!
That is absolutely amazing that you heard our Maaori song being played in a nightclub way way way over there in France? How amazing is that? What a fabulous story. Thank you for sharing it.
Literally saw a tiktok with this song and thought FUCK I havent heard this is years, probably since I arrived into NZ . Good to see Maori Music getting the recognition it deserves
I had this on single! I worked in NZ in 2000-2001 and I loved this song. Shame it wasn’t commercially released internationally and it’s not on Spotify! 😩
Hikkkkka! I was just about to comment that too 😂😂😂. I'm sure Pukana did a vid for it too, gotta jog the memory now 🤣 I'd love to see the original vid again
Mean maori mean!! He miharo! i tenei roopu Aaria! He tino mohi ahau I te kaupapa o tenei waiata. ataahua hoki. He tino aroha ahau I tenei waiata. Nga mihi nui i tatau-tatau. This group Aaria is Amazing! I know the meaning of this song it's just beautiful I love this song. Thank you for sharing.
Literally been over 20 years since I’ve heard this jam , Remember one of my maori boys showing me on his IPOD Shuffle 2ND Gen, Whoever produced this was wait ahead of there time, that 2000's type rnb feel !
i loved Aaria, and years later i taught at a school with one of the band members lol#starstruck anyone else remember the pukana episode where they parodied the song/video?
I remember hearing this song on my travels in Tunisia 🇹🇳 The club I was in was playing this. The DJ loved the Fresh off the Boat CDS and when he was in New Zealand brought Aaria music back.
What a flashback maaan!!! Been tryna figure out this song for a very long time!!! I remember when it dropped with the video back in the day!!! Mean Maori 💯 2021
Been looking for this song for years!! I first heard it as part of a remix on one of the "fresh off the boat" volumes bout 14 years ago, but it was never on song list on the back of the cd. Today, I just randomly heard it on a Tiktok fishing/kina video and here i am.
👇A history lesson from someone who , not only comes from the country I'm talking about but also experienced alot of this , first hand . Sorry , it's long 😅 (I used to always wonder what the fuck I didn wrong in my past life , to end up born into a māori family , in a country that was Small , but also , new . And I had terrible examples of what Maori people should be like , but that was before I learned properly , that alot of my māori family , are actually broken , due to the discrimination their parents and grandparents faced . So they learned Māori was wrong and got you treated badly , but over time , we've strengthen our selves and our culture and now , I am finally able to accept that I am in fact , A Māori , from Aotearoa ) This waiata is so old 😊 I use to listen to this song back in 1999 on my way to Kura on the Kura Pahi with my fellow street Māoris ... I'm 32 and feel the nostalgia when I hear old songs from Super old , Aotearoa Māori Artists . These songs are still sung in our Kura and schools all over Aotearoa as well as a Nation wide anthem Some of us song in our homes still , to this day . I'm one of the younger ones who remember this but the older generation pop off when they hear these old waiata . And the importance of these and the time they came out is significant to us Māori . Just like many native and indigenous peoples , we were stripped of our culture and white washed . But in that time , there were many māori , tūturu (True) to their tīkanga (Business)who saved our culture , by secretly teaching our ways to the younger generations . Such as our language and Arts . Not only were we a warrior nation whose war dance (Māori performing arts or better known as "Kapahaka" . Which is a recognized sport in NZ where all the schools take their 40 students and compete , agains others school for the title of "Hakas Champions" . There's also an adult division . That's how important it is to us , now lol)was fierce but also beautiful , we are also a people of nature , we've taken the flax , and weaved our blankets , clothings , whariki (Mats for the ground) . We weaved our walls for our Marae (Our old Pā grounds where our original house , for our Iwi and Hāpu , stood before colonization took them *Some of our Marae are still standing stong while some were destroyed by colonizers) houses , we used the clay in the ground , to make musical instruments such as "Ukutangi" , which is a clay , molded in to the shape of a tear drop , a hollowed inside and a small opening for which we blow softly through , to mimic the says of the wind or the waves crashing . When small animals were killed for sustainablity , we used the bones (washed , boiled hung to dry) to make flute like instruments (puoro , pūtatara ) which mimicked the sound of birds . We carved (Whakairo) our ancestors into our houses (before they were either stolen , confiscated due to colonizers not caring to understand what it meant , or burned in front of us to show us that they can destroy us if they want to) and Waka (Boat) (Boats being the only means of transport back then) . Our songs we made up about the things around us , like the birds and how they're the kings of the morning light . And now the Ruru (Owl) and the Kiwi are the only nocturnal birds here . We sing about the Mountain ranges and Their relationship to each other . We sing about our own relationships with the river and the trees , the wind and the sun . Even the rain has significance to us and we celebrate that too . We are a very , inquisitive , intelligent and creative people who actually took , all the bad that was dished out and turned it into something amazing . No matter the set backs we endured , we are still , a Nation of Māori 🥰 and for that , I am so proud to say ..... Ko Taranaki Te Matunga Ko Aotea Te Waka Ko Waitotara Te Awa Ko Ngarauru kītahi Te Iwi Ko NgaĀriki Te Hāpu Ko Waipapa Te Marae Ko Hauiti , Ko Neilson Ratōu Ko Kereopa , ōku Whanau Nō Aotearoa ahau. Nō reira , Tena koutou , Tena koutou , kati rā , Tena tatou katōa .
I loved this song.. can't believe I could remember how it was sung by just reading the lyrics, which is really not that easy 😂.. thanks for the memories ☺️
I've just discovered this song and can't help but hit the replay all day. So catchy. They should re release it so we can send it to no.1! Can anyone pin up the English translation of the reo? I've listened to the English version of the song but keen to know the actual word translation if possible.
2020🙌💯 Someone used this on tik tok, so I had to come looking for this🙌💯 I’m not Maori thou but mean throw backs😭🇳🇿
Haha doing the same thing now lol
Yes me to 😂
Yoooooo todays 20 nov 2022 j seen a tiktok and straight came to yt for th song nw im jamming it and im samoan 🔥🔥
My second danceparty morning in a row ❤❤
Lmaoo me too, i bet we all seen the same vid too 🤣
I had this single on CD in the early to mid-2000s. Moved to America, lost the CD, eventually forgot the band name, song title, and the lyrics I'd learned. I suddenly thought of this song two weeks ago, and after extensive googling I HAVE FOUND IT!
WOO 🎉
wow! I have literally been looking for this song since 2005! I was in a nightclub in france about 8 years ago and the DJ out of the blue played this song, so I went and asked him the name of the song and he wrote it down for me....I lost the piece of paper that night haha! and this was back before shazam and youtube so not know the name of the song, the band or any lyrics made my search pretty futile...until finally coming across it now as the name of the band came back to me out of nowhere! so glad!!!
Nothing beats finding that song you were searching for does it. Good work
Seamus Heaney that's such a wicked story!
wow that's buzy!
Coolest story I ever heard!!!
That is absolutely amazing that you heard our Maaori song being played in a nightclub way way way over there in France? How amazing is that? What a fabulous story. Thank you for sharing it.
Literally saw a tiktok with this song and thought FUCK I havent heard this is years, probably since I arrived into NZ . Good to see Maori Music getting the recognition it deserves
Everytime I listen to this song it fills my heart with pride and Maori groove!.
2022 And im still listening to this bop. Love this song so much. Much love, your fellow Maori :)
Im black and I love it bro
One of the best maori songs! love the singing & rapping & then beat is just...... BEAAASSSTTT!
#ProudMaori #ChildHoodMemories
Marcia Gfys ch5out Adam Whauwhau
I had this on single! I worked in NZ in 2000-2001 and I loved this song. Shame it wasn’t commercially released internationally and it’s not on Spotify! 😩
This track just screams late 90's, early 00's haha. Holy nostalgia!
this is such a nostalgia trip for me!! Listened to this every morning because dad forced us to listen to the fresh of the boat mixes😭😭
i love this song sm , this defo needs 2 b on spotify ! it’s a bop ! there was also a mv to this waiata and cry no more , they shld drop tht too !
2021 and this waiata still slaps 🔥🔥🔥
Anyone remember the video clip to this song?
Hikkkkka! I was just about to comment that too 😂😂😂. I'm sure Pukana did a vid for it too, gotta jog the memory now 🤣 I'd love to see the original vid again
Yes i remember time to bring back the OG of te reo pop music
2021. Heard on TikTok after so many years! Wish the video was available. Love your work Te Rau!
That chorus lives rent in head
Always and forever will be my most favourite Maori song 💙
Mean maori mean!! He miharo! i tenei roopu Aaria! He tino mohi ahau I te kaupapa o tenei waiata. ataahua hoki. He tino aroha ahau I tenei waiata. Nga mihi nui i tatau-tatau. This group Aaria is Amazing! I know the meaning of this song it's just beautiful I love this song. Thank you for sharing.
Ka moiho hoki au I tenei roopu. We used to jam this waiata at Kura kaupapa.
I've been singing the same lyrics for years and still couldn't find the song, until I asked my mum. She knew straight away.
Literally been over 20 years since I’ve heard this jam , Remember one of my maori boys showing me on his IPOD Shuffle 2ND Gen, Whoever produced this was wait ahead of there time, that 2000's type rnb feel !
I haven't heard this song in so long. Actually totally forgot it. Can this song get put on Spotify so I can add it to my NZ Playlist 💙
i loved Aaria, and years later i taught at a school with one of the band members lol#starstruck anyone else remember the pukana episode where they parodied the song/video?
Bro yes HAHAHAHAH been looking for this ever since
Maaaaaan!!! This song takes me BACK!!!! I can’t believe it’s such an old song now! 😂😂
This song reminds me of the ride back home from a whole day diving around the rocks of Shippies/Ahipara….😍❤️
I remember hearing this song on my travels in Tunisia 🇹🇳 The club I was in was playing this. The DJ loved the Fresh off the Boat CDS and when he was in New Zealand brought Aaria music back.
No way that is so random, cool though you must have been buzzing
So glad this has come back. Beautiful song 💚
Fuck 20+ years later i finally find this waiata! Thank you for uploading this! Still gives me chills to this day
Can they put this on spotify already 😩
Still love this jam, that 90s vibe is mean!!!
This songs fire will bring back memories for all the 90s kids
My childhood soundtrack. Mum would be booming this early mornings on the weekend
2024 still here cuzzys I wasn't even in primary school yet when this came out
What a flashback maaan!!! Been tryna figure out this song for a very long time!!! I remember when it dropped with the video back in the day!!! Mean Maori 💯 2021
Been looking for this song for years!! I first heard it as part of a remix on one of the "fresh off the boat" volumes bout 14 years ago, but it was never on song list on the back of the cd. Today, I just randomly heard it on a Tiktok fishing/kina video and here i am.
Surely the videos laying around some where online?
2022 🔥 can’t really speak my maori tongue but love our waiatas ❤️
The nostalgia from my childhood with this waiata! Absolute fire 🔥
Thank you's 4 Share'n love this song, I could listen to this song all day mean maori mean.
When I blast this song down the street today errones was like yeaaaaaa and the look on their faces was priceless like I looooove this song 🥰
Fiinnally i found it... 😅 been looking for IDK 14years 😂 just couldn't remember the name of the group
African America really inspired the world musically
Bring the band back and video to the waiata, kia ora!
Here because australian radio station triple j played this 20 years later 🎉
I have been looking for this forever thank you tiktok
2019 new years and of this waiata had to be all up in our mix...chuuur Maori's
👇A history lesson from someone who , not only comes from the country I'm talking about but also experienced alot of this , first hand . Sorry , it's long 😅
(I used to always wonder what the fuck I didn wrong in my past life , to end up born into a māori family , in a country that was Small , but also , new . And I had terrible examples of what Maori people should be like , but that was before I learned properly , that alot of my māori family , are actually broken , due to the discrimination their parents and grandparents faced . So they learned Māori was wrong and got you treated badly , but over time , we've strengthen our selves and our culture and now , I am finally able to accept that I am in fact , A Māori , from Aotearoa )
This waiata is so old 😊 I use to listen to this song back in 1999 on my way to Kura on the Kura Pahi with my fellow street Māoris ... I'm 32 and feel the nostalgia when I hear old songs from Super old , Aotearoa Māori Artists . These songs are still sung in our Kura and schools all over Aotearoa as well as a Nation wide anthem Some of us song in our homes still , to this day . I'm one of the younger ones who remember this but the older generation pop off when they hear these old waiata . And the importance of these and the time they came out is significant to us Māori . Just like many native and indigenous peoples , we were stripped of our culture and white washed . But in that time , there were many māori , tūturu (True) to their tīkanga (Business)who saved our culture , by secretly teaching our ways to the younger generations . Such as our language and Arts . Not only were we a warrior nation whose war dance (Māori performing arts or better known as "Kapahaka" . Which is a recognized sport in NZ where all the schools take their 40 students and compete , agains others school for the title of "Hakas Champions" . There's also an adult division . That's how important it is to us , now lol)was fierce but also beautiful , we are also a people of nature , we've taken the flax , and weaved our blankets , clothings , whariki (Mats for the ground) . We weaved our walls for our Marae (Our old Pā grounds where our original house , for our Iwi and Hāpu , stood before colonization took them *Some of our Marae are still standing stong while some were destroyed by colonizers) houses , we used the clay in the ground , to make musical instruments such as "Ukutangi" , which is a clay , molded in to the shape of a tear drop , a hollowed inside and a small opening for which we blow softly through , to mimic the says of the wind or the waves crashing . When small animals were killed for sustainablity , we used the bones (washed , boiled hung to dry) to make flute like instruments (puoro , pūtatara ) which mimicked the sound of birds . We carved (Whakairo) our ancestors into our houses (before they were either stolen , confiscated due to colonizers not caring to understand what it meant , or burned in front of us to show us that they can destroy us if they want to) and Waka (Boat)
(Boats being the only means of transport back then) . Our songs we made up about the things around us , like the birds and how they're the kings of the morning light . And now the Ruru (Owl) and the Kiwi are the only nocturnal birds here . We sing about the Mountain ranges and Their relationship to each other . We sing about our own relationships with the river and the trees , the wind and the sun . Even the rain has significance to us and we celebrate that too . We are a very , inquisitive , intelligent and creative people who actually took , all the bad that was dished out and turned it into something amazing . No matter the set backs we endured , we are still , a Nation of Māori 🥰 and for that , I am so proud to say .....
Ko Taranaki Te Matunga
Ko Aotea Te Waka
Ko Waitotara Te Awa
Ko Ngarauru kītahi Te Iwi
Ko NgaĀriki Te Hāpu
Ko Waipapa Te Marae
Ko Hauiti , Ko Neilson Ratōu Ko Kereopa , ōku Whanau
Nō Aotearoa ahau.
Nō reira , Tena koutou , Tena koutou , kati rā , Tena tatou katōa .
U😅
one of my absolute favourite songs, makes me so proud to be Maori
I love this song so much it a big bless from our heaven father from our best and beautiful father
growing up I loved this song and I still pump it today
song is so good and has a really good message to it
I loved this song.. can't believe I could remember how it was sung by just reading the lyrics, which is really not that easy 😂.. thanks for the memories ☺️
Have you meet them that sing the words too there recorded
Just thought me of asking
Jam back on high school. Early 2000s.. 01, 02?!
Hopefully someone puts the actual video on... I remember the video clip...
Never gets old 🔥🔥🔥
this song on Spotify? tried looking but think Spotify to ballhead to have it.. MEAN SONG!!!
To ballhead..lol cmu
Jess Dogg 😂😂
Too ballhead 😂 I tried to find it too lol
sfh
Yo I agree.
Been looking for this song since i was 7yo im now 24yo
Was tryna search for this song. FINALLY !
2021!! Bring it back ♥️
yeeyaahhh bn lokn 4 d lyrics 4 ages, ka mau te wehi! kia ora e hoa
aaah! have been looking for this for aaages!
Just thought I could. Have any meet these people in the recorded . ? Love you a
I remember this song growing up been looking for it since 2008 it's 2022 now
Makes me miss home. 😢
Does anyone know where to find the original video for this song?
Churrr boh finally found it in 2018 hahah
Still jamming this waiata in 2019
November 2024❤❤❤ waiata aatahua💯❤❤
New Year’s Eve on this waiata ❤️
THE WAY I USED TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG ON DJ TIKELZ FRESH OFF THE BOAT CD MIXES!!!!!!
this is so meke i love this song it is stuck in my haed
2023 here we are 💯🇳🇿
Love this song ❤️
This song is beautiful
I've just discovered this song and can't help but hit the replay all day. So catchy. They should re release it so we can send it to no.1! Can anyone pin up the English translation of the reo? I've listened to the English version of the song but keen to know the actual word translation if possible.
Angela Tainui they have a video on here in English.
@@marianamarino126 Tena koe
Love to have the english version.
❤Been a minute, Creative Taro reminded me of this banger
2024 Finally found this song again 🔥 Saved
Is this like Maori R&B i vibe w it, even tho i dont understand
These fullaz came to my school and performed when I was a kid haha crack up
Yeahhh still tracking this Kia kaha
I like it yeaaah!!...
I haven't heard this song in so long
So how do we get this on Spotify or even iTunes, I had the CD when it first came out
Whos here in 2024🎉
Our reo was meant to be sung, not merely spoken
Omg I wish this song was on Apple Music
Can someone get this up on Spotify pleeeeeease lol.
proud to be moari
2020 ❤️
Talk about te Reo back in the days of free weekend calls hahahaha 07 days Jesus
Ayyyyy 2021
I FINALLY FOUND IT!!😭😭😭🙌🏾
Anyone listening in 2021 ? 👀
E tu is about the only word i no but this song is dope
do you have the video????
Haven't heard this song in ages, the video was alright aswell
2022 and this song still does the pukana at my face with the twister 3000 😂
Someone should make a full vid with this song too avatar way off water ❤
Aye you saw it too
Rangatira tēnei waiata 👌
What's the English version of this song?
11:05 Friday 30th 2019 Sydney castle hill. Weepua
Came here from TikTok!!