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No Fear [Nina Simone]
01:11
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Low Power Mode
03:44
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Low Power Mode
Verse 1
I got an excess of black bile
High irascibility
Contemplating checking myself into facility
Mental ability clearly affected
Deep in the dumps, down and dejected
Been in low power mode all year
Think it's time to switch up to high gear
Ima live 2019 no fear
Ima be free this year
Ima pick up my head and puff up my chest
Step to the frontline, hustle on offense
Crumple up anxieties, shoot em into trashbagz
Hashtag no filter
No more diplomatic i'm channeling illmatic
The time has run out, ain't no room for the static
Pump up the volume, let it go
Past be the past let's get on with the show
Chorus:
I been in low low low low low low low power mode
In low power mode
Been in low power mode all year
Think it’s time to switch it up to high gear [x2]
Verse 2
So I slip into a silky world of lavender and lime
Where the hide of a drum is beat all the time
Carefully remember when I lost my damn mind
Went somewhere else, left all my qualities behind
Why can't I appreciate the food on my plate?
That I have a job and my family is safe
That it's only been assault, and never been rape
That it's only been discrimination never crimes of hate?
How can I ever wear an S on my chest
When the weight of the world is keepin me pressed
Wear a BP, got that white-hot vibranium
Anger and justice all up in my cranium
Obama of the gang of em,
Triple consciousness drive me insanium
Fat dab of wax off titanium
Why is it so hard to see another point of view
Consider hardships other folks been through?
Chorus:
I been in low low low low low low low power mode
In low power mode
Been in low power mode all year
Think it’s time to switch it up to high gear [x2]
Verse 3
I continue to struggle with this apathetic world
As an indigo libra mulatto girl
I know i ain't perfect, i mess up all the time
It's disconcerting when no one else even tries
It bothers me when you call me nice
But I ain't nice I recognize all the strife in this life
Ay if saying good morning helps you to put down that knife
Ima say that shit twice trynna survive every night, know what i'm sayin?
It's like, maybe my smile is a defense mechanism
Maybe i'm to trynna bridge a schism
I'll beat you to your prejudice thoughts and distract you
Next thing you know you forgot that i'm Black too
Chorus:
I been in low low low low low low low power mode
In low power mode
Been in low power mode all year
Think it’s time to switch it up to high gear [x2]
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4. |
Fuhhhed Up
03:06
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Fuhhhed Up
Verse 1
Is it tragic that i'm magic but nobody can know
Brains explode, no box to check for magical mulatto
Slightest bit of melanin and congrats! you win!
Your Black-In-America card, take her for a spin
Honored to play for the BIA don't get it twisted
You're trynna forget the white part even existed
I don't dare, I recognize, light privilege is real, sheet
I know im workin in the house and not out in the field and
European features make me "accessible"
Black out loud and proud it's turn down your decibel
Lighten the exposure and bleach out the skin
That's the nasty truth of shade shade we bathe in
Beyoncé and Rihanna, Nikki, Cardi B
Paper bag test still goin strong in the industry
Best female emcee obviously Rapsody
Can't we all just cut the crayola give her a Grammy?
Verse 2
I got a mean mean case of the mulatto madness
A smile painted on my face to cover up the sadness
Race race race race all up in my latto face
It's the Dark Knight, the moon is in crescent phase, nah
I'm not phased but yeah, I am crazed
My codes switched up there's an error loading page
All the world's a stage i'm pretending myself away
And I know I’m a sage, but shh! don't say it
Ima Halle Berry slay it on the low
That's how we're layin
How we're playing this game
How you respecting this name
Ima put em to shame after i dealt with my own
Ay let me get at this homegrown
Phew, man, I am
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6. |
Welcome
03:20
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Welcome
Yah
Latto
Breezy
Chorus
Welcome to America the home of the brave
Where we pop pop Black folk everyday
Where the boast and braggadocio get in the way
Where it’s dog eat dog no scrap for the stray
Welcome to America see us misbehave
Profilin, redlinin just part of the game
Thieves in the big house, no need to name names
Nation burnin up covered in flames
Verse 1
Kaepernick kneels he the black glove fist its
Affixed to Olympic Gold-medal winner Tommie Smith
Can’t expect those owners to be magnanimous
Coded policy vote was unanimous
Don’t even get me angered bout the star-spangled banner
Our salt-in-the-wound U.S. national anthem
[”I quote”]
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
[“End quote”]
You kidding me? Country gettin off on slave graves?
And why we watchin football anyway?
It’s like take a knee, pay a fee, CTE, injury,
It’s the straight up denial of Black humanity
Yo keep pushin back boys, we most of the league
Silent walkout low key via DM on IG
Chorus
Welcome to America the home of the brave
Where we pop pop Black folk everyday
Where the boast and braggadocio get in the way
Where it’s dog eat dog no scrap for the stray
Welcome to America see us misbehave
Profilin, redlinin just part of the game
Thieves in the big house, no need to name names
Nation burnin up, covered in flame
Verse 2
Yo you can have my spot I don’t want it anyway
Other countries out there where they ain’t puttin kids in a cage
Better wage hate bein broke as a joke everyday
I wanna breathe but they choke my airway
Ain’t no half-steppin out from the clouds
I ain’t got no rainboots all I got is a jacket
Maybe I’ll give you a laughin if you givin me that loud
Otherwise I can’t help but philosophize a racket
What’s America to you? To me it’s stars and bars,
A four finger salute to lootin cash in a suit
Cars and early july eatin pie filled with fruit
It’s poppin all dem pills fed to you by the pharmaceut-
ical I’m prayin wit my hands clasped I can save my mental
The Doc put vibranium all up in my dental
So now I’m gonna slay like the Dora Milaje
Got my hair picked out, Angela Day Day
Colorism prisms all up in the patriarchy
Tinsel America, lies and malarchy
Chorus
Welcome to America the home of the brave
Where we pop pop Black folk everyday
Where the boast and braggadocio get in the way
Where it’s dog eat dog no scrap for the stray
Welcome to America see us misbehave
Profilin, redlinin just part of the game
Thieves in the big house, no need to name names
Nation burnin up, covered in flame
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Do Better
03:17
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Do Better
I need all white people to not use the N word
I need all a y'all to stop touching my hair
Ask yourselves why you're shootin us down
Try to pretend to care
Just cuz you watch Insecure
And cuz you listen to Drake
And cuz you got yourself a Black friend
Please don't make no mistake
It don't give you no pass
Workout won't give you my ass
[So back off
And do better] x2
White People
You can do better
You can do so much better
Do so much better
Do better x2
If you're not defensive put yo hand up
If you're ready to listen put yo hand up
If you're not defensive put yo hand up
If you're ready to listen put yo hand up
Would you like to know how to do better?
Breezy gon tell ya, Breezy gon tell ya
Breezy gon tell ya, how to do better
Do yo research about yo privilege
Open ya mind up open ya heart up
Be brave and be strong and prepare to be wrong
Do you know about your white history?
Do you know about your Black history?
Go out of your way, read all the lit see the pics
And binge that shit like a series on Netflix
White People
You can do better
You can do so much better
Do so much better
Do better x2
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9. |
Lost Race [Nina Simone]
00:36
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10. |
Queens
03:48
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Queens
Verse 1
All I’m looking for is some equality
But your head chained to that technology
There’s some people who need an apology
But you caught up in all that frivolity
Accountability gone when something goes wrong
So I write a song, cuz ya can’t give into fear
Shakin my head, when I get ready for bed
Let me sleep til I’m dead, cuz it’s all too much to deal
Chorus:
You don’t even care about us
You don’t even care about us
You don’t even care about us
You don’t even care about us
Verse 2
I find it funny when you don’t make eye contact
You avoid me like the plague
When I say hello like I’m a wildcat
You quickly turn away
I’m a cloak of invisibility
You all 50 shades of hostility
You like nylon no breathability
Your fight is full a futility
And you don’t, and you don’t
And you don’t, and you don’t
Chorus
Verse 3
Thank goodness for all my queens
Billie, Nina, and the Supremes
Today in the morning, ninth hour
We lost Aretha, Rest In Power
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Queen Aretha Rest in Peace
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Queen Aretha Rest in Peace
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Queen Aretha Rest in Peace
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Queen Aretha Rest in Peace
Chorus
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Blackness [Zoë Kravitz]
00:54
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12. |
Get Ready
02:26
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Get Ready
I’m on my way
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
I’m on my way to the promised land
I don’t need ya to see who I am
Ain’t got much money but I got a plan
Feel the weight of the key resting in my hand
I hope ya ready for me, I’m comin up
Yellow under my chin like a buttercup
Ida B., she liftin me, sayin “Fly, fly, fly, Breezy”
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Never should ya have doubted me
Makin waves in the industry
Singin the soul right out of me
Turn my pain into currency
You knew I was comin, you pushed me aside
Call me Isaac Hayes, cuz you pimped my ride
Call me Sharon Jones cuz I’m good on my own
It don’t matter that I’m all alone
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Get ready cuz here I come
Ahhhh, get ready, get ready
Ahhhh, get ready, get ready
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14. |
Too Many People
04:16
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I’ve got too many people bailin on me
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Tell me why
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Breezy Bay Point, California
If Audre Lorde was a rapper, Breezy would be the embodiment because their hip hop takes on topics like racial identity, gender politics, and queerness. Breezy represents the fluidity in the gray area between “man” and “woman” or “Black” and “white.”
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