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The joke is that I'm (Jesse the Imaginer) that friend that Hydro is talking about in that third verse. For real though equity is a practice. Find your way into the work and expand. Each one, reach one, teach one.
lyrics
intro sample from the documentary, "James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket."
Baldwin's pen, like a bald eagle on the wind,
whispering to Americans, I'm not your emblem
if you don't get the birds view, then
trauma and fear will do what trauma and fear do.
Hey white dude,
Enter deep shadow lands of this nations soul
feel atrocities in your body and breathe slow
observe your energy, your ancestry, and beliefs
when you need to, pull up the roots,
plant a seed of something better,
gather in the cypher heal the body and mind
body and mind,
In the name of every black and brown body that’s been brutalized
In the name of every tribe that suffered brutal genocide
In name of every woman whose been traumatized
In the name of eradicating systematics satans
Overdue like farmland and mule
Who protects who?
The body holds the truth
LOE i:
Privilege look like currency
Validity and Security
The air we breathe is taxed
So we kneed to tread carefully
Even when we kneel and hold arm strong
With our fist to the moon,
Bullets come from blue uniforms
On trips to the tomb
The final symphony
Simply won’t do
There way too many oppressive pieces of art that need to be lynched
We re-writing history from the start,
This the reprint
Every issue dismantling
Negative frequencies
That the ‘way too weak to intervene’
Pushed agendas steeped in supremacy
Who gone whistleblow
On this Black white conundrum,
Referees don’t make the rules
But they enforce them
If privilege be a pie
Is you just trynna get your portion?
Or are you really with cause, yeah
With the cause
Or are you really with cause, yeah
With the cause
Hydro:
They be asking why it gotta be so racialized now,
I be wondering how, you just noticing now
Just cuz you got a black friend,
Don't make you exempt, from the fact you racist
Aye. I hate all this performative bullshit
Police upon the strip and they emptying their clips
This ain't political, this is human rights
I'm an anti-violent but when provoked I'll fight
I do this for my peoples all day, all night
They say pressure busts pipes so we ante up the fight
Standing on the streets, down on bended knee
Begging white supremacy just to let us be,
But fuck that, its time to buck back
Been through a whole lot of shit yet we bounce back
BLM movement is more than just hashtags
Police reforms, take out the trash bags
Fists up, fists up, aye
Fists up, fists up, aye
credits
from PanLuna,
released January 28, 2021
produced by Steven Gosvener
Lyrics by Jesse the Imaginer, LOE i and Hydro
Pluggin' the soulful craft of Hip Hop music and culture for the collective awakening of genius. Rap music generally. Moon-Bap specifically.
Artists: LOE-i, Jesse the Imaginer, Steven Gosvener.
