can we all take one collective breath
together let that breath out that you
have and collectively let’s do a couple
more can I get some snacks beautiful
[Music]
but-but-but-but bad doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo dee doo doo doo doo da da doo
dee doo doo doo it how can this be the
land of the free and the home of the
brave when so many people live in fear i
captivate reincarnate with an
imagination State of Mind teacher I am
more than those underestimations
combined do you minds
I am growing here cocoon and a cacophony
of sounds and silences like ancestors
footsteps at pace with my heart I am
more than your labels make me out to be
I am more than those labels make me out
to be I am human first and foremost has
except
for when I am a butterfly whose
metamorphosis reopens the orifices of
our connectivity we are more connected
than we pretend to be let these wings
make me free as I fly on the winds of
change a new season has come rearrange
the old one is done in two changed and
living as a butterfly has taught me one
thing there is no beginning or ending
only shape-shifting so let us call this
a transformation let us call this a
reformation my wing pattern is a
blueprint for elevation and there ain’t
no stopping this reclamation constructed
in a language of sounds and silences
that must be read between the lines
until we realize that this whole reality
is constructed the education that values
one human life over another is corrupted
migration is a way of life
I said migration is a way of life and I
float by pushing myself up on matter
that I cannot see like dreams
shape-shifting a medium of creativity
sometimes it’s hard to be a butterfly
when you were built to soar and some try
to colonize the sky
how can you divide must be hard to
breathe if we don’t want to share this
is the life of a butterfly karma and
some sada birth and rebirth I am woman
and I know my worth monarch but not
Imperial I Spit philosophies it ain’t
ethereal I keep rising and shining
wondering can you hear me though I keep
rising and shining wondering can you
hear me though so as we float as we fly
as we flutter the warmth the prayers are
melt like butter flies over aching
wounds erected and remember and stand
high like pyramid tombs this is for you
and for you and for you and for you and
for all of you hold your heads high as
you speak your truth in my journey as a
global rap to Vista rap activists a
singer and educator as well as a speaker
I’ve had the honour of seeing how
creativity that daring to do something
outside of the status quo can create so
much beauty create so much compassion
create spaces for connections and allow
us to dare to imagine a world beyond the
current status quo for me this is a
daily reminder and I hope that today in
these next few more minutes that we have
together that we’ll be able to journey
together or as I like to say to cypher
together to share not only the boxes
that society might hand us saying this
race means that you belong to this box
or this gender or this sexuality our
Creed and so on and so forth but to dare
to write our own narratives and if we
have a privilege of sharing our
narratives and being heard than to help
amplify those that are not always heard
I invite you to journey with me are you
[Music]
[Music]
I’ve been missing you missing you did
you know that I still care I’ve been
trying to learning to follow through
once you don’t know that it hurts
[Music]
I’m still
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
this is just to say that I’m missing you
missing you today it’s a day we will
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
missing justice for falando castile
missing justice for Aiyana Jones missing
justice for our lgbtqia+ community
missing justice for income equality
missing justice for our health system
both physical and mental missing justice
for our refugees and immigrants all
around the world and so many more
missing justice for our planet for our
waters and I invite you today right now
to cipher with love to cipher with love
[Music]
in the head in the head in the head in
the head and the head in the head in the
[Music]
boy New York told me Liberty’s just a
statue I deal in blazing the meadow
glaring at you empty promises the
freedom that begat you land of the free
home of the brave
is that true future depending on puppet
strings where’s the agency it makes me
want to scream remember we on the same
team somewhere between awakened a dream
only window to the world the blue glow
of a screen asylum seekers sea bread
politicians agree no better ask is that
humanity be seen asking for asylum in
the place they call home time to online
they ain’t alone in the solitude of the
penitentiary of these walls let people
hear the solemnity of your calls the
free cops cop along in the head in the
head in the head beautiful and the head
in the head in the head in the head in
Oh
[Applause]
[Music]
and these lies they be killed and I
forced a flounder on a small sub time
that water they’ve been dealing no
nervous wreck this choice has died you
know sometimes and the government be
feeling this juice if they can feel from
my true for surface in the tide
I said stand up
good water is a human bra that’s right
you can stand up right now I said stand
I said stay preacher miss okasada has
got to go not I’ve got to go
remind me of Katrina mm black and brown
Katya but she’s waiting in the water on
a gauzy site where is FEMA have
forgotten humanity bringing me bus water
keeps us alive till we can’t breathe I
can’t breathe I can’t breathe
we can’t breathe I can’t breathe
we can’t breathe I can’t breathe
we can
[Music]
reach a man stuff it’s gotta has got to
[Music]
[Applause] you
together let that breath out that you
have and collectively let’s do a couple
more can I get some snacks beautiful
[Music]
but-but-but-but bad doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo dee doo doo doo doo da da doo
dee doo doo doo it how can this be the
land of the free and the home of the
brave when so many people live in fear i
captivate reincarnate with an
imagination State of Mind teacher I am
more than those underestimations
combined do you minds
I am growing here cocoon and a cacophony
of sounds and silences like ancestors
footsteps at pace with my heart I am
more than your labels make me out to be
I am more than those labels make me out
to be I am human first and foremost has
except
for when I am a butterfly whose
metamorphosis reopens the orifices of
our connectivity we are more connected
than we pretend to be let these wings
make me free as I fly on the winds of
change a new season has come rearrange
the old one is done in two changed and
living as a butterfly has taught me one
thing there is no beginning or ending
only shape-shifting so let us call this
a transformation let us call this a
reformation my wing pattern is a
blueprint for elevation and there ain’t
no stopping this reclamation constructed
in a language of sounds and silences
that must be read between the lines
until we realize that this whole reality
is constructed the education that values
one human life over another is corrupted
migration is a way of life
I said migration is a way of life and I
float by pushing myself up on matter
that I cannot see like dreams
shape-shifting a medium of creativity
sometimes it’s hard to be a butterfly
when you were built to soar and some try
to colonize the sky
how can you divide must be hard to
breathe if we don’t want to share this
is the life of a butterfly karma and
some sada birth and rebirth I am woman
and I know my worth monarch but not
Imperial I Spit philosophies it ain’t
ethereal I keep rising and shining
wondering can you hear me though I keep
rising and shining wondering can you
hear me though so as we float as we fly
as we flutter the warmth the prayers are
melt like butter flies over aching
wounds erected and remember and stand
high like pyramid tombs this is for you
and for you and for you and for you and
for all of you hold your heads high as
you speak your truth in my journey as a
global rap to Vista rap activists a
singer and educator as well as a speaker
I’ve had the honour of seeing how
creativity that daring to do something
outside of the status quo can create so
much beauty create so much compassion
create spaces for connections and allow
us to dare to imagine a world beyond the
current status quo for me this is a
daily reminder and I hope that today in
these next few more minutes that we have
together that we’ll be able to journey
together or as I like to say to cypher
together to share not only the boxes
that society might hand us saying this
race means that you belong to this box
or this gender or this sexuality our
Creed and so on and so forth but to dare
to write our own narratives and if we
have a privilege of sharing our
narratives and being heard than to help
amplify those that are not always heard
I invite you to journey with me are you
[Music]
[Music]
I’ve been missing you missing you did
you know that I still care I’ve been
trying to learning to follow through
once you don’t know that it hurts
[Music]
I’m still
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
this is just to say that I’m missing you
missing you today it’s a day we will
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
missing justice for falando castile
missing justice for Aiyana Jones missing
justice for our lgbtqia+ community
missing justice for income equality
missing justice for our health system
both physical and mental missing justice
for our refugees and immigrants all
around the world and so many more
missing justice for our planet for our
waters and I invite you today right now
to cipher with love to cipher with love
[Music]
in the head in the head in the head in
the head and the head in the head in the
[Music]
boy New York told me Liberty’s just a
statue I deal in blazing the meadow
glaring at you empty promises the
freedom that begat you land of the free
home of the brave
is that true future depending on puppet
strings where’s the agency it makes me
want to scream remember we on the same
team somewhere between awakened a dream
only window to the world the blue glow
of a screen asylum seekers sea bread
politicians agree no better ask is that
humanity be seen asking for asylum in
the place they call home time to online
they ain’t alone in the solitude of the
penitentiary of these walls let people
hear the solemnity of your calls the
free cops cop along in the head in the
head in the head beautiful and the head
in the head in the head in the head in
Oh
[Applause]
[Music]
and these lies they be killed and I
forced a flounder on a small sub time
that water they’ve been dealing no
nervous wreck this choice has died you
know sometimes and the government be
feeling this juice if they can feel from
my true for surface in the tide
I said stand up
good water is a human bra that’s right
you can stand up right now I said stand
I said stay preacher miss okasada has
got to go not I’ve got to go
remind me of Katrina mm black and brown
Katya but she’s waiting in the water on
a gauzy site where is FEMA have
forgotten humanity bringing me bus water
keeps us alive till we can’t breathe I
can’t breathe I can’t breathe
we can’t breathe I can’t breathe
we can’t breathe I can’t breathe
we can
[Music]
reach a man stuff it’s gotta has got to
[Music]
[Applause] you
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