Name: Grit (Demo)
Duration: P00H02M49S
Description: i was told there would be struggle but that my two guiding energies were asòtò, the mother drum and African good character...this is me still growing, listening and tryna make more movement music for all my peoples.

Grit (Demo)

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i was told there would be struggle but that my two guiding energies were asòtò, the mother drum and African good character...this is me still growing, listening and tryna make more movement music for all my peoples.

lyrics

Tunes here to Ration the passion and Truth that i seek
Come on
🖐🏽 👌🏾 Imma take you home
And i know that my chrome is embedded in the rock that I’m throwing so I stopped taking shots at my the pane/pain of my siblings
saw we all hear to love and wegotta home live in

Earth

Lizzo taught me
We in a two story
True story oh ya bore ya with me with ya hate
cuz you fake
Got a cake and a fatty
And a whole team
Of Baddies
Call em eat bright live good go slow you big ya small ya Beautiful

Place a kiss on lip of the petal
That you pluck
With consent
Be gentle.

an Give thanks
While emb-
Racing the flower
or let it be Let it go
Watch it grow
Aaaaall of puppet
and Geppetto

Since i was little i was down for the people,

Born with sword and the chord in my tongue

Learn from the elders,

- do it for the young -
- Who done come
To do it all again,
Re-Inin
Carnation
Re - In in
Carnation
yo Suckerin sucker tash
And all tarnations

Borders ain’t real
and nor are Nation
We all siblings,

Babies meerly dribbling

We are all each we are all other each other we are all each other

Been
one another’s mother

The chicken is me
the children is we the species is being
The genus is light

and

I Don’t wanna fight no more
Drop ya weapons to the floor
come and dance over in the middle
And save a little for our love
for the homies that ain’t here
Or that’s queer
Up lift and protect em

Make this groove an anthem a lesson
Put ya left leg in
if you can
And groove to the left
If you can’t aaaant
Then pick
yo next best if
you can

and from left

gon shuffle to the right
That’s right
we gon shuffle to right
You light
You is ...

and take it on down Give Thanks tap the floor if you can either way,
you we know we gon dance
Either way we know
Either you gon dance

Freestyle
Freestyle
Star child
Re wild

X2

come on yea

wind it up to receive
some more of these blessings
I ain’t stressing with accomplices protecting black black bodies
down to ride for me

share resources
justice based lottery
Reparations reparations
Reparations
Revelation
Saying gracing
and Elevation
Levation
Livin dreams like
Happiness my occupation
Levitation

Pro immigration
Re
presentation
Product of the great migration
Know I’m here for
Mini Melanation

we gon be alright
It’s lit
we gon be alright
its grit
it's gon be alright be we got grit/we lit

Decolonize
ReIndigenize
Whaaaaat
X2

Decolonize
ReIndigenize
a come on yeah

credits

released May 1, 2019
Words & Performance: Amani O+
Recorded and Engineered by @donfons
Mixtape Seoul with another amazing instrumental

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Amani O+ Albany, New York

Raptivist, spoken word artist & abolitionist, Amani O+ uplifts love, art & service as necessary rebellions against the sense of disconnection & hopelessness that threaten our collective peace & wellness.

Amani aims 2 inspire all those they come into contact with to remember their magic, trust their vision & share their unique gifts with the world.

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