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Origém (Intro)
02:17
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Welfare
04:44
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Written by: Flora Lucini Copyright 2017
Intro:
Defaulted to Benefit
From our Enslavement
Generation, After Generation
Born at the top,
Held up by our backs
And choosing
To turn the other cheek
THAT’S PRIVILEGE
Verse 1:
To Inhabit your skin without fear
To inhabit your body without shame
To love who you want
To walk at night alone,
To be standing on the outside looking in
THAT’S PRIVILEGE
CHORUS:
Welfare! Welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs! Off your backs!
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
Verse 2:
To Navigate the spaces, we’re not allowed to roam
Blind to an exclusion, you’ll never have to know
Dismantle the whole thing or nothing will change
Cuz’ the system was built to protect
YOUR PRIVILEGE!
-Repeat Chorus-
BRIDGE:
The safety of your fragility is Priority
In this war against “poor bodies” and “Minorities”
In this war against Women and the not so Binary
In this war against all Black bodies fighting globally
THERE’S NO PEACE
without Justice, Your kids are casualties
From Favela to Palestine, All your mothers weep
From plantation to president, Still the same story
From the classroom to prison cell is The new chattel slavery!
Repeat Chorus
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3. |
Deficit
03:42
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It’s the oldest story, only we know
‘Cuz we carry the trauma in our bones
You feed off the answers found in my blood
Without doing any of the work
You feel entitled to the knowledge that I’ve earned
Consuming my sweat to quench your thirst
Chorus:
You want what’s all in my mind
As long as it’s not on your dime
And comes with no effort at all
Reclaiming all of my time
Money talks, Guilt buys!
Inquire before robbing us of all
That we’ve built
I resist the impulse to engage
To invest my energy in vain
You won’t deplete my sanity
Benefiting from my two-cents, ain’t free
Don’t want your guilt-evading apology
You betta say it to my PayPal
Repeat Chorus.
RECLAIMING MY TIME
RECLAIMING MY TIME
RECLAIMING MY TIME
RECLAIMING MY TIME
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4. |
Libation
04:04
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Destruction!
Among the masses.
We inherited this pain
With every bone that we bury we never forget
The Slaughter
Black is the river now,
So much flesh in the water,
The waters have changed.
Our only salvation remains in,
The Blood
Calling!
All of the spirits
We chant for you by name
Our circles unbroken this space is awaiting
Your entrance
Show us our true selves
Embracing this legacy
We pour out our hopes in the blood
As we honor
Our Sacred
Our Sacred
Our Sacred
Our Sacred
We gather ourselves, around your mantle
We bury the bones, under the tree
We ask our mothers to save us a heaven on earth
Where we can be free
We don’t ask permission, we organize and take to the streets
This is our resistance, as we avenge
Our Sacred
Our Sacred
Our Sacred
Our Sacred
-For Your Grandmothers and My Grandmothers
Sacrifice at your Altar
Everything that has faltered
Take refuge in the water
Every breath that we take
fuels the blood that remains
from centuries of this pain
we rise up and reclaim as we -
Sacrifice at your Altar
Everything that has faltered
Take refuge in the water
Every breath that we take in resistance,
awakes the legacy they left here for us.
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Filha Da Luta
04:51
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Guerreira sem remorso
O sistema mata, Um sistema Morto
O Sangue do meu povo, na suas mãos
E no seus bolsos
Um grito que vem da lua
Chamando o povo pra recuperar
O que foi roubado
Da natureza e nossos ancestrais
Filha da luta
Tomar de volta o que é nosso, não vamos esperar
Filha da luta,
A vitória é nossa, nunca vou parar
Construído pelos os ossos das costas das nossas avós
Construído pelos os ossos das costas, dos nossos avôs
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7. |
Not Your Exotic
02:11
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Don’t wanna be your exotic
Your necrotic erotic
All that’s beautiful is dead to you
Fuck your sense of “other”-ness
You’ve tagged onto my face
My magic is sacred I will refuse
Not for your seduction on display and in despair
Respect my autonomy DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR
Make no trophy of me or what’s below my waist
Not your exotic, not your erotic
Trapped in your violence I want outta this cage
Not your exotic not your erotic
chorus:
Not your voodoo princess, your queen of darkness
Or a “sassy” black girl with an “attitude”
Fuck your misogynistic, sexist, violent, racist fetish
Let’s tell the truth
It’s pathological, it’s predatory
Caging us like animals in a zoo
Report chorus
Not your exotic, not your erotic X4
Last line: Not your erotic, Not your exotic. X1
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8. |
For The Culture
02:39
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Back in the day
You were singing a different tune
Calling us “Freaks” & Chasing us after school
Ya failed at Mainstream & Your bridges burned
Not that we “Trend,” You want in, Oh, how the tables turned
Chorus:
Once the shots fire
It’s too late to make amends
Once the dust settles
We’ll be standing in the end
You’re everything you claim to hate
Exploit us, so you gain relevance
Creeping on our shows, wearing all our clothes
You’re a fraud and we’ve had enough
You Don’t really see us
You see Dollar signs
An easy payday “For the culture”
You call it “Alternative”
We call it Mockery
Thought you were “kinfolk” not a vulture
Our way of life is not for sale
We do this shit, in our hearts, just to stay alive
I see your study us
& Try to set us up
Hoping that we become
Prey for the masses
CHRISTYLEZ BACON:
Once again, we must’ve slid-ed in from the future
cause we wear that new kind of gear you ain’t used-tah
Bammas started roasting it, youngins weren’t approaching it
‘til it hit them magazine covers, now they’re posting it
We were in the hoods like some black unicorns with it
This my DNA, lil’ homie, I was born with it
That’s that Urban Outfitters, saw in a picture off of Twitter
Counterfeiter, tryna appropriate the glitter, Opps!
THAT’S that culture vulture style, THIS that agriculture style
growth from out the mulch that do the most when it’s infertile
Homie, ain’t no stop and go! Stop it bro! It don’t stop, it grows!
DC goes hard like shells of Galapagos
THIS that DC Live, THIS that true survive and thrive
THIS that stand the test of time beyond the gaze of your eyes
THIS that sincere, kick & snare, banga, strangling your ear
When you disappear, for the the culture, we’ll be still here!
Repeat Chorus.
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9. |
Dichotomy
04:06
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Anticipating, I jump the gun
Hoping this time it will be different
I shouldn’t have to break to be whole
I’m convinced I’ll die alone
Every time I think I found it
Every time I think I’m safe
I’m forced to watch it all fall apart
And fail again
CHORUS
Always giving too much, never getting enough
Reality sets in, paranoia begins
Gotta end this hell, I Brought on to myself
Destroy it before it destroys me
It built a cell inside my mind
Chained to the walls now they’re closing in
A false sense of security, I see the red flags coming again
But don’t they know to take a hint?
I know my worth but I settle for less
Cuz I fear what I deserve just doesn’t exist
Repeat chorus
Why do I keep letting it win? This lesson just won’t stick
I’m bouncing off the walls of my own prison
The hell you’ve made takes over me
Abolishing what we used to be
You’re just another trauma that I’ve got to survive
Manifest my fears into the demon that robs me of my sleep
‘Till I can’t eat, ‘Till I can’t breathe, what’s wrong with me? X2
Am I going insane? RELEASE. ME. PLEASE.
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10. |
Blindspot
04:26
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Your entitlement has no place here
It was our music first just so that we’re clear
Trying to exclude the very people who
Created the cultures you subscribe to
Chorus:
All they’ve done is take up too much space
Time’s up! Now there’s nothing left to say
Today is a new day, taking back what’s ours
And they’ll, never see it coming
Taking back our mosh pits you can catch these hands
Swift punch to the throat
Spin-kick to the forehead
Fighting to DECOLONIZE HARDCORE
They just act tough but we’re ready for war
Repeat Chorus
Throwing tantrums like spoiled children
Every time you’re called out for your toxic shit
Harassing girls at shows and problematic jokes
Only hit dogs holler and all you do is bitch
They could, but they know they won’t
Cuz they know, they don’t want this smoke
Today is a new day, Taking back what’s ours
And they’ll, never see it coming
Sea of cowards trying to hard
Occupying spaces where they don’t belong
This was never for you and it could never be
We won’t let you stake claim to our legacies
We’ve been in this shit since the beginning
We invented it, no wonder that we’re winning
Today is a new day, taking back what’s our
And they’ll never see it coming
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MAAFA Brooklyn, New York
The Brain Child of Afro-Brazilian Bassist, Composer And Vocalist Flora Lucini,(The 1865 band/Mass Appeal Records) "MAAFA"
Seeks To Expand The Sound Of Hardcore-Punk By Infusing Into Their Music The Rhythms & Percussive Instrumentation Found Throughout The African Diaspora. Creating What Flora Calls "Afro-Progressive Hardcore."
All Songs And Lyrics Written & Arranged By Flora Lucini.
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