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"Call You Back"
02:20
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(Chorus)
Imma call you back
Call you back
It's something I'm going through
Something through
Imma call you back
Call you back
Top of the mornin' to you
Top of the mornin' to you
[Imma call you]
(Verse)
I can't relax
Oh, where did I go wrong?
Sweat off my back done turned to a puddle
Maybe it's capitalism and destruction
And how I feel that I'm wearing a muzzle
My breath is short
Patience even shorter
Got the ducks
The lake still isn't in order
Everything with place
Done hopped the border
Now amid the craze
I need some water
I get sick of the word "I" sometimes
That's why I ain't wanna write this whole time
Cuz only story I had to write was all mine
Then I couldn't sleep until I'd fight with the rhymes
Now I'm back
Just to use the pad as a launching pad
Otherwise, I would use myself as a punching back
Otherwise it'd be on the shelf looking desolate
Ideas live high but swoop low if I'm ducking it
Might as well be on two toes like I'm Dunham
Might as well make a new prose where the cuts can live
Life is cut into to roads every other spin
Actin up like a new phone, homie- who is this?
(Chorus)
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2. |
"Hold On"
03:00
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3. |
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"
03:39
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Yeah yeah
Yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah x3
(Verse 1)
Life is short and money long
I swear I couldn’t relate
Acting extra now I’ve gone and got a bigger plate
Never forgetting where I’m from life below living wage
Now I’m step into the sun i sweat in finna bake
You got something precious bet you best hold onto it
Don’t forsake it for a dollar keep your common sense
Why the suffering happens most among the darkest skin?
This is something I will never ever comprehend
(Chorus)
oh yeah yeah yeah, oh yeah x3
Feeling twisted in my tongue but it’s a feeling chase
If it don’t sit well in my bones then imma hesitate
These days i’m learning to say no so i can liberate
Make my yeses much more potent cuz i dig in deep
I been testing all my edges and my own limits
They neglected all our stresses let’s be honest here
The rebellion better be our main prerogative
Cuz effectively we all get kicked up outta here
(Chorus)
(Verse 3)
I wish it was much mo easy for us to be comfortable
In our own skin why we comin at each other’s throats
All the judgements because we don’t know where we finna go
so we stumbling into each other in the undertow
Humble ourselves in the presence of higher
The other itself is illusion great divider
All of our wealth just depends what we provide her
Earth is our shelter how the world is full of liars
(Chorus)
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4. |
"Ring, Ring!"
03:02
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(Verse)
Do you remember how our field was when our feelings soared?
Think i reached another ceiling now i’m feeling bored
What's the point of filling up if ain’t finna pour
I been workin all this out thats why I'm feeling sore
I got some things for you holla
When you give me a ring just a few dollas
Some to get you through the week or would you rather
Learn to multiply the ting like you had two fathers
I thought so
Aim at the lock tho
Don't trust no state nor ops no
I ride for The Bay like a sideshow
But i rep the middle way like buddha do
(Chorus)
I got some things for you holla
Things for you
Some things for you holla
*ring ring!*
x2
That's your face up in the water yeah
Can you face just who you are
x2
(Verse 2)
Go outside and stretch my body
Water on me probably
Can’t nobody touch me when my auras out and shining
But i got to fix problems of the girl inside me
She's a product of the world now it’s cut open throbbing
I need break from instagram
I need change I give a damn
You cant relate cant get ya man
Collect resource distribute them
I say "ok and here we go"
We watch 13th eat vegetables
We slap Dead Prez invest the dough
We converge here and break the mold
Talking Black August
George Jackson packing mad knowledge
You know the practice free all them
Mumia Abu Assata
Ah yeah, believe it
Mmm they did not see it
Cuz they were peaked
Sunshine does see them, yeah
(Chorus)
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5. |
Outro
00:33
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Jada Imani Oakland, California
Jada Imani is an East St. Louis-born, Bay Area-raised Hip-Hop R&B artist and organizer. Imani has collaborated on projects with folks like Adidas, the Oakland Museum of California, and the GRAMMYs Recording Academy as a voting member, but her passion is in grassroots projects. ... more
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