From the recording Empires Die...Life Evolves
Produced by: Pluto6 & Plaedo
Vocals by: Plaedo
Turntables by: Connah Jay
Keys by: Jordan Romani
Guitar by: Namasteez
Mastered by: Ecco Acoustics
Basically I’m saying, I’ve been through a lot, and I’m still smiling, still moving forward in joy like a badass. And y’all are invited to do that too! Live your Myth Mutha Luva’s! The drums and bass of this song are created by a 13 year old prodigy named Pluto6 (the youngest person on the album) who I met and taught at a digital music production summer camp. I programmed the atmospheric elements and got my good friends Namasteez to add some live jammed out blues guitar and Jordan Romani to play keys which made the song so much more dynamic! I love to mix live instrumentation with programmed beats to capture the qualities of both worlds and did that throughout the album.
Lyrics
Hey yo I got that soul
Like you only can
When you suffer
When you been pushed under
But you still come up a lover
To discover the funk
The stank then come to know
From the compost
Is how the flowers grow
So I’m all about that g shit
All about the grace
And all about the grit
Cuz y’all I feel good
Though it’s never been easy
No no no no it’s never been easy
I grew up free lunch beat up often
Surrounded by adults high on narcotics
Cops and robbers
My father was slaughtered
I wasn’t raised by my mama
Nah I was adopted
And all I ever wanted was a little bit of love
But I never was the chosen one
Never had a trust fund
I was raised with the warmth
Of a frozen sun
So now i never hold my tongue
These are just some problems
We all got some
That we’ve got to overcome
I’m getting attacked by these christians
For living like jesus
Preachers saying play it small
Nah, answer your call
This is for the freaks
Outcast outlaws
Underdogs reaching for the mountain tops
This is for us…
We gotta be who we wanna be
Live how we wanna live
Love who we wanna love
Hey yo, lets get free
We gotta be
Because you never know
Just when we gonna die
And so today
We gotta live our life
Hey Yo I’ve been chased by cops
for selling drugs
face slammed on the sidewalk
I’ve lived on the other side of the globe
and gave a Ted Talk
I’ve been homeless got high with kings
and led angry mobs of protesters
occupied shut down every bank in town and I wasn’t arrested
I’ve broken up a bloody machete fight my life is crazy
kind of like Tupac’s I’ve been around the block
and I’ve seen some wild shit!
Like at the Apocalypse I’ll be saying to all of y’all
bring on some more zombies yet on a normal day
I walk with a swag stoned in my pj’s
Like y’all can’t judge me
I named myself created my image
than watch my world change as I lived it
better than the one that I was given
And If I can do it you can do it
What else should we do but vibe to this music...