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Fame
02:39
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you can buy
fame fame fame fame fame fame fame fame
fame fame fame fame fame
you can buy
fame fame fame fame fame fame fame fame
fame fame fame fame fame
half man and half amazing, but a woman raised him
what’s in a last name and was my mother really a maiden?
what’s in this word, ‘the virgin’ ?
I find it quite disturbing
they are not territory to be crossed
they are a person
so many died in birth when
our brains became a burden
the medulla in the hands of our doula
it got bigger - oblongata
that’s why I’m in my head
if my body is a temple
it’s to all the gods that are dead
it’s to all the gods
that are dead
if my body is a temple
la la la
you can steal a look but you’ll never own it
you can take a photo but the focus won’t expose it
you can make a sweet deal but i’ll never sign it over
and I don’t know where it goes when my life is over
I hope it’s made of light
and its solar travels know no boundaries
who had it before me and how did it find me?
was it in the seed or did it need the egg to be?
am I a we?
you can steal a look but you’ll never own it
you can take a photo but the focus won’t expose it
you can make a sweet deal but i’ll never sign it over
and I don’t know where it goes when my life is over
you can buy
fame fame fame fame fame fame fame fame
fame fame fame fame fame
but you can’t buy respect !
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Pagan Lover
02:50
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I’m a slut not a player
I’m getting played like the majors
I got that temporary flavour
but she don’t like cooking anyways
I’ll be seeing her tomorrow
off some time that I borrowed
she’s my genie in a bottle
you manifest the wish you make
I’m sick of checking my phone
I’m sick of feeling the feelings
of when I’m feeling alone
did we make it through the solstice?
has the porthole done closed?
I’m hanging out with a priestess
and she’s been sagin’ my clothes
cut my curls off and I put ‘em in a tupperware closed
I’m ‘bout to light ‘em in a shrine to my own sexual flow
if Dionysus was the nicest but I don’t idolize him
and my grandmother was Jewish but I am
uncircumsized then...
days are getting longer now
bask in your reflective power
thirty thousand years ago
the human brain changed
now we can destroy the globe
and you call that civilized
Columbus liked little girls
and you celebrate his life!
you say the future is femenine
but don’t go acting just like some men
we can be lovers and we can be friends
we’d make it better anyway
I’m a modern day pagan
don’t read those myths that love be making
is it shallow cuz we’re naked
no, I go deeper when I swim with you.
I go deeper, when I swim with you
I go deeper I go deeper
when I swim
with you
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U, Girl
02:36
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funny, black and white make brown
I thought it made grey
I’m sitting under this tree
and it’s throwing me shade
I got this gift
my mind’s a blade but it cuts both ways
ya know?
and I’ve been thinking ‘bout you, girl
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you
you know exactly what you want
and I can give it to you
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4. |
Braids
02:25
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I feel connected when I rock these braids
when I battle to this hip hop over bboy breaks
take you back to the olden days before
Julius Caesar or Europe and Easter ooo oooo
you've got the pheromones of Sierra Leone
I am not a pharaoh, I'm a King
I've got a kilt of my own
I'm Celtic when I rock these braids
I connect to my ancestors
before they were colonized by Rome
do you know your history
or all you all Internet, holmes?
see, I'm politically correct too
but if you move too far left, you miss the goal
I knew when I first heard that spiritual song
wade in the water
I'd have to learn from a culture other than my own
so when you see me on stage you might be like
“that white boy has soul!”
well, we all had soul
before the European melting pot
before our pantheon of deities
was corrupted by an inauthentic Law
millenia ago, the Germanic people rocked braids
they were not African corn rows but
they're still related in some way...
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the culture is the source
where I spring from, and return to
without it I appropriate
with it I decolonize
no one is famous within the culture
the cypher decentralizes those
who step into it
Realije: scratch effects
S-O-URCE
C-Y- PHER
YEA
VOLUME 2
R-R-Rupert
V-V-VEGANESE FOLK HOP
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Dance With Me
02:04
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reaching out wasn’t working so I reached within
danced alone so much now
I feel good in my skin
learn through teaching
but my students always school me
I am like the moon
there will always be a new me
a full me
even if I wax and wane
I don’t need the light of sun
to feel my planets flame
even in darkness I cause ripple effect
I am existence I cause mirrors to reflect
what is that phenomenon -
a shiver down the spine?
I hope all humans can feel me
even if they’re paralyzed
from the waist down
most men's heads in their pantaloons
my head’s in outer space
but I came down to dance with you
and I never left a mark
people colonized the spirit world to beat U.S.S.R
I say if you wanna land on Mars
then don’t take a step to far
there is life on other planets
don’t make the same mistake as ours
I came to dance with you
rotate your body like an interstellar hula hoop
I do the doo
will you dance with me?
I came to dance with you
feel you move like the planets do
I do the doo
will you dance with me?
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Z.O.
04:01
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I’ve had four conversations
with four of my friends
one of them’s a woman
and three of them are men and
they know...they know...about
Zo Zo Zo
I understand RnB better in winter time
we all need somebody to hold
and I could write one EP about this dime
but there are so many types of love
we need to let shine
like, I could spit a verse
about how her body’s nice
but there are so many body types
that we need to celebrate
I know why rappers talk about gettin’ it
I’m just concerned about the messages
That we’re sending to the
young men out there
I’m too vanilla for some
too tender for most
why? Cause when we get down
I don’t strangle your throat?
can a man make some love
or do we always have to ---- ?
I can’t be passionate with you
if you don’t open up
I don’t wanna own you
change you
or make you my partner
I do wanna
hold you, feel you
and take things further
than Netflix and skippin’ breakfast
English is your second language
it’s not the only reason
we don’t communicate well
I’m scared of rejection
I fear you don’t want me
why is being myself
such a challenge?
I’ve always idealized
the perfect lover
lifestyle, interests,
physical connection sense of humour
but never have they ever intersected
so if i find one circle and lay in it’s crescent
then i’ll cherish your curves
and try to be present
I have so much gratitude
for what you have taught me
I hope we can talk about
what I want us to be
Then maybe
we’ll be together till May
when you leave, well
nothing is forever
not even the oldest trees
or the Arctic breeze
or the children in the parallel dimension
where i put my seed in your bush, for life
I don’t wanna own you
I’m a pagan lover
so I work in cycles
be mine this winter
I know our that our relationship’s
mostly physical
people underestimate
the flesh as spiritual
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8. |
In Your Arms
03:29
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when I last hugged you
I remember why I never let you go
no one has even come close
to the comfort, I feel in your arms
I know that when you read the stars
they said
we could not possibly
be further apart
so why, does it feel so good
when I’m in your arms, girl ?
I said why, does it feel so good,
when you hold me close to you ?
I know I got the feels
so this must be real
she don’t love me like I do
and I’ll never learn
to let her go
when I last hugged you
I remember
why I never let you go
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who shot the young man?
it was the deputy
who was the gunman?
it was the neo nazis
who killed that woman?
and got away scott free
it was the sheriff
and he had skin like me
like me
take a look around
la-dee la-dee
what’s going down?
homie homie
who runs this town ?
not me not me
but I could look just like the boss, and
you should say his name
so you remember
you should say their names
so you remember
this for that girl Tina Fontaine
you will be remembered
they let that drifter walk away
we will avenge her
on the day Colton was slain
there was a messenger
and so I heard his name
and I will remember
Anesia Steve:
you should say their names
so you remember
one time for Tina Fontaine
so you remember
no we won’t forget, no we won’t forget
the missing and murdered
so we say their names
so we remember
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if my ancestors were white devils
am I the spawn of Satan ?
you should dust off my clothes and sage me
‘cause my auras tainted
you see that field of sweet grass?
am I just the snake in it
the Canadian, caucasian, homosapien
I'd offer you tobacco
‘cause I know it's sacred
but my peeps put
tar up in the papes
you'd become a cancer patient
they say my culture's ancient
goes back to the medditteranean
it's 2,000 yrs old - maximum
not as old as your First Nations
why'd they teach me French at school?
should have taught me hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓
or better yet all three
why the ultimatum?
how old is the holy cross?
not as old as the raven
when winter came for settlers
Jesus Christ couldn't save them
But they built the churches
claiming they were laymen
made vows of chastity
except for with the children
so who is your god?
I'll stab a stake through his 3rd eye
if he molests a child
under a holy man's disguise
I don't wanna defend
the white devil inside of me
I won't turn the other cheek
you're silent or you speak
I see the white devil out in society
and his mind is very weak
and his soul has been deceived
Kin Balam:
they raped our grandmothers
to terminate our race
crucified our healers
to teach us about God’s grace
fear our deep rooted connections
so they cut our our tongues
because they knew our language
embodied resistance and love
took our minds to the church
twisted it where it hurt
so we would never remember
these lands are ours we were first
is the devil red or is the devil white?
for in this land red is the death
of oil and lines of pipe
they say an angel white
a good symbol is bright
but here white is the bullet
that murders Indigenous life
white supremacist system
will tell you that we’re equal
but if you look at the prisons
all you see is our people
who the fuck is in charge?
my body is covered in scars
from a world that continues
to rape and murder us hard
If the devil’s a spirit
bet your ass that it’s white
just ask Eisha Hudson
Chantel Moore if i’m right
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11. |
Incantation
03:26
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formless, non-binary soul
I must allow you
to be expressed through me
beautiful unapologetic spirit
may I have the courage
to obey your call
boundless joyful energy
I wanna feel you
course through my entire form
physically expressing and honouring
you
wanna feel you
wanna feel you
I want to feel you
close my eyes and I’ll take you away
to a special place
where you can witness
the Incantation
it ain't about performing
it’s about the feeling
i recognize the real in
you
it ain’t about ‘bout
it’s about the
feeling
feel feel
ain’t about ‘bout ‘bout
it’s about the
feeling
feel feel
real recognize real
real recognizes real
feel feel
close my eyes and I’ll take you away
to a special place
where you can witness
the Incantation
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Rupert Common Montreal, Québec
Rupert Common creates music in a way that is completely his own- combining the gentle skills of acoustic folk music with the mentally ambidextrous art of Hip-Hop.
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