00:00I am Lyric, FKA, Michelle, The Blackbird, Mikey Black, Mickey Two-Tones, whatever you
00:06call it.
00:07Call it correct.
00:08And I rap the blues.
00:16The initial inspiration for Broken Barbies started with Vonnie, one of the beautiful
00:22artists in the room for the mirrors who I collected.
00:24I think she sent me the beat.
00:26I was like, ooh.
00:27I didn't know quite where it was, where to take it.
00:30And then I was also reading this book of poetry, a wonderful writer, Fatima Ashgar.
00:36She has this poem called Playroom, and it starts with, I never had enough money for Ken, so
00:43I made my Barbies fuck my Beanie Babies.
00:46And it reminded me of the first time I ever got ahold of a Barbie.
00:50All I try to do, reflect the times and be as honest as I can, and in that way make timeless
00:55music.
00:57For me, it was just an image.
01:13Dark intersection between femininity and poverty and childhood and unsure of the roles of society
01:22and what we do with that.
01:24Take in lines between the notes and the backup pickup trucks.
01:28Rare verbs and adjectives become nouns if you don't duck.
01:32Say, who's through they do that still in circles run amok.
01:35It all started from weird Barbie.
01:38Like, I connected with her in the movie.
01:40You know what I mean?
01:41Her leg go up this way.
01:43She just was kind of the catalyst for stepping into that world and being seen in that shattering
01:50of perfection, but existing within the lines.
01:54When it comes to weaving the themes in the song and shit from childhood to early development
02:01to now, the difference between trauma and joy, the other side of the coin.
02:18Comes from being allowed to be present and honest.
02:19So when I hear the word Barbies, all these pictures come together and with art you can
02:23do that.
02:24Everything doesn't have to be linear.
02:25Every thing doesn't have to be linear.
02:30Ones and zeros and fuck you, twos.
02:54I mean, Miss Mary Mack is like classic and you know, I was in fifth grade all around,
03:12you know, jump rope.
03:13You know what I mean?
03:14Double just hero star, you know what I mean?
03:16Clapping with the best of them.
03:18There's a lot of variations.
03:19Somewhat simplistic sayings could mean so much more as far as like Mack Tan, as far as
03:25Miss Mary from Mother Goose, as far as Mary, Mother Mary.
03:29I just love the idea of juxtaposition because that's who we are.
03:33We are, you know, our opposites, our sides, we are the lyrics, we are the blackbirds,
03:38we are everything.
03:49I don't say our masks are useless or should be demonized, but you know, putting them
03:59to a side in some way and then realizing all this smile and please and thank yous has gotten
04:05me in a ditch past nowhere, around about to hell.
04:11You protect and you understand your energy and you give them out to yourself as well.
04:16And then when you realize that energy can't be created or destroyed, then you're like,
04:20even if I wanted to, I can't smarter for you because that means I die.
04:25Words have meaning.
04:26What the fuck?
04:27A rider?
04:28No, thank you.
04:29Autoimmune, auto-attuned to the highest, heavy egos, obstruct views, tectonic shifts, big plates,
04:38cinders on tables made with these hands, ooh.
04:42All of our pretenses can shift our insides and our worlds or we can take the power within
04:49ourselves because that's who we are.
04:52We are energy.
04:53Everything is energy.
04:54We are poster jokers, custom seat made for me and you.
04:58How many bitches would a bitch nigga fuck if a bitch nigga could fuck good too?
05:07Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
05:11Then what?
05:12How many bitches could a bitch nigga fuck if a bitch nigga really could fuck good?
05:17If I fucking believed you, two, you know what I mean?
05:21Like for real, they wouldn't stay hydrated enough.
05:23You know what I'm talking about?
05:24They don't be doing no running, like you know, you know what I'm saying?
05:26Like, the fuck no, vegan, nah, you gotta, it's a lot, you know, if you're really doing
05:32it right.
05:33Three, you're lying to me and I know a liar when I see one.
05:47And then what?
05:56At The Bridge, we're kind of coming to the point of it all.
06:00The point of it all is that there is a point to it all.
06:04Through all of this, you're wondering why or who am I or what I'm here for?
06:09Well, I'm here to help you find, take back and keep, you know, the rest of it.
06:16Like the Beatus.
06:17I love that movie.
06:20The intention of All My Lyrics is really, it comes from the first time I allowed myself
06:26to relinquish the mass and freedom a lot of times feels like falling.
06:35Then you catch yourself and with music, with performance, you can do that.
06:40You can do that with art in ways you can't do in real life.
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