00:00Hello, it's John Baptiste here, and it is a pleasure to be joining you virtually for the
00:10Essence Festival. You know, it's something that I grew up going to the Essence Festival in my
00:15hometown of New Orleans, and now that I live in New York, I miss it so, but I'm glad that
00:19I could join y'all in this way. This time has been really, really amazing in a lot of ways,
00:27and really devastating in a lot of ways, and I think we're existing on the axis of good and evil.
00:32I've been out there protesting and rallying and gathering people together in support of black
00:37lives and trying to find a way to find the best of a silver lining of hope and progression in
00:44these dark times. And I wrote this song much before all of that, but on the street, it's become an
00:50anthem that we sing whenever I march. It's entitled We Are, and I really do believe that we're the ones
00:56who can change the course of history right now. The generational trauma that we've faced in America
01:01for 400 plus years can be changed in this window that we have to really act and step forward. We
01:09are the ones, we're the chosen ones, so this is We Are.
01:12We Are.
01:13We Are.
01:14We Are.
01:15We Are.
01:16We Are.
01:17We Are.
01:18We Are.
01:19We Are.
01:20We Are.
01:21We Are.
01:22We Are.
01:23We Are.
01:24We Are.
01:25We Are.
01:26We Are.
01:27We Are.
01:28We Are.
01:29We Are.
01:30We Are.
01:31We Are.
01:32We Are.
01:33We Are.
01:34We Are.
01:35We Are.
01:36We Are.
01:37We Are.
01:38summer to fall and always joy she won't let it go oh no joy that she doesn't know that she doesn't
01:58know we are we are we are we are we are the chosen ones we are we are we are we are we are the golden
02:21one we're never alone no no we're never alone the country is full of stars but they're in a war blind
02:39in the dark just hoping to medicate the painful life change his face
02:52joy keep him let it go oh no
02:59joy and he doesn't know what he doesn't know
03:11we are we are we are we are the chosen ones we are we are we are we are we are the chosen ones
03:21we are we are we are we are the chosen ones we're never alone no no we're never alone
03:40we're never alone no no we're never alone
03:56yeah
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