00:00Every stage that I get on,
00:02don't matter how many people are in there,
00:03don't matter what they look like,
00:04I have to say Black Lives Matter.
00:06I always have to say it.
00:09I feel like, in essence, I don't have to say it,
00:11but I'm going to say it anyways.
00:13Black Lives Matter.
00:16My female fat Black Lives Matter.
00:19And it's going to be people like us that change the world.
00:21I want y'all to be activated.
00:23It's not going to be me doing this music shit
00:25that changes the world, it's y'all.
00:26It's the people who go to these shows,
00:28who support these artists with messages,
00:30because you get activated, and then you go out,
00:32and then you activate someone else,
00:34and then they activate someone else,
00:35and then we're good to each other,
00:37and then we stop killing each other,
00:39and then we grow and we love together.
00:42I want to do a song in honor of Philando Castile's family,
00:47in honor of anyone who lost their life to senseless violence,
00:50senseless police brutality.
00:52In essence, if you're with me,
00:53can you all put a light up on your cell phones for their lives?
00:58This song is called My Skin.
01:08What's deeper than, what's deeper than the darkest best?
01:11Kept secret beneath the surface we kid.
01:14Let it bring us together.
01:17Don't let it tear us apart, no.
01:20I'm filled with it, got a love with no conditions.
01:23Though it's hard to re-envision time and time again.
01:27Even when, even when, it doesn't matter anymore.
01:31The most beautiful thing, that I've ever seen,
01:35is even bigger than what we think it means.
01:39Reflections in our bloodstreams,
01:41it's even bigger than.
01:44I woke up in this, I woke up like this,
01:49in my skin, yeah.
01:55I can't wash it away, so you can't take it from me.
02:01Brown skin, yeah, yeah.
02:07Uh, real world, big girl meets world.
02:10A crazy position, now my dreams is my mission, huh?
02:13Staring in the mirror, realizing we should work.
02:16All I wish is for a chance to get my cancer boy.
02:19I got a family tree that's worth praising the Lord.
02:23Mama looking like the second coming.
02:25Look at God.
02:26Sister like a soldier, hold it down.
02:28New Orleans, hold it down.
02:31I love you, don't forget it.
02:33Your beautiful black masterpiece, boy.
02:35They don't make brothers like you.
02:37Make it happen with that black girl.
02:40Magic the hat, jerk off of what we do, yeah.
02:45I woke up in this.
02:47I woke up like this.
02:49And my skin, yeah.
02:55I can't wash it away, so you can't take it from me.
03:01Brown skin, yeah.
03:08Parting me just left a message to the sender.
03:11The words stuck between my teeth, so gritty.
03:14Paying for each minute, I'm seething.
03:16Black girl mixed with a little bit the soccer joey, yeah.
03:20I pocket subpoenas.
03:21I swallow my pride and my ego.
03:23I wear my flaws on my sleeve and my skin like a picot.
03:27I see someone like me ashamed to be.
03:29Honestly, I'm really, really fed up.
03:33Trying to send it up like a FedEx.
03:35Wondering what they saying next.
03:37Can't pretend to not hear it.
03:39It's your beauty, they can't have it.
03:41It's yours, they can't have it.
03:43No.
03:44It's yours, yours, yours, yours.
03:58Ooh, yeah.
03:59My skin, your skin, yeah.
04:04My skin
04:06Your skin
04:09No I can't wash it away
04:11So no you can't take it from me
04:15My brown skin
04:17My brown skin
04:21I can't wash it away
04:23No you can't take it from me
04:26My skin in New Orleans
04:29Your skin
04:31Yeah
04:33Oh I can't wash it away
04:35No you can't take it from me
04:38My skin in New Orleans
04:41Your skin
04:43Yeah
04:49Oh
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