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00:00We're going to get it popping right now.
00:05We're going to hear a little bit of spoken word.
00:08Everybody that's walking around, come on over here.
00:10Come and join us on my stage.
00:11Come and join us on my stage.
00:12Come and join us on my stage.
00:14All the celebs are going to be here.
00:17Time for a little spoken word with hip-hop and R&B twist.
00:20This is a Dallas native holding it down for the DFW.
00:25Shout out to Dallas if you're in the building.
00:27I see y'all Dallas, all right?
00:30She has won the spoken word artist of the year five times.
00:35She has shared the stage with some of music's biggest stars,
00:39including Ludacris, Tory Lanez, Molly Music, and Bum B,
00:45and she is here to perform her latest single right now.
00:47Please show a lot of love.
00:49DFW's own Shy Speaks.
00:52Yep, yep.
00:53Woo-hoo!
00:54What's up, Essence Festival?
00:56My name is Shy Speaks, and I'm here to celebrate with you guys.
01:00Because you got the wings.
01:01Let's get it, DJ.
01:02Let's go.
01:05Now, if you feel real good, you can hit this dance with me.
01:07Let's go.
01:08Let's go.
01:09Woo!
01:09I got the wings.
01:10It's the wings.
01:11I got the wings.
01:11Yeah, yeah.
01:12I got the wings.
01:13It's the wings.
01:14I got the wings.
01:15Yeah, yeah.
01:15Simmer down.
01:16No, we'll be civilized.
01:18I won't be denied.
01:19Quit asking me how I rise.
01:21You know why.
01:21I got the wings.
01:22It's the wings.
01:23I got the wings.
01:24Yeah, yeah.
01:25I got the wings.
01:25It's the wings.
01:26I got the wings.
01:27Yeah, yeah.
01:28I'm supreme.
01:29Yeah, that's just how it seems.
01:30But it's not only me.
01:32It's my whole team.
01:33You know we.
01:34We got the wings.
01:35The sky's the limit.
01:36I ain't alone.
01:36I be ni'quip.
01:37Yeah, yeah.
01:38I got the wings.
01:39You have been warned.
01:39I'm about to dip.
01:40Yeah, yeah.
01:41All the way up like escalator.
01:43Trying to make it count.
01:43No estimator.
01:44Breathe it all in.
01:45No respirator.
01:46Ain't no cooling me off.
01:47Run with the team.
01:48It's gonna always be hot.
01:48Get the regime with the top of the top.
01:50The time is over.
01:51We could watchin' the clock.
01:51And I'm slowin' us down.
01:52We just hopin' the pop.
01:53Hot.
01:54Yeah.
01:54You can turn it up like ya.
01:55Yeah.
01:55You can turn it up like ya.
01:57Yeah.
01:57You can turn it up so high.
01:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:59Straight bringin' heat.
02:01I'm on fire.
02:01See them planes.
02:02Yeah.
02:02Why?
02:03Cause the wings keep higher than them planes.
02:05Yeah.
02:06Up so high.
02:07So do for fly with the team.
02:09We all got the steam.
02:10That's not special.
02:10Get the hands with me.
02:11I got the wings.
02:12It's the wings.
02:13I got the wings.
02:14Yeah, yeah.
02:14I got the wings.
02:15It's the wings.
02:16I got the wings.
02:17Yeah, yeah.
02:18Simmer down.
02:18No.
02:19Won't be civilized.
02:20I won't be denied.
02:22Quit askin' me how I rise.
02:23You know why.
02:24I got the wings.
02:25It's the wings.
02:26I got the wings.
02:26Yeah, yeah.
02:27I got the wings.
02:28It's the wings.
02:29I got the wings.
02:29Yeah, yeah.
02:30I'm supreme.
02:31Yup.
02:31That's just how it seems.
02:33Cause it's not only me.
02:34It's my whole team.
02:36Get on my feet.
02:36We got the wings.
02:37You cannot give me the chill.
02:38I'm uncle Phil.
02:39No one for takin' the wheel.
02:40Cause I be practicing skill.
02:41You can make him feel like I'm runnin' a dream.
02:43Every time I'm in the lane, yeah.
02:45Shoot my shot in the peace mode.
02:46Wing work, do a fly job.
02:47They gon' probably think I had a cheat code.
02:49I don't need those.
02:50Real winner.
02:51Super cold like a real winner.
02:52In stress, I keep it goin'.
02:54Keep it goin' like a fidget spinner.
02:55Like, uh, yeah, yeah, uh.
02:57Just ain't no denyin' us.
02:59You know we gon' light it up.
03:01Hey, hey, hey.
03:02Drink, bringin' heat.
03:03I'ma fight us in them flames.
03:04Yeah, why does the wings hit me higher than them can?
03:08Yeah, up so high.
03:09Super fly with the team.
03:11We all got the steam.
03:12That's what you hearin' steam.
03:14I got the wings, it's the wings.
03:15I got the wings, yeah, yeah.
03:17I got the wings, it's the wings.
03:18I got the wings, yeah, yeah.
03:20Send me down, I won't be civilized.
03:23I won't be denied.
03:24Quit askin' me how I rise.
03:25You know why.
03:26I got the wings, it's the wings.
03:28I got the wings, yeah, yeah.
03:29I got the wings, it's the wings.
03:31I got the wings, yeah, yeah.
03:32I'm supreme, yeah.
03:34That's just how it seems.
03:35Cause it's not only me.
03:36It's my whole team.
03:38You know me, we got the wings.
03:40yeah you know we got the wings it's not just me as my whole team it's all of us
03:48those we have those internal wings that help you rise above everything that's
03:54trying to hold us down that's the type of thing that has me looking around at
03:58the people who are celebrating saying oh it's the black joy for me listen there
04:06will be no black joy without the black boy the black girl the black queen so
04:11part of me as I get back to my messaging with the message for the King
04:23it was like something I'd never seen it was of one male who represented all me but
04:30he was being admonished by Queens the entire and acting was all about him so I
04:35guess it seems that I too had a vision it had nothing to do with Martin Luther but
04:41it was all about the Kings the men who didn't recognize they were born to be
04:46regal because they've been too readily relishing and rubbish to recognize they
04:50were born to be royalty really there are far too many men who feel like many men
04:56but the vision I had defied that fact it wasn't anything remotely close so part of
05:03me is our television and flashback to what I've seen a mother and son son was
05:12returning home from school mom asked how was your day and apparently the books in
05:17his backpack weren't the only things weighing on his shoulders he told that
05:21he was tired and drained and that the other kids at school thought that he was
05:26weird he said it sucks not fitting in she said but it's so succulent being unique he
05:31said I just wish that I could be more like them and that's when she cringed and
05:37then preached the most eloquent mama sermon through her teeth she said don't you
05:42ever feel square for not fitting into their circles you are a diamond who has
05:48heart and the ability to be one day doing business at places like the Pentagon so
05:52please don't let them shape you with their negativity and undoubtedly he couldn't
05:58help but to unravel the work wrap within her words he said my I know what you mean
06:02she said and just in case you need to hear from a queen you are a just like that the
06:13whole vision vanished my hand was stuck on the right side of the pause the way the
06:17whole scenery flash forward it captured the same character all that was missing
06:21there was a man standing in his living room with his wife the room that was gently
06:27functioning as a boxing ring hosting himself as both champion and contender he
06:32was beating himself up structuring sentences like straight jabs at his own
06:36center mass his mask of masculinity was being mashed with every haymaker that he
06:41hurled out of his mouth break yelled his wife as if she was suddenly the referee but
06:48then he like any great corner man would leaned in and whispered revival into his
06:53ear he said don't you ever feel square for not fitting into their circles you are a
07:02diamond who has heart and the ability to be one day doing business at the places
07:07like the Pentagon she said even if you didn't furnish the house and its funds even
07:13if we didn't go on the trips you would still be more than enough don't trip because when it
07:17comes to swag your crown is the drip she said it dripped so hard it dripped so hard that
07:25I don't fool around and caught your waves I know your ways so win lose or draw I'll know
07:30you did your thing she said and just in case you need to hear from a queen you are a king you see
07:41what I'm saying is women have been using their voices for years upon years upon years upon years
07:48to speak life into men who didn't always look like kings in the moment you see that's what I believe
07:54that we're gonna have to do we're gonna have to speak out we're gonna have to speak up and then when
08:02heavy becomes the head who wears the crown and they're wondering who's there on their team you look
08:07them in the eye and say you are a king now listen I gotta keep the programming going but I want y'all to
08:17sing along with me the song says king look listen the haters the bloggers the papers they watch you
08:24they always got something to say but you a special edition so they cannot take away what's in your DNA
08:29what's in you is a menu that the coach wanna feast on ain't looking at you like a fairy tale I see
08:35very well it's the beauty how you beast on them hook kick it in the gear like a light up try to put you
08:40down you go right up like a push pop to the top pop you're gonna make a queen out of anyone you wife
08:44up why cuz you royalty with it you deserve loyalty with it so say you can't less cuz you can more baseball
08:51you're like a royal scat fit it get it you got it you good whether you were a suburb in the hood you
08:56should just know that you're notable your life is portable let's just get that understood
08:59since if you knew it you probably would do it better stopping it never would be a close that's why it's
09:04like not knowing if you knew all it is raised I just don't know if you know I don't know if you
09:08in oh I just don't know I don't know if you know but I need you to know yeah I need you to know yeah I
09:14need you to know I don't know if you know I don't know if you know I don't know if you know but
09:19just in case you need to hear it from a queen hold up shh wait young man you a king hey whoo young man
09:27you a king I want every woman everywhere singing this over every man in their life so that when heavy
09:34becomes a head they wear the crown they can't help but not to be them I heard a man say the other day
09:41let his mama say he was a queen ex say he ain't nothing but a dog now he feeling like he tucked in
09:46between I I wish that I could just interject and push intellect while he introspects that's for him
09:51and me and worldwide want to make them see it like the internet you can be a king in a drop top you can
09:57be a king on a bus stop on us in the stage or the background can't nobody ever wear that crown
10:02taking your position is a superstition and they need to stop it cuz if they in your place in the outer
10:08space and only you can rock it I like it when I see you do your best I like it when you feeling
10:12like you fresh through zest I like it when they try to put a lot on your chest you resist hard like a
10:16bulletproof vest you're resilient you are building you are building everything that is to come let
10:21me be the one to toot your horn everything is revolving around you son so you know I don't know if you
10:27know I just don't know I don't know if you know but I need you to know yeah I need you to know yeah I
10:47need you to know I don't know if you know I don't know if you know I don't know if you know but doesn't
10:52get you to hear from a queen hold up wait young man you were king hey yeah thank you all so much
11:01for listening the truth of the matter is we all have to speak up not just to the men in our lives
11:07but we have to speak up to everything that we see and going on around us especially when it's trying to
11:14push us down conversations they say rules the nation that's why I'm proud to be a changemaker
11:19will heal America you should join the movement peace out I'm shy speaks
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