MUSIC AND MESSAGE: LIBERATED

This for the girls that don't need no makeup when they wake up
For the ones who rockin' lace fronts, you know, I ain't gon' say none
Hashtag and you're single, you fresh off the break-up
For the introverts, no, we don't gotta say much

[Pre-Chorus: DeJ Loaf]
If you feel free then you should lift your hands
Real love, less friends
So many things in this world I don't understand
I won't judge who you love, or your brown skin

[Chorus: Leon Bridges, with DeJ Loaf]
People gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Hey, get up on your feet
People gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Get up on your feet
People gettin' liberated

[Verse 2: Leon Bridges]
Fight back for so long, baby, break on outta your chains
You don't have to aim to please, or be a certain way
Don't aspire to be what you see in the magazines
There's only one you, and one me

[Pre-Chorus: Dej Loaf & Leon Bridges]
If you feel free then you should lift your hands
Wanna shake it, baby (shake it, baby) like I know you can
So many things in this world I don't understand
I won't judge who you love, or your brown skin

[Chorus: Leon Bridges, with DeJ Loaf]
People gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Hey, get up on your feet
Say, people gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Hey, get up on your feet
People gettin' liberated

[Bridge: DeJ Loaf]
When I was young, I was told, "What you reap is what you sow"
Life ain't always sunny, don't get caught up in the glow
And I don't know it all but I see as I grow
Can't take the pain away 'cause it's in my soul

[Pre-Chorus: DeJ Loaf & Leon Bridges]
If you feel free then you should lift your hands
Wanna shake it, baby (wanna shake it, baby) like I know you can
So many things in this world I don't understand
I won't judge who you love, or your brown skin

[Chorus: Leon Bridges, with DeJ Loaf & DeJ Loaf]
People gettin' liberated
Hey, get up on your feet if you got the feeling
You got the feeling
You can be free
Get up on your feet
Say, people gettin' liberated
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Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
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You ain't gotta worry no more
Get up on your feet

~DEJ LOAF

MUSIC: SEINABO SEY

SEINABO SEY 



HER MUSIC

IS ON THE RISE








SONG: PRETEND

SONG: HARD TIME




SONG: YOUNGER 
(The beauty and rareness of black/brown imagery gets me in this one)

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

Amazing Gospel Edition of The Black National Anthem

Lift Every Voice!
Posted by DaZone Radioshow on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

 Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson, 1871 - 1928

 Lift every voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast’ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might,
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,

True to our native land.

James Weldon Johnson


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STACY BARTHE

Stacy Barthe - Extraordinary Love

LOOK & LISTEN

CECILE McLORIN SALVANT

Jazz Singer

Cécile McLorin Salvant - "Look At Me"

Cécile McLorin Salvant - I Didn't Know What Time it Was (Live at Dizzy's)

Cecile McLorin Salvant - Jazz in Marciac 2014

OVERJOYED, Music by Esperanza Spalding

If “esperanza” is the Spanish word for hope, then bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding could not have been given a more fitting name at birth. Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren, and a natural beauty that borders on the hypnotic, the prodigy-turned-pro might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music.

FUN FACT:  She snatched Best New Artist from cutesy child sensation Justin Beiber in 2011 

"OVERJOYED"

Spalding was born and raised on what she calls “the other side of the tracks” in a multi-lingual household and neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Growing up in a single-parent home amid economically adverse circumstances, she learned early lessons in the meaning of perseverance and moral character from the role model whom she holds in the highest regard to this day –
her mother.

Read More:  http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/cms/profile/

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