the world is listening Jay Baez remix - Akua Naru.mp3

[00:00.30]Flash flash flash,flashback, '88
[00:03.86]Copped my first tape,third Grade
[00:05.70]Young girl banking Roxanne Shante
[00:07.95]Around my way
[00:08.89]Called McKay
[00:09.88]Disarray
[00:10.81]Langston's a dark hues get bruised,stored away, hey
[00:15.75]Caught in cage
[00:16.89]Fought in the maze, gave up
[00:18.37]And now I got dreams of being live on stage
[00:20.93]What
[00:21.43]Turn up the volume, me and my cousin
[00:23.74]Doing the wop
[00:24.41]Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut
[00:26.55]Speakers bump like the rock pumps
[00:29.00]The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump.
[00:31.06]What you want? At once
[00:32.06]because we love the
[00:33.74]We dreamed of ourselves
[00:35.12]Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was
[00:37.66]Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip
[00:40.00]Sweet Tee,
[00:40.76]to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene
[00:42.84]So then saw myself, I'll drop mics when I'm over
[00:45.20]Pick up a pen and like Antoinette
[00:47.46]"Lights Out, Party's Over"
[00:48.24]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante
[00:50.38]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae
[00:53.64]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me
[00:56.35]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy
[00:58.63]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo
[01:01.21]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe
[01:03.90]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D
[01:05.44]For those never seen
[01:06.71]On the search for female emcees
[01:08.55]The microphone fiends
[01:09.81]Stomped in the '90s
[01:10.75]After school you could find me
[01:12.08]In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhyming
[01:15.16]U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues
[01:16.57]Claim the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen
[01:18.66]I rap to keep from crying
[01:20.31]Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$
[01:21.36]Recipe for a show
[01:22.48]They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo
[01:25.04]Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home, though
[01:28.11]I rap along to every song
[01:29.46]And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo
[01:31.02]Check, how I hit every note, though
[01:32.85]Even sung along with patois
[01:34.74]Like in the joint she did with Patra
[01:36.36]I'm on a Romantic Call...
[01:38.30](Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard)
[01:39.06]Blank page calling, a ...[??]
[01:41.88]Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning
[01:44.93]Sported he Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn
[01:47.41]She showed me the beauty and the natural cut
[01:49.74]Amplify my Rage, growing out my afro puffs
[01:52.40]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante
[01:54.78]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae
[01:58.32]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me
[02:00.75]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy
[02:03.71]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo
[02:05.95]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe
[02:08.78]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D
[02:10.15]For those never seen
[02:10.90]On the search for female emcees
[02:13.04]The microphone fiends
[02:14.07]New millennium, came of age
[02:15.63]While things stayed the same
[02:16.72]Media forms changed
[02:17.74]New name, from What-What? to Jean Grae
[02:19.51]We bootlegged, the bootleg
[02:20.55]Put away cassette and VHS tapes in vinyl crates
[02:25.08]Fast forward album release dates
[02:26.50]Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify
[02:29.28]In these days
[02:30.48]Tell me what's the plight of a female MC's fate?
[02:32.85]Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ?
[02:35.45]Downloading everyone and now my heroes seemingly gone
[02:38.36]Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged
[02:40.16]Guess I lost one
[02:40.85]Some come and go
[02:41.88]Self-labeled bitch and ho
[02:43.41]A heretic of discourse
[02:44.98]I turn off the radio
[02:46.03]I can't relate, nor can I hate
[02:47.98]For the ways we negotiate
[02:49.66]The sexist spaces we navigate
[02:52.53]Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent
[02:54.44]It seems...
[02:55.22]"Fantasy's what people want reality to be"
[02:57.13]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante
[02:59.32]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae
[03:02.66]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me
[03:05.04]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy
[03:07.37]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo
[03:10.04]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe
[03:12.75]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D
[03:14.39]For those never seen
[03:15.92]On the search for female emcees
[03:17.65]The microphone fiends
[03:18.68]The world is listening
[03:26.63]The world is listening
[03:40.52]The world is listening