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I wanted to make a song that shows how it feels to see people casually fighting, and the ones co-opting the movement doing thing harmful to the goals of the rest of us. While you get to go home to your comfortable bed, we have to deal with the consequences. And we’re not going to just watch it happen.

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Gentrification is forcing the people that were raised in the Bronx, to leave. When the people go, the culture goes.

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The line is actually “emergency flairs”

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Haha. Your explanation is funny. But no, I don’t think my people are very behind in societal evolution. This line was about how as the world advances in technology, we move further and further away from being one with the world around us, as the cavemen were.

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These are really good, but I was simply painting a picture of our historical black leaders being treated as royalty while they were alive. Imagine that.

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The line is “couture’s getting torched.” Its a line describing a riot, where high end material items mean absolutely nothing anymore.

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