Dave B - Worthy

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Dave B - "Worthy," a 2020 self-released single.

With his single "Worthy," Renton, WA-based rapper Dave B wanted to remind the Black community that they are worthy of love and respect.

"A lot of people post their black squares and do what they do and they get to throw it to the side they don't have to live it," he said to King 5 News. "We have to wake up every day and start to do this. I got to walk outside every day and I'm still worried about what might happen if I do the wrong thing or say the wrong thing."

Proceeds from the track are being donated to Acts On Stage, WA Black Trans Task Force, and the Black Trans Travel Fund.

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0:00.0	Black skin on me look good white man hate me what snow no price can sell my soul
0:15.0	tell me what I've been through I'm emotionally broke I can't afford it I know my
0:21.4	my life deal with less. I was born in
0:24.2	this sin and its life's in poverty, polished my frame of mind now it's
0:26.8	really nobody stopping. We auctioning off my hands as a damn the
0:29.5	devil been working how much it's a life worth. He couldn't breathe. We suffer
0:32.3	catting in his trauma since birth.
0:33.8	Yes sir, no sir.
0:34.8	She's both sir. Hands on dashboard, had plans to grow sir.
0:38.4	Had no plans are dying for peeing as black as I am.
0:40.8	I'm all learning their feathers a bunch of lies and they kept on moving and told
0:44.3	them and told us the fucking climate and I'm supposed to give a krab out your target.
0:47.6	Google is free I'm done educating white folks that black screen and them story posts
0:52.4	I'm still not sold.
0:53.0	Grandma worked for them paintings is deja vu.
0:55.0	I gotta make that call soon and check on you.
0:58.0	Just know you worthy.
0:59.0	It was designed to bring you down but you worthy.
1:02.0	You didn't like the way I said it but you
1:03.7	hurt me. It's too much love out here and I know I'm not protecting all black women enough. I'm not protecting all black women enough.
1:13.0	How you come down on the aisle, she's building you up.
1:22.0	Seeking refuge
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