J'von - Blacc Moses

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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J’von - "Blacc Moses" from the 2021 album KING CHEETAH on Empty Planet.

“I need something that sounds like a win,” J’Von announces at the beginning of “Blacc Moses.” And, indeed, the story he weaves is one of triumph. Starting at the beginning, with his childhood, the Seattle rapper paints a picture of a mother stricken with grief but keeping it together for her four boys and how that molded him into an empathetic but unassailable human who would look at life with a keen and level-headed lens.

The song comes from J’Von’s 2021 album KING CHEETAH, his latest in a nearly annual record release string since 2015. More than solely a rapper, J’Von can count the titles of producer, animator, creative director, and father on his rapidly expanding resume. “They have that whole ‘jack of all trades master of none’… I hate that,” J’Von told KEXP’s Dusty Henry in 2019. “I don't want to be that. I don't want to be the dude that's alright at everything. I want to be amazing at everything.” That sounds like a win to me.

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0:00.0	I need something that sounds like a wind
0:07.0	It was glorious, came out of swamp, big turrets
0:15.0	And there we are so true, it knows how great it gets stormy
0:18.0	Yeah, peaked the demon with an eagle eye
0:20.0	Need a light at the spell level, my head to see a side
0:23.0	Why ain't she any tried to keep to the sky
0:25.0	My mama had zero family, a long before boys
0:28.0	She had to keep alive again
0:30.0	She lost her mom after she had me
0:32.0	But still tried to keep the grief to the side
0:34.0	My mama lived a moratorium with infinity
0:36.0	Than average, niggas or sometimes I would peep
0:38.0	And then I'd even cry
0:39.0	That don't believe in genius
0:41.0	Cause I've yet to flaunt the keys to the crib of wish
0:43.0	The behemoth lies
0:44.0	Something like that, I'm not an eagle guy
0:46.0	But who thought that breathing would be despised?
0:49.0	I mean, what we acted for, these people
0:51.0	They've never been black before, it's a static they passin' for
0:54.0	I'm not even mad anymore, I took them back door
0:57.0	Heathen, but I'm flyin', niggas still needed the reason right
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