Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got a message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil.

And making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we're in

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down

Down, down

She break it down, down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

So lots we got to get to today.

And now, the beautiful thing is, before we get to any of it, we actually have a ritual on this show.

Because Black Talklandia is kind of difficult, right?

It's not the easiest of places to be. And, you know, on a day ending in why in America,

not a lot of happy, happy news that we have to cover, although I try as hard as I can to squeeze as

much joy into our conversations, which is why I be using voices. I sing songs. I do all sorts of

things. Damn near clapping to make y'all giggle about the horrificness in the horrific nature of the news.

But we also have a ritual on this show that we incorporate every single day because we recognize

that in order to feel the way we should when it comes to how we're handling the topics of the day

in order to feel as optimistically empowered as we should, we have to do the work beforehand, right? There's some pre-work that we have

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