Mystic - We Are the People (All Around the World)

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🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Mystic - "We Are The People (All Around The World)," a 2020 single on Beautifull Soundworks.

Bay Area-based hip-hop artist Mystic (real name: Mandolyn Wind Ludlum) is a veteran of the scene, from participating in rap battles in the early '90s to touring with Digital Underground in the late '90s. She was nominated for a Grammy and a BET Award for "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist" in the early 2000s, and her work has appeared on TV soundtracks and commercials.

She's also an activist, serving as the Bay Area Coordinator for the Hip Hop Caucus, a non-profit organization that aims to promote political activism for young U.S. voters using hip-hop music and culture. Her latest single, and today's Song of the Day, she continues to use her music to speak out against injustice. As she said on her Facebook page, "I really made this song for all of us around the world fighting for justice and reimagining new futures — those of us who believe shifting paradigms is possible."

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0:00.0	Power to the people. We won't be stopped. We will unified. Are you ready? Let's go. I've been thinking to myself about the grace of being grown watching children in the streets
0:26.7	spanning consonants and tonsons been off teaching babies seek the knowledge do the work they
0:31.6	kill my mentee in the street I love you ran
0:34.3	and I'm mother moon whispers if we really stop and listen practice breathing as a
0:39.2	prayer my cheeks they glisten for babies and cages and families crossing borders if you
0:45.1	support this president then you were out of Odyssey you picked aside you can't stand
0:50.3	on mine who are a risk to my existence.
0:52.8	We're not the same kind.
0:54.4	You would never die for the people.
0:57.4	I'm a woman other people.
0:59.0	We will never be equal.
1:00.8	We, we are the people,
1:06.0	Viding for justice every day. We as long as we're breathing we won't be breathing we won't be leaving
1:21.9	never know where at Never know it. And let the children say. We want, we want justice. We want justice. We want, we want.
1:32.0	We want we want our children to thrive. We want justice.
1:37.0	We want we want we want our children to thrive.
1:47.0	Our children to thrive.
1:52.0	Rise and resist. You can feel it in my kiss I tell the babies of the magic because it's
1:56.8	difficult to live I mean politicians lie education's warfare the planet is on fire and uh-uh, I can't.
2:05.0	The bodies are still dropping from the bullets of oppressors.
2:08.0	Police are still corrupt, causing worldwide depression,
2:11.0	but isolation is dangerous for no child's less important.
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