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Ricki Monique - CEREAL (feat. MMYYKK)

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Ricki Monique - "CEREAL (feat. MMYYKK)" from the 2022 GOOD SEEDS EP on Tangible Records.

Minneapolis-based artist Ricki Monique teams up with producer/multi-instrumentalist on today's Song of the Day, a serene, soulful track she wrote to boost her confidence.

“This song was created as a sonic affirmation to remind me that I was built to be great," she told Lyrical Lemonade. "I put affirmations from my mother and sisters in the hook and brought up feelings of depression and hardships in the first verse to portray a sense of everything-ness. I am both powerful and weak at times. I wrote this song to remind myself to lean into my strong parts.”

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0:00.0

Big things, yeah, I'm in a festive, been depressed, so my nose looking hectic, niggas

0:21.0

knew something like narcoletics, but I'm introspective, I know it's the lesson, they gon'

0:24.7

sleep full twice, shame on me, I ain't gon' let it be three, I gotta stop giving

0:29.2

chances, he niggas misogynist, privileged and lacking the consciousness out of it, I've

0:33.2

been so out of it, had to stop smoking just so I could see the shit, so I looked

0:37.2

away and he'd been in the bed, think about flaws in these messages, think about flaws in

0:41.5

my own head, think about flaws, think about bras, whysons, chefs, it's a gel, not

0:46.1

broke my titties, evolved, look, big dreams, big hate, big talent, big way, meditate,

0:51.5

good to some privilege in this way, still had to fight off conditioning, not the shampoo

0:56.6

not listening, rockin' rush ain't no, I'm glistening, stepped in the blue night, flow,

1:01.0

fuck it, this just the beginning, I'm stoked, look up, mama say keep yo' chin up,

1:06.5

Ciceroic don't give up, pack that game like pick up, look, look up, mama say keep yo'

1:13.0

chin up, Ciceroic don't give up, pack that game like pick up, pick up, look up, mama

1:20.0

say keep yo' chin up, Ciceroic don't give up, pack that game like pick up, look, look

1:26.6

up. Mama say keep yo' chin up, Ciceroic don't give up, pack that game like pick up,

1:37.2

Feel fly, look a new body, I can't float up for nobody and this is the part when I

1:41.5

love a lot of crunch time, these niggas ain't big enough, set enough, had to run myself

1:47.0

for the prices, got a double tax for the concept, really got dressed for the project,

1:50.1

put my back in it now, I'm back in it got fraternal bags so we stacked different,

1:53.6

Just happening, I been crafting it, trying to build the lane

1:56.0

So I last in it, this ain't no fluff sport

1:58.4

This is my heart on the track like it's NASCAR

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