URF Tone - Zan Zendegi Azadi (Women Life Freedom)
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
URF Tone - Zan Zendegi Azadi (Women Life Freedom) a 2023 self-released single.
URF Tone is a duo made up of producer (as well as model, actor, and avid golfer) Nicholas Demps, aka The World Famous N.I.C, and MC Ila Parvaz. Together they seek to pay tribute to the golden era of Hip Hop, with inspirational lyricism and jazzy production. Emerging in 2020, the duo have released a string of singles, with a full-length titled All That Glitters due out in 2023 which features contributions from Camp Lo, Mr. Funke (of Lords of the Underground), Rae Khalil (contestant on the Netflix series, Rhythm + Flow), and Uhmeer (actor/rapper, and son of DJ Jazzy Jeff).
Our Song of the Day, “Zan Zendegi Azadi (Women Life Freedom),” uses downtempo to highlight Parvaz’s lyrics about fighting oppression and tyranny, as well as lifting women up. The song is an excellent example of the band’s ethos, which they explained to The Hype Magazine in 2022 saying, “In a landscape of excessive braggadocio and shock-jocks, we raise questions around what is being elevated, while decency and simple goodness fall to the wayside. We’re both full-time workers and, more importantly, husbands to our wives, so we give everything we can to music from a place of passion and childlike joy.”
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| 0:00.0 | So my story fly with you, shall I say hers? |
| 0:20.0 | As we begin, let's make sure you're full of water |
| 0:23.0 | This the point of view for kid who was full of water |
| 0:26.0 | In war 20 rhymes finally now exposed for killing women |
| 0:29.0 | Cause the wardrobe is warm, wrong, I was seven months young |
| 0:32.0 | Where we fled the country, the only home I met ever known was getting ugly |
| 0:36.0 | Steady getting bombed by Saddam who played hitman for the U.S. |
| 0:39.0 | Who wanted oil costs next to nothing but my deal with the evenings in the bunkers |
| 0:44.0 | Just not the revolution and the evil it had usher |
| 0:47.0 | A new regime's demon on the people at a government demon |
| 0:50.0 | So a slight religious reason for destruction when radicals set the tempo |
| 0:54.0 | The warmest strand of hair show me, she's rebelling against the dress code |
| 0:57.0 | Put in place by a tyrannical eye told of who told her to get it lined |
| 1:01.0 | Or be a tally on the death toll, but same regime's so concerned with women's fashion |
| 1:05.0 | Kick the country's rich legacy up in the trash bin |
| 1:08.0 | Educated people of starving in these jobs as they kill over her jobs |
| 1:11.0 | Let's pause and get this chanting |
| 1:13.0 | Zanzin de Yihazadi, this is for the warrior's fine to live free |
| 1:17.0 | Read from oppression, read from tyranny |
| 1:20.0 | They won't shut us down till we let freedom ring |
| 1:23.0 | Zanzin de Yihazadi, Zanzin de Yihazadi |
| 1:28.0 | Zanzin de Yihazadi, this is for the warrior's fine to live free |
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