the world is listening Jay Baez remix-Akua Naru

[00:00.30]Flash flash flash,flashback, '88 [00:03.86]Copped my first tape,third Grade [00:05.70]Young girl banking Roxanne Shante [00:07.95]Around my way [00:08.89]Called McKay [00:09.88]Disarray [00:10.81]Langston's a dark hues get bruised,stored away, hey [00:15.75]Caught in cage [00:16.89]Fought in the maze, gave up [00:18.37]And now I got dreams of being live on stage [00:20.93]What [00:21.43]Turn up the volume, me and my cousin [00:23.74]Doing the wop [00:24.41]Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut [00:26.55]Speakers bump like the rock pumps [00:29.00]The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump. [00:31.06]What you want? At once [00:32.06]because we love the [00:33.74]We dreamed of ourselves [00:35.12]Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was [00:37.66]Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip [00:40.00]Sweet Tee, [00:40.76]to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene [00:42.84]So then saw myself, I'll drop mics when I'm over [00:45.20]Pick up a pen and like Antoinette [00:47.46]"Lights Out, Party's Over" [00:48.24]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante [00:50.38]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae [00:53.64]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me [00:56.35]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy [00:58.63]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo [01:01.21]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe [01:03.90]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D [01:05.44]For those never seen [01:06.71]On the search for female emcees [01:08.55]The microphone fiends [01:09.81]Stomped in the '90s [01:10.75]After school you could find me [01:12.08]In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhyming [01:15.16]U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues [01:16.57]Claim the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen [01:18.66]I rap to keep from crying [01:20.31]Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$ [01:21.36]Recipe for a show [01:22.48]They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo [01:25.04]Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home, though [01:28.11]I rap along to every song [01:29.46]And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo [01:31.02]Check, how I hit every note, though [01:32.85]Even sung along with patois [01:34.74]Like in the joint she did with Patra [01:36.36]I'm on a Romantic Call... [01:38.30](Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard) [01:39.06]Blank page calling, a ...[??] [01:41.88]Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning [01:44.93]Sported he Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn [01:47.41]She showed me the beauty and the natural cut [01:49.74]Amplify my Rage, growing out my afro puffs [01:52.40]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante [01:54.78]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae [01:58.32]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me [02:00.75]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy [02:03.71]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo [02:05.95]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe [02:08.78]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D [02:10.15]For those never seen [02:10.90]On the search for female emcees [02:13.04]The microphone fiends [02:14.07]New millennium, came of age [02:15.63]While things stayed the same [02:16.72]Media forms changed [02:17.74]New name, from What-What? to Jean Grae [02:19.51]We bootlegged, the bootleg [02:20.55]Put away cassette and VHS tapes in vinyl crates [02:25.08]Fast forward album release dates [02:26.50]Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify [02:29.28]In these days [02:30.48]Tell me what's the plight of a female MC's fate? [02:32.85]Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ? [02:35.45]Downloading everyone and now my heroes seemingly gone [02:38.36]Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged [02:40.16]Guess I lost one [02:40.85]Some come and go [02:41.88]Self-labeled ***** and ho [02:43.41]A heretic of discourse [02:44.98]I turn off the radio [02:46.03]I can't relate, nor can I hate [02:47.98]For the ways we negotiate [02:49.66]The ***ist spaces we navigate [02:52.53]Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent [02:54.44]It seems... [02:55.22]"Fantasy's what people want reality to be" [02:57.13]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante [02:59.32]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae [03:02.66]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me [03:05.04]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy [03:07.37]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo [03:10.04]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe [03:12.75]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D [03:14.39]For those never seen [03:15.92]On the search for female emcees [03:17.65]The microphone fiends [03:18.68]The world is listening [03:26.63]The world is listening [03:40.52]The world is listening