the world is listening Jay Baez remix (instrumental)-Akua Naru

[00:00.310]Akua Naru -the world is listening Jay Baez remix [00:01.278]Flash [00:01.798]Flash [00:02.422]Flashback '88 [00:03.925]Copped my first tape [00:05.06]Third Grade [00:05.669]Young girl banking Roxanne Shante [00:07.941]Around my way [00:08.861]Called McKay [00:09.893]Disarray [00:10.694]Langston's a dark hues get bruised [00:12.767]Stored away hey [00:13.726]Caught in cage [00:14.597]Fought in the maze gave up [00:16.62]And now I got dreams of being live on stage [00:18.757]What [00:19.222]Turn up the volume me and my cousin [00:21.193]Doing the wop [00:22.234]Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut [00:24.346]Speakers bump like the rock pumps [00:26.673]The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump [00:28.778]What you want at once [00:30.26]And we love the [00:31.304]We dreamed of ourselves [00:32.552]Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was [00:35.168]Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip [00:37.720]Sweet Tee to follow Monie in the [00:39.456]Middle on the scene [00:40.519]So then saw myself I'll drop mics [00:42.264]When I'm over [00:42.919]Pick up a pen and like Antoinette [00:44.560]Lights Out Party's Over [00:46.112]This is for Latifah for Lyte for Shante [00:47.991]Bahamadia Lauryn Hill Heather B [00:50.384]For Jean Grae [00:51.287]E-V-E Nikki D Salt-N-Pepa even me [00:53.896]Apani B for Missy for Kim and Foxy [00:56.184]This is for Rah Digga Rage Left Eye [00:58.120]For Yo-Yo [00:58.952]Paula Perry Nonchalant Da Brat for Jane Doe [01:01.696]Rage Mystic BO Sparky D [01:03.287]For those never seen [01:04.352]On the search for female emcees [01:06.216]The microphone fiends [01:07.601]Stomped in the '90s [01:08.577]After school you could find me [01:10.09]In the backyard begging for a beat box [01:12.18]Rhyming [01:12.571]U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues [01:14.427]Claim the news of the death [01:15.802]Of Phyllis Hymen [01:16.618]I rap to keep from crying [01:17.979]Taking Mine now I'm the Bo [01:19.298]Recipe for a show [01:20.299]They say no girls in the cipher [01:21.812]So I rock solo [01:22.962]Then on the Blackstreet [01:24.114]Ill Na Na get me home though [01:25.882]I rap along to every song [01:27.231]And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo [01:28.831]Check how I hit every note though [01:30.679]Even sung along with patois [01:32.310]Like in the joint she did with Patra [01:34.222]I'm on a Romantic Call [01:36.335]Talkin'to my baby Down ah mi yard [01:38.390]Blank page calling a [01:40.31]The crowd yes ya'llin' [01:40.726]Nonchalantly in the trees [01:41.342]At five o'clock in the morning [01:42.231]Sported he Kim hardcore wig [01:43.776]Then came Lauryn [01:44.880]She showed me the beauty and the natural cut [01:47.232]Amplify my Rage growing out my afro puffs [01:50.132]This is for Latifah for Lyte for Shante [01:52.777]Bahamadia Lauryn Hill Heather B [01:54.945]For Jean Grae [01:55.865]E-V-E Nikki D Salt-N-Pepa even me [01:58.489]Apani B for Missy for Kim and Foxy [02:00.817]This is for Rah Digga Rage [02:02.258]Left Eye for Yo-Yo [02:03.574]Paula Perry Nonchalant Da Brat [02:05.342]For Jane Doe [02:06.246]Rage Mystic BO Sparky D [02:07.829]For those never seen [02:08.910]On the search for female emcees [02:10.677]The microphone fiends [02:11.846]New millennium came of age [02:13.109]While things stayed the same [02:14.318]Media forms changed [02:15.451]New name from What-What to Jean Grae [02:17.251]We bootlegged the bootleg [02:18.483]Facebook or MySpace [02:19.915]Put away cassette and VHS [02:21.427]Tapes in vinyl crates [02:22.787]Fast forward album release dates [02:24.507]Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify [02:27.240]In these days [02:27.999]Tell me what's the plight [02:29.40]Of a female MC's fate [02:30.632]Or what's the worth of a [02:31.735]Woman's story to a DJ [02:33.231]Downloading everyone and now [02:35.95]My heroes seemingly gone [02:36.327]Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged [02:37.880]Guess I lost one [02:38.926]Some come and go [02:39.878]Self-labeled b***h and ho [02:41.205]A heretic of discourse [02:42.838]I turn off the radio [02:43.982]I can't relate nor can I hate [02:45.870]For the ways we negotiate [02:47.237]The sexist spaces we navigate [02:49.477]I stay reppin' [02:50.333]Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent [02:52.638]Fantasy's what people want reality to be [02:52.70]It seems [02:54.567]This is for Latifah for Lyte [02:56.543]For Shante [02:57.295]Bahamadia Lauryn Hill Heather B [02:59.463]For Jean Grae [03:00.391]E-V-E Nikki D Salt-N-Pepa even me [03:02.896]Apani B for Missy for Kim and Foxy [03:05.183]This is for Rah Digga Rage [03:06.759]Left Eye for Yo-Yo [03:08.07]Paula Perry Nonchalant Da Brat [03:09.782]For Jane Doe [03:10.751]Rage Mystic BO Sparky D [03:12.319]For those never seen [03:13.374]On the search for female emcees [03:15.71]The microphone fiends [03:16.519]The world is listening [03:27.571]The world is listening [03:38.179]The world is listening