Black Swans featuring Alkebulaun

from The Black Swan by Zaimah Beloved

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Black Swans, written by Zaimah and her blood brothers Quadir Lateef and Arleym (Alkebulaun) features the powerful lyrical presence of MC Alkebulaun.
This song pays homage to the slave ancestors Zaimah descends from and reminds us that despite the challenges that her people currently face, one day black people will rise above and build upon the excellence within our human experience and take the lead in a way that few can expect.

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Chorus:

We take the rain.
We see the sun
Crawled on our knees
Til we could run
Another day, we gonna strive
We feel the pain cuz we're alive.
Black Swans are coming.

First Verse:
Behold a dark people
so regal bringing the light.
They said we was unequal, so lethal,
begins the plight.
Like the Black Swan Effect
you can’t expect the change thats comin
my people running
God Saved the best for last
number one in the draft.
Devastations what slavery caused
Check my neighborhood, its aching and it's breaking cuz of ya’ll,
vacant of applause.
But in fact, cut you some slack,
cuz now the onus is on our backs.
Conditions changed, got a sign, and it reads Barack.
So, I ain’t madatchu just like Pac
We can choose to empower and uplift the block.
If we abuse the power and resist the plot,
We gonna lose our inheritance and miss our shot.
And oh, there goes our relevance
Ghetto fab forget elegance
History will prove that we forgotten our intelligence,
forgotten our religion,
Forgot the Qur’an and Gideon.
My people soul is deeper.
Spirit reaching the steeples
Keep ya equal.

Chorus:
We take the rain.
We see the sun
Crawled on our knees
Til we could run
Another day, we gonna strive
We feel the pain cuz we're alive.
Black Swans are coming.
Black Swans are coming.

credits

from The Black Swan, track released April 7, 2016
Written by Zaimah Habeeb, Arleym Habeeb, Quadir Lateef Habeeb
Vocals: Zaimah, Alkebulaun

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Zaimah Beloved New York, New York

Zaimah Beloved is a singer/ songwriter who has lived her entire life an everyday woman. She uses those everyday experiences to create music that helps give perspective to the matters in life we most want to discuss, but often don't have the words to express it, nor music, to accompany us. Zaimah will write the soundtrack for the journey pop culture is on, to consciousness. What she calls: destiny. ... more