Alecia Renece - Afirmations
Jay Dee aka J Dilla - Guitar
Terrian - Stayed On Him (Isaiah 263)
Chuck Brown feat. KK - Beautiful Life
B.Slade - Let Us Not Be Weary 
Red Hands - Champion
Kirk Franklin - Before I Die
Snoop Dogg - You (feat. Tye Tribbett)
Mary Mary - Heaven
Peter CottonTale - God Is Love featuring Fred Hammond and New Direction
Sunday Service Choir - Back to Life
Bill Withers, Studio Rio - Lovely Day (Studio Rio Version)
Erykah Badu - Cleva (Captain Planet Remix)
The Kingdom Choir - Golden
The Brand New Heavies - Never Stop
Sounds of Blackness - Optimistic
The Showfa - Sing It Down
Tamela Mann - Hello God feat. Wyclef Jean & Kirk Franklin
Yemi Alade - Rain (feat. Mzansi Youth Choir)
Tbabz & NaffymaR - Call On you
Tall Black Guy Productions - We Gon Make It Baby
Midnight Riot - Blessings
Anita Wilson - Clap Your Hands (feat. Yolanda Adams)
Jasper Street Co. - Wanna Be Happy (DJ Spen & David Anthony DA Vibes)

Morning Inspiration Aug 15th, 2021

I wrote this song in the summer of 2016 amidst all of the shooting, killings, and violent actions taken out on innocent men and women of color by police officers. There seems to be little to no accountability for these horrendous acts and no real way to protect oneself. 

You can obey orders and still be gunned down, 
You can be smoking in your own car and be thrown from your vehicle onto the ground and arrested for refusing to put it out. 
You can be broken down in the street and be approached and shot. 
You can be helping a person with special needs and still be shot at. 
You can be detained and shot in the back while handcuffed. 
You can be selling music in front of a convenience store (with the owner's permission) and be tackled to the ground, shot and killed. 
You can be suffocated for selling cigarettes. 
You can explain that you are reaching for your firearm and license and be shot and killed in front of your woman and child. 
You can send your son out to play with a toy gun and never see him alive again. 
You can walk through Wal-Mart and mind your business and just because someone deems you as suspicious, it can cost you your life. 
You can be walking down the street with candy and be shot by someone who is not trained, nor certified to serve and protect and he can get off free with a slap on the wrist. 
You can be shot dead in the middle of the street lying face down on cement and receive no medical attention because the person holding the gun thought his life was in danger. 
You can be beaten up as an off duty officer by your own colleagues. 
You can be handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police van with no seat belt or care and have your spine severed... 

And these are only the few cases that have been broad-casted on national television, not including the cases that are never brought to light and reported. Yet and still, very little has been done. 

If anything, the killings are insensitively justified or dismissed by comparing it to "black on black" crime (that's an entirely different discussion), or talking about what that person did to get in trouble in the first place. Walking down the street in a hoodie and holding skittles, playing outside with a toy gun, selling cigarettes, failing to signal when turning, walking around Wal-Mart, cooperating with officers, or an number of examples, both included and not, should never cost anyone their life. 

It doesn't matter if you obey the law, how "civil" you are, how educated,whether you have a wife and children, whether you communicate what you're doing, whether you're recording the entire incident... lives are lost and blood is shed... and there is still no justice. 

I wrote this song to express how helpless and hopeless I can feel.

Coldest Summer Nights

If I can, I Will.
Written & Produced by Rolanda Carter 
Copyright 2019

If I Can I Will

As a form of practice I did a reading of an online publication article. More to come in the future. =)

Article: Coming of (the Digital) Age by Joseph R. Honescko 
Publication: Converge Magazine
Original date: April 1, 2019

source: https://www.convergemagazine.com/coming-of-the-digital-age/

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#VOPractice: "Coming of The Digital Age" - Converge Magazine

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Daddy Lessons

You Can Have Dat

A Cover Stevie Wonder's "Superwoman" focusing on the "Where were you" part of the song

Arrangement & Production: I.O.Music
Lead Vocals: Alecia Renece
Vocal Harmonies: Alecia Renece
Bass Performance: Lance Shelton

Superwoman (Where Were You)[feat. Alecia Renece]

He Rules He Reigns (Remix) [feat. Justin Martyr, Reece Lache & CW Allen]

My arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Production/Arrangement: I.O.Music
Sax Performance/Harmonies: Derrick Tate
Piano: BJ Thompson
Bass: Tyler Seawood
Drums: Alfonzo Jones
Mixed by Tyler Seawood 
TS Services
Kiwi Audio Recording Studio
Batavia, IL
Mastered by Collin Jordan 
The Boiler Room
Chicago, IL
Original Lyrics: James Weldon Johnson
Original Music: J. Rosamond Johnson, 1905

LEVAS (Lift Every Voice And Sing)

A huge smile and a bigger heart.
Multi-Passionate Artist. 
Photographer, Singer, Songwriter, Writer, Founder of The Full Well Project, Host of Podcast "#The Fear Fight", and many other things.

Coldest Summer Nights

Alecia Renece

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