Kalah

Kalah (feat. HAPPY ASMARA)

Echoes of Tomorrow’s Heartbeat

thought it was love (was i the only one?)

Takes its title from actual 2024-2025 housing justice slogans. Opens with the April 2025 Housing NOW! protests where activists wrapped city halls in red tape. National Coalition for the Homeless Verses expose private equity landlords: Greystar buying 8,500 apartments and jacking up rent 36% while cutting security and maintenance; ProPublica Blackstone raising rents 31.5% in Phoenix; Private Equity Stakeholder Project Cleveland where private equity purchases jumped from 7.2% to 21.1%. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Contrasts Spain's hundreds of thousands marching for housing rights Al Jazeera with America's reality where the top 10% own 67% of wealth while the bottom 50% own 2.5%.
Chorus: "Housing over handcuffs, homes over greed / It's a human right, not a luxury / From DC to Nashville, San Francisco Bay / They're pricing us out, but we're here to stay." References the Poor People's Campaign organizing 140 million poor and low-income people. Poor People's Campaign Bridge is spoken-word from a tenant forced out: "I felt like I was forced out the door." ProPublica Ends with chant: "Whose city? OUR city!"

Housing Over Handcuffs

(from the EP Happier, Elyse Wilder 2025)

he’s the warning label everyone else could read.
she loved him anyway — scars and all.
a hymn for bad decisions sung like a prayer, whispered through gritted teeth.
sometimes worship and ruin sound the sam

blink prod. 2ukko + kenzee

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