from the album Quelle Chris "Shotgun & Sleek Rifle"

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Quelle Chris - "Shotgun (feat Danny Brown, Roc Marciano)"

WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip

The Way That I Live

Yo Yo Affair Pt. 1 & 2

Everybody Good?

No Wish (feat. Phonte & Raphael Saadiq)

Fireballs

Love (the) Ominous World

Valley Of Kings (feat. Ahmad Anwar)

Food From the Gods

Gotta Know

Always Mine

This is Volume 2 of "What's It's About" (because Revolution sure ain't happening and god knows the kids will pay the price...), EPx6 flows from Burlesque to Jazz, à la sauce Piano with a banjo cherry.

This song started as heartfelt social media comment… In response to a young talented disability attorney and hard-working diversity advocate basically apologizing for making one post about increasing hardship for disadvantaged people, and those who advocate for their basic, human rights. Sigh, American positivity is such a weird hypocritical superficial vain thing to me, especially in the freak context of neo-fasc!st history #ahem 
 
+++ here's my original stream-of-consciousness comment:

This is not about you, or me, it's about documenting the truth. It's about the integrity of American history. It's about exposing the abject lies and cruel actions of an authoritarian regime with no conscience nor accountability. It's about helping each others understand what(tf) is actually happening, ever since a convicted rap!st and recidivist fraudster felon "rigged the elections" (sic). It's about helping each other fight greed and corruption. It's about educating the people, equally. It's about justice, and the importance of transparency. It's about honesty. It's about being brave, and discussing the reality of fasc!sm in this country. 
It's about being kind, and that means being clear. Speaking up is the very least you, and I, and everyone MUST do.
So please, please, DO speak up! Why Not? We must, while we still can… Mass-incarcerations haven't started yet (ha hahem). 

+++ @bananasutra song #lyrics 

[Verse 1]
It’s not ’bout me, it’s not ’bout you,
It’s about the wounds that never heal through.
It’s about pages torn from time,
Truth in exile, buried in rhyme.

It’s about the silence, cold and wide,
Where history’s ghosts are forced to hide.
Not for glory, not for clout,
Just for saying what it’s about.

[Chorus]
What it’s about…
Is the truth they drown.
What it’s about…
Is the breaking down.
What it’s about…
Is the cries unheard.
What it’s about…
Is the weight of words.

[Verse 2]
It’s about a felon crowned in gold,
Feeding lies like they were soul.
It’s about greed with a mask of grace,
Selling fear to stay in place.

It’s about schools that never taught,
And cages built from every “ought.”
It’s about naming what they shout,
Then whispering "that’s what it’s about"…

[Chorus]
What it’s about…
Is the ones they chain.
What it’s about…
Is the hidden pain.
What it’s about…
Is the smoke, the screen.
What it’s about…
Is what freedom means.

[Bridge]
It’s about the cost… of keeping still.
The hush that bends a nation’s will.
It’s not a choice to speak or not,
It’s breath, it’s blood, it’s all we’ve got.

They laugh and call it overblown,
While prisons fill and hearts turn stone.
But kindness cuts the deepest way,
And truth, my love, don’t look away.

[Final Chorus]
What it’s about…
Is the love that stays.
What it’s about…
Is the darker days.
What it’s about…
Is the voice inside.
What it’s about…
Is the will to rise.

[Outro]
So please…
Speak while we still can…
Before the silence
Takes the land.

That’s what it’s about.
Yes…
That’s what it’s about.

[end]
 
Made in the USA #circa2025 with much empathy, hope, #sunomusic and my #aivoice

[04] What It's About • Vol. 02 • BLOWsutra Revolution Ring Psychedelic Piano Trip Hop Blues JAZZ

This is my Sunday prayer song. I am a gay christian, catholic actually - but I digress. I believe in a God that loves me. I create songs for him too. I just hope they spread the message of love and hope that I intend. I love you all! Thank you for listening!

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When I pray you protect me
When I’m lost, You help me see
Your light shines through the dark of night 
My heart follows, my soul takes flight

You lift me when I fall
Your mercy moves, when morning calls
Every heartbeat sings Your name
when the stars fade, You remain

When shadows steal my song away
Your promise pulls me through the gray

My savior, You are my hope, my home
The fire that burns when I stand alone
You are my peace when the storm winds blow
My savior, You’re all I need to know
My savior, You are my hope, my home

You calm the waves that draw my fear
Your sun dries away each tear
Your presence makes my sky so clear
I always know when you are here

Grace unending, truth divine
You make this broken soul align
Your hands of healing intertwine
Your will design becomes mine

When shadows steal my song away
Your promise pulls me through the gray

My savior, You are my hope, my home
The fire that burns when I stand alone
You are my peace when the storm winds blow
My savior, you’re all I need to know
My savior, you are my hope, my home

All creation sings Your name
Your glory echoes, wild, untamed
Radiate Light, through joy and pain
Your everlasting love remains
You lift me higher, set me free
Your holy voice sings in me

You are my hope, You are my song
The One who’s loved me all along
Forever faithful, forever known
My savior, you are my hope, my home

My Savior

The Way That I Live

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