https://msqueenearth.bandcamp.com/album/queer-core-songs-for-isolation

Popcorn At The Movies

Move 2.1 (feat.  4TAE)

The full list of instrumentals.
https://msqueenearth.bandcamp.com/album/queer-core-songs-for-isolation

Queer Core: Songs For Isolation FULL

For all of us navigating this stratosphere of cultural conflict . . . i'd like to believe we can come together. We are starting from so many different places. Shout out to folks who see the dark and fly into it. Shit is scary. 

These words poured forth and I couldn't finish the final phrase. I kept it that way bc what lies ahead is unknown and no one is going to get this perfectly. Here was yesterday's medicine. 

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"Blue Eyes Brown Eyes"

blue eyes
and brown eyes
they don't see the world in the same light

do thin lips start their morning
with bitter coffee
and judge me for the sugar
my full lips
would rather taste?

Can you see me in full color?
do you wish for simpler days?
i can't go back
the past was harder
can you do more than look away?

blue eyes
and brown eyes

too often
i see stories
morning news
burn the page
bury my control in the cushions
turning it off
is as simple as the
pushing of a button

I find excuses
not to change
can you see me
in full color?
can you do more than look away?

blue eyes
and brown eyes

I didn't believe in fantasy
you brought me Magic
you brought me Grace

and blue eyes 
and brown eyes
watch us
will they watch us brea . . . ? 😢

blue eyes
and brown eyes



Blue Eyes Brown Eyes

400 years of captivity
75 years of Jim Crow and legal lynching

The knowledge that I/we/us could always be arrested
for breathing in the wrong direction
or looking
or walking
or working
or having the audacity to be ourselves
in our own skin . . .
A Great Migration and a Stonewall later,
I emerged to tell my Queer Black story.

Happy National Coming Out Month! 

Lyric video coming soon. 

#hiphop #soulhop #queercore #queenearth

Queer Core

The systems are designed to be walls to access for some, and roads for others. What if we did more by changing the way we have always done things? Repairing problems with innovation and more voices.

When I have a chance to help someone like me, a “cool kid” , an expert in themselves and their call, their roots, and their future, I give props. Do you have a foot in the door somewhere?

This is for those of us wearing all the hats, “crushing it” in our own skin, in our true selves. I hope more folks find themselves while they are chasing their dreams. May we never forget where we come from and progress together. #subjectmatterexpert

Lyric Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzk7dZTZj0   

lyrics

I show up
Talk a good game
Domain knowledge
Soft skills
Subject matter expert
All of it
Sales pitch it to you
Train it
teach it too
Build it
Make it beautiful
Spill it
Tell the story
And the strategy
If you want me too
Lay across these lines
Of the product and the service

It’s all words
In the weeds
Or at 30,000 feet
All this jargon
Just a test
To see I can speak
Your language
I code switch without anguish
Double consciousness
When rent turns to mortgage
We can’t plan on broken promises
From the boardroom to the block
Be consistent when you stand
When you got
The gift of gab
And a mic up in your hand
Cardboard dreams
Dancing in my head
Spray the can
With some hip hop
In your hands  see less

credits

from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
Written and composed by M. Smith
Bass, guitar, keys by QueenEarth
Produced, mixed, and performed by QueenEarth
Mastering by Blakwater House, Baltimore, MD



Subject Matter Expert - QueenEarth

I was able to have folks over to play instruments, but Black Chakra was the first to come over with social distancing AND emcee-ing. He helped me learn the producer/engineer role. I thank him for letting me wear this hat.

I used it to fan these flames 🔥



Mindset (feat. Black Chakra)

This song was originally written for a collaboration project with Red Bull Amaphiko festival and a Baltimore entrepreneur, Alanah Nicole, a local kindred community engagement specialist like myself, has/had an event called “Much More Than an Open Mic”, and I was tasked with writing a song about all of it. That day, several years ago, we had a beautiful conversation about how open mics bring us all together, what makes a good open mic, how to cultivate our pain and joy into something concrete in a room.

As a host and event producer myself, it was cool to be tasked with capturing this concept. I stepped outside of myself to draft this story 4 years ago, and I dove in to deliver this first ever studio interpretation of a time that seems so distant, yet transformed by the circumstances of this pandemic. I long for live music and fellowship. If I were at my favorite open mic, we might create a house band that sounds like this. Enjoy “Open Mic”

Available on all digital platforms. Always on Bandcamp.

Open Mic

Open Mic - QueenEarth

Volume II (uninterrupted 30 minute playlist) 
A collection of original pieces featuring hip hop and jazz sounds. 


1. Queer Core (Instrumental) 03:33
2. Run Rock Bells 02:25
3. Not Enough 01:58
4. Online Lessons 02:28
5. Skillet Pizza 04:18
6. Nachos for Breakfast 04:15
7. We Got Food At Home 01:24
8. Sales Pitch 02:39
9. Grilled Chicken Thighs 04:10
10. Dear Love 04:16

Recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
All instruments 
Samples by Mixcraft and Bmore Beat Choppers
Mixed and Mastered by QueenEarth
Copyright 2020

Thank you coronavirus for making me go in the lab. I hope this helps people pass the time.
www.queenearth.com

Visit Youtube for the visual playlist @msqueenearth

Queer Core: Songs for Isolation II

Songs For Isolation 2 FULL (Instrumental)

Written by QueenEarth
Arranged by QueenEarth
Bass by QueenEarth
Produced by QueenEarth
credits
from Queer Core: Songs for Isolation II, track released May 17, 2020
All instruments by QueenEarth unless otherwise noted
Bass and Vocals by QueenEarth
Mixed and recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
Written and composed by M Smith
Executive Produced by QueenEarth
Mix and Mastered by Kariz Marcel

Lyric Video on Youtube
https://youtu.be/UhOsYcBMWps

Available for digital downloads everywhere. 
msqueenearth.bandcamp.com

Dear Love  - QueenEarth

Missy Smith (QueenEarth) is an acoustic singer/songwriter and creative professional. She has over 15 years of experience as a performer, educator, host, and event planner. In that time, she has released several albums of original lyrical and instrumental music, solo and with bandmates and open mic performers in the Baltimore music community. Her genres range from soul and country to hip hop and gospel. When she is not making music, QueenEarth travels with her educational concert, QueerCore: Behind the Music, to share songwriting stories for LGBTQ audiences and allies. This evolving showcase has been offered as a workshop, retreat, open mic, and community event for cultural celebrations. 

In 2020, she released 3 instrumental projects  to make space for other artists in quarantine. These projects feature jazz/ hip hop production from QueenEarth with her first batch of self produced music and a few guest instrumentalists and emcees. She has evolved from an acoustic singer-songwriter, to producing and playing bass, keys, guitar, and ushering in studio collaborations. The music was featured twice in the Baltimore Magazine The Big Baltimore Playlist: April 2020 and again in June amongst a host of stellar artists, Black Musicians Write the Soundtrack of the City.  

In November 2020, QueenEarth released a solo lyrical EP, Queer Core: Behind the Music. This collection showcases her hip hop and R&B roots, with some awesome wordplay and catchy hooks. In addition, she created several visual stories for her new music, all available on IG and Youtube. The visual stories playlist is on Youtube Songs for Isolation: Jazz/ Hip Hop Instrumentals Youtube playlist. 

