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Ride with me

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Watch As I Dig My Own Grave

A Miracle - Kendo Beats

The track opens with a frantic query to AI ("Yo Chat") about the authenticity of creative expression in a world that seems to be ending. The narrator is physically and emotionally depleted—staring at ceilings for hours, working endless shifts—yet compelled to create and speak truth despite the personal cost.
Through a series of "inductions," the song guides both artist and listener deeper into consciousness. The middle section confronts questions of privilege and authority: who has the right to speak, and does racial identity determine the validity of one's voice? Rather than providing easy answers, it explores the tension between social positioning and universal human experience.
The revelation comes through water imagery—ancestral voices flowing through the artist, transforming personal exhaustion into collective memory. The realization emerges: the narrator isn't just personally tired, they're channeling "Earth's pains" and forging something new from that inherited trauma.
The track concludes with a direct challenge to the listener, completing the induction journey from "Sleep!" to "Awake!"—literally consciousness-raising through hip-hop.

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