Name: Poems, Love & Empathy by What We Need Now
Duration: 37 min 46 s
Description: On this What We Need Now minisode, artist, organizer motivational speaker and mentor K Love shares some of her spoken word poetry and how she trains herself to find the good in tragic situations or as she puts it, "the sugar in the salt."

On this What We Need Now minisode, artist, organizer motivational speaker and mentor K Love shares some of her spoken word poetry and how she trains herself to find the good in tragic situations or as she puts it, "the sugar in the salt."

Poems, Love & Empathy

Whether patiently or impatiently, we are all waiting with bated breath for the chance to come together, and when we do it will no doubt be over a drum beat. In imagining what relief will feel like, we give ourselves a small taste of it.

Lyrics:

I can’t wait...until you get home
I can’t wait...until you get home
I cant wait...until you get home
I cant wait...until you get home

One lady just caused a 180
Whod’ve thought that one day
We’d be connected at the hip?
Thats a trip
We vacating
It’s archaic, Im elated when I lay with her
Get to speak my native tongue
And she get it
Though she aint from Kemet
Our chemistry kindred
How can it be clinically?
Tell me, how can it
When affinity’s finicky
Failing and falling the standard?
We standing
She was here in the morning
Why it feel like 6 months?
Yes, I rent an apartment
Feel like I live in her home
And Yeah, I’ve given her sonnets
Sometimes I’ve written her songs
I put my chin on her pillow
Just tryna feel if it’s warm
A lonely heart can make a century out a second
And telepathically im sending you a message
You know only I can get you spinning
For the record
Tonight I’m gone be going for the Guiness
Girl you know the business

I can’t wait...until you get home
I can’t wait...until you get home
I cant wait...until you get home
I cant wait...until you get home

Can’t wait too much longer/Got something for you/I’ve been playing house/Would’ve been staying out when I was younger/I was a goner

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Music // House of Whales
Vocals, Synth, Keys // Rico Sisney
Guest Vocals // Adam Ness
Bass // Luis Mayorga
Synth, Production // Danny Varela
Drums, Percussion, Production // Aunnoy Badruzzaman
Art // Taudalpoi

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For our  season finale, we have all of the What We Need Now Season 2 co-producer's and co-hosts (including alumni Jonathan Butler and Lauren Wiggins) interviewing each other in the form of a conversational mixtape.

Track 1 - White Supremacy Culture Still Ain't cool  
Interlude
Track 2 - What brings you to THEE Work?
Interlude - Mic Check
Track 3 - Behind the Scenes
Interlude - In the Wild
Track 4 - If We Could Say this Without Losing our Jobs..
Track 5 - The Afterparty

Quiet Storm  - A mixtape of hot takes

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The history of Black people in the United states is inextricably connected to the land and agriculture, so why do Black people make up such a small percentage of farm operators in the United States?

Rico and Tanya speak with Ivy Lawrence-Walls, a changemaker and CEO of Ivy Leaf Farms in Houston Texas, who is working to increase sustainable food access and wellness in her community. They discuss the challenges faced by Black farmers, their role in addressing food injustice/ food apartheid, and the importance of  having more Black-Women-farmers across the country.

Visit ivyleaffarms.com to support Ivy and learn more.

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This episode speaks to the where, whys, and whats of the current household topic of Sexual Harassment.  We also, gem drop on when a Holla becomes Cat Call, and Guests Corrine and Khrystyna of the famed, “Guys We F@#ked” podcast, come thru to share their thoughts & experiences on the topic!

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Some people can’t handle the truth but not one to keep the goodness to myself I, comedian, and professional gem dropper Amanda Seales, am sharing what I’ve learned (and am learning) in my podcast, Small Doses.  Every episode I break down the side effects of a theme that all of us can relate to from Insecurity, to Haters, to the Hoe Phase and more. With stories to tell, Q&A, guests, and my trademark self help from the hip, I’ll have you, yo’ momma, and your cousin too, laughing and living your best life!

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Sadness, anger and reflection on the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless others inspired this song about two sides of pain: Despair & Rage. 

credits:
Bass - Josh Griffin
Mixed by - Noam Wallenberg of Rax Trax Recording Studio
Vocals, Production - Rico Sisney

lyrics:
h e a r t s  t o o  f u l l

——————————————————————————————————————————
d e s p a i r

haven’t we heard this before?

how could the news be so old?

how could they all be so cold?

will we ever take control?


when my hands have strength, i fight

when my heart get full, i write

i have no room to cry

but sometimes, sometimes,

sometimes...


i try with all my might

to not feel, not be surprised,

but my hearts too full

my hearts too full

2 day shipping
on thoughts and prayers
to the Twin Cities
if every officer’s clip
was like mayoral office apologies
then it’d be empty
it aint an incident
and you aint do it incidently
always did resent me
i know i aint supposed to feel it
picnics for lynching
show picture, call it kneeling
insert the word another before senseless killings
and get us riled up
when we fight it justifies they violence might try
when we comply and just stay silent
we would still be guilty
whats the choice then?
pick your poison and get to sipping
every public space a killing field
"Don't Move or I'll Shoot" i know you really will
like the waters i stay really really still
problem is they think they invincible
and we are they achilles heel
i know i aint supposed to feel it
tragedy grows more familiar
each day i get closer to it
black lives to throw away
it was a bad idea to scroll today 

haven’t we heard this before?
how could the news be so old?
how can they all be so cold?
will we ever take control?
 
when my hands have strength, I fight
when my heart get full, I write
i have no room to cry,
but sometimes, sometimes,
sometimes...

I try with all my might
to not feel not be surprised
but my heart's too full
my heart's too full 
——————————————————————————————
RAGE

Common sense ain’t common
Cops should fear the Karma
Act like Y’all aint see this Coming
When they constantly assault us
And since Politicians talking didn’t solve it
Now they mobbing in the Target
Right now all these cities falling
You’re no match for Bouazizi
We go flame cuz you go easy
On these murderers that murder us
We burning up they precinct
Tired of worrying about the media
And how the world receive me
Like Ferguson the T.V news gone turn this shit completely
You miss the auto parts?
We miss Philando, George Floyd, and Jamar Clark
This aint the hard part
We stopped protecting your feelings ignoring our scars
Appealing to hard hearts 

The artists
put hieroglyphics on the wall that read 'ACAB'
You say there's good ones

Where are they at?
You put a target on my back

but see a target burning down and wanna save that
We see a target we should aim at
History repeats
watch the playback
Every thing you gaze at
Stolen from indigenous people or built on slaves backs
What’s the difference between reparations and pay back?
This is Haymarket. This is Stonewall
This Tunisia. This the Berlin Wall
What side of history will you sit on?
Go find a quote by Dr. king

to codify your views
and show us how the other side is culpable
and you are woke
And that we doing it wrong
we know, we know.
we know, we know...

hearts too full

h e a r t s  t o o  f u l l

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20 February 2021

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"What We Need Now," the monthly podcast by Greenpeace USA, is where you can learn about the work grassroots leaders are doing from the leaders themselves.

Each episode, the hosts explore a different topic related to the intersections of climate, racial and environmental justice, and our movement for a green and peaceful future, and pass the mic to local leaders who are fighting for the world we want to see. 

Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.

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