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MIGOS SPIRITUALS prt​.​1

from COLORED by Def Sound

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First, I need to thank Brandon Cordoba for breathing life and soul into each note played on this song. I fell out in tears the first time I heard the wav. file of this song completed. MIGOS SPIRITUALS is a title for a song I’ve had for a long time but it didn’t actualize until we were having listening sessions for the album and Amelian Kashiro came in and listened w/ fresh ears and gave us feedback as a lover of music I’m giving her creative consultant credits on Disc 1ne. Her main critique was that I’m saying so much and the subjects are so heavy our ears are sometimes fighting through the busy and v large production the message and the words are getting lost. I love critique, its refreshing perspective it was the perfect prompt for me to write a more conversational record. I wanted to make a naked song, a song that was rose quartz level of clarity, where the mission, the mantra's and intentions were front and centered. No distractions just me, you, and a piano. S/o Indya Moore btw.

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Here’s what I know ,

I know that i’m destined

I cannot be measured

I been down like flat tires

I’m still on a roll

done w/ apprenticeships

over percentages

black and I’m brilliant

Yea fine like comb

don’t need to post to know that I’m whole

We been conditioned to post to check on our pulse

I know

you see the glow like Indya Moore

love and respect to

to Indya moore

I’m Drying my tears while I’m binge watching Pose

Put some respect on your pronouns

I see you are person

love you like picture

I see you as whole

charged like yo crystals

your value speaks volumes

We’ve had Enough of the lesss yo let’s give them so more


I’m more than I prophet

I Fuck up all they optics

I’m hacking the system

You’re not alone



black w/ the excellence

always my preference

Afro indigenous

Living my messages

updating your system cuz

cuz yo shit is old

dropping the bombs

they thought i was Woj

Black w/ the Rob yea they thought I was Whoa

And I stopped making sense w/ this a long time ago

But I

i spit it unlimited

drinking my water minding my business

I see a mirror I don’t see foes

highly intentional

look what a pen can do

I MIGOS the spirituals

We aint dumb

but thats how I go

The energy possessed be on unlimited scroll




We built the pyramids

def getting militant



How am I penning this?

I been here before

thats how I know

I been here before




[Closing Verse]
yea bro thats how wild I am

turn burning man into birmingham


go on costra nostra
on these culture vultures
if ya’ll be dripping guess i’m an ocean
Ok
I super soaker
super saiyen
i’m just saying
full disclosure

oh my goodinness
young and definitive
ya’ll be so shook w/ it
I’m wearing my confidence
don’t i look good in it
city on back just like my hoodie is
If seeing our selves and freeing ourselves
that’s what revision is
When you’re ancestorie is hidden
That’s what a prison

nice and I’m decorated
voice of a generation
My soul is solar
I don’t need a generator


exchanging my innocence for an audience
Heart on my sleeve I guess I’ll wear it if the trauma fits

Ain’t no rules in this shit
Stuck on a loop like a gif
We getting slave master money cuz look how glorify whips
It really don’t matter how much money you get or how impressive your lil following is
Race isn’t real but how it oppressed you is
Fam

While all your fav artist canceled
I’m eating plants bruh
They shoot us w/ hands up
in the mirror only time i’ve seen an answer.

credits

from COLORED, released July 23, 2019
Prod. by Brandon Cordoba & def.sound
Written by Emmanuel "Def Sound" Ricketts and Jermaine "Mike Nova" Blanchard
Mixed + Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

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Def Sound Los Angeles, California

Def Sound is an Afro-Caribbean transdisciplinary artist. born and based in South Central LA. Def is a non binary Grammy Award considered contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, published poet, and award winning academic. Def is currently teaching Hip Hop Critical Theory & Practice at the California Institute of the Arts. ... more

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