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PEOPLE DI POWA

by Franz Von

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1.
We All Rise feat. Nikisha in the Woods If we learn how to nurture each other And then use it to lift up another Indulging in the depth of the riddim the realest therapy the remedy medicated taking doses of melodies, Boost the energy sacred chakra replenishes so effortless the specialist escapism the requisite, Every sequence a superseded experience inebriant intoxicate to escape the material, Soul imperial words flow superior transcode the number data decode the serial What is real or what is really just inferior familiar faces grace you with smiles on exterior but they hating in the heart bad interior serious bad intention the motive also ulterior The motion infinite perpetual rep it bless with phonetical messages through electrical read it the writings legible feel it the vibes incredible energy rise ineffable ready raise up the decibels. See my people rise Come and dance with the fire in your eyes Lift It up Raise your hands We all rise We all rise Computer generate stimulate produce the hologram they use to get the data in the matrix that they made for man A basic plan of servitude money from your birth it's true to make it through you best relate the paper chase to purge a few, What's it worth to gain the world and if you heard the truth would you relinquish all your riches just so people eating too? What's the reason for the evil that a man a do tyrannical political but people got the power too, Watch the evil don't devour you scheming as the hour moves feeding off your fears growing powerful, Some resisting the system because their knowledge grew but the system is several levels ahead of you They built it ready for rebels suppress the very truth Ever ready with deadly venomous special moves So whenever yuh ready I beg yuh make yuh move But be ready for anything when the devil moves See my people rise Come and dance with the fire in your eyes Lift It up Raise your hands We all rise We all rise Nothing's real just material and fallacies Life is but a dream mind paralysis mental enslavement the strategy signs of the times rhyme analysis life's still a bitch but I married it till death do us part poison amethyst infected my heart from the shards of her daggers edge cause fatalities scarred from my narrative scorned through atrocities committed in metropolis modern babylonian empire new acropolis new world order revolution or apocalypse two sides polarised pole shifting overdrive scope like the Dogon Tribe focus on broken skies dope when I vocalise just to open eyes my people mobilised to overthrow the globalised system of oppression now we know the lies spoke it so precise doses of potent rhymes permeate my soul in these awful times. See my people rise Come and dance with the fire in your eyes Lift It up Raise your hands We all rise We all rise
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Lyrics She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening Woke up she told me to focus listen close when she spoke her words potent, Filling every space in my thoughts coaxing the mind open incredible force, Colours and patterns constantly changing, watching crystal symmetries form She told me, Life's a journey a circle constantly turning The purpose to keep us searching for reasons feeling uncertain, owning the person only scratching the surface and only death that is certain that's only part of the journey, Hard to fathom she broke me back down to atoms Before my actual conception Before the act even happened Before the garden of Eden and Adam and Eve was thought up In order for egos harboured to grow and increase with stardom It's all in us, coded carbon and God in us don't be disheartened It's marvellous, glowing stardust She told me hold on its all of us, Calling Karma come catching us All we got is each other just falling back to what's natural She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening Transmissions through the ether reconditioning She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening Transmissions through the ether reconditioning Transmissions through the ether reconditioning Transmissions through the ether reconditioning Her frequencies receive em' in this loop I'm in tuning in to the universe manoeuvre fuel the energy burst Incredible surge, Readily fell in her melody first All causality, Steadily readily Studied her every word, Orthology her knowledge still on this melanin ebony earth Mother goddess this prophetess Telling her messages first Indelible words, Spreading her heavenly energy first Natural balances heaven and earth, Ready to weather the worse Fell in a spell in this world, Sedatives fed us at birth Selling us death in the words Telling us melanin cursed Killing us dead in the dirt Filling our heads with the worse Better be ready Whatever the energy manage it making it work. C'est comme si j'avais envie C'est comme si j'etais partie Fallait que je trouve un alibi Toi là bas, moi ici C'est comme un oubli qui résonne Fallait qu'on s'abandonne Qu'on s'abandonne Oh ouais She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening Transmissions through the ether reconditioning She Speaking to me frequently I'm listening Transmissions through the ether reconditioning Transmissions through the ether reconditioning Transmissions through the ether reconditioning
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Power Be You 03:22
1ST SPOKEN WORD: Memba seh nobody nuh owe you nuttn' So yuh affi stand up strong Inner strength Yuh affi hustle, Build up yuh yard king a di castle, Been a bit lost but now you're back up Been in a war since beginning you born Sick belligerent talk Go figure this system is flawed, Consider it rigged with no regards for people skin colour customs or culture, elite few hold the cards See through that cold facade Reach deep you'll see it's all mirage HOOK: You got the power to do You got the power to choose, You got the power to use People the power be you 2ND SPOKEN WORD: Seems like it's back to when they were hanging us now it's murders on cameras candidly captured by amateurs, Even the youth dem a watch it Imagine the damages Mental scars they be managing Schools report that their behaviour is challenging, Channelling constant graphic images squabbling conditioning damaging, Predispositioned to be treated unequal for skin colour melanin Discover the relevant means to rebel against bring change stay ahead of em' HOOK: You got the power to do You got the power to choose, You got the power to use People the power be you People the power be you People the power be you.. You got the power to do You got the power to choose, You got the power to use People the power be you VERSE 1: Freedom mind manifest Feeding the mind and the flesh Feed every child each one teach one yes See that the guidance bless We be divine.. Feelin the vibe in the chest Feelin survive every test Feelin alive be the best Free to decide Freedom we die for it yes Spirit they be calling us back Stimulate thoughts in a flash Reciprocate calling em back No talk not an audible act Spiritual orderly chant Giving in to it fall in a trance Energy lord of the dance Wid the world in the palm of your hands HOOK: You got the power to do You got the power to choose, You got the power to use People the power be you People the power be you People the power be you.. You got the power to do You got the power to choose, You got the power to use People the power be you VERSE 2: All of the people dem rise again All in the mix in this live event Rebels and survivalist rise up Ya'll know what time it is Civil disobedience stand up so they know that we serious Organise strategise mobilise Look now how they be fearing us They don't really want us to be free Better if we struggling asleep Juggling the money just to eat Bow down to the law the police And we dun wid di talk Man a war wid the beast No love for the people The twisted elite Had enough Now power to the people fo real HOOK: You got the power to do You got the power to choose, You got the power to use People the power be you People the power be you People the power be you.
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Asem feat. K.O.G Praises to the most high, Keep it moving on the road I, Keep hustling tonight Praises to the most high, Keep an eye up on the ball Jah jah guides us in the storm. We live in this silliness feeling the pressure unwillingly givin’ in to this system of oppression, Civil liberties limited new recession they tell us the villains are immigrants to fuel aggression Tell us terrorism levels raising exponential New viruses outbreaks detrimental Two sides to the coin but they never mention Knowledge is the key to your mind ascension watch the media news views how they hype fear Apply psychological methods up in your mind's sphere We feeling it suttin not really right here I got a problem somebody gimme advice here Chasing a dream living a nightmare Fell in it dead in a sleep been it light years But really they're slowly killing us right here Conditioning listen mission to hype fear Building divisions wishing we'll fight here We got the power the people We living right here ! Praises to the most high, Keep it moving on the road i, Keep hustling tonight Praises to the most high, Keep an eye up on the ball Jah jah guides us in the storm. Moving under grey skies we stay high no silver lined clouds Disenfranchised villainised now, System marginalised want the people lie down But the people got the power survival so rise now, Legal system criminalising the yout dem Feeding in the pipeline schools to the prisons Targeting blacks disproportionately listen Police state popping off they wanting our submission, But the devils a liar politics tricks in it spinning the plot triple six got it twisted quick Sick population afflicted with Oppressive practice prescribe these pills to fix Sick of borders and visas and schengen trips Deport my people illegal Need to end this ship, EhYo! Suttin not really feeling too right here See Nuff poverty decimated the lives here and nuff families deaded buried em right here We got the power the people We standing right here ! People the power The power keeping the people oppressed People the power The power leading the people correct
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Slipstream feat. Cortney Dixon Seen the fire burning furnace in his eyes the heavy burdens he carries Suppress the silence he cries, Heaven deserted Nobody heard him he's certain That's why, he's so determined to fly focus to further his purpose open the mind, Soul search, he knows his worth he knows his soul's devine, It's more than money It's melody tones composing life, It's this energy melatonin to decode the signs, It's the everyday struggle hold on to hope inside, Yo, the more he knows about he realises he knows nothing but something's  deeper than real life is, And that's the feeling that he follows still dreaming about tomorrow until it materialises, Slipstream Caught up in a slip stream Remember life is but a dream The mind control the scene Deciding on what you see Slipstream Caught up in a slip stream Remember life is but a dream The mind control the scene Deciding on what you see What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Traverse the surface cause the world is yours, Seek adventures on the furthest shores, Keep it moving as the earth revolves Be the student study learn it all Seek the truth Don't be the first to fall That's the melody the energy Remedy voodoo medicine Telling him move intelligent Ready to do whatever Develop to fully benefit Readiness for these predators Heading for where the jewels are kept, yeah! He keeps it moving improving no losing he's learning manoeuvres That can certainly serve him Firmly determined to make it in this world Undeterred Done all the burdens he be hurdling Now making it work That's the melody the riddim of life, Naturally flowing from his inner desires Living his life like a highlights reel Touching the sky line seen all of the things visualised in his dreams Traverse the surface cause the world is yours Seek adventures on the furthest shores Keep it moving as the earth evolves Be the student study learn it all Seek the truth don't be the first to fall Be the purpose know your worth and go research your cause Wisdom knowledge embodied certain to serve us all, Surf the tidal on this universal spiral arm Pray Poseidon ride beside you in the eye of the storm Slipstream Caught up in a slip stream Remember life is but a dream The mind control the scene Deciding on what you see (x4) What are you waiting for?

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FRANZ VON DRAFTS K.O.G, CYNTHIA BAHY & MORE FOR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FIVE-TRACK EP ‘PEOPLE DI POWA’

Spread across 5 tracks that each vary in sound, ‘PEOPLE DI POWA’ houses guest vocals from Mark Stoney, Cortney Dixon, Nikisha in the Woods, Cynthia Bahy, and K.O.G. The Production was a collaboration that spanned the globe. Tom Excell - UK (Nubiyan Twist/Onipa), The Colonel - UK, Labo Klandestino - FR, and Toni Smoke SL, bringing an international flavour to the project. Fusing tribal hip-hop with elements of jazz, dub and afrobeat’s, this project mixes both powerful spoken word and rap with social commentary and explores the ongoing and recent examples of systemic oppression. ‘PEOPLE DI POWA’ is a reminder that we are powerful as individuals and even more so as autonomous communities.

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released November 18, 2022

Written and performed by Franz Von
featuring guest vocals from K.O.G, Cynthia Bahy, Cortney Dixon, Nikisha in the Woods
Producers: Tom Excell, Labo Klandestino, Toni Smoke, The Colonel, Mark Stoney

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Franz Von UK

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Spoken word meets rap and social commentary, reminding us we are
powerful as individuals and even more so as autonomous communities.

[K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade]

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