Released: October 30, 2020

Featuring: Jessica Care Moore

Songwriter: Jessica Care Moore Isaiah Sharkey Burniss Earl Travis II Ali P

Producer: Karriem Riggins

[Spoken Word]
Ain't it beautiful?
When we smile it's a musical
An act of revolution and the stage is a human one
Some people spend their lives wearing the costume
When the script is Sanskrit in the palms of our worship
The same hands we go to work with
The same hands we go to work with
Put the real work in
Meditation and stillness, so your focus is the realest
Screaming from the outskirts while your voice is the clearest
Wishing for answers inside of elections
When justice was just right born inside your reflection
Here we stand, survivors of Holocausts
Oceans of bodies, bound and lost
Our dreams swam across
Found the will to still live at all costs
The true mastery itself, honoring tears
Loving the mirror beyond your greatest fears
A small army traveling beneath your skin, walking alone if you need to
The revolution's within
Our bodies birth sons wrapped around Earth's axis
Spinning the way people do, when change is necessary action
Our ancestors saw us in the future, imperfect perfect beams of light
A sacred prophecy of what's possible
Be still and still the night
We are centuries of grace
The internal uprising, the creation of race
The spiritual warfare is the one you can win
An army of angels begin where we end
We beautiful broken, warrior ready in soulhood
The wish and the with you would
The daughter of drum spangled banners
We are the tearing down, are falling together
Our cosmos, our stars
A subtle peace, ain't it a miracle to simply feel safe
Assatta, Muhammad, Jesus, Harriet
Fannie, Martin, Sojourner
Malcom

Common

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. (born March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common (previously Common Sense), is a Grammy and Oscar-winning rapper and actor from Chicago, Illinois. Common’s inspired mix of poetic flow and hip-hop soul has helped him earn his status as one of the most respected rappers in the game.

After being a ball boy for his hometown Chicago Bulls as a teen and attending Florida A&M University for business administration, Common Sense kicked in and he left school to become a rapper. He gained national attention after being featured in the Unsigned Hype column of The Source magazine in 1991. He released his debut album Can I Borrow a Dollar? through Relativity Records in 1992, followed by his breakthrough second album Resurrection in 1994, which features his hip-hop classic single “I Used To Love H.E.R.”

As his career began to take off, he was sued by the music group Common Sense over the name, leading Common to drop the “Sense” and allude to the change in the title of his third album, One Day It’ll All Make Sense (1997). He has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Like Water For Chocolate (2000), which features his J Dilla-produced hit single “The Light”, and Be (2005), which was released under fellow Chicago musician Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint. He also joined musicians Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper to form the group August Greene, and the trio released their self-titled album in 2018.