Know Your Worth

by Voltaire Slapadelic

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Produced by Jason Boule, recorded at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco

This track is about how the powers that be want you to feel as though you aren't worth anything, that you need to just keep your head down and follow orders, that you don't have rights and you aren't important

I wrote this song to encourage everyone to not only realize how much they are really worth but to fight against anyone who would say otherwise

Fight white supremacy, fight police brutality, fight your boss

lyrics

Want you to be grateful for
Minimum wage
Want you to go work with
A grin on your face
While customers cuss you out
Spit and complain
You eat only bullshit and
Barely sustain
While they laugh and choke down all
Their five start filet
Imagine if nobody showed up today
Tellin the bosses you no longer play
The place would shut down
And they'd lose all their sway
Cuz you got the power you got the say
You're the economy more than the state
It's all in your hands you could throw it away
All that you need is the will to be great
And it will be too late for the villainous snakes
Breakin your back to put food on
The table
Acting all nice will not do you
No favors
They still get fat off the food
Of your labor
You pay the taxes
They get the paper
You're down in the basement
They lounge on vacation
They will not change it
Not now and not later
hopin that y'all see
How much is at stake here
This track ain't about me much
More is at play here
Isn't a game not the As or the Raiders
I'm raising the issues the best I can say them

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Know your worth
Demand what you deserve
Know your worth
Raise your hands
To move the earth

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Catching me out at the picket line
Telling these cops we won't get in line
Marching downtown with our
Fists up high
Stopping all traffic at peak hour business time
Because everyday
The violence pervades
Police see black lives and take em away
To hear that they matter just
Makes them enraged
Imagine it happened to your kid
One day
Cops shoots him dead cuz he
Had a bad day
Goes on the news just to slander
His name
Goes on vacation and still getting paid
Retires one day and receives a parade
Maybe it's then that you'll get what's been said
Maybe your blood will turn boiling lead
Maybe you won't want to stand for the pledge
Maybe you'll no longer justify death
That's just my guess
I could be wrong
Your rights might not matter
As much as a song
It's easy to shut up and follow along
Much harder to speak out and say this must stop
Measure our worth by days spent on top
Treating our worst like the cream of the crop
Empowering those who keep cheating us all
Until we rise up with the utmost resolve

credits

released June 1, 2018

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Voltaire Slapadelic Hayward, California

VOLTAIRE SLAPADELIC
Non Binary Hip Hop artist based in the Bay Area.
VOLTAIRE SLAPADELIC gains a lot of influence for their instrumental production from both DJ SCREW and the Bay's HYPHY movement, with a lot of nods to bass music and classic east coast hip hop

Lyrically they draw most influence from the likes of MF DOOM, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, among others. ... more