MeShell Ndegeocello - Hot Night (Explicit)

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[00:00.00]Hot Night (Explicit) - MeShell Ndegeocello
[00:00.26]Written by：Meshell Ndegeocello/Dave West/Talib Kweli/Hector Lavoe
[00:00.52]I was a member of the communist party
[00:04.39]I'm not a member of the communist party anymore
[00:06.19]But I consider myself very much a socialist
[00:09.00]So we'll get to that later
[00:11.39]Let's go
[00:11.86]One of the reasons why the war
[00:13.14]In vietnam was able to happen as long as it did
[00:16.52]Was because this of this fear of communism
[00:19.14]And people pointed to the vietnamese as their enemy
[00:22.88]As if somehow or another
[00:25.45]If to the country defeated the communist enemy in vietnam
[00:29.63]Things were gonna be okay at home
[00:33.03]But it's a hot night
[00:34.90]Let's talk about the sign of the times
[00:37.61]Politics
[00:38.92]And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
[00:43.21]It's a hot night
[00:44.57]Head down to the club
[00:45.86]For the pina coladas without the alcohol
[00:48.73]And let's talk about the world y'all
[00:52.66]Can you pick me up
[00:53.38]You know I hate driving in the evil city
[00:55.64]And baby read my mind hit la caridad
[00:58.44]So I can get some coffee
[01:00.30]And we can get our talk on
[01:02.39]Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution
[01:05.81]With saviors prophets and heroes
[01:07.97]But in the silence of my prayers
[01:10.03]I had a vision of my hatred
[01:11.51]Dissolving into grains of sand
[01:13.62]Realized
[01:14.28]That to the universe
[01:15.34]That's all I really am
[01:16.42]Just a grain of sand
[01:17.65]I know I get caught up in all that spiritual s**t
[01:19.16]But there ain't much to hold onto
[01:20.50]We all living in a world built upon
[01:23.04]Rape starvation greed need fascist regimes
[01:26.48]White man rich man democracy
[01:29.78]Suffer in the world trade paradise
[01:31.77]Hear me now
[01:33.29]But it's a hot night
[01:35.28]Let's talk about the sign of the times
[01:37.11]Yeah
[01:37.63]Politics
[01:38.64]And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
[01:41.98]Word up
[01:42.62]Come on
[01:43.17]It's a hot night
[01:44.49]Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol
[01:48.57]Let's go
[01:48.92]And let's talk about the world y'all
[01:50.88]And nike has a factory in ho chi minh city
[01:54.00]First b***h
[01:54.77]That ever asks me to buy her some dumb s**t
[01:56.88]Come on
[01:57.41]Niggers be fighting
[01:58.31]For jordan's they can't afford
[01:59.38]Bought in a store
[02:00.26]Costing more than a hundred yeah
[02:02.58]Capitalism got 'em trapped in a vision
[02:04.40]That you love to watch way more than a sunset
[02:06.82]Ah
[02:07.41]I feed my babies with music
[02:08.72]I tell the truth
[02:09.54]But now I'm a target in they market
[02:10.77]Ain't that a summer b***h
[02:11.96]It's an urgent emergency
[02:13.41]Courtesy of the counterinsurgency
[02:15.06]Trying to murder me yeah
[02:16.35]And now it's on and ah
[02:17.60]It's 'cause I verbally hurdle all their absurdities
[02:19.71]Accurate rhyme poem and I
[02:21.29]Survive the storm and ah
[02:22.55]Certainly words can be weapons
[02:23.91]If people heard me they thinking they god
[02:25.40]That they decide what's right and wrong
[02:26.87]They live in a bubble
[02:28.12]I live for the struggle
[02:28.94]After the fight
[02:29.51]We home on a hot night
[02:30.91]My woman is nice and warm but ah
[02:33.15]It's a hot night
[02:34.26]Yeah
[02:35.10]Let's talk about the sign of the times
[02:37.54]Politics
[02:38.26]Ah
[02:38.82]And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
[02:42.44]Come on
[02:43.19]It's a hot night
[02:44.48]Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol
[02:48.83]Let's talk about the world y'all
[02:51.33]Let's do it come on come on
[02:53.34]Join the party fist in the air
[02:55.15]Everybody for the
[02:56.24]Revolutionary soul singer
[02:58.40]Side to side
[02:59.17]Third eye on the prize
[03:00.21]We'll take a ride with the
[03:01.25]Revolutionary soul singer
[03:03.48]Give the seeds what they need to breath and proceed
[03:05.88]It's the revolutionary
[03:07.09]Soul singer
[03:08.40]Word up yeah y'all
[03:09.68]We prepared y'all no fear y'all
[03:11.85]Come on
[03:12.66]It's a shame the way we all run around
[03:17.14]Yeah
[03:17.66]It's a shame the way we all run around
[03:19.73]'Cause you blind baby
[03:21.27]Blind to the facts ah
[03:22.78]It's a shame the way we all run around
[03:24.81]'Cause you blind baby
[03:26.28]Blind to the facts yeah
[03:27.64]It's a shame the way we all run around
[03:29.78]'Cause you blind baby
[03:31.27]Blind to the facts of who you are
[03:32.74]Yeah
[03:33.18]But it's a hot night
[03:34.48]Ah
[03:35.11]Let's talk about the sign of the times
[03:37.56]Politics
[03:38.79]And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
[03:42.73]Come on
[03:43.27]It's a hot night
[03:44.67]Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol
[03:48.93]And let's talk about the world y'all
[03:51.48]Let's do it
[03:52.51]And now of course that the welfare system has been disestablished
[03:57.14]Soul singer
[03:58.84]And there are no jobs so to speak
[04:02.15]For for women who are told that if they don't work
[04:06.35]Revolutionary soul singer
[04:09.56]They can only get welfare for a certain period of time
[04:12.91]And then they have to find a job
[04:14.58]Now they haven't had the opportunity to go to an institution like this
[04:18.69]They may not have the skills where are they going to find a job
[04:24.27]And if they have children how are they going to pay for childcare
[04:28.95]In order to guarantee the conditions which will allow them to work