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It's Complex

from Sweet & Lovely by Sia-Love

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lyrics

The industrial media complex
gives little black girls a complex
It’s hard to explain
it’s complex
it’s not just music
it’s context

Cuz pimps don’t take vacations
they hustle on streets
and your local radio stations
while rappers instruct on fallation
Lil’ Deja sing along as if under sedation
childhood lost
in hypermasculine imaginations

In any other situation
this would be
child pornography
or child exploitation
with lyrical sodomy
It’s the FM version
but I still cringe inside of me
they undress my femininity
like there’s no soul inside of me

and we dance to the assault
accessories to the crime
while radios are programming
music and our minds

2.

When Tiffany sees mirrors
there’s a vacancy
she only sees a body
that she’s learning
to use enticingly

She’s 10

But kids are grown these days
she got a phone and a facebook
and the Electromagnetic waves
are morphing her identity
to fit inside a tv screen
to fit inside the image of
a weak MC’s rhyme scheme
filled with auditory fallacies
of what a woman ought to be
and likely
he doesn't like
women actually
he just wants to destroy and
incarnate them gradually

In this neo-American slavery
the Tiffanys and the Dejas
are taught that they are the sum
of their sexual stimulation
mama will preach to them but they run
into the same old situation
cuz pimps don’t take vacations
they hustle on streets and radio stations

And this wicked industrial complex
has target our girls from the onset
of all the sex trafficking victims
40 percent got black in them
I am the bringer of life from the heavans
and I still can’t escape the sexism

3.
Like false prophets
and all that nonsense
they paint fake portraits of us
for their profits
the world sees us through
their eyes as an object

But our minds are vast like the ocean
our beauty is complete as we are
while they chant all that noise and commotion
our presence shines bright from afar

Together we’ll walk through the fire
we’ll make of the smoke our shield
and this dirty media complex
will burn to death at our heels

The brothers who love us
will join us
and their love will
protect and support us

We’ll bask in our own divinity
like sunlight and sunrays
and someday , they’ll all say
that woman is the door
to experience...
Infinity

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from Sweet & Lovely, released July 15, 2014
Executive Producer: Meres-Sia Gabriel
Producer: David Goodlett
Congas: Kele Nitoto
All other instruments: David Goodlett
Mix and Master Engineer: Reto Peter
Publishing: Meres-Sia Music
Recorded at Hetepu Studios in Oakland

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Cosmopolitan and beautifully untamed, Sia- Love defies expectation. Lyrics steeped in fusions of world, hip-hop, and jazz Sia-Love's sound is classic and timeless.

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