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Counterculturally Black (Ego Trippin')

from Counterculturally Black by Simo Love

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I was born from the Leadbelly of Tina Turner
Which was impregnated by the rhythm of Michael Jackson, my father

Prince was my nanny
Beyonce my final girlfriend
That’s why she made Blue

Frank Ocean asked me to marry him
But I wanted to swirl with Chris Martin, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Tedder instead

From my first breath
I invented Soul music
It was so pure that Sia wanted to Breathe Me
And Aretha riffed off of it for years

I built the first chromatic scale
From a tete a tete with Ella Fitzgerald
It made the world so dizzy
That Dizzy Gillespie changed his name
And Timbaland is still documenting it

I’m so fruity that at 5 I told Little Richard to “Shut Up!”
It made my Godfather James Brown scream with pride
Minnie Ripperton whistled in delight
Janet, Madonna & Gaga decided to fight

I’m so sexy that Josephine Baker moved to France because she was that jealous
And she left it in hell
The Great White Way as well
Cause she was that hot
Yes
Paris is still burning from our strife

Liza Minnelli was jealous too
She told me “bye bye blackbird”

The Beatles saw that I was singing in sadness and wanted to keep the peace so they sang me into the sun

But my Throne is ON AN island called Earth
Wind and Fire
Wanted to keep me lit up
So they made me a star

Nah
I’m only ego trippin
My dark twisted fantasy
Happened when you heard this
I’m stating facts
(Laughs)
And you too can be Counter-culturally Black
The secret is that
it is the color of everyone’s notes
And y’alls blackness knocked me dead
To this day,
Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles the only ones that can see me

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from Counterculturally Black, track released November 25, 2020
Coretta S. L. Monk

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