Hot Night

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Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Meshell Ndegeocello ( mish-EL ən-DAY-gay-oh-CHEL-oh; born Michelle Lynn Johnson on August 29, 1968) is a German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. She has gone by the name Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur which is used as a writing credit on some of her later work. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, being nominated for eleven Grammy Awards, and winning one. She also has been credited for helping to "spark the neo-soul movement". more »

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2002

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"I was a member of the Communist Party
I'm not a member of the Communist Party, anymore
But I still consider myself very much a socialist
So we'll get to that later"

Let's go

"One of the reasons why the war in Vietnam was able to happen as long as it did 
Was because this, 'cause this fear of Communism
And people pointed to the Vietnamese as their enemy
As if somehow or another
If the country defeated the Communist enemy in Vietnam
Things were gonna be okay at home"

But it's a hot night
Let's talk about the sign of the times 
Politics 
And the plight of a revolutionary soul singer 
It's a hot night 
Head down to the club 
For the piña coladas without the alcohol 
And let's talk about the world, y'all 

Can you pick me up? 
You know I hate driving in the evil city 
And, baby, read my mind, hit la caridad 
So I can get some coffee 
And we can get our talk on 
Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution 
With saviors, prophets and heroes 
But in the silence of my prayers 
I had a vision of my hatred 
Dissolving into grains of sand 
Realized 
That to the universe 
That's all I really am 
Just a grain of sand 
I know I get caught up in all that spiritual shit 
But there ain't much to hold onto 
We all living in a world built upon 
Rape, starvation, greed, need, fascist regimes 
White man, rich man democracy 
Suffer in the world trade paradise 
Hear me now

But it's a hot night
Let's talk about the sign of the times 
Yeah 
Politics 
And the plight of s revolutionary soul singer 
Word up 
Come on 
It's a hot night 
Head down to the club for the piña coladas without the alcohol 
Let's go 
And let's talk about the world, y'all 

"And Nike has a factory in Ho Chi Minh City"

F*ck the first bitch 
That ever asks me to buy her some dumb shit 
Come on 
Niggas be fighting
For Jordan's they can't afford 
Bought in a store 
Costing more than a hundred, yeah 
Capitalism got 'em trapped in a vision 
That ya love to watch way more than a sunset 
Ah 
I feed my babies with music 
I tell the truth 
But now I'm a target in they market
Ain't that a summabitch? 
It's an urgent emergency 
Courtesy of the counterinsurgency 
Trying to murder me 
Yeah 
And now it's on, and ah 
It's 'cause I verbally hurdle all their absurdities 
Accurate rhyme poem and I
Survive the storm and I 
Certainly words can be weapons 
If people heard me they thinking they God
Then they decide what's right and wrong 
They live in a bubble 
I live for the struggle 
After the fight
We home on a hot night
My woman is nice and warm but ah

But it's a hot night
Yeah 
Let's talk about the sign of the times 
Politics 
Ah 
And the plight of a revolutionary soul singer 
Come on 
It's a hot night 
Head down to the club for the piña coladas without the alcohol 
And let's talk about the world y'all

Let's do it, come on 
Join the party, fist in the air
Everybody for the 
Revolutionary soul singer 
Side to side
Third eye on the prize
We'll take a ride with the 
Revolutionary soul singer 
Give the seeds what they need to breath and proceed 
It's the revolutionary 
Soul singer 
Word up, yeah y'all
We prepared y'all, no fear y'all 
Come on 

It's a shame the way we all run around 
Blind to the facts, yeah 
It's a shame the way we all run around 
'Cause you blind, baby 
Blind to the facts, ah 
It's a shame the way we all run around 
'Cause you blind, baby 
Blind to the facts, yeah 
It's a shame the way we all run around 
'Cause you blind, baby 
Blind to the facts of who you are 

Yeah 
But it's a hot night
Ah 
Let's talk about the sign of the times 
Politics 
And the plight of a revolutionary soul singer 
Come on 
It's a hot night 
Head down to the club for the piña coladas without the alcohol 
And let's talk about the world y'all 
Let's do it 

"And now of course, that the welfare system has been disestablished
(Soul singer)
And there are no jobs, so to speak 
For, for women who are told, that if they don't work
(Revolutionary soul singer)
That they can only get welfare for a certain period of time
And then they have to find a job
Now they haven't had the opportunity to go to an institution like this
They may not have the skills
Where are they going to find a job?
And if they have children, how are they going to pay for childcare
In order to guarantee the conditions which will allow them to work?"

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