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22 Ode to Tezos (Instrumental) - QueenEarth

Continuing with the release of Introducing QueenEarth 2.0 across the metaverse, this is the first drop on HicetNunc.

Pushed to completion and inspired by Gevik and the Clubhouse NFT community.
Polished by my mix and master genie brother Yacoo. Thank you both for the late nights. 

This instrumental was written during quarantine, for my journey to procreate. I didn't make a baby, yet, but I made a ton of beats and art to get me ready for bigger creating. 

Originally released on Bandcamp, you can hear what good mixing and mastering can do for a track. 

Originally titled "Baby Daddy" https://msqueenearth.bandcamp.com/track/baby-daddy

Remixed for Introducing QueenEarth 2.0 and "Ode to Tezos"
Performed and composed by QueenEarth
Mixed and mastered by El Negro Pacaso
Album artwork by QueenEarth

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22 Ode to Tezos (Instrumental) - QueenEarth

In my not saying much of anything during covid and 2020 racial tensions that came to a boil over . . . I decided to write this song and help me get some of my thoughts out of my head, even if I couldn't get out of the house.

400 years of captivity
75 years of Jim Crow and legal lynching

The knowledge that I/we/us could always be arrested
for breathing in the wrong direction
or looking
or walking
or working
or having the audacity to be ourselves
in our own skin . . .
A Great Migration and a Stonewall later,
I emerged to tell my Queer Black story.

I hope you enjoy! #bars
lyrics
Queer Core
By QueenEarth


They call me something
My ancestors never woulda claimed
“Nigga”
“Queer”
It’s not the same
When you’re raised for a world that don’t exist
No amount of experience
Can prepare you for this,
they scare you for this
With tales of “back in my day”
But we don’t run
And we don’t hide
I hope we have a future to say the same
With global warming and missile soarings
The curve is soaring up to the sky
And i just
Stay home and dig in the dirt like my granddaddy
back in his time
Maybe nothing’s changed
Whether or not they get me
They too 90° for my 360°
I’m too blue collar for their gentry
Clap your hands if you’re with me
If they cock they head on your entry

Queer to the Core
What you writing for?
Queer to the Core
Who you fighting for?

Stone Butch Blues
Womanism
Feminism Suffrage
Ta Nehisi Coates
Dropping knowledge in my syllabus
They try to pit me against me
The core of the constitution written not to fit me
Send me agenda
Conspiracies
Fact checking triggering
Asking me to split my soul
And weigh the worst of suffering
Reparations
Segregation
Stonewall uncoverings
And lies was told
Now a statistic missing from your interest list
We play in the blind space where you can’t see
Making music in your bell curve
X to your Y
How you draw lines with out me?
Maybe nothings’ changed
Whether or not they get me
I’m too shiny for the ashy
I ain’t even tryn
The glitter it just finds me
If you gone put me in the story
Let me define me

Queer to the Core
What you writing for?
Queer to the Core
Who you fighting for?

Words hold power
Labels
Stories as well
So what you gonna spell?
With Black girl Magic
In your coattails
Griots in you blood
Chalk lines
Hip hop disco
Black Moses
West like San Francisco
Come up for the Kinfolk
Miss me with the”Oh wElls”
Promises and wishing wells
Diggin deep enough to flood the street
We make our own pails
Bootstraps
Underneath the table
Pay my Black tax
Call in Queer
Sck day on my period
Redlines
And no call backs
LLC imperative
Got a coat rack full o’ hats
Which one I’m wearing when you call
You wonder how I got it
And since you not the plug
you gon pay me if you want it
I take it off when the phone clicks
Knowledge
Charge you for the game
Taken from my ancestors
Unapologetically
Maybe nothings changed
Still they won’t silence me
But they use me in their marketing
What?

Queer to the Core
What you writing for?
Queer to the Core
Who you fighting for?
credits
released October 15, 2020
Written and composed by M. Smith
Produced and mixed by QueenEarth
Mastering by Kariz Marcel

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Queer Core (NFT) - QueenEarth

Written for a podcast, but not chosen. With not regrets and nothing but a gift of an opportunity, I look forward to the harvest for all of us. #collared

This song is one of my stories when I do Queer Core. I come from Southern roots, gospel music, soul food, and cast iron pancakes. I have learned to say enslaved instead of slave, as language is powerful. A slave has no past and no potential. An enslaved person is human and placed in captivity. How shall I refer to my roots? We are called to walk in faith, to till the Earth, and to hold onto the legacy from before captivity.

I hope you enjoy this ode to the musical roots, especially the ones that came from my mother. Unchained. Free. Faith filled. Blessed. Check out this bathroom/ closet flow remix. I decided to share this one early, in honor of all the folks who cannot gather to celebrate their loved ones passing into ancestry during Coronavirus 2020.

lyrics
I stand before my maker
They are between
Me and the darkness
Always
Before and after
I stand between
Heaven and earth
Roots planted
And when they called
I wasn’t afraid to answer

Collared (I wasn’t afraid)

I kneel to pray
Plant these seeds of faith
Lessons
Dirt on my face
I kneel between
The hardest ground
The softest dirt
No empty pursuits
Plenty of food
A harvest
Harvest

Blood of Queens
Blood of Slaves
Out of the darkness
Break these chains

Blood of Queens
Blood of Slaves
Out of the darkness
Break these chains

Collared (I wasn’t afraid)

credits
from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
All instruments by QueenEarth
Bass and Vocals by QueenEarth
Mixed and recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
Written and composed by M Smith
Executive Produced by QueenEarth
Mixed and mastered by QueenEarth

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Collared (NFT) - QueenEarth

During the pandemic, I was able to have folks over to play instruments, but Black Chakra was the first to come over with social distancing and emcee-ing. He helped me learn the producer/engineer role. I thank him for letting me wear this hat.

I used it to fan these flames.
lyrics
QueenEarth

It hurts to be misunderstood
When you’re tryna see yourself
The reflection aint’t no good
And you’re lost in the crowd
Wish you could
Break the glass and get out
But the ceiling’s
covered in your dreams
And you’re afraid to shatter
Never considered
A plan
That was bigger than any you’d imagine
For yourself or your path
Wide lines
Skyways
Highways
Silencing yourself
From being verbose
Listening to so called friends
Who assess your thoughts as grandiose
And you’re walking in a vision
Just as long as your were in prison
But on this side of freedom
You’re walking in the light and better days
Bout to catch a flight
Quicker than the drive
you thought you’d have to take
If you want to grow
Go this way
credits
from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
All instruments by QueenEarth
Bass by QueenEarth
Written and performed by QueenEarth
Featuring Black Chakra
Mixed and recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
Composed by M Smith
Samples from Mixcraft
Executive Produced by QueenEarth
Mix and Mastered by QueenEarth


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Mindset (The NFT) - QueenEarth (feat. Black Chakra)

If we are fortunate to spend time with the ones we love, 2020/2021 has been a chapter when I learned to cherish it the most. #howdyouliketospendtoday


The lyric video NFT is also on #tezos - https://kalamint.io/token/27751



lyrics


Dear love

How’d you like to spend today?

I wiped my schedule clean

Meetings got erased

Dear love

Order up some food

No dishes in the sink

how ‘d you like to spend today



Windows open

Service

The neighbors

Think we pray

How’d you like to

Spend today



How’d you like to spend today

Dear love



Dear love

Can’t say that I’ve ever felt this way

So loved

So safe

And you give me the same

This love

Baby it’s the best I’ve ever made

And since it’s only getting better

Let’s just focus and create



I know what you’ll say

If I ask you babe

I know what you’ll say

When I ask you babe

How you wanna

spend today?

How you wanna

How you wanna

How you wanna spend today?

Dear love



Dear love

Can’t say that I’ve ever felt this way

How you wanna spend today?

Dear love

It you answer “nothing”

That’s okay

cus

I just wanna spend today

With you

With you

Dear love

How’d you like to spend today?

Dear love


credits

from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
All instruments by QueenEarth unless otherwise noted
Bass and Vocals by QueenEarth
Mixed and recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
Written and composed by M Smith
Executive Produced by QueenEarth
Mix and Mastered by Blakwater House, Baltimore, MD



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Dear Love (The NFT) - QueenEarth

This was the first song I recorded after Mom passed. She would have been one to talk to me and help me make sense of this world. I have had some life changing conversations with my white friends, and I go to bed at night, when I sleep well, with some hope for the future. I hope we can get this right!
lyrics
blue eyes
and brown eyes
they don't see the world in the same light

do thin lips start their morning
with bitter coffee
and judge me for the sugar
my full lips
would rather taste?

Can you see me in full color?
do you wish for simpler days?
i can't go back
the past was harder
can you do more than look away?

blue eyes
and brown eyes

too often
i see stories
morning news
burn the page
bury my control in the cushions
turning it off
is as simple as the
pushing of a button
I find excuses
not to change

can you see me
in full color?
can you do more than look away?

blue eyes
and brown eyes
I didn't believe in fantasy
you brought me Magic
you brought me Grace

and blue eyes and brown eyes
watch us
will they watch us break?

blue eyes
and brown eyes
credits
from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
Written and composed by M Smith
Vocals by QueenEarth
Guitar by QueenEarth
Recorded, mixed, mastered by QueenEarth

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Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes - QueenEarth

A song with no hook.
The medicine that is making music.

Facebook wouldn't let me share this music because it thought I was promoting drugs. Ok. But music is medicine. #makeitmakesense

A reflection on gentrification.
Time travel.
Cyclical oppression.
And making music.

lyrics
VERSE 1
searching for the perfect snare
to make the dopest instrumental
grew up modest
now I got a piss pot and a window
plain clothes
good indo
no purse to snatch
no intentional walk down
streets that blacks
not lit up
Yo, these people are my kinfolks
taking neighborly advice
from a man that rolls that dice
everyday
taking chances, advances
is it slow to me
he thinks
I’m moving twice as fast
cus I'm nice when I grab the mic
30 years ago
this used to be the central
so I listen when I have the time to pass
long body
white walls
music bumpin to a tempo
deep bass
I see faces like mine
and money moving through these hands
that built these roads
and etched somebody else's story
into the signs and temples
when we get to make our own beats
get to make and own these streets
the roads that we walk
tip our hat off to the misses
and the elders when they pass
sample stories from grandma's dreams
broken glass and dirty dishes
lets go




VERSE 2

I think about my mother's hands
when I stir cheese grits
flip pancakes as big as the skillet
everytime I freestyle, I will the stories
of 7 generations
ask me how I spill it
they try to kill Black voices
and call this gift an illness
the people make a choice to feel it
this is the pill they charge you for
cause Black trauma slaps
cracks like the whip on Tobe's back
a drama to record
watch it with the family
Roots
It's the same as the news
insurrections
the change is coming slow for people that
look like you
and the charges they don't add up
so I stay Grounded with a
direct electrical connection
find an 808 and move my
pen in that direction
take a breathe and
speak with some intention
truth
when your body is showing up
and your head is unscrewed
the best medicine is right
back up in the booth
I used to dream of having my own mic
but now's there’s no excuse
got the pedals in my hand
these are all my notes and grooves
stay soulful

VERSE 3
Good ol days
when was that
Asking me to go back in time
messin up what I know Doc Brown would be against
fucking with time
wasted
capitalism
asks you to be patient
to breathe while they standing on your neck
but you're asking for your check and you worked last week
and you grew up on this block
and 30 years layer yo, you look mad suspicious
during through and testing out the old root
like you casing out the riches
if you knock on the door to have a moment in the bedroom
where you made your first childhood wishes
will you leave wit your face on the concrete
swinging from a tree that you planted
they'll call you crazy
say you look far from home
and you need to leave the premises
i wonder if grandma's refrigerator still running in the basement
or if they got rid of it
built to last.
i take you on a tour
over a river and through the wood, uh
where I lost my innocence
where I ran the bases
hit home runs
shit was mad ridiculous
lifeguards, before my burdens
were these middle aged bills
I wanted so badly to get rid of it
my childhood
I'm missin it.
credits
from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
Produced by QueenEarth
Bass, Keys, Drums - QueenEarth

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This song was originally written for a collaboration project with Red Bull Amaphiko festival and a Baltimore entrepreneur, Alanah Nicole, a local kindred community engagement specialist like myself, has/had an event called “Much More Than an Open Mic”, and I was tasked with writing a song about all of it. That day, several years ago, we had a beautiful conversation about how open mics bring us all together, what makes a good open mic, how to cultivate our pain and joy into something concrete in a room.

As a host and event producer myself, it was cool to be tasked with capturing this concept. I stepped outside of myself to draft this story 4 years ago, and I dove in to deliver this first ever studio interpretation of a time that seems so distant, yet transformed by the circumstances of this pandemic. I long for live music and fellowship. If I were at my favorite open mic, we might create a house band that sounds like this. Enjoy “Open Mic”

This is the NFT here for purchase.

lyrics
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She sings
She writes
Got a room
A business mind
Been having dreams of chairs and tables
big loud speakers Mic and cables
What if we
add a little light
the world is dark sometimes
So we sing
We write
We came tonight
Much more
than an open mic


We pay a cover for our thoughts
Here we wear no mask
We sing
We dance
We fall in love
We meet our fans
More than followers
This is fam

And we came tonight
Much more
Than an open mic

They don’t say our names
When we die
But name us in the fight
And we came to sign our name
And to get
Called into the light

She hears poetry
She cries
She smiles
Almost stayed in
Tonight
Where I’m from
We say 5 or 5000
Maybe save a life
We came tonight much more than an open mic
We came tonight much more than an open mic
we came tonight

credits
released February 2, 2021
Written and Composed by QueenEarth
Beatbox, Guitar, Bass, and Keys by QueenEarth
Recorded and Engineered on Mixcraft
Mixed and mastered by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD

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Open Mic - QueenEarth

This song was written in 2018. We had just moved into a new apartment, in a nice neighborhood, in the Winter. And then the sun came out. "Move" is about growth.

Rough rough mix. Hear the pupper in the background. #issaeasteregg Remix coming soon!
lyrics
Since the beginning
Of fime, as far as the eye can see
We use stories to tell our legacy
That’s why
Between time ticks,
across land and seas
the problem?
his story
it wasn’t checkin for me
And silene and ommission-ing,
is far worse then a voice
and a positioning
That’s a gift man
And everywhere we go
man we're different
Everywhere you go shit is different
New rules same game
Ain’t shit done changed
They wrote the handbook without you
Ain’t got a seat
At the table for a player
About you
So what you bout to do?
This ain’t your place
No house rules
And everywhere you go
man it’s different
Everywhere you go
shit is different.

What you doin standin still
You’re supposed to move

What you doin standin still
You’re supposed to move

Wake up in the morning
Grab my phone from the night stand
Tryna make an overnight hundred grand
But the market is red
if ida spent a little sooner
Whispers in the valley
Had no green back then to do it
I wanna buy the block
Grow a little crypto
Staring at the screen won’t make
the time a faster tick
They say to save for rainy days
I had a season full of Aprils
And the well went dry
Holding hard won’t make the rocket
hit the moon tho
But damn if I don’t try
Something better happen soon
I got dreams to leave this corner
and I just parked my car
It was perfect in the winter
when the sun was far away
Daylight savings time
Means business hours are longer
Where the dope boys like to play
I wish they had a better way
But not outside my door
I want it different
When it happens close to home
That shit is different
There’s blood in these streets

What you doin standin still
You’re supposed to move
credits
from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
All instruments by QueenEarth unless otherwise noted
Bass and Rap/Vocals by QueenEarth
Mixed and recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
Written and composed by M Smith
Samples from Beats that Knock
Executive Produced by QueenEarth
Mix and Mastered by QueenEarth

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Move 1.0 - QueenEarth

This should have been on an older project, but I had to make the beat to do it like this. I channeled Usher a little bit. I have BIG dreams for this music video.

A song from my pandemic inspired lyrical project, Queer Core: Behind the Music

Who doens't like a cocky ass song written after the fact . . . Naked Truths lay with you.

Here is the NFT for purchase.

Enjoy a song about lies and cheating. It needed to be 2020 for me to get the harmonies to do this like I would have done it around the firepit with my homies. Talking s**t! It takes a village to do R&B harmonies!


lyrics
Damn
Naked Truths
Lay with you

All these trips
Out of town
What’s really good
You duckin’ dodging me
I’m holding down the fort
Dreaming of
Harvests and progeny
You loggin miles in your black book
Passport stamps
There’s words for women like you
I’d never call you a . . .
Damn
Posting pictures of a smile
That we had to pose to take
You block my calls
So folks can like
What they see
They pictures that we take
When I’m out of town
In silence
And I drop you off at Reagen
The queen of checkin in
She ain’t posting any mentions
Where were you?

Don't want no talk
Take our clothes off
Naked truths lay with you
(Tell me the truth
Or I don’t want to talk to you)
Naked truths lay with you

I hear you talking to me babe
Your story ‘s running in and out of places
You ain’t supposed to be
So why you lie to me
I’m not running from you babe
I’m going to my happy place
This dungeon ain’t for me
So call me when it’s clean
And the beast leaves

Don't want no talk
Take our clothes off
Naked truths lay with you

credits
from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
All instruments by QueenEarth unless otherwise noted
Bass and Vocals by QueenEarth
Mixed and recorded by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
Written and composed by M Smith
Executive Produced by QueenEarth
Mix and Mastered by QueenEarth


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Naked Truths - QueenEarth

The instrumental evolved and the pandemic wave settled. I had a few folks over to spit on the mic, and after sanitizing, I added a few vocals myself. Eze wrote the hook. #epicfam and #baltimore in the building. 

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Grilled Chicken Thighs (feat. Eze Jackson)

The lyrics that came to me after composing "Piano Lesson"
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/463753

Enjoy. Peep the evolution from the instrumental.

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Anna Mae - QueenEarth

My first beat after 3 piano lessons and a city-wide lockdown. Early 2020 creations. This would turn into a sexy song about cake later. More to come. 

Enjoy. 

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Piano Lesson (Instrumental) - QueenEarth

I made a beat everyday in quarantine. This was my first experiment with a sample. 

Enjoy. 

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