Breeze – Fuck Fear [Video]

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Breeze, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA.

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And this poem is a prayer,
00:05
rebuking, removing and defeating the spirit of fear from your life.
00:09
– Amen. – (audience) Yeah, amen!
00:11
This poem is about the brilliant black boy writing battle bars for Satan.
00:16
About the gorgeous black girl realizing she is God, therefore praying
00:20
to her own reflection because religion ain’t enough.
00:23
I don’t know if prayers have titles but if they did,
00:26
then this poem would be called, “Although I walk through the valley
00:30
of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil,
00:33
the brilliant gorgeous remix.”
00:36
So this poem kind of sounds like, “I guess I got my swagger back.
00:40
The devil tried to kill me, y’all, but I guess I got the dagger back.”
00:43
Or, “The gospel according to bone-crusher, bitch, I ain’t ever scared.”
00:48
Or, ” How do use Kirk Franklin’s Hello, Fear album as an oxygen mask
00:52
in the gas chamber of give up.”
00:53
Or, “How to use an ultralight beam as a night light
00:56
to finish your coloring book while eating Sunday candy
00:58
in the dark of doubt, you know, just take a chance,” no.
01:02
(audience) Yeah, let’s go!
01:03
This poem here is called, “The heart is a house of love.”
01:07
Or, “Love and fear can’t exist in the same space,”
01:10
so this poem is called, “When the heart serves fear
01:13
its eviction notice.”
01:14
No, this poem here is called, “I almost gave up today.”
01:19
Subtiltle.
01:21
But my daughter’s smile.
01:23
But my son’s laughs.
01:25
But my Mama’s prayers.
01:27
No, this poem here is called, “Guess what, yo.
01:29
Your faith never left.
01:30
It’s just be your inner child, loving to play hide and seek
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at all the worse times which is actually really the perfect time
01:36
because it always loves to hide in all the places you forget to look
01:39
when you go through something, like the last place you saw God at.”
01:42
Or this poem is called, “The praise dance of a sinner,
01:46
a fight song for a scared to start over because your genesis
01:49
be engulfed in darkness where your circumstances
01:52
make you forget how to speak yourself a sun.”
01:55
No.
01:56
This poem here is called, “That one time fear was talking shit.”
02:00
Fear said, “I bet I catch you walking through that valley
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of the shadow of death because I be that darkness there.
02:05
I be heavy in them streets so heavy, you won’t be able
02:07
to lift your voice saying, ‘You are poor, nothing to get you
02:10
off of my block.’
02:11
You think you tough, huh?
02:12
Try me, sucker, I’m fear!
02:14
See if I don’t choke the ‘let there be’ right out of you!”
02:17
Or this poem is called, “The pull up when I ran up
02:21
on fear hoe ass because he was talking that shit.”
02:24
(audience cheers)
02:25
Like I be walking through that–
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like I be walking through that valley of the shadow of death often,
02:30
and, bitch, I ain’t ever scared!
02:31
I got my swagger back.
02:33
Devil tried to kill me when I’m up in this spot
02:35
looking as fresh as Sunday candy, all ultralight beam awesome,
02:39
illuminating all that nothing he thought he was
02:41
and yes, I found my faith.
02:42
It never left.
02:44
It was just playing hide and seek with the prayers
02:46
and the laughs and the smiles, that were coloring book bright
02:49
hiding in the last place I saw God at.
02:51
O, fear, I talked to God, She told me to ask you,
02:54
“What’s all that darkness you think you are?”
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after She reminded me that I am the light She let there be.
03:01
This poem here is called, “Cursing in church.”
03:04
“The testimony of a heathen that God ain’t through with,
03:07
‘long as I ain’t through with my Goddamn self”
03:09
and no, this poem here is called,
03:12
“When the brilliant black boy writes battle bars for Satan,”
03:15
a gorgeous, brilliant remix poem,
03:19
“Hello, Fear.
03:21
Fuck you!
03:23
and Amen.”
03:25
(clapping and cheering)

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