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Visual album from Beyoncé inspired by 'The Lion King'.
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Ankh or the dashiki print
Look around in all the places you go to Stand your ground and stay solid like ogun
MAN: And now, introducing the debutant and their beaux.
Crack my neck back like I'm the chiro
Growin', growin' like a baobab tree Of life on fertile ground
'94 Nas, Ali Bomaye, no Kumbaya Just give me the sommelier
There's something about kingship, you know?
Hol' up, don't I smell like such a nag champa incense?
TIMON: Look, kid,
Ooh, melanin, melanin, my drip is skin deep, like
Omo oba ma gba gbe
Ooh, goin' up, goin' up Motherland, motherland drip on me
Footwork like Pogba
My baby father, bloodline Rwanda
-Need peace and reparation for my people -Woo
You could send them missiles, I'mma send my goon
Life is your birthright They hid that in the fine print, uh
Baby, oh I'm not much of a talker
Divine archetype,
No white angels Just albino
BANKULLI: So kale
No shade, no shade I got that limelight
No remorse The sin is final
-Bees is known to bite -Zzz, zzz
KENDRICK LAMAR: Told myself if I dive in it without precaution of a lifejacket
Not just a speck in the universe Not just some words in a Bible verse
Had to cut 'em loose Now I'm loose, break the levee, yeah
Made a picket sign off your picket fence Take it as a warning
-I'mma let it shrivel up -Shrivel up
The marathon will be televise for NIP
Nubian douse in brown, I'm lounging in it
Ancestors on the wall Let the ghosts chitchat
anoint our blessings in the stars.
MAN: Many times it's the women that reassemble us.
Tick tock pretty baby You can get it back, don't you waste it
This that war This that bloodline
You know me, I not be pretender From start of the week to the weekend, ah
I felt liberate like free birds I'm stimulated now
She minds her business and whine her waist
Look up, don't look down Then watch the answers unfold
They watching They all adore you
-I'mma let it dread all up -Dread all up
I beg make them talk I go give them the action
Man, I swear It made me relax when I came down
Your skin is not only dark It shine and it tells your story
And the stars gather by
Treasures dancing on the bezel This kinda feeling unforgettable
I swam the whole way, I didn't turn around
The coast belong to our ancestors.
YOUNG SIMBA: Danger? (SCOFFS) I laugh in the face of danger.
The king has arrive
Watch your back and just do what you're suppose to
See, eyes might not see the greatness inside you, that lie within
(SINGING) If the storm comes If we burn up
Go figure, me and Jigga, fifty 'leven children
Oh, darling, if you leave I'll go wherever you go
Truly I'm feeling it I had to say that thing twice
RAFIKI: I know exactly who I am.
Whenever in doubt and alone
but sometimes I don't know how to navigate.
MAN: Black men especially, we're told not to love ourselves.
I got big enough to run around, Daddy left me outside
but not just for selfish reasons, but to actually build up the community.
Oh, you are the remedy Don't know what's inside
Woza! Boom, boom, check you later I roll with the danger
She Wilhelmina pretty but she heart is a maze
Understand that good and evil often appear together.
far,
He said I'm moving too fast Need to take it slow ow
MUFASA: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.
I'd never trade you for anybody else, baby
BEYONCÉ: No true king ever dies.
and can still always find something like home.
Trying to be a good wife Still really hard I can't lie
You'll never lose We are winners
You better think again Better wake up because
I can't talk for too long Got too much gold to try on
MAN: Systemically, we've had so much taken from us.
(SINGING) I'm so unbothered, I'm so unbothered
-Sit! -Be still and obedient
They say we being demonic Angel in disguise
CHILDISH GAMBINO: All praise due
I'll persuade those who are stubborn
(SINGING) If you feel insignificant
This kinda feelin' unforgettable
Jealousy, huh Don't you jealous me
born celestial,
Then I'll dive in it 'til I'm exhausted and I'm type lackin'
If you're feeling frustrated and
Show no fear, boy Where's your spinal?
Refer to me as a goddess I'm tired of being modest
-Osh -You for be brave ohh oh
Look at my natural, I'm so exotic
None of my fears can't go where I'm headed
Here's some things you have to know It go rough for man to grow
noble and royal,
We need to show Black men and women are emotional,
Even the strong get weak But you're the key, you're the key
The tears we cry let us know that we alive, yeah, yeah
Being black, maybe that's the reason why they always mad
-Be quiet! -We are still!
MUFASA: As king, I was most proud of one thing.
My inner demons have awakened