A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 — Common makes a stirring statement about the culture-shifting force of the Black race: “Kismet kissed it, it’s smeared like lipstick/Colorful on our souls/ A mouth full of gold or a drummer’s roll/Stories get told about us/That’s why things so blah without us/Wherever we are, you can feel the prowess/Whenever we move, yo, we turn the style up/I’ma just give Black power its flowers.”And when it comes to moving the culture, the most powerful of all to the 49-year-old rapper, actor and activist are Black women. “The first time I went to to Japan, the women there were trying to look like Mary J.
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