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Surrender (ft. Zen Tempest, Samira Lobby & Jorah Lafleur)

from Empires Die​.​.​.​Life Evolves by Plaedo

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about

(While recording “Empire’s Die...Life Evolves” my life started to fall apart. I was suspended from my job working with at risk street youth for trying to protect a youth from getting beat up by the cops. Another client was charged with murder (and I would be a key witness in the case) Shortly after my program got its funding cut. Around the same time my wife started to fall in love with another man. And every night I laid in pain dealing with my new mysterious nervous disorder, while crying about the state of my 13 year marriage. My homie, Zen Tempest called me up one day and was like, “You should go to the Solar Sound Music Immersion Retreat in Costa Rica that I’m organizing.” I told him, I couldn’t go, my life was a mess. The next day I was at a recording session at Thee Funny Farm with my homie and producer of this song, The Hopeful Child and he was like, “I’m going to this Solar Sound retreat in Costa Rica, you should come with me.” I told him my life was a mess and that I could not go. But the other MC on the song, Zen Tempest, was one of the organizers of Solar Sound. So The Hopeful Child, impressed by this connection said, “I’m feeling moved by spirit and I have a rare cushion of cash, I want to pay for you to go.” And thus I got to go to Solar Sound. I have eternal Love and gratitude to both Zen Tempest and The Hopeful Child, they are both magical souls. Samirra Lobby and Jorah Lafluer, the other two artists on the track, are also magical souls who I feel a deep respect and admiration for. They feel that way towards each other too, and are grateful that this song gave them an opportunity to collaborate. Even as my life was falling apart, the creation of this album was connecting people and cultivating community. The community that would sustain me through my next chapter of life. I love that.)

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Blessed are the weak the poor and diseased
the broken and homeless of which we speak
blessed be the pain that leads to the escape we seek
through others and lovers drugs and tv
too tired to sleep too hungry to eat
those who don’t get high no more but still smoke weed
to try to cloud the memories and fear they repeat
for when done with the running the god within we shall seek
So it’s the fear it’s the pain that we must greet
in order for the broken to be complete
So one must become lost to become found
one first must die to be reborn
So cry cry until your tears run dry
sit with your pain
let it burn your image
let it burn your name
Give in to this flame
let it burn you to nothing
for to be nothing
is the beginning
of everything…

credits

from Empires Die​.​.​.​Life Evolves, released October 18, 2021
Produced by: The Hopeful Child & Plaedo
Vocals by: Samira Lobby, Zen Tempest & Plaedo
Poem by: Jorah Lafleur
Mixed by: The Hopeful Child & Plaedo
Mastered by: Ecco Acoustics

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Plaedo is a story telling hip hop philosopher of play. Plaedo is a true M.C.- A Master of Ceremonies who Moves Communities with a Message to Communicate. Plaedo can Plaedo has been spotted at poetry slams, coffee shops, festivals, schools, protests and street corners performing, spreading peace, love, joy, and wisdom with his brand of performance art he has labeled "Tribal Hop Raptivism" ... more

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