TRIBECA-GRAND represents an unprecedented culmination of nearly 50 years of combined professional experience, and a shared cultural experience in Hip-Hop dating almost back to day one. The Bronx is the birthplace of Hip-Hop. Philadelphia is the home of the first Rapper to win a Grammy. From the hood to Hollywood, this team represents the essence of all the best Hip-Hop has to offer. TRIBECA-GRAND were destined to play the Sport Of The Gods.
TRIBECA-GRAND emerged with a brilliant lead single from their forthcoming album, Sport Of The Gods. Take A Knee is an anthem that is both timely and timeless, as grimy as it is inviting. It's bigger than Kaepernick. It's bigger than Trump. And, to quote Dead Prez, much like our current political climate, which the record captures so perfectly, “it's bigger than Hip-Hop.”
lyrics
TAKE A KNEE
Jared Lee Taylor (ASCAP) / Interworld Agency Media (ASCAP)
Wentworth A. Richards (ASCAP) / Myra Emelda Music (ASCAP)
BECA-GRAND! (Ad lib)
Chorus
Take a knee, Take a knee
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms or take a knee, take a knee
Take a knee, Take a knee
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms or take a knee
Verse 1
Grand Agent:
Take a knee see what I see get on my level
no of course you wanna gloss over like patent leather
Tribeca:
That star-spangled banner without the guns and ammo
cops blam you never mind the book 'em Danno
Grand Agent:
what type of interactions you be having with the cops?
Glocks drawn down on you during traffic stops
Tribeca:
traffic can be type tragic on average
that blue fabric make 'em act like they savage
Grand Agent:
the system you fought to defend is a fraud it's pretend
it offends even y'all in the end
Tribeca:
and y'all can pretend in the end we will win
so defend those who sin no care who this offends
stay woke! (Ad lib)
Chorus
Take a knee, Take a knee
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms or take a knee, take a knee
Take a knee, Take a knee
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms or take a knee
BECA-GRAND! (Ad lib)
Verse 2
Grand Agent:
nuff respect to the vets tho, thanks for your service
if you elect a clown just expect a circus
Tribeca:
fake news will miss cue the issue
black men shot dead got no pistol
Grand Agent:
America you see that we traumatized you need to apologize
you wanna reserve the right to colonize
Tribeca:
no colony link arms in harmony
protest accordingly peaceful importantly
Grand Agent:
them CNN town halls don't tear down walls
cuz twitter is bitter my hitter it's trash it's litter
Tribeca:
no handle in situations that we facing
formation get in line and stand adjacent
stay woke! (Adlib)
Chorus
Take a knee, Take a knee
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms or take a knee, take a knee
Take a knee, Take a knee
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms if you with me
Everybody link your arms or take a knee
Bridge
Grand Agent:
oh say can you see
by the dawn's early light
why the man take a knee?
Cuz police taking life
in the name of the bright stars
and the broad stripes
so a life non-white
is a perilous fight
and the images of black men
gallantly streaming
draw death threats
about a ball player's last breathing
oh say does the star-spangled banner yet wave
while unarmed black men
get slaughtered for the grave
stay woke ! (Ad lib)
Chorus x 3
credits
released October 21, 2017
Written by: Jared Lee Taylor (ASCAP) / Wentworth A. Richards (ASCAP)
Published by: Interworld Agency Media (ASCAP) / Myra Emelda Music (ASCAP)
Produced by: TRIBECA
