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Fashion is a huge form of expression in the Black community and our influence in this field can be seen all over the world. Here, a young person who has a heart for empowering the Black community by using their sense of fashion is conflicted over how to do so when considering that the majority of fabric/textile materials in the world are created using the slavery of other communities in sweatshops.

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"The Chosen Skin"

I only wanted money so that I could be fresh.
Pockets ain't stockin' profits if you walk in a mess.
Yes.
Provocative, blessed.
Probably stop the world the way I rock how I dress - best.
And I ain't even flossin'.
It's just, with how you're gawkin', it would seem I have a lot to invest...
Style.
Hit the profile on 'em, watch 'em go wild in the West.
We wildin' for the zest while in an isle of denial.
Fall in single-file miles for the buyers of our flesh
and products made in distress/duress in Bangladesh.
I want my own design clothing line but I can't find a mesh
that stretch-fits that elephant.
Yet it's relevant, 'cuz new and old slave labor's paid for
when the makers ain't sellin' it.

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from You Will Never Understand (The State of Soul), released February 1, 2019
(featured vocals - Tre Braswell)

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