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Musicians take to the streets to help uplift protestors.
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00:00Stand up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
00:05You know, being right in the middle of it
00:07and seeing people fighting for proper treatment,
00:12it's a tough change that's happening, but change is necessary.
00:15And change can be uncomfortable.
00:16So you've got to also have sweetness with the change.
00:19So we're bringing music, and the music makes it sweet.
00:22You know, sometimes people need to dance.
00:30You've got to go home.
00:31I'm not seeing how it's right.
00:34You're working for us.
00:54That morning after the riots, at 5 o'clock in the morning,
00:58everybody was up and cleaning and sweeping
01:00and getting the neighborhood back together.
01:03So I'm grateful for the opportunity to rise with my city
01:09and continue to not go back to how Baltimore was,
01:13but to establish a new normal.
01:15We, my sisters and me,
01:20we are the surviving sisters of the ghetto street.
01:25We walk through the hoods with our heads held high.
01:31We are the surviving sisters, and we don't die.
01:40What happened was unfortunate.
01:42You know, I'm sad for the outcome,
01:45but we are getting changed because of it.
01:48You can't hold us down, or knock off our crowns.
01:51Cause we in it the winning, and yet we taking this round.
01:54Somewhere the road got rough, we still standing our ground.
01:56Shining stars, they know just who we are.
01:59When we told you what it is, believe it's coming from the heart.
02:01We got paving these bricks.
02:03Hold up.
02:04But through the darkness,
02:05cabbage emerged from it.
02:06Had to learn to use our brains to get labeled as a scarecrow.
02:10But this ain't Kansas or the Oz, though.
02:12No.
02:13This is Baltimore.
02:14The land are the O's.
02:15The land are the Nose.
02:17The land are the O's.
02:18The land are the O's.
02:18B. Getty.
02:18Kurt Smokes.
02:19Oh, that was the Mo's.
02:21Charlie Rudo's.
02:22Jita's and Travis's weekly fashion shows.
02:25BG's and I talking baby gangsters.
02:27Baltimore girls, and we done been through the trenches.
02:34Thank y'all.

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