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El Cielo

by Xiuhtezcatl

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about

El Cielo’ is an invitation to my music and culture as it weaves between the languages that I was raised on. Though I wrote this song reflecting the experiences of people I know, I think this moment is showing us that family separation and state violence impacts so many of our communities—whether it’s ICE agents raiding homes and caging children, state-run schools taking Indigenous youth from their homes to erase their culture, or police killing and locking up unarmed Black people. Time and time again, we resist these systems through love—it’s that love that holds us together in the face of so much fear.

lyrics

Reach out and take my hand
Open up your eyes I’mma show you who I am
Escucha mi amor tengo mucho que contar
Medio complicado mi pasado tan real
Una historia de amor, quien sabe que será
Que será?
Espejo del cielo, me lo dieron sin pensar
Como mis ancestros elders read it in the stars
Boy to a man
I’m the product of a border in the sand

I been wide awake
I’m sick of the cold
I’m acting okay when I’m really afraid
Don’t want them to know

Mi gente trynna get by
How we go live right?
We didn’t come here for free
We didn’t come here for free

I been wide awake
I’m sick of the cold
I’m acting okay when I’m really afraid
Don’t want them to know

Mi gente trynna get by
How we go live right?
We didn’t come here for free
We still paying the price

Born alone, die alone I pray she be my in-between
The inconsistency of how I feel rippin at the seems
This country wasn’t made for me
They eat the fruit my people pick
That grew on stolen soil flowin oil broken hands that sip
The water
The trauma run as deep as the love
The culture kept alive a secret from us
As red as the road I walk
It’s all that i know
It's as deep as the pain , is my family home?

I been wide awake
I’m sick of the cold
I’m acting okay when I’m really afraid
Don’t want them to know

Mi gente trynna get by
How we go live right
We didn’t come here for free
We didn’t come here for free

I been wide awake
I’m sick of the cold
I’m acting okay when I’m really afraid
Don’t want them to know

Mi gente trynna get by
How we go live right
We didn’t come here for free
We still paying the price

Mira me mira me mira me mira me
Yo nací con las fronteras dentro mi venas
No me esperas
Mira me mira me ya amanece amanece

We still paying the price
We still paying the price

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released September 18, 2020

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Xiuhtezcatl Portland, Oregon

Redefining what mainstream hip-hop can look and sound like, Xiuhtezcatl’s message and depth transcends his mere twenty years on the planet, yet is still packed with all the hard-hitting grit that appeals today’s hip-hop fans.

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