Reprise - Live Version

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Y'all know what a cypher is?
 Y'all know what a cypher is? (Yes)
 Alright!
 It's all kinds of cyphers
 But a cypher can be represented by a circle, which consists of how many degrees?
 What? 360 degrees (360 degrees)
 And my cypher keeps moving like a rolling stone
 So in my song when I said that my cypher represents
 Myself or the atoms in my body and the rolling stone represents the Earth
 The atoms in the body rotate at the same rate on the same axis that the Earth rotates
 Giving us a direct connection with the place we call Earth
 Therefore, we can call ourselves Earth, okay?
 Now, on my hand I wear Ankh, this is an Ankh
 An ankh is an ancient Kemetic symbol
 The word Kemet is the original name for Egypt
 The symbols can be found on the walls of hieroglyphics in Kemet
 The symbol represents "Life", alright!
 This portion represents the womb
 Sisters, put your hands on your wombs
 This portion represents the male principle of the birth canal
 Brothers put your hands on your male organs
 And this portion represents the fallopian tubes
 120, 120, 120, 360 degrees of life's completion, you emit life
 In all I do, I try to represent life
 Give birth to different things, melodies, music, prayers, babies
 Now, I was going to tell y'all something else too
 (Yeah, I remember that)
 

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Duration
02:15
Key
2
Tempo
108 BPM

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