![]() ![]() “Pure soul, even in her pain, know she cared for me/ Gave me a number, said she recommended some therapy,” he raps, revealing the moment when his wife Whitney suggested that he should go to therapy to face his unhealthy relationship with sex and unearth childhood trauma that he had long buried. The whole song is revelatory, and in the final verse, Dot fully comes to grips with how the cyclical nature of family trauma affected him as an adult. Morale & The Big Steppers is a therapy session for the rapper, but not until the project’s penultimate track “Mother I Sober” does he finally reach his breakthrough. The entirety of Kendrick Lamar’s latest studio album Mr. ![]() Despite religion being at the backdrop of “Communion,” Che still recognizes that “it’s gon’ take more than a prayer just to fix that” as she embarks on the journey to defeat her demons. This verse is equal parts a confessional and therapy session, as she explains how childhood trauma has made it difficult for her to maintain relationships as an adult. Che Noir morphs the booth into her confessional as she takes communion in the house of rap, transmuting her darkest thoughts into the blood and the body that she passes out to her congregation of listeners in the powerful opening verse of her song “Communion.” “Tragic news, pain that left me in the saddest mood/ Depressed and family assumin’ it’s just my attitude,” Che raps, illustrating a struggle that many Black folk have faced, coming from homes that don’t take mental health seriously because of stigmas created by systemic issues that have stifled their access to understanding it better. "Rappers I monkey flip em with the funky rhythm I be kicking/Musician, inflicting composition/of pain I'm like Scarface sniffing cocaine/Holding a M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now/Bullet holes left in my peepholes/I'm suited up in street clothes/Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes/Y'all know my steelo with or without the airplay/I keep some E&J, sitting bent up in the stairway/Or either on the corner betting Grants with the celo champs/Laughing at baseheads, tryin' to sell some broken amps/G-Packs get off quick, forever n***** talk s***/Reminiscing about the last time the Task Force flipped/N***** be running through the block shootin'/Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston/Once they caught us off-guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and/I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin/Pick the Mac up, told brothers, "Back up," the Mac spit/Lead was hitting n*****, one ran, I made him back flip/Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look/Gave another squeeze, heard it click, "yo, my s*** is stuck"/Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger/Finally pulled it back and saw 3 bullets caught up in the chamber/So now I'm jetting to the building lobby/And it was full of children probably couldn't see as high as I be/(So what you saying?) It's like the game ain't the same/Got younger n***** pulling the triggers, bringing fame to their name/And claim some corners, crews without guns are goners/In broad daylight, stickup kids: they run up on us/4-5's and gauges, Macs, in fact/Same n***** will catch a back-to-back, snatching your cracks in black/There was a snitch on the block getting n****s knocked/So hold your stash 'til the coke price drop/I know this crackhead who said she's got to smoke nice rock/And if it's good, she'll bring you customers in measuring pots/But yo, you gotta slide on a vacation, inside information/Keeps large n***** erasin' and their wives basin'/It drops deep as it does in my breath/I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death/Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined/I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind.Church is meant to be a place of worship where one brings their pain and trauma to the pulpit in order to be saved.
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