DESCRIPTION:
Portland-based rappers and community educators release Purify Me as part of the global day of #HipHop4Flint to raise funds to purchase water filters for the people of Flint, Michigan who have been suffering from toxic water in the city's current state of emergency.

Artist Links:
Quincy Davis Website: https://www.quincydavismusic.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quincydavismusic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quincydavismusic
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/quincydavismusic
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7LoQeWtWlVnY9qET4Ya11o
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/quincy-davis/212256729
Bandcamp: https://quincydavis.bandcamp.com/

Talilo:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talilomarfil/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7abJ40nXm1Cfe8lxlNuyEO
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/talilo/600043115
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TaliloMarfil
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/talilo.marfil
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/talilo

Directed by Quincy Davis, written & performed by Quincy Davis, Talilo Marfil and Antonia Marquee.
Beat by Kloud Nine Music
Video crew: Adam Lobaugh, Josh Smith, Robert Oxman
Special thanks to the Johnson family


"Remedy" available now:

For more info on how to keep Nestlé out of the Columbia Gorge: https://keepnestleout.wordpress.com


Lyrics:

(QUINCY DAVIS)
I see no changes
wake up in the morning and I ask myself
if life’s worth livin should I stash myself?..
clean water for my family to survive
in Flint Michigan, did we listen to the cries?
got me thinkin as I’m watchin water flow
down the _drain, not knowing where it goes, it’s a shame
to know people die everyday from the thirst
while fresh water flows to the lawns in the burbs
they got it good, but what about the rest?
and we never know, who’s next
why they tryin to privatize water, in my own state?
got the Cascades on lock, for their profits to raise
all around the world, controlled by Nestle
but if I try to catch the rain, they’d arrest me
for the dollar bill, where does it end?
could you own the water? could you own the wind?

CHORUS (ANTONIA MARQUEE)
Do you hear me? Tell me do you hear me
I’m in need of purity
There’s nothing pure for me to drink
Why you tryin’ to own the water?
Who do you think you are?
You better give us what we deserve
we need it as pure as our hearts

(TALILO MARFIL)
knees weak arms heavy
they say they care about us but they don’t
just cuz I’m poor don’t mean that I’m not ready
to give my body to greater good of yours, of course
a war is breaking out so…
i see the drought through the windows
but it stained with the pain of the chains
that have stayed even tho back in the day they was broke
i wrote and put my broken soul into the ink of the pen
paint a picture of this vision the Picasso of men
i seen a throne built on power
greed at the head
sheep, is a wolf in its skin
in the middle riddled civilians
belittled by the mighty men that are witful
that says your basic needs aren’t fitfull to grip a pistol
your water contaminated yo race is not superior
you don’t know your history we flippin this pyramid

purfy, purify me
in my reach swear that i got it
life that i thirst death surrounds my whole body
as i open the bottle, i aint finding no water
purify, purify me
i can’t believe what I’m seeing
i been tryina find a reason
why my family is bleeding
in a land full of water but can’t drink it

(CHORUS)

(QUINCY)
purify me, need to find a way to live for my seed
m’ni wichoni, water of life, so holy
sacred, what will it take us…
to remember, never take it for granted?
tell me what they search for when they look at the planets
yeah water is life, to grow the seed into the trees
we need the trees to breathe