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Soukous(French) means to shake. Is a genre of dance from the Congo Basin.

I’d like to dedicate this to all of the Creator’s righteous children. I have some food in my bag for you. Not that edible food – the food you eat? No. I have some food for thought. Since knowledge is infinite it has infinitely fell on me. So umm…

It was a stormy night you know the kind where the lightning strike and I was hangin’ out wit some of my “artsy” friends ooh wee ooh wee oooh The night was long the night went on people coolin’ out until the break of dawn incense was burnin’ so I’m feelin right – ah'ight

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth I don’t go ‘round trying to be what I’m not I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you and that’s why I do what I do My soul flies free like a willow tree doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don’t want to be down with me You don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me Then you don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me Then you don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me You just don’t want to be down

I have a ho and I take it everywhere I go Cause I’m planting seeds so I reaps What I sow – ya know Oh on & on & on & on my cipher keeps movin’ like a rollin’ stone I can’t control the soul flowin’ in me ooh wee

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth I don’t walk around trying to be what I’m not I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you and that’s why I do what I do My soul flies free like a willow tree doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don’t want to be down with me, You don’t want to pick from my appletree [x3] And if you don’t want to be down with me You just don’t want to be down

Oh my my my Oh my my my Oh my my my ahh Oh my my my my my my my Ohh I picks my friends like I pick my fruit & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth I don’t walk around trying to be what I’m not I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you and that’s why I do what I do My soul flies free like a willow tree doo wee doo wee do wee

Ten Toes Down: The Black Ballerina (2021)

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Photography by Kreshonna Keane