Kayatta - Life Reimagined (I wanna know) (Official Video)
Channel: City of Santa Rosa, California
Date: 15/08/2023

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Official Music Video for "Life Reimagined (I wanna know)" by Kayatta, in collaboration with Santa Rosa Juvenile Hall and SRJC Black Student Union.

Over the course of (4) months, artist Kayatta, arts equity consulting group Kimzin Creative, and Santa Rosa Forward partnered to create spoken word workshops for (3) units at Santa Rosa Juvenile Hall and (1) at the Santa Rosa Junior College Black Student Union. The writing exercises focused on health and housing as data collection for the General Plan Update. Data collected from these workshops reflects and uplifts the hopes and dreams of workshop participants as it relates to the City of Santa Rosa’s health, environmental justice, and housing.

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LYRICS

Bruised, scraped, and just short of greatness
The world is hindered without healthy minds

What will life look like 30 years from now
For myself, my town, my family, my child

Uh, as I sit here thinking
About a life reimagined in this Santa Rosa dreaming

Cause as it’s currently constructed
Yo It’s hard for me to trust it
Tryna get from A to B
With no access to our buses
GMO up in our lunches
At the air I’m throwing punches
Honestly the whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.
And we can really talk that talk but they don’t want to touch it.
I want a seat like Fannie Lou so we can  discuss it
Transform all of the tears dropped in a bucket
If you ask me the whole thing needs some reconstruction
And it ain’t cosmetic or prosthetic
If it ain't inclusive I don’t get it
Cause if you get it
She get it,  he get it
Why can’t I get it?
Or We get it?
Yeah, we get it!

[Chorus]
We need love 
We need care
Got some loose change to spare
We need help
We need health
That’s intact and that’s rare
I wanna know x15
I wanna know

“How do they ignore the lights
People struggling for their lives
Trying to find possible ways around
Are they that blind to see
Death rates rise”

How can they ignore the light
When we need it to grow only darkness in sight
And as I sit here thinking 
It would be a little slice of heaven with sustainable living
With clean parks designed to hold space for our children
Cease the gang and gun violence just a few things that I’m feeling
We at the bottom only way to go is up
The water pours the same but we drink from different cups.
My mental health needs fine tuning
I’m flesh and blood, my God I’m on human

It sounds a little crazy but it’s not impossible
And give some rest to those working in the hospitals
Abolish redline barricades
I’ve been soaked in the pain
But healing is the marinade
The underpaid deserve a raise, and a parade
The road to redemption, destination Happy Days

[Chorus]
We need love 
We need care
Got some loose change to spare
We need help
We need health
That’s intact and that’s rare
I wanna know x15
I wanna know

“Today is March 27, 2023 - my last day in jail. It is a long day, and my mood is happy and nervous. If you are reading this, you are hopefully a free man. I hope you’re living in a house with a little yard. I wish your mental health will be better and that you’re able to be treated when it isn’t. I hope that you’re married with 2 kids. I really hope that your family is happy. I wish for the wellbeing of Santa Rosa with better mental health services.”

Do black voices matter?
Brown voices matter?
Queer voices matter?

Do our voices matter?
Young voices matter?

Do poor voices matter?

Do broken voices matter?
Hurt voices matter?

Do the voiceless matter?
Stories written from sorrow but we desire laughter
When you receive an action plan, what you gon’ do after?
Put it all in motion
Bring light to the hopeless

Come down to our city blocks!

So you can see just how we rock

Can we grow?
Can we love?
Can we live?
Can we change?
Cause the pain 
Can’t remain
Nothing less
Cause we deserve the best
Give me liberty and life
Cause It’s vital
for our survival

[Chorus]
We need love 
We need care
Got some loose change to spare
We need help
We need health
That’s intact and that’s rare
I wanna know x15
I wanna know…