‘Kiss me on my neck.’ In Kimet, the neck is the throne for the head.
The lips of ampu protect and discard all negative energy. In Egypt, have you seen those Dobermans sitting on each side of them? They’re called ampu. Somebody to walk behind, behind is where all the energy lies. In Kimet, ptah is a figure who is known as the body. Because you say it over and over again, and it’ll happen. And the song, where I say, ‘I want somebody to walk up behind me and kiss me on my neck,’ is a hesi. And that’s what a hesi is, to speak a word or a sentence or a phrase over and over again. Like if you keep saying ‘I am brave, I am brave, I am brave,’ eventually you will become brave, because some people do say that you speak words into existence. Like something you say over and over again. And what a hesi is in Egypt or Kimet is like an affirmation. Hesi, the word hesi is beside the song “Kiss Me”. In the lyric sheet, there are initials by the song titles, like HESI, SUMPTH. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me. What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. It’s my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another. What does music mean to me? I don’t think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. ‘Come on, don’t fall into that,’ you know? Sometimes if we’re feeling weak at the moment, and I’m reading Jill Scott is like Erykah Badu, or Jill Scott reads that, as humans you feel like, ‘AIt’s just the way the music business is. It really doesn’t have anything to do with the artist. I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. You don’t see any competition between yourself and someone like Jill Scott? Whether we talking about something serious or talking about partying, we don’t want to compromise the music at all.
We want our music to be real and we don’t want to compromise our art. I mean, we don’t sound anything alike, we don’t approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We’re all friends, inside the music and outside the music. So we basically represent the artists who are still often unheard. Now there’s a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. There’ll never be another Baduizm, another Erykah Badu, another Macy Gray. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were. It don’t have nothing to do with music or anything. I’m only in competition with my last level.
You know, any artist who feels the way I do, I get on their record, too. Do you feel this album is some kind of proof to that? You’ve been out of the public eye for a couple of years now, and since then you’ve got people like Macy Gray in your step. Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. I mean, they can use the album for whatever they need or what they want. So they just kind of come through me some kind of way. Actually, it started with a melody I was humming, and usually the words find they place, they be waiting to get on a song.
So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary. And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. You know, I was happy I was able to assess things a little bit better. I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth. After Baduizm, in ’97, so about two and a half years ago, right after I finished Baduizm, when I started my live show. I mean, I love his voice, and I think it should be heard basically. They’re like another family for me, an extended family. Steve and I worked together a lot for the food drives that they have every year, that the Marley’s have every year, the Marley’s birthday parties. Was there anybody you sought out to work with? It would be a better thing to have, you know? So that’s the explanation. So they can put my album in they holster, or on they lap, or on they seat. Our sons and daughters are going to need something to take with them for protection. And the way life is to me right now, we’re at a very detrimental time. Most of the time, you don’t even know your mamma have a gun, you know? And when she pulls it out, and shows it to you, it’s something serious.
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