Mike Grant - The Struggle Of My People

From the 12" And Then It Was My Turn... released 2001 on Moods & Grooves: http://www.discogs.com/release/3765

Another of these house tracks that sample Maya Angelou reciting her poem Still I Rise.

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.


Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.


Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.


Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.


Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.


You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.


Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?


Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

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• house

[Hansenhamburg]

some of the best samples ever used!

[sneakykebab]

this is the MR.G mix, fucking excellent!!!

[OfficialDomshe]

Finally I found this badboy!

[chatchat967]

ein geiles ding hey

[inkaonix]

does anyone the name of the sample voice?thnXX

[MINIMUSIC21]

@gerrylives what original are u talkin BOUT?

[gerrylives]

haus dip. like the ruben mancias vocal sample from 'i rise' but much prefer the original

[wozzzzzzy]

TUNE !!!

[beyond72]

Quality

[cstphn]

great song

[atviortke]

ahh remeber old times when josh wink played this tune at turnmills in london in 2001

[sipeirson]

yeah .... always love MR Gs stuff.

Been putting out quality for years now