Essence Superlounge returns! This time as a Digital series debuting with powerful soul-singer Kirby from Mississippi.
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00:00I said, L.A., how y'all feelin'?
00:04We all right!
00:05Now y'all know I'm from Mississippi, baby. Y'all gotta talk back to me.
00:08I said, how y'all feelin'?
00:10We all right!
00:12Now Essie's had the audacity to fly me all the way from Mississippi
00:18to L.A. for the good luncheon.
00:21And so I feel like it's my responsibility,
00:24better yet my duty,
00:26to take y'all back to where some of y'all ancestors are from.
00:29Can we go there today, Essie?
00:31Let's go!
00:33Can we go to Mississippi, Essie?
00:37I'm gonna try to try something, say it.
00:39Mmmmm, say it.
00:43Somebody in here from the South, say it.
00:45Mmmmm, you can do it, come on.
00:49Mmmmm, one more time.
00:53Mmmmm, say it loud.
00:57Come on, let's go to Mississippi.
01:01Mmmmm.
01:03Come on, let's go to Mississippi.
01:05Let's go to Mississippi.
01:07Black beans on the mission should be river.
01:13Black beans in the mission should be fire.
01:19Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:21Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:23And we've got,
01:25Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:29Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:31And we've got,
01:33Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:35Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:37Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:39Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:40Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:41Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:42Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:43Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:44Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:45Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:46Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:47Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:48Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:49Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:50Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:51Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:52Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:53Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:54Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:55Black beans on the Mississippi lander.
01:56woman with an iron hand, raised her up on heaven's land. God made woman with an iron hand, raised her up on heaven's land.
02:09Listen, black beads on a mission.
02:39Black leaves on a mission should be free child.
02:49Black leaves on a mission should be dead.
02:55Black leaves on a mission should be living.
03:01And we got got in touch and we got something.
03:09God says we've got winter glory, we've got marvelous stories, we've got shrimp like towers, we've got hope and power.
03:25God made woman with an iron hand, raised her up on heaven's land, God made woman with an iron hand, raised her up on heaven's land, strip like towers, we've got hope and power.
03:55I know you, I know you, I know you.
03:58Jala, at least you can sing live, baby.
04:04Essence, how y'all feeling, baby?
04:07One thing I want y'all to do, I want y'all to give it up for the queens that are being honored tonight. Can we give it up for them?
04:12Even if your name is not being called on the big stage, the mere fact that you are in the room, ladies, means that you are indeed being given your flowers.
04:24So I hope we can leave this space feeling loved and feeling worthy.
04:29But as I was prepping for this gig in Mississippi, baby, I went back to a time when I had a memory.
04:35I grew up in a really small town, I was about three black girls in my class.
04:39And one day, baby, I went to school, I thought I was looking cute, I had some lip gloss on my lips.
04:44Until a little boy came up to me, he said, Kirby, you got soup coolers for lips.
04:49I said, oh.
04:52Little did I know, years later, women would spend thousands of dollars to get the lips that we were born with.
04:58I'm just saying.
04:59So when you hear this record that I'm about to sing, I hope you think of the little girl that you were and all that she had to go through to become the woman that you are today, baby.
05:14Because you got superpowers.
05:15I see you, sis.
05:16You look good, okay?
05:17Hey.
05:18My nose wide as the red sheet.
05:21Listen, lips full, fillers don't feel me.
05:25My grandma told me and she ain't lie.
05:28She said, they want your booty but they gotta buy.
05:32I got shit they say.
05:34I'm singing la, la, la.
05:36Don't want no vultuals on our side.
05:40Looking black as the messiah.
05:43I said, we got superpowers.
05:48I said, we got superpowers.
05:53I said, we got superpowers.
05:56Yeah.
05:57I said, black women, we can't forget that we got superpowers.
06:07I said, we got superpowers.
06:10Come on.
06:11What you got, superpowers?
06:14They say how black people rise like that.
06:20They cut our wings, they grow right back.
06:24They roll that rolls out of them cracks.
06:28Yeah.
06:29They say how black people shine like that.
06:34They shoot you once and don't look back.
06:38We make a diamond out of scraps.
06:42I tell them, girl, you got superpowers.
06:46Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
06:51Girl, you got superpowers.
06:54Yeah, yeah.
06:56Black women, we can't forget that we got superpowers.
07:05Oh, we got superpowers.
07:08Come on, Steve.
07:09Yeah, we got superpowers.
07:12Hey, the way you walk in a room so comforting.
07:16What you got superpowers?
07:17What you got superpowers?
07:19Hey.
07:20The way the water hit my hair and it curls like this.
07:24What I got superpowers?
07:26The way I work so hard and I still look soft.
07:31What I got superpowers?
07:33Hey.
07:34What you got superpowers?
07:35Girl, you got superpowers.
07:37Girl, you got superpowers.
07:38Girl, you got superpowers.
07:39Girl, you got superpowers.
07:41Oh, girl, you got superpowers.
07:45If you believe that, let me see y'all put your hands together for black women.
07:50Y'all must be ready to drink, baby.
07:52Bartender, where are the drinks, honey?
07:54I love it.
07:55This last song is called Love By You.
07:58Y'all give it up for my guitarist, Steve Bethany.
08:00They flew him all the way from Memphis.
08:02Let's go, Steve.
08:05And if you know what it feels like to be loved by a black woman,
08:09you know that it's a beautiful experience.
08:11My mama is somewhere in here, y'all, so she's the first woman,
08:14the black woman that ever showed me what it felt like to be loved.
08:18Truly.
08:19This next song is called Love By You.
08:22Hey.
08:29Bless my soul.
08:33I've been alone too long.
08:38Somebody without someone.
08:43There's no one at all.
08:48And, baby, all these nights I've struggled and fallen in my pride.
08:58Scared that someone your type couldn't see past my flaws.
09:09Cause I heard that path aren't easy to get to.
09:16Oh, baby.
09:19The closest I'll give might be right next to you.
09:26Yes, I've got to know.
09:29I've got to feel how it feels to be loved by you.
09:43Ooh, I've got to touch, baby.
09:50Something real can not feel and be loved by you.
10:04Yeah, see, jealousy is getting the best of me, thinking of how you sleep without me in touch.
10:23And I'll have no peace till you give me clarity.
10:34All I need to hear and see if I met her at all.
10:46Cause I heard that heaven ain't easy to get to.
10:53Oh, baby, the closest I'll get might be right next to you.
11:02So I've got a love.
11:09Oh, how it feels to be loved by you.
11:20Oh, how I've got a touch, baby, something real.
11:32Can I feel me loved by you?
11:39Oh, how I've got a feeling.
11:44I just want you to think of any black woman that has loved and nurtured you while I sing this.
11:50Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, gotta feel it.
11:55Oh, baby, oh, baby, I, oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
12:01I might not get another chance, baby.
12:05Can't let you slip out of my hands.
12:09How does it feel to be loved?
12:20You, it feels amazing in essence, God bless y'all, thank y'all, my name is Kirby.