BRUJAS - PRINCESS NOKIA 

The range of her musical aesthetic has me genuinely shook. I'm quite obsessed.

Idk what people are talking about saying this song is evil. She literally talking about vanquishing evil the entire song 💀💀

If this calls to you... you are chosen. That’s why you’re just finding it now

Calling all brujas! You are stronger than you think.

Being Haitian and seeing this soft, light-filled, woman-centered version of voodoo means a lot to me and feels like home. This ain't no wicca, "magick" shit, this is a real interpretation of Yoruba spirituality. Love this, thank you Princess Nokia

a puertorican ligntskin girl that acknowledges shes black ...woooooooooow im so happy for some reason

This isn’t just art this is the essence of the Caribbean of Afro Caribbean households nothing but respect for our ancestors

As a black witch, this video is everything ❤️ we need more representation ✨

"I'm that Blackarican bruja straight up from the Yoruba And my people come from Africa; diaspora Cuba And you mix that Arawak, that original people; I'm that Black Native American. I vanquish all evil. I'm that Blackarican bruja straight up from the Yoruba And my ancestors Nigerian; my grandmas was brujas And I come from an island And it's called Puerto Rico It's one of the smallest but it got the most people." OMFG THIS SONG JUST GAVE ME LIFE!

The diversity of the African diaspora never ceases to amaze me. For those curious, the language at the beginning of the video is the Lucumí language, which developed primarily in Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean from the West African Yoruba language of Yoruba descendants taken there. It has other linguistic influences like Spanish, but also Bantu (Congo) remnants from Central African peoples the Yoruba people came into contact with. Many of these tribes were enemies in Africa (and in Cuba these included the following peoples: Yoruba, Congo, Takua, Kissi, Calabari/Kalabari, Dahomey/Arará, and Mandinka) but in Cuba they had to unite to collectively survive slavery, so of course it was common for their influences to overlap. That is why the Lucumí language is not purely Yoruba (and it has since become primarily a liturgical language).

It is amazing as a Brazilian and being part of Candomblé culture to see our ancestrality and Yoruba culture being expressed in slightly different ways throughout America

As a bruja from Puerto Rico, I love finally having representation

the history and cultural pride in this video are AMAZING. I LOVE this video because it reclaims culture and owns it, expressing the vibrance of one culture in the language of another.

Turn up my African practitioners

"And if you hex me with hate then I'ma conjure the light Your evil ways put no fight, I ain't no queen of the night" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"Don't you f*ck with my energy"= LOVE this. Some of us need a more direct boundary line around our vibes!

This would be a lit Netflix series lol

This song is fire, water, air, earth, Spirit, sun, moon and stars. Love the video, seeing black and brown women embrace their beauty and cast their magic.

I was literally just giving thanks and offerings to Yemaya today, as Saturday is her day. I click on this later and sure enough there is her hymn being sung in the beginning! Yemaya most nurturing caring Mother, I thank you!! Many blessings to all my fellow brujas 🌛🌝🌜

Chins up, Brujas. We're in this. It's a spiritual revolution, and it starts with you.

*Bad energy has left the chat*

Its weird that some Black Women in the comments find the Video and concept of the video so "disturbing and scary" when this is OUR history, there is an essence of accepting Western and Eastern faiths but an actual faith and spiritual culture curated and practised by your ancestors is the thing you find foreign and unacceptable and hard to watch? Its not for everyone but dont let Westernized standards of Spirituality, religion, faith, "Witches" and African Arts allow you to disrespect/discredit a staple and forgotten beautiful part of Black female Power, magic, love, spirituality and history....What she (Princess Nokia) has brought to mainstream and what she is doing with this video is actually trying to show black women where we come from, and if we already knew, she is celebrating it, and removing the stigma of Black Females who are magical and divine and heavily spirited( we are not demonic, you can have positive witches, you can be very energetically sensitive and not be "evil)...You can't hashtag #blackgirlmagic then disrepect actual Black girls who are Magic, in every way. ~Know yourself. This video and the culture she is refrencing is heavy, it aint for everyone, everyone won't get it, but if you do, it is very resonating and powerful.

I’ve been looking for friends like this since I was 13 years old. Where arrreee yaaalllll???? Lol

This is way too advanced for 7 years ago

Baby girl on a whole other frequency! So young and knows exactly who she is Asè

This is literal BLACK GIRL MAGIC.

Favorite part!❤️ "I'm that Black a-Rican bruja straight out from the Yoruba And my people come from Africa diaspora, Cuba And you mix that Arawak, that original people I'm that Black Native American, I vanquish all evil I'm that Black a-Rican bruja straight out from the Yoruba And my ancestors Nigerian, my grandmas was brujas And I come from an island and it's called Puerto Rico And it's one of the smallest but it got the most people"

To the people dissing her. The movie The Craft is cool but these spiritual practices are incredibly diverse in real life. There are green witches, hedge witches, psychic witches, Wiccans, some of us work with deities from the Hellenic or Nordic Pantheon, there is African witchcraft, Hoodoo, Voodoo, shamanism, some witches see and work with the Fae, some of us are into cartomancy (tarot and oracle cards), some read coffee grounds, etc etc etc There's also INCREDIBLY evil shit that messes with people's heads and souls. These sort of attacks are a bitch. Hence, hexes, uncrossings, return to sender, psychic defense, energy cleansing, etc. So, DON'T YOU FUCK WITH MY ENERGY. LOL

I am HERE for the reclamation of our African traditional and diasporic beliefs and practices! We are waking up and taking our ancestral power BACK! Asé! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

Yes for seeing beautiful dark-skinned Black women practicing ancient African religion.

I love this song cause it's being truthful about our culture an I love how she payed homage to the orisha by dressing as yemanja and oshun

That African Spiritual energy. Love this!

"casting spells with my cousins." such a sick line + verse

This song is dope. Brujas are not necessarily a bad thing people. Haters educate yourselves.

i refuse to believe that princess nokia is one person

If they made an all-black reboot of The Craft this would be its theme song

I’m Cuban Mexican and Trinidad and this video shows an element from all my cultures it just makes me feel beautiful

Her blood runs deep, this was too spiritual 🙌🙏.

You can tell RU-vid has begun to notice the spiritual awakening that's going on. This is a few years old

For 3 years i have listened to mainly the chant in the beginning. Singing it as if i knew what the words meant but i didn't. And i still dont. But today this song hit different. After doing some research on some African culture. i finally recognized the name yemya. In the chant. And listened thru the song again. And i just want to say that i accept yemya into my life. The mother of us and the sea. It all is starting to make sense. When ever i asked for the sweet voice to show its self. This song always came into my head.

As a Puerto Rican this speaks to me in a lot of different ways like our culture, our african roots, Arawak Taíno, Yoruba etc. Orgullosa de ser boricua y llevar sangre Africana, Taína y Española. 💕🌺🌴

Love all the women power in this song ,, brown and black women unite💓

Yemaya the mother of the ocean 🌊

I grew up catholic in my very old style Hispanic house hold and just the word “Brujería” gave me chills just like others I was taught they praised the devil And as I learn more about Wicca and history of “the craft” , this song just hit differently

Solidarity of the land, whether brujeria, voudoun, wicca, seiðr, whatever your practice, embrace the land, embrace the spirits, embrace one another against the blight eating this world and these long lingering chains. Shake and shatter them with the force of women's thunder

Listen, there are too many comments comparing her to other females rappers. Stop comparing women. Period. We need to lift each other up without bringing anyone else down.

People be mad when they don't have that protection or understand our protection

Witches supporting other Witches

Why can’t I find ppl like this? I want some friends like me 🙄

The beginning hearing them sing traditional made my heart smile ❤️ my great grandmother was from Haiti 🇭🇹 I'm Mohawk and Haitian💪

Love the fact that her music hit the same no matter what year we in.

the vibration frequency of this video has my third eye reacting

Can someone tell me how this girl can be so diverse in their energies of clothing and aesthetic PLEASE TEACH ME PRINCESS...

i'm a yoruba teenage girl and i really appreciate the shoutout this song gives to yoruba culture!! god knows i can't stop vibing to this tune and i thought the yoruba folk song at the beginning was beautiful. it reminds me of whenever my dad puts on a yoruba folk vinyl or whenever we listen to yoruba music in the car. edit: before anyone comes for me, i'm not claiming yoruba for bants. my entire family barring one half cousin (who is mixed with Polish) is 100% monoethnic Yoruba Nigerian. i don't speak yoruba fluently, but my parents do and i can understand every word they say

I came here from reading an article about how black african women are leaving Christianity and turning to their ancestors traditions with magick. And I agree. I'd rather follow my own belief and having that feeling like I finally belong than being forced to take part in a religion that my mother, my grandmother, and my other relatives think is the right way. My soul is my own I don't need someone to tell me what path or what direction I should go for salvation for my soul.

I can't get enough of this Witch Hop. We need more of this 🔥 🔮😎

The intro in Yoruba: "Kaikaikai yemaya olodo. Kaikaikai assesu o lodo (x2) La di oke, la di oke (x3) Yemaya o lodo aua lodo mio" (x4) Translation: "Take a look at it Yemaya. Take care of them. Get up, get up. Yemaya you are not far from me" Edit: Yemaya or Yemaja one of the Orishas (Afrikan Powers/deities). Yemaya is the Goddess of the Ocean and creation. There are many Yemaya chants, several other languages. There's another similar one and it basically means "Yemaya you are the gush of the ocean and the gush of spring", but that one specifically is not YORUBA. I wanted to pay homage to Princess Nokia's roots by translating from HER ancestral language.

I’m still trying to learn more about how to fully and properly practice the craft and spiritualism that my African and Native American ancestors did, this song is more than encouraging 💫💫💫🌻🌻🌻🌻

Represent for all the brujos and Afro-Ricans!!! I love it

I LOVE THIS SONG !!!!!! you came & did what you was supposed to ....ancestors proud af sis !!!

She made me a fan at "don't you fuck with my energy!"

This song plays in my head when people think they can fuck with me 😂😂😂💯💪🏾

Don't you fuck with my energy! I'm a bruja, I'm a bruja! Yemaya & Oshun 💞

This song is so empowering ❤

This would be dope if this could be used as a concept to make a movie about black female witches. I would love to see something like this in a movie.

Don't fuck with my energy. My mood before I clock in at work.

princess nokia was ahead of her time so happy people are finding this now

"Don't you fuck with my energy!" ✊🏿🔥

I keep coming back to this song, it's just so fascinating to me as a Yoruba person to see how the traditions of the Yoruba (and other tribes) managed to survive across the transatlantic. Its beautiful to think that despite the horror and tragedy that slavery was, it failed to erase that connection to Africa.

For those saying "she's not even black" or "she hasn't been initiated"... Nigerian people were captured and taken to Cuba to be slaves. Their culture lived on and many of them migrated back to Nigeria in present day YORUBA. The people are of African and Cuban decent. Afro-Cuban or Afro-Latina/o. Her blood is her initiation.

Wow this song In the beginning is a prayer for Yemaya I say everyday this is beautiful as my Orisha this video really made me happy in the beginning

I keep coming back to this video. Melanin, Magic, and Representation. #DontUFuckWithMyEnergy

I'm whiter than Wonderbread but this song makes me think of my grandma's small village and all the practices and superstitions of our ancestors. Lots of interesting stories from there. This song and video are seriously underrated!

I love carefree black girls 💗 SISTAS are EVVVVVERYTHING.

This is straight healing energy. This song has brought me so many new things. Laughing at all the comments claiming it to be evil, I am a Healer and so is she, this is healing music. If you don't like it you should let go of your past and feel, be present in the moment. That is God not evil

don’t you fuck with my energy ✨🌙💫

I've never heard anything like this before, she is a powerhouse. I actually *FEEL* the spirituality and magic of her ancestors in this song 😍

FINALLY AN ARTIST THAT USES TRAP BEATS FOR THE GREATER GOOD 🙏 🙏 🙏

We love a queen 👸🏾 who claims their Yoruba roots

This is a powerful way of reclaiming and uplifting traditional forms of feminine power and community. Mixing it into contemporary culture and making it relevant in today’s patriarchal world is so important. Thanks for creating this✨

I need more music that celebrates indigenous beliefs and practices but over trap beats:)

Hi Ariana stans. This isn’t the song she’s accused of stealing, it’s called MINE. But while you’re here listen to this banger song. stan an underrated female rapper!!!

cant wait to find my group of girls to pray with

"im a shapeshifter bitch you dont know who you loving" -- TRUTH!!!!

I love this video this Queen is paying respect to the Orishas Yemaya,Oshun and the ancestors Ase' Princess Nokia my New favorite song video with beautiful Brujas we need more music like this

She's going to go big, I can feel it. Not only is her 1992 Deluxe is one amazing album, she stands out from the crowd. Call her a weirdo or whatever you like but do you know any one quite like her? I don't think so. Princess Nokia is Princess Nokia from head to toe, something that's quite rare in the industry nowadays.

I started reconnecting to my roots thanks to this song

There is no one, and nothing, in this video, that isn't absolutely beautiful! The women, embracing the spirituality of the ancestors, are most beautiful! I adore Princess Nokia! 😍😍😍

Bruh, never heard of this woman before, until I this song played in a cafe was in - i had to whip out my phone and Shazam this banger! this video made me so proud to be of African descent - a woman of African descent - African-Caribbean Pride!!!

Dont get this song twisted its about, respecting youre roots, and The culture and being proud of it.

choctaw and cherokee sister here. keep doing your work its beautiful and powerful!

Nokia....you gotta start doing songs like this again.

this is legit one of her best songs. God, I listen to this once a day. So enjoyable on multiple levels. Take pride in you and your heritage, POCs. :)

Dont you fuck with my energyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy full fucking moon you brujas 🖤

When you’re an actual witch this song hits hehe

I love the fact this video came out years ago. And the latest comments I see are like 3 hours ago 🙌🏾❤

I never recognize her !! She always changes like wow

I’m so drawn to this

I’ve been drawn to yemaya.. the mermaids since a child 💙🧿