She grew up in the Bay Area. She is a scientist at her day job working for a biotech co. developing a COVID vaccine, and musician at night. Much respect for this woman!
Historically, pre-colonial days of Spanish rule. Filipina women held high status within the society. It is not until the Spaniards or the Conquistadors came and changed the outlook in women due to religious reasons.
Lyrics HOOK (Klassy) Island woman rise, walang makakatigil/ (No one can stop them) Brown, brown woman, rise, alamin ang yung ugat/ (Know your roots) They got nothin’ on us (aye!) Nothin’ on us (aye!) Nothin’ on us (aye!) Nothin’ on us/ Island woman rise, walang makakatigil/ Brown, brown woman, rise, alamin ang yung ugat/ They got nothin’ on us (aye!) Nothin’ on us (aye!) Nothin’ on us (aye!) Isang bagsak!/ One clap VERSE 1(Ruby Ibarra) Yo fuck a story arc if it don’t involve no matriarchs/ Our mothers work from the ground up, they craftin air like ATR/ With the butterfly sleeves naka Filipiniana, pag nagsalita mga banat ay bala/ (she wears the Filipiniana, when she speaks her strikes are bullets) ‘Wag magtaka kung ako ay makata bulok na sistema, korakot sa pera, bagsak!/ (Don't wonder why I'm a poet of this rotten system, corrutpted by money, drop) But we puttin’ our heart into darkness, they puttin’ these pigs into office/ Oh you thinkin’ you schoolin’? but you hella lost ‘cuz you Betsy Devos while I taught this/ But Look at my ate she movin so cold, can’t hold a candle to her when she glow/ (ate = Older Sister) Flick of the wrist with the ilaw she hold, Pandanggo sa Ilaw, she drippin’ in gold/ (Ilaw = Light) (Pandango Sa Ilaw = traditional filipino dance where they dance with a lit candle) VERSE 2 (Rocky Rivera) We pullin' up in a Jeepney All of my soldiers greet me/ Hand me bandanas and pull back my hammer, it’s warfare, when you see me/ Skin you alive for my country, I live and die for my country/ I kill a pig in a white hooded suit on the low....for my country/ They got evil plans in the devil’s hands, but I don't pray cuz I organize/ They got new ways to impose strength, so I teach mine how to mobilize/ We don’t fight for the money, for the greedy, for the white man/ All we want is our freedom, and the right to live on on our motherland/ HOOK VERSE 3 (Klassy) Goddess of guerilla warfare in every lifetime/ We don’t take no shit except an oppressor’s lifeline/3 If you step out of your line, I will protect what’s mine/ Kahit merong rosaryo, sinong magliligtas sa’yo?/ (even if you have a rosary, who will save you?) Puro dugo, pugot ulo, mula sa dagat hanggang mundo/ (Filled with blood, head decapitation, from the sea to the world) Reclaiming what ours, the high and the low/ These women are Gods, you already know/ Roots deeper than water that run in our village/ The river runs red, you’ll be dead in a minute/ Like Nieves Fernandez, have you beheaded/ Fuck with my tribe, quickly regret it/ VERSE 4 (Ruby Ibarra) Abaniko sa kamay at isang mikropono sabay/ (A fan in hand and a microphone in the other) At ang tapang ko gaya ng inay, at halimaw na ang sumasabay/ (And I am brave like my mother, and a monster that occurs together?) Mga bara nyo lahat sablay, mga rappers na puro bangkay/ (Your insults are lame/fail, the rappers are all corpses) Tinamaan ko lahat, patay, kaya, walang magiingay/ (I hit them all, dead, therefore no one makes a sound) I got that, Filipino phenotype: kayumanggi, mestizo-white/ (kayumanggi = brown skin colour, mestizo-white = light skinned) But give me that moreno like that Rufio or Keno type/ My lolas they be speaking like, those balisongs or bolo knife/ (Lola = grandmother) (Balisong = Butterfly Knife) (Bolo = Machete) I breathe the ether need no hype, two tongues that’s sharper with a mic/ Anino in my history like from a land where greed is weaved in tight/ (Anino = Shadow) They thieve until one piso might just turn to C-Notes, see no light/ Hacienda like Aquino, right? Rodrigo vigilante type--/ (This line criticizes the recent leaders of the PH where Aquino was corrupt and all she wanted was wealth. Rodrigo on the other hand was a vigilante who wanted to rid the PH of drugs etc. however, the lead to a lot of people getting killed right on the streets because of allegations. Thus the next line) They kill my titos left and right, when smoke and mirrors fill the night/ SPOKEN WORD (Faith Santilla) So let it be known, if you don’t already/ Pinays have always been part, and parcel, if not, imperative and critical to the struggle/ Filipinas are no strangers to wielding our own power/ Of all the privileges that exist in this world, none of which you may be a benefactor of/ There is at least one you bare/ And that is the privilege of having been born a Filipina/ Your DNA contains building blocks made from the mud of over 500 years of resistance and survival/ And when you are ready, sis, we’ll be right here/ (c) Genevacat posted by @Marupokakobes
"We don't fight for our country" Like, she's reminiscing past era. Back to times that US colonized PH. From slavery and abbhorently horrific instances way back then.
