"If you don't understand us and understand what we've been through, then you probably wouldn't understand what this moment is about. This is home. This is where we're from. This is where we belong. And if it ain't for the better of the people, nah, 'cause you're robbing and stealing from the people that been there for so many years, not just come and destroy, knocking our neighborhoods down. You know, when it come there, you invisible. You know, you don't even have a number in the system. Nobody cares about you. Everything is about dollars and cents, you know, even when you're talking the Government, you know, even when you're talking about the preachers and the people that's running the community. And we have to show them the evolution of where we come from. I'm about to send a message to the world, like..."
The lyrics THIS MOMENT of SOLANGE KNOWLES is also present in the album A seat at the table (2016)
Solange Piaget Knowles, nota semplicemente come Solange, è una cantautrice, produttrice discografica, regista, performer artist e modella statunitense. Nata a Houston, Texas, il 24 giugno 1986, Solange è cresciuta nell'ombra della sorella maggiore Beyoncé, membro delle Destiny's Child. La sua musica fonde elementi di R and B, soul, funk e jazz, con testi spesso introspettivi che esplorano temi come l'identità, la femminilità e la giustizia sociale. Il suo album del 2016, *A Seat at the Table*, ha ricevuto un'acclamazione universale per la sua profondità emotiva e il suo messaggio potente, vincendo il Grammy Award alla miglior interpretazione R and B con il brano *Cranes in the Sky*. Tra i suoi altri lavori più noti figurano gli album *True* (2012) e *When I Get Home* (2019). Oltre alla musica, Solange è anche una regista di video musicali e un'attivista per i diritti civili.
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