How can we all Be The Change
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grass
rise and open your
eyes now is the time
for you to shine won’t you help me sing
rise
rise and open your eyes
now is the time for you to shine
yeah what’s up world it’s your boy
saul paul musician with the message uh
the hardest thing in the world for me to
do is to explain
what i do i do a lot i do the most but i
do it well
how about this i’ll just say i entertain
i inspire
i empower i love people and i use
music to empower them to live their best
lives i always say that
and i get to impact all types of people
before i came here i was speaking to
some young people
and i told them that i had a tedx talk
so
like the first thing these young stars
said was
who’s ted so after i explained that ted
is not a person that it was a thing and
that i’d be performing
then they were like are you going to
freestyle and i was like no probably not
they were like oh you got a freestyle
you got to freestyle
and i told them i would so because i
said i would
i will because i recognize as an adult
what i say to a young person
matters so um
how about this i’ll do a remix to my
song
be the change special didn’t exist
before this moment
i’ve been thinking about it i should be
the change
ain’t no doubt about it’s time to be the
change
after this tedx you shouldn’t be the
same
no cause now is the time to be
the change be the change be the change
hey i told y’all i got you okay cool so
um
now that we took care of that let me
talk to you
how will you be the change you should
it’s key see we’re all in this together
we’re all on this big blue marble
floating through space and what you do
matters what i do matters
see my approach to be the change is this
the fact is
we all live on the same planet the truth
is we each live in our own world
and me i just encourage people to be the
change in the world they live in
it’s something that i learned from my
grandmother see
my grandmother raised me because my mom
passed away when i was three years old
she died in a car accident before my mom
even died my dad
had abandoned me i was in foster care
but like wonder woman my grandmother
swoops in she adopts me
and she made sure that i had the
opportunity
to be successful in life what i learned
from her
is that no matter how much i have no
matter how little i have
if i have something i have enough to
share with others and that’s
that’s in my dna that’s just how i move
that’s
my why she’s my why and uh
right now would be a great time for me
to share a song about her check this out
it’s called mama
everything you saw in me
true you were gone don’t get it confused
this is not a sad
song i’ve been shining oh so bright
simply cause you raised me
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collins may she rest in peace c
b y i beat me my moraine’s the monster
left the world with the beast
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did you know rap is an acronym
stands for rhythm and poetry and if you
were to take away the rhythm
take away the music you’d be left with
the poetry
so see i could perform a song about my
mama
or i could share this spoken word i’m
gonna go spoken word some poetry check
it out
no mama no daddy no bro no cysts i grew
up in only child
just me and this chick someone called
her big mama some kyle to miss
i call her the only reason i could have
all this
she gave me the game when she laid the
foundation i didn’t took that thing
and founded a nation she told me never
follow
be a leader she’s why i know i’m a
believer
people say saul paul what’s your secret
i just laced you let those that have
ears peeping
see it cannot be made no plainer i put
that on what i love with no disclaimer
p-e-a-r-l-i-e a columnist collins may
she rest in peace
y c-sh be me mama raise the monster left
the world with a beast
i’m her legacy see she passed away even
but me recognizing that um
she made all these sacrifices so i could
succeed
i recognized that i had to do more than
just do me
also looking at it like yeah i succeeded
and i was able to overcome and i’m this
unique
outlier i’m this anomaly because when
people come from where i come from
they don’t get the results that i’ve
been able to achieve
that’s not normal i want to normalize
that it shouldn’t be that special
and me as a leader i don’t have to feel
like oh that’s what makes me special
that
i’m the one it shouldn’t be that way and
so that’s why i use my life and i use my
platform
to create uh to make the world a more
fair place so everyone
can succeed and i do it like me with my
style and my flair
because i recognize to be successful you
really have to be
okay with being different we’re all born
on purpose with a purpose we’re all
unique but you have to own that
uniqueness
i wrote a song about that it’s called
i can only be me
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hey lord i tried hard
still i fell so far
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you will have to own your uniqueness if
you want to be as successful
as you can be and me i just encourage
you that when you succeed
don’t just do you like do it for
everybody
create a platform for others to shine me
that’s what i did
even recently uh a personal highlight is
when they
uh they wrote about me they featured in
the new york times
like major it’s amazing and they talked
about my
most recent album be the change because
see for me
everything starts with the music so i
created this album called be the change
and it was all about um leadership
social justice diversity equity
inclusion
a bunch of big words really to the
average listener if they heard the music
they’d just be like hey that jam though
you know what i’m saying like that jam
you know cause i think that’s how it
should be when you make
music like art first but i’m a musician
with the message so even though art
first even though it’s music
i still infuse that message what i had
to ask myself was
how can i change the world and it came
down to this
i needed to create something simple but
profound
something big enough so that others
could see themselves in it
and easy enough for them to grab it
grasp it and go do it on their own
so i came up with the be the change
challenge
very simple concept easy for people to
participate
and now we’re in right in route to
billions of people
like me changing the world because
that’s the goal i want to change the
world you change your world
i wanted to do it big like that’s just
how i approach life
so it’s this website people go to the
website you sign up you make a pledge
and then you go do 30 days of uh
acts of kindness it’s that simple and
then you share with somebody else and
you challenge somebody else
cool stuff but simply put it was my
unique way to empower people
to rise and be to change so as i
conclude
your eyes rise
and open your eyes
now is the time for you to
shine won’t you help me sing rise
rise and open your eyes
now is the time for you to
shine yeah
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i’ve been thinking about it i should be
the change
ain’t no doubt about it’s time to be the
change
there ain’t no way around it if you’re
tired of the same
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oh yeah yeah
just felt i needed a little beat on this
one so let’s take it out like this
question we all human right then we
should all have basic human rights and
if i’m doing right and if i’m doing well
then i probably shouldn’t sit and watch
my neighbor fail we get all prevailed
we could all succeed but i gotta be the
change i must be
the lead so i guess i lend a helping
hand
show love to my neighbor and help them
stand cause i’ve been thinking about it
i should really
change
ain’t no doubt about this time to be the
change
ain’t no way around it if you’re tired
of the sign
whoa now is the time
to be the change be the change
be the change
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in conclusion i simply want to share
with you
the fact is we all live on the same
planet
the truth is we each live in our own
world i
encourage you to be the change in the
world you
live in
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