Kora Vain

[over a loud speaker] prepare yourself..... [tiny break] this is .. a jayfeezy..... exclusive ...exclusive ... exclusive ... [echoing] ....... [Small instrumental] [ORCHESTRAL OVERTURE] (wind) (low strings) (distant female voice) Ahhhh... (soft) Can you hear it...? Ahhhh... (deep voice) KORA VAIN... KORA VAIN... You were warned... (long pause) [MASSIVE IMPACT] (BOOM) [VERSE 1] [RAPPER] Who said I needed permission? Who said I needed a crown? I learned how to stand in the fire When everything else burned down (crowd) HEY! HEY! HEY! They built walls I built pressure They built gates I built weather (deep voice) Turn back... (turn back...) [RAPPER] Nah. I didn't come this far to survive. I came this far to become. (female voice, worried) Don't lose yourself... [RAPPER] Too late. [HOOK] (choir rising) KORA VAIN! (KORA VAIN!) KORA VAIN! (KORA VAIN!) (female soaring) AHHHHHHHH! We rise! (KORA VAIN!) We remain! (KORA VAIN!) [VERSE 2] [RAPPER] Every scar left a mark Every mark left direction Every loss became fuel Every wound taught a lesson (heavy breath) I carried doubt Till doubt got heavy I carried pain Till pain got buried (deep voice) Liar... You still carry both... (silence) [RAPPER] Yeah. I do. And that's why I'm still here. (crowd) HEY! HEY! HEY! (female voice, emotional) You don't have to carry it alone... [RAPPER] Then walk with me. [CHOIR SWELL] KORA VAIN! KORA VAIN! KORA VAIN! [BRIDGE] (all music drops) (deep voice) Who are you... Without the fear? (long silence) (female voice) Who are you... Without the hurt? (silence) [RAPPER] I don't know. (heavy inhale) But I'm about to find out. [BUILD] (strings accelerating) (choir chanting) KORA... VAIN... KORA... VAIN... (deep voice growing) You break... You bend... You fall... You fail... [RAPPER] I did. (deep voice) You suffer... [RAPPER] I did. (deep voice) You lost... [RAPPER] I DID. (silence) But I'm still standing. (crowd erupts) HEY! HEY! HEY! [FINAL ASCENT] (female voice crying through note) AHHHHHHHHHHHH! Don't let them take your light... Don't let them take your light... (deep voice) It already belongs to me... [RAPPER] Then come take it. (MASSIVE DRUM IMPACT) [FINAL CHORUS] (ALL VOICES) KORA VAIN! KORA VAIN! KORA VAIN! KORA VAIN! (female soaring) AHHHHHHHHHH! (choir) KORA VAIN! KORA VAIN! (deep voice) What survived? (crowd) KORA VAIN! What remained? (crowd) KORA VAIN! What became? (crowd screaming) KORA VAIN! [RAPPER] I am not what survived. I am what survivors turn into!! [OUTRO] (orchestra fading) (female exhausted) Ahhhh... (soft crying breath) I see you... (deep voice fading) KORA... VAIN... (wind) (silence)