Xiuhtezcatl Performing "Careful" / "Veils" at TED2024

my name ises my people are the Shima people of shimo Mexico grateful to be here today on the indigenous homelands of the SW tooth musum Squam peoples of this land and may all colonized and Indigenous lands all stolen lands be returned to the hands of their rightful caretakers and stewards In Our Lifetime I've Been Under Pressure what I was bar working hard enough for your to say I'm special the water H baby be careful pressure they got a hle like what I was say B working hard enough for y to say I'm special the water bab be care go my fam go run with the moon i r with 20 braid natives just to do what I do are you community made are you claim by who you claim if you ain't from more for the land see what that says about you what I was working hard enough for y to seem special the water baby be careful i' Been Under Pressure I was working hard enough for to special I wonder how baby be careful hella pivot y' extra make a fuss for the Expo play your up like you Pro now you ain't expert watch a real artist do the leg work to quote down with no effort what they got without my network seeing straight to your intentions so I cast a fake to the sidelines play an activist for the timeline are you really down for the C that you claim clout got you like a mile to the flame keep the circle man tight I keep my K on light I put the Target in sight raining a from the move easy to vac cross the desert Keep Your Hands Clean you ain't truthful you was family ch we a ey I've Been Under Pressure I was working hard enough for to special the water baby be careful I've Been Under Pressure what I was working hard enough for you to say I'm special the one her baby be careful what a time to be alive huh this is the Turning of the tides there I was 6 years old my eyes wide open I saw the storms City saw up by the ocean Humanity [ __ ] up look at the world broken I want to see the bord is open I wrote this music it was something I found hop My Generation finally seeing the web woven everything is connected Our Generation was chosen to guide the way to the light you see this is our movement walk on roads paved by every great leader of every Revolution we doing it our way and this is a celebration if love is resistance you know that it's in our nature sure by the thousands people of every nation sum at the highest mountains prove to them we can make it starts right here right now every one of you has Light Within now is the time to shine out hands up if you feel it too this music is a movement it's proof If you feel it moving you yeah we're here now like we always been never Bel long Creator right and story is in the

sky so our people can follow it home I've spent a lot of my life on the front lines organizing protesting marching to defend my community from the impacts of the fossil fuel industry soon the US government for violating our constitutional rights to a stable climate speaking that the United Nations have played a bunch of different roles in those spaces and it means a lot to get to be here to tell these stories through our art through our music has such a IR refutable power to connect people across the globe and for me this art is so personal it's such a reflection of who I am of my community of where I come from of the reverence that I hold for all those that have laid the foundation groundwork for what this art form is all of the black artists that have not only proliferated the culture of Hip Hop to touch every corner of the globe but have stewarded it as a tool for Liberation for oppressed and colonized people all across the planet to bring light to bring hope to bring these stories to the Forefront and as our relationship with the land and with the Earth must be one of reciprocity our relationship with culture must also reflect that I stand before y'all as an embodiment of all those that have come before my before me anad my ancestors my family my community my people we are a matriarchal society and we were artists and it's because of that struggle that my ancestors my great-grandmother Abita hulita those that came before me the women that held the small pieces of our culture the fragments that were left over despite 500 years of colonization that were passed down onto me that's the reason I get to stand on this stage and carry my name and carry my language and carry their stories so to be a vessel for their stories and the stories that are still being told in our continued struggle for Liberation and decolonization to preserve our life ways so that these lands can continue to be abundant for generations to follow that is what this art represents for me and without those that came before us this album donu will not be able to reach the world the story of their descendants is now not being told we have one more song it's called veils shake me away I don't best thing I Hope We Meet Again left in a wrong before you my soul no not going back it wasn't look like that I so nostalgic for you me as I'm all afid she left the I hope we meet again I feel like it's been so long since I've been young since we moved on needed no SLE 2018 some at the mushroom park o found a pack we were pups no click leave the homies always had me home sick almost all had daddy issues it was beautiful then we were homeless and little broken keep me chosen call me on every misstep watch my friends jugle drugs flu away oh how I miss complicated when the world don't teach us how to love it love but we all addicted Dam sh away I don't I Hope We Meet Again left the roll before you let my soul it wasn't like that I'm so nostalgic for you I'm chasing oh I'm so mad at you we all afraid she the best I hope we me again and I don't got time for your been telling me I a lot of the wrong way still making room from my bad days my pick finger on back space I give a [ __ ] what they y'all say they throw in shap from the distance they fade in the distance like bre in my last name we were dumb kids I was breaking hearts up in abundance made a hun R before I dropped out when my family still had nothing contradictions te us all apart Beauty live in the silver lines L trying to be young and grow up at the same time if you told me it was there could you hold me through the wor and I love you either way and I'm sorry cuz we love and you trust and I run all my scars all your fears all we when I'm home I still feel what it was Lear love alone right now so shake me away I know still I Hope We Meet Again left the door open for you my soul no there no back it

was love like that I'm so nostalgic for you I'm chasing oh I'm so mad you I hope we me again I hope we meet again yeah I hope we be again I hope indigenous sovereignty in lamback means a free Palestine Palestina