If you follow me on the Twitter Internets, you know that I went to Muhsinah’s show in Dallas last night!

yes i cut my face off. i am horrid in her angelic presence. and no that’s not a real instagram pic. #teamnosmartphone #teamphotoshop

So of course Muhsinah is gon’ be in heavy rotation today! I won’t even waste words tryna put her voice in a genre, but you may have heard her before in Common’s song “Changes“. Or maybe The Foreign Exchange song “House of Cards” or “Daykeeper“, for which they earned a Grammy nod! She creates her music from start to finish: songwriting, recording, playing instruments, producing, making beats, everything. IT’S ALL HER. Muhsinah’s voice is actually unreal. Even though I met her in the flesh, I still can’t believe she’s human. Below is a screen capture of my tumblr post right when I got home last night:

This kid is a problem. Y’all are sleeping so heavy. WAKE UP. #blackgirlsarefromthefuture

“Stop” has a much different sound than her other songs, with a rock feel to it (you can tell idk how to review music. “rock feel”? sheesh.) It’s off her 2012 Gone EP, and the video was made of about 20,000 photographs.

If you need a song to push you through that next deadline, those late nights, those days when you feel like everybody is sleeping on you and your talents, turn this song all the way up. Don’t stop. It’ll happen.

Last bet. Final round. All spent.
I’m struggling.
‘Cause I’ve been trying to win my prize.

All I have have will not fit in this grave when I’m dead.
Oh no! I’m doing it over and over.
Wondering if I will ever stop.

Desperate. Final hour. Last sprint.
I’m stumbling.
‘Cause I’ve been trying to top my time.

All I have and I ever gave is all there.
Oh no! I’m doing it over and over.
Wondering if I will ever stop.

Not alone. But being lonely is all I’ve known.
Gotta grow in the shadow.
So it’s been stop and go, but I’m oh so close.
And I ask is that it comes to pass at long last.

Oh no! I’m doing it over and over.
Wondering if I will ever stop.
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.
Wondering if I will ever stop.