POV: The way a History class is held during Beyonce’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ Country music song release!

🤠 Class is session so go ahead and press play! Host Dee Shields sheds light on a historical moment in time with the release of multi-Grammy award winning artist Beyonce’s new country music single, ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’!!🫶🏽🎙️(correction, Banjo artist name is: Rhiannon Giddens).

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Episode Transcript

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Beyonce's Texas Hold Him her country songthat released and we saw the commercial during
Super Bowl fifty eight. She releasesTexas hold Them in sixteen Carriages. I
like both of the songs. Thesesongs are coming off of what is expected
to be renaissance act to her countryalbum is coming out. This is what

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the rumors are and we are herefor it now. Just recently, we've
heard a lot talked about with whatcountry music does and does not do.
When it comes to artist te Payne. T Pain just told you that he
pulled his name off of country musicbecause of the racism that exists in country

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music. So it's time that wetake a step back and listen to just
without using her words, the blackhistory lesson that Beyonce laid out for the
whole world to pay attention to.When it comes to Texas hold Them at
the beginning of the song, andI think I'm saying her name right,

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artists Rihanna Rhann Allan Gordon, isthat her name is playing the banjo?
Right? The banjo? Is thathow they said right? It's playing the
banjo. So the banjo is beingplayed in the song along with other instruments,
but It's really important to understand thisthe history, our history, four

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hundred years of disrespect that has takenplace because four hundred years ago, the
banjo is an instrument. This fivestring, four or five string instrument is
used by our people as we werebrought over and enslaved for multiple cultures,
Europeans, White Americans, Mexicans.We were brought over and we were enslaved,

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and this was the music that theinstrument that was used to bring music
along with a cappella, which ishow we've always brought our harmonies in our
culture. So we really did weeven really need the banjo and the drums,
Probably not, but the banjo holdsmajor history for us. But here's
even more so why American needs tostand up and make sure that Beyonce's Texas

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Hold Him is playing on every countrymusic station and that the Texas Hold Him
song wins every category that it deservesat the Country Music Awards next year.
Here's the reason why. When thisis something that we brought over and this
was our way of bringing peace inthe midst of major misery that was taking

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place, being slaves for the cultureof white Americans, Europeans Mexicans. When
we were being enslaved. This waspeace, the only piece that was being
brought. Well, they decided tomake a mockery of it. And this
is how what you know as countrymusic became to be. It was first

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called he'll billy music. So theydecided to take the banjo and make these
little mockery songs. And that's whenthey started doing the blackface. And they
would put on blackface and they wouldplay the banjo, and they would make
fun of African Americans. They wouldmake fun of us. And then at
that time where we even considered American, we were enslaved, and they would

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make fun of us, and theywould held these little parties and put on
black folks and blackface and play thebanjo and hop around and try to make
fun of the way that our people, our original culture, danced to the
music during downtime, which was verydifficult to find when you're being whipped and
having to pick cotton and clean upafter master and cook for master, and

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tend to the entire land, theentire plantation, and the only thing that
you could do in the wee weehours of the evening after your dinner of
scraps, that you were able toput together for your family was to play
the banjo and and bring music andfind peace in what music does for our
people. And in one song beforeeven saying this is Tegas, before she

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even says that she has the banjoplayer playing before that. Now, whether
it's intentional or not, who knows. But this is Beyonce and her mind
is way greater in music than wecould even dream of becoming. Right,
So her mind goes somewhere and literallyshe waters down the evil and the hatred

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that became country music that tried tosay that this is a white n You
tried to make country music yours whenit originated with our people. It originated
with our people, and then youtried to just go from you know how
you guys do, and the cultureof racist white people. You took that
and you built the guitar. Well, baby, you wouldn't have the guitar

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if there wasn't for the banjo.I'm gonna say it again, you wouldn't
have the guitar if it wasn't forthis instrument. So yes, it comes
first, and our black history comesfirst, and this is something power in
this song. She goes into apart of history that is so scared to

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be tapped into that. They're tryingto remove it from all types of books
that were put out there that watereddown and lined and told misinformation. And
with this one song, if yougo through and do enough research, you
will find the powerful beginning of thesong that one. As soon as you

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press play, the first thing youhear is our ancestors dancing given things to
our ancestors as they're dancing in theskies, excited about what this one gifted
child who was called to do somethingmore than many of you will ever understand.
Because you're so personal, you getjealous of her looks, you get

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jealous of the attention that she getswith This child is a musical genius.
Michael Jackson's words not mine, right. Her mind is beyond what the common
musician's mine can even conjure up.And that's why she's hated on so much.
For you Christians, you know youcan relate to her. She's almost
like your Jesus right, not sayingthat I'm not a believer because I am

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not spiritual. But you guys overdidthat Christian narrative, and that's a whole
nother history lesson. And there's areason why that was done. That was
a ridiculous of black people as well, but we will go into that at
another time. So it's very powerfulwhat she's done with this song. So
now I can't play it on herebecause I don't want to disrespect the rights
and the money and things that theydon't do on certain platforms. They don't

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pay the artists. So I don'tever want to come on here and play
songs that are not authorized to playon certain platforms without the authorization of the
artists. But listen, now goback, now play it again. Take
a listen to this artist. Ithink her name rhianon Garden. I think
is how you say her name.I wish I'll spell it for you on
socials so you could find her.I found her on Facebook and she's playing

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a bad Joe and that starts outthe song D D do Do. Oh
my gosh, you are missing outon a brilliant moment that's gonna happen,
and over the next few months it'sgoing to just But she say March twenty
ninth, get ready. I can'teven imagine what else is on the album.

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You know, I already love Texasholding I love sixteen carriages. So
whatever else she brings after that,we know it's gonna be greatness. But
there's too much history, way toomuch history that you, as a black
person, must respect with what ishappening with the use of the banjo in
this song. So you can stepall over her because you don't like Beyonce,

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but you will not disrespect four hundredyears of our four hundred plus years
of our history. You're not gonnado that, because that I thought was
powerful. What had nothing to dowith whatever you guys think about Beyonce and
all your conspiracy theories and whatever likethat was huge. It's like no words

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were needed. That's why it starts. The song starts off like that,
you don't even need words. Assoon as it played during the Super Bowl,
I was like, and then Ilisten to the song and get oh.
Then it go who's playing that?Oh? You find out the artist
is playing it, then you godeeper until you play it again. This
is the type of song that madenumber one because it got quickly to number
one because you're going to have toplay it over and over and then for

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those of you who are familiar withcountry music and the routine, the dance
routines. All of that that yousee, that's our history. That's black
history that they tried to snatch fromus. Now go back and enjoy that
song a different way. Go dothe history yourself, b A and jail,
Go do the history yourself. Godo the history of how that came

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about. Why do you think webanned the parties of blackface? Anybody that's
participating in blackface? Why that's abig deal, And why politicians get in
trouble when their pictures are pulled upfrom participating in blackface. It's ugly,
it's dark, it's negative to ourhistory. And this is huge how this

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came about? So Texas, hold'em. Keep playing it, Keep playing
it cause it's powerful. This ain'texit o. It's powerful the whole movement.
And she didn't even do it intentionally, possibly like this is just me
seeing what it could be of howwe can make sure that our history is

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not erased, because that's what's underwayright now. Go ahead, share it
with your friends, go debate,make your frye upset. Yeah, it
doesn't matter, it's she may uhsay it, ah silence, I don't
wanna answer to that. People beginto ask her about the history of how

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she put the song together. BitI'm positive that if you put two or
two together, you are going toget a phenomenal Country Music Award for the
music that she put out in twentytwenty four. That's it. That's all
I have to say on that.Thanks you guys for coming by and enjoy
your Friday. Thank you, Iappreciate you. If you see the links
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