Mama counts the coins at dawn
One more rent note, one more gone
Foreman says the work ran thin
But the stomach hurts again
Kids got shoes with holes in toe
Soup too light and bills too low
Paper says the war is right
My block don’t sleep at night
Tell me who gets fed
Tell me who gets blamed
Same old hands on the wheel
Same old tricks in the game
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
How we gonna live like this?
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
We was born for more than this
Brown skin stopped at the door
Steel in words and steel in laws
Brother gone for speaking loud
Sister works and bows her head now
Flags wave high for a distant fight
While the block burns out of sight
If a man can’t breathe out here
What is freedom doing here?
Tell me who gets fed
Tell me who gets blamed
Same old hands on the wheel
Same old tricks in the game
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
How we gonna live like this?
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
We was born for more than this
Hear the mothers cry out
Hear the workers stand
If they want our silence
They gon’ learn we understand
No more chains in new clothes
No more lies in gold
A hungry nation rising
From the truth we’ve been told
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
How we gonna live like this?
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
We was born for more than this
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
Say it till it breaks the wall
Penny on the plate
Penny on the plate
Ain’t no chains gonna hold us all
- Lyricist
MASAQUI
- Composer
MASAQUI
- Producer
MASAQUI
- Programming
MASAQUI
Listen to Penny on the Plate by MASAQUI
Streaming / Download
- 1
GUMBO FEVER (Live at The Holy Smoke Room)
MASAQUI
- 2
DON'T LET MY SOUL GO HUNGRY
MASAQUI
- 3
Holy Fire Room
MASAQUI
- 4
Black Hen Ritual
MASAQUI
- 5
DO YOU FEEL THE LOVE?
MASAQUI
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Penny on the Plate
MASAQUI
- 7
TITANIUM SOUL
MASAQUI
- 8
Black Galaxy
MASAQUI
- 9
Velvet After Midnight
MASAQUI
- 10
GOLD AIN'T ENOUGH
MASAQUI
- 11
Warm Me Tonight
MASAQUI
- 12
BLOOD IN THE DRUM
MASAQUI
Burning grooves.
Sweat, neon, and a voice screaming into the cosmos.
SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER SIDE revives the explosive spirit of 1970s Black music through a psychedelic modern lens.
Funk, soul, gospel, jazz, and hypnotic ritual rhythms collide in a dazzling sonic experience filled with raw emotion and cosmic energy.
Behind the glitter and groove lies something deeper:
loneliness, desire, spiritual hunger, and the feeling that another world may exist just beyond the speakers.
This is not nostalgia.
It is a transmission from a future haunted by the sound of the past.
Every scream echoes like a sermon.
Every rhythm feels like a revolution.
Every song moves between ecstasy and darkness.
SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER SIDE
A psychedelic soul journey from beyond the mirror.
