Summer Jam 2021
Summer Jam with Pierce Freelon
Episode 6 | 28m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Jam with Pierce Freelon, a Hip Hop/soul/electronic musician & Emmy-award winning producer.
Jam with Pierce Freelon, a Hip Hop/soul/electronic musician & Emmy-award winning producer, director and professor from Durham, NC. For over 16 years he has traveled the world teaching Hip Hop and music production to youth in community centers.
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Summer Jam 2021
Summer Jam with Pierce Freelon
Episode 6 | 28m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Jam with Pierce Freelon, a Hip Hop/soul/electronic musician & Emmy-award winning producer, director and professor from Durham, NC. For over 16 years he has traveled the world teaching Hip Hop and music production to youth in community centers.
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But this next song is calld Solar Skate.
My favorite Daddy Daughtery activity.
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Hey, Saturday.
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How about the zoo?
I'll take my family pack to play the kangaroo.
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Solar Skate solar so solaro solar.
Yes Solar Skate.
I hope you'll join us on or journey through the cosmos.
All right.
So we have a song for you.
This next song is called Bubble.
I want everybody to put yor finger out like this and da line all the way around yo.
Make a big bubble around y.
That is your personal spac.
That is your bubble.
That is your safe space.
And that's what the song is about.
It's about creating bounda.
All right.
KidsPlatz a word I want yoo know parents some of y'alld to make some boundaries to.
So that's what the song is about.
It's about creating healthy boundaries.
Check it out.
It's called Bubble.
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I don't feel the safest.
I need space.
I think this relationship,t needs boundaries because Ie me and I made a promise.
I'm not mean.
I'm just being honest.
I need space away from you basically.
Oh, get out of my bubble.
My sensitive bubble.
Oh, my crystallized bubble.
Ask your parents what a chrysalis is.
There's gonna be trouble.
Don't touch my bubble bubby sensitive bubble.
Oh, my sensitive chrysalis bubble is there's gonna be triple.
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Think of this as some socil distancing.
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Don't touch my bubble bubby sensitive bubble.
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Don't touch my bubble.
My sensitive bubble, my crystal.
This bubble.
Well there's gonna be trou.
Hey, I know it may seem frightening thing, but evey one feels anxiety.
No, with may seem frighten.
Sometimes I feel stressed .
That's OK.
Here we go.
It's a normal part of livig lie found our way to keep u safe.
Trust your ritze.
Wishin breathe and say whau gotta say.
Suck your heart away from m and leave you fine.
Just a little peace of min.
You are divine.
You are divine.
Bounty's our way to keep yu safe.
Trust your intuition and sy what you gotta say.
Suck your heart away from d Lehigh the fine just little peace of mind.
You are divine.
You are divine.
And this is our last song.
It's called Tuck Me In almt time for bedtime.
You are even even though is like 1100 in the morning.
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You tell me a bedtime stor.
Can you tell me my favorite story?
Oh, yeah.
I don't want to turn off te lights.
You give me a glass of wat.
Lord have mercy.
Yeah, I'm so thirsty.
Oh yeah.
I don't want to close my es because there's monsters ie closet.
They're so heavy and so sc.
Oh yeah.
I don't wanna go to bed wit you when my arms so just tk me in that promise you wont leave me.
Is it dark now tuck me in.
Not me not me.
Tuck me in now I don't wano feel alone so please leavee door cracked open.
Can you leave it Frackvill.
Oh yeah.
I got to use the bathroom.
You don't want me to in thd do you before I sleep I neo be.
Oh yeah.
Quiet down a little please.
I can't sleep because I stl hear you Yardley talking.
Mommy's dropping.
Oh yeah.
I don't wanna go to bed wit you with my arms so just sp me and then I promise you e me in the dark now tuck me.
Thank you all so much.
My name is Pierce Freelon.
You can check me out at Pie Freelon Dr Knouse.
We appreciate you all so m. Talk me into again.
Tuck me in.
TikTok me SBN suck me in.
Good night Suttmeier.


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