ON A HIGH NOTE: Super Bowl 50

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Notes for Notes® is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing youth with completely FREE access to music instruments, instruction and recording studio environments so that music may become a profoundly positive experience in their lives.

Members of Off The Field Player's Wives Association (OFTPWA) spent Super Bowl Saturday at the Bay Area Notes for Notes studio. Heading the tour was OTF's own Shannon O'Toole. Shannon just brought a Notes for Notes to New Orleans where her husband, John Morton is the Saints' wide receivers coach. The NOLA location is projected to open in May of 2016.

Located in the Don Fisher Boys and Girls Club, the San Francisco Notes for Notes studio is packed with raw talent. OTF members were in awe (and in tears) as several talented young musicians shared their music.

Eighteen year old Mai'saan Delaney was kind enough to grant permission to share his lyrics. Mai'saan's message is empowering, his passion for his craft - inspiring. 

Full Lyrics

Didn't grow up knowin it
Didn't start off showing it
Til I was in my teens my confidence just started growin then
Neva had a lot, except this talent that I rock
And Im proud it's what I got, so now you'll catch me out cheap ownin it
The mindset that I have to 
Has saved me from getting grabbed
Saved me from being ordinary cuz all that is a drag
Following the sheep, I'd rather be up in a bag
On the way to the coroners so they can find out what I had
An old soul, Modern body, Futuristic state of mind
Now I'm loving my truly altruistic way to rhyme
my people becoming statistics settled in my mind
So I tells it how I sees it, my music can heal the blind

Hook

I always knew I'd have a shot
So why my brothas gettin shot
I always knew I'd make it big
So why my brothas Makin shivs 
I always knew I'd put in work
So why my brothas in the dirt
I always knew this what I'd be
So why my brothas in the streets

Verse 2 

Now I'm paving the way 
Now I'm saving the game
Hip hop been dead but now I'm creatin a change
I've been going through the process in my mind for a while
Forget the queen Ima move my pawns for while
Worried for the youth cuz they spawn in denial
Parents tripping try to listen to this song for awhile
The deeper words inside can lead you to inner truth
And once they do you'll join the revolution, we're waiting for you
My brother losing hope, losin lives, and moving dope 
my brothas busting nines and getting dough to stay afloat
But why you need to float if you flying higher then coach
Get some hope I'd rather smoke my own beat then smoke a roach
Your mind is why you are where you are
Don't mean to be blunt but you just watching a star
Don't mean to be mean but you just hobblin along
With the other sheep wonderin where your conscious done gone

Hook

I always knew I'd have a shot
So why my brothas gettin shot
I always knew I'd make it big
So why my brothas Makin shivs 
I always knew I'd put in work
So why my brothas in the dirt
I always knew this what I'd be
So why my brothas in the streets

Verse 3

So what you think I need, so what you think i speak for
We scared to chase our dreams, spooked, we just need to leap more
Think outside the box, even if it means to make it crease mo 
We need to help each other before the system deletes hope
I know I'm going out on a limb
But then again
My people getting out of a win
Small wins 
But even then
Take on them without no doubt in ya head
That little wins gonna turn from small to really gargantuan 
Lyrical opposition
For those who just wouldn't listen
For those who thought they would stop us with women drugs and some riches
Huh, you kidding 
My dreams is way bigga then that
I'm living, without bein distracted by any that
I'm Killin, negativity with keepin my mind intact 
My lines been fat, now tell me how where yo eyelids at
In the Restin position or are they way peeled back
My eyes been on the prize way before I even made this track

Hook

I always knew I'd have a shot
So why my brothas gettin shot
I always knew I'd make it big
So why my brothas Makin shivs 
I always knew I'd put in work
So why my brothas in the dirt
I always knew this what I'd be
So why my brothas in the streets

To listen to Mai'saan's music directly go to https://soundcloud.com/v5ybi50uw14c.

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