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Danez Smith

Danez Smith

34 songs
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2018
Single
Apr 2018
Say it with your whole black mouth
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Single
Apr 2018
Say it with your whole black mouth
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2018
Album
Feb 2018
Poetry March 2018

2 tracks

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Album
Feb 2018
Poetry March 2018

2 tracks

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2018
Album
Jan 2018
Poem-A-Day (2018)

1 track

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Album
Jan 2018
Poem-A-Day (2018)

1 track

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2017
Album
Sep 2017
Don’t Call Us Dead

10 tracks

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Album
Sep 2017
Don’t Call Us Dead

10 tracks

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2017
Album
Feb 2017
BOAAT MARCH / APRIL 2017 ISSUE

1 track

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Album
Feb 2017
BOAAT MARCH / APRIL 2017 ISSUE

1 track

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2017
Album
Feb 2017
Black Movie

2 tracks

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Album
Feb 2017
Black Movie

2 tracks

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2017
Album
Jan 2017
Poetry February 2017,

1 track

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Album
Jan 2017
Poetry February 2017,

1 track

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2016
Album
Dec 2016
Issue Nineteen

2 tracks

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Album
Dec 2016
Issue Nineteen

2 tracks

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2015
Single
Sep 2015
The Bullet was a Girl
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Single
Sep 2015
The Bullet was a Girl
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2015
Album
Jan 2015
Poem-A-Day (2015)

1 track

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Album
Jan 2015
Poem-A-Day (2015)

1 track

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2014
Single
Nov 2014
Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
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Single
Nov 2014
Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
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2014
Album
Sep 2014
Nepantla: Issue #1

1 track

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Album
Sep 2014
Nepantla: Issue #1

1 track

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2014
Album
Jan 2014
[insert] boy

8 tracks

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Album
Jan 2014
[insert] boy

8 tracks

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Top Songs

#1
Say it with your whole black mouth
#2
It won’t be a bullet
#3
King the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow
#4
Lion King in the Hood
#5
Little prayer
#6
My father gives a lecture on the power of good pussy
#7
Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
#8
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About Danez Smith

Discography

Don’t Call Us Dead
10 tracks · 2017
[insert] boy
8 tracks · 2014
Poetry March 2018
2 tracks · 2018
Black Movie
2 tracks · 2017
Issue Nineteen
2 tracks · 2016
Poem-A-Day (2018)
1 track · 2018
BOAAT MARCH / APRIL 2017 ISSUE
1 track · 2017
Poetry February 2017,
1 track · 2017
Poem-A-Day (2015)
1 track · 2015
Nepantla: Issue #1
1 track · 2014

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Popular lyrics by Danez Smith

Say it with your whole black mouth

say it with your whole black mouth: i am innocent & if you are not innocent, say this: i am worthy of forgiveness, of breath after breat…

It won’t be a bullet

becoming a little moon—brightwarm in me one night. thank god. i can go quietly. the doctor will explain death & i’ll go practice. in the…

King the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow

I hear music rise off your skin. Each hair on your arm a tiny viola. A wind full of bows blows & all I hear is the brown hum of your fle…

Lion King in the Hood

PITCH FOR A MOVIE: LION KING IN THE HOOD 1. cast list Mufasa & his absence played by every father ever Simba played by the first boy you…

Little prayer

let ruin end here let him find honey where there was once a slaughter let him enter the lion's cage & find a field of lilacs let this be…

My father gives a lecture on the power of good pussy

meanwhile, I smack my dry mouth practicing Darren’s width, for whom I must make my jaw a legend if I want him to call me again. I make mysel…

Not an Elegy for Mike Brown

I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black dead thing . bring him & we will mourn…

Notes

dear suicide how is the war? is it eating? tell me of the girls charging backwards into dumb tides death’s wet mouth lapping their ankles, k…

On Grace

For Tim Seibles, Ross Gay, Kevin Simmonds, & Pages Matam You know how when Usain Bolt runs & you want to cry it's so beautiful? That…

How many of us have them?

friends! if i may interrupt right quick i know y’all working, busy smoking & busy trying not to smoke, busy with the kids & moms &am…

Discography at a glance

34

Songs on Lyrks

10

Albums

5

Singles

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Danez Smith is a music artist with 34 songs on Lyrks.

Popular tracks by Danez Smith include Say it with your whole black mouth, It won’t be a bullet, King the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow, Lion King in the Hood, Little prayer. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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