-- Well start solo, and then we'll just do that.

So that's like... two?

Four measures of that?

Right?

-- Uh-huh (piano and drums practicing) (snapping) (speaking in rhythm) The wilder the better The woman respect her No evolution Without revolution Love transfusion That's a resolution [spoken] Unh!

(laughter) - You want to take a drum solo during my rap?

-- Yes!

Why not?

(laughter) -- Okay.

(guitar rehearsing) (piano enters, rehearsing) - Okay, okay.

(piano, drums and trumpet rehearsing) (song ends) - Yo.

That's good.

- Yes.

That's great.

(trumpet rehearsing) - I consider myself a wild woman I'm 40 years old.

I don't have kids, I can travel, I have a lot of freedom.

And that's like my number one currency.

And I think growing up in the South, there's usually one direction that you can go in.

And usually there's these standards of how you live your life.

And I've been able to navigate my life in such interesting ways, and I feel so empowered that I've had the opportunity to stay true to myself and to create things that I just feel like are fun and vibrant and interesting.

My vision was to have as many female musicians as I could, and to really create this joyful, impactful song that would showcase all of us and all of our talents.

It's been my dream since I was a kid.

I would sit up at night and watch music videos and study them and study vocals and records and just sing them over and over.

So it was kind of my joyful place as a kid where I just wanted to go into these other worlds.

I feel like it was a talent that I even had as a kid, but I was uber shy to even express it.

And so I think the thing that really helped me nurture that was church, because I went to church, my dad's a minister, my whole family sang in church.

And so that's the place where I felt comfortable enough to sing in front of people.

(soulful song playing) To be able to do this job at 40 I really do feel like I live out my dream all the time.

So I get so excited still today, to just be able to create and to put a message out into the world that is meaningful to me.

(poignant music playing) - Ha ha.

My love of music began around eight years old.

I have to give credit to my mother because as I began playing drums and I got into these spaces, I was often the only girl playing drums.

At no point did my mom say, “That's a masculine instrument.

I'm going to forbid you from playing it.” But I ran into many parents, other people in the band, they wanted to be drummers, but their mom's like, “No, that' “not a girly instrument, so you're not going to play that.” So I have to give credit to my mother for just defying those stereotypes of what you're supposed to be doing.

And she instilled that confidence in me while I was young, that you're supposed to stand out in your uniqueness as your superpower.

And I just believe it.

(drums continue) (no spoken audio) (music fades) (static) (soft keyboard playing) - My great aunt taught me how to play the piano when I was five years old.

By the age of eight, I was a church musician.

It's my release.

Like, it's how I express myself most freely, if you will.

You know, I think we live in a society that has so many boundaries and so many restrictions and so many constraints on what you should do, how you should be.

But in music, I'm free.

I get to be who, how, whatever I want to be in that moment.

When I'm sad, I can release there.

When I'm happiest, like I can rejoice there.

Yeah, music has just been an extension of my being.

(keyboard music continues) (static) (metronome beeping) (singing) Hey, hey, hey, we are a revolution.

Let the classroom start today.

Get your notebooks open, pencils sharpened Were gonna study love and pain From the building tops to the (never-ending free world) Wild women lead the way Read the script to tear down every little skyline and reinvent in your own way and use it.

Uh uh Uh uh (Our rebellious hearts) Use it.

Uh uh Uh uh (Our rebellious hearts) Hey, hey, hey, we are a revolution.

Let the choir start singing today in harmony with the melody.

to transition before the break ( from the mountain tops to the (neverending free world) Wild women lead the way, let the tempo slow down, Let's all go now.

Reinventing our way and use it Uh uh.

Use it in the morning.

Use it in the story.

By using.

Dancing it in the middle.

Dancing in the moonlight, dancing in the stories of our li Hey, hey, hey from Maya A to Yonce From Meg the Stallion to Melinda Gates We run the gamut Didn't come to play Send the bat signal we save the day I'm nurturing.

But don't push me.

My body, my autonomy.

Try to hush us.

We gon step up.

Plan A ain't no back up Empowerment is our element Protesting in the elements You bring the heat.

We walk through the fire.

Calm in the storm.

No ARC required.

The wilder the better The woman respect her No evolution without revolution.

Love transfusion.

That's a resolution.

(Saxophone solo) Our rebellious hearts.

Our rebellious hearts.

Our rebellious hearts.

Our rebellious hearts.

(song ends) (static) - I think if we have the opportunity where all of us have the same rights and we have equality around the board, like socially, financially, and all the decisions we get to make, I feel like that would create a gender-just world.

- Both acknowledge, accept it and celebrate it that women can do any and everything they put their mind to, period.

- I think, traditionally, women have been expected to be in the kitchen, you know, have my child prepare my food.

And that's the essence of womanhood.

So this feels like liberty to me.

The fact that I can set my own schedule and my art is my livelihood.

I think about so many people from the past, so many women from the past who -- even my own grandmother, who worked in a shirt factory for 30 years without retirement, she could not have dreamt that I am doing this and doing it successfully.

So this is liberation, and I have my mother and grandmother and my Big Mama to thank for that.