New Orleans, Louisiana native Dawn Richard, the daughter of Chocolate Milk percussionist and vocalist Frank Richard, released her first solo material under the name Dawn Angeliqué. The album Been a While, recorded while the singer was attending the University of New Orleans and working as a cheerleader for the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, came out on the Yeah! Brother label in October 2005, around the time she made her first appearance on Making the Band 3. The third edition of that reality series produced Danity Kane, a group that released two Billboard 200-topping albums, Danity Kane (2006) and Welcome to the Dollhouse (2008), prior to splitting. Then, along with Diddy and Kalenna Harper, she became one-third of Diddy-Dirty Money, a short-lived group that debuted in 2009, released an album (2010’s Last Train to Paris), and then a mixtape (2011’s Love Love vs. Hate Love) prior to ending in 2012. While the group was active, Richard continued to develop her solo career.
Dawn Richard – Levitate
Dawn Richard – Levitate Lyrics:
(Verse)
See I’m on a mission
Tryna elevate ya
Show you things that you ain’t never seen
I see your potential
You can really go far
Baby all your niggas show whips
I can really take you there if you want to
Higher than you ever been baby
Just let the smoke clear, let me take the other then
I’ll take you farther than you ever been
(Pre-Chorus)
Bet you I’ll get you flying now you’ll see
No ceilings when you are fucking with me
Where we going ain’t for everybody
This world of violence, no diamonds like me
(Chorus)
Aha
Okay, we bout to levitate
We bout to levitate
This is that song you levitate
This is that song when you can’t get out yo seat, you can’t feel your face
Going past higher, we plankin in space
Levitate (Levitate…)
We bout to levitate
This song you levitate
(Verse)
I’m about to get you higher than you ever been
I’mma get you so far you gon tell a friend
Feeling so sweet, you thought it was a swisha
Feet off to leave the ground it ain’t gon miss ya
Again, going harder than you ever been
You ain’t never coming down again
You gon be so gone when
I’ma push it on ya
You’re not gon remember how you got so farther
(Pre-Chorus)
Bet you I’ll get you flying now you’ll see
No ceilings when you are fucking with me
Where we going ain’t for everybody
This world of violence, no diamonds like me
(Chorus)
Aha
Okay, we bout to levitate
We bout to levitate
This is that song you levitate
This is that song when you can’t get out yo seat, you can’t feel your face
Going past higher, we plankin in space
Levitate (Levitate…)
We bout to levitate
This song you levitate
(Bridge)
And now baby we gone
You ain’t frontin
Man, move out my, move out my, move out my way
Where we going ain’t for everybody
Come down, we ain’t comin down
No, no way
We ain’t comin down
No, we gon levitate
We ain’t comin down
No, no, no way
We ain’t comin down
No, no, no way
(Chorus)
Aha
Okay, we bout to levitate
We bout to levitate
This is that song you levitate
This is that song when you can’t get out yo seat, you can’t feel your face
Going past higher, we plankin in space
Levitate
We bout to levitate
This song you levitate.