Dessa - Who's Yellen Now? (Official Lyric Video)

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Published 2021-01-25
When @Marketplace APM wondered what a ‪@HamiltonMusical‬- style musical about the new Treasury Secretary would sound like, Dessa came through with the answer.
Stream/download/purchase: smarturl.it/DessaYellen
Vocals and lyrics by Dessa
Produced by Lazerbeak and Andy Thompson
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Lyric video by Matthew Levine ( IG: @cosmicfoxmedia)
Shout out to Marketplace for the commission.

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LYRICS

HOOK
Oooo, who’s Yellen now?
Who’s Yellen, who’s Yellen now?

VERSE 1
Doves on the left
Hawks on the right
Crosstalk in the flock tryna fight mid-flight
But here comes Yellen with that inside voice
Never mind the mild manner, policies make noise
She’s five foot nothing, but hand to god
She can pop a collar, she can rock a power bob
Bay Ridge represent!
Brooklyn’s in the cabinet!
Damn, Janet, go and get it—
Fifth in line for president!
She knows the kinda stimulus it takes to pass a buck
I heard she called the housing crisis
She’s qualified as ffff—
It only took a couple centuries
The first female secretary of the treasury

BRIDGE
Don’t want no tax evasion
Forgers faking
In her treasury
Trying for higher wages
For the nation
Less disparity

VERSE 2
Watch your step, there's busted glass
Janet broke another ceiling
You can bet your brass
That the Lego guy is leaving
Last check to cash
—'Scuse me, Janet has a briefing and a flight to catch
And Janet
She’s the first that’s led
The Council of Economic Advisors, Tresh, and the Fed,
She needs a three-sided coin that always comes up heads
To put the triple crown down when she goes to bed
Call the decorators
New boss in the office
Spenders and the savers
Watch the confirmation process
We got to meet her
Now let’s let her settle in
And lift up your mojitos—
Cause she manages the mint

HOOK

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All Comments (21)
  • @johnstanhaus2943
    To which Yellen replied @DessaDarling your tune is “money”. Thanks for the mood music, I’ll take it from here!
  • @chocololitta
    This is brilliant! It also made me read up on Dr. Yellen. What a life! What a career! What a brilliant woman! Contributing to make our world a better place. Smart as a whip, speaking like a librarian. I wish I had been in her ECON classes!
  • @sagebrushrepair
    This was the single largest gain to Janet Yellen's hip hop cred in recent market history. I love Marketplace: Kai Rysdall has the absolute most darling radio voice in the biz, great guests, and the sound engineers/producers (and whoever chooses the interstitial musics) are crazy good. Dessa is my absolute favorite musician in all of history. Andy's arrangements are a perfect fit for Dessa's style and of course Beak up here making it slappp and adding all sorts of L A Y E R S
  • @DhavalNShah-zt9gd
    Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Janet Yellen ! :) Was so lucky to have her as one of our Macroeconomics Professors (many years ago!) and experience her MASTERY directly during my MBA at Haas.
  • @DATRATMANZ
    My Government professor recommended this video for more information about Yellen and I clicked on it and busted out laughing. By far the best professor I have had yet dudes hilarious.
  • @KRoss-dw5hh
    We need a whole new series of this stuff to teach civics in school.
  • @rockingbeat
    I love Marketplace on NPR because of things like this
  • @ianbarrow4087
    This is great how do we tag the epic rap battle guys