Artwork for Becoming — Hidden CrowdTrack 13

Hidden Crowd · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Golden Gate

Becoming · 3:43 · Hip-hop

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WITHIN THE ALBUM

Finding a place without losing your voice.

Becoming introduces Hidden Crowd’s imaginary trajectories. The titles set visible aspirations—success, stars, play—alongside images of transformation such as Rise From Nothing and Metamorphosis Code. The collective opens several perspectives on the making of a self.

In this editorial reading, the city is more than a backdrop to success: it requires the characters to choose who they want to become. Stars & Scars and Forever Gone remind us that every change also leaves traces. This story belongs to the project’s fiction and makes no claim to biographical testimony.

Rise From Nothing offers a thematic way in. Then return to Revolution Radio to discover the complete journey.

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Original lyrics

Text supplied in the project files. The original language is preserved.

City by the bay, where dreams meet reality
Seven hills, million stories
This is San Francisco

Golden Gate rising through the morning fog
Jog through the mission, dodging every dog
Cog in the machine, but the machine is broken
Token of affection from a city that's outspoken
Smoking weed is legal, but the rent will make you cry
High cost of living got me reaching for the sky
Sky scrapers in SOMA, homeless in the Tenderloin
Coin flip between success and sleeping on the join

San Francisco dreaming in the city by the bay 
Where the fog rolls in and takes your breath away
From the Castro to the Sunset, we're all trying to stay
In the city that we love but can barely afford to pay, afford to pay
Golden gate dreams and silicon valley schemes
Tech money flowing but it ain't what it seems
San Francisco, you're beautiful and broken
All our hearts are stolen, all our hearts are stolen

Gentrification nation, changing every block
Shock value real estate, estate of mind in shock
Clock tower at the ferry building, dealing with the time
Crime of pushing families out should really be a crime
Climb these hills like Jacob's ladder, madder every day
Bay Area natives getting pushed so far away
Say you love diversity, but pricing out the culture
Vulture capitalism circling like death above the sculpture

San Francisco dreaming in the city by the bay
Where the fog rolls in and takes your breath away
From the Castro to the Sunset, we're all trying to stay
In the city that we love but can barely afford to pay, afford to pay
Golden gate dreams and silicon valley schemes
Tech money flowing but it ain't what it seems
San Francisco, you're beautiful and broken
All our hearts are stolen, all our hearts are stolen

Lombard street curves like the path to my heart
Chinatown lanterns lighting up the dark
North beach poetry, fisherman's wharf tourists
Alcatraz in the distance, freedom for the purest
Painted ladies standing proud in Alamo square
Cable cars climbing hills like they just don't care
This city raised me, made me who i am today
Even if the cost of living drives me away

Determined to survive in the city that i cherish
Perish the thought of leaving, even if i'm barely eating
Meeting rent each month feels like i'm defeating giants
Science can't explain the way this city keeps me pliant
Compliant with the struggle, hustle just to stay afloat
Vote for rent control, but the rich folks get the most
Coast to coast i've traveled, but nowhere feels like home
Rome wasn't built in a day, SF built on gold and foam

San Francisco dreaming and i'll never go away
Through the fog and through the struggle, this is where i'll stay
From the haight to hunter's point, we're family every day
In the city that we love, somehow we'll find a way, find a way
Golden gate dreams are worth more than money schemes
Tech bros come and go, but the city's in our genes
San Francisco, you're beautiful, forever
Our hearts belong to you, belong to you forever

Forty-nine square miles of magic by the sea
City of love, city of dreams, city of you and me
Golden gate dreams in the city of the free
San Francisco forever, this is where i'll always be
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