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#TBT || Pretty Lights – I Know The Truth

Christopher Rivera by Christopher Rivera
April 27, 2017
in Music

Take it back to the year 2010 with Pretty Lights’ hit track “I Know The Truth”!


This week’s #TBT, Pretty Lights‘ “I Know The Truth“, was the first EDM song I was ever shown back in 2010. The track has always held a special place in my heart being a combination of hip-hop and blues. Derek samples O.V. Wrights,  A Fool Can’t See The Light on this track. Derek has always been an innovator of music in my opinion though unfortunately, I feel he has fallen off a bit in the last couple of years. I have high hopes for the upcoming Pretty Lights Live performances as Derek is one hell of a composer when he wants to be. His Okeechobee set, which debuted his new “light wall”, was full of the old school PL we’ve come to admire. Check our the “I Know The Truth” video filmed at  2011’s Bonnaroo below and enjoy!

Check out Pretty Lights – I Know The Truth on YouTube:


Pretty Lights – I Know The Truth – Lyrics

I’m too blind
I’m too blind…..to see the light
have mercy, on me now
have mercy, on me now
have mercy…
me on me now (x7)

NO MERCY!!!!!!!!!
I’m trying to find some kind of excuse
But deep down within my heart, I know the truth
I’m trying to find some kind of excuse
But deep down within my heart, I know the truth…
I’m too blind
I’m too blind…..to see the light
have mercy, on me now
have mercy, on me now
have mercy…
me on me now (x7)


About Pretty Lights:

Derek Vincent Smith better known as Pretty Lights, is a Colorado based producer who’s made quite a name for himself in the Festival Circuit. Pretty Lights is an OG within the EDM community, who’s even been recognized by the likes of  titans of music like Rick Ruben who once said, “Pretty Lights is the face and voice of the new American  electronic music scene.” Pretty Lights resume includes 4 albums between his 2006 release of Taking Up Your Precious Time to 2013’s Color Map Of The Sun; headlining or performing dozen’s of festivals from Suwannee’s Hulaween to New Orlean’s Buku Festivals; he has even headlined and beginning his own festival alongside Bassnectar called BassLights.

Most recently he has announced that he will be hosting his own mini festival/performance alongside his live band Pretty Lights Live at Washington’s, Gorge Amphitheatre. Derek also released a poster for what he is calling Island of Lights though, no one seems to know where it will take place as he has not announced that. His die-hard fans are hypothesizing that both show posters actually have a hidden message from Derek to his fans; the 7 rays of light in the poster represent 7 shows he will put on in the near future, where and when is to be determined.


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Christopher Rivera

Christopher Rivera

Christopher, or Brown Bear as his Festival Family and most of his friends call him, got his humble beginnings in the dance music scene when he was a child from none other than his mother. The weekends were filled with dance music from the 80’s and 90’s like La Bouche’s “Be My Lover” and Corona’s “Rhythm of the Night”. In 2010 his friends showed him a video from Bonnaroo of Pretty Light’s “I Know the Truth” and he immediately dived on in. Since then he has attended every live music festival from Spirit of Suwannee’s, Purple Hatters Ball (Jam Bands), to Let It Roll Drum & Bass Festival in the Czech Republic. Chris has an eclectic palate for music; from Shpongle and Bassnectar to Oliver Heldens and Porter Robinson, he vibes with it all. He has traveled from coast to coast and around the world looking what he calls The Bear Necessities of Life; the simple things that make you smile, or you find visually moving. This pursuit and travels inspired Bearlosophy, his photographic journal of all his adventures. He aspires to travel the world taking photos for non-profit organizations or to work for one of the top EDM photography teams like aLIVE Coverage.

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