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Friday, May 29 2020, 6AM
"I'd love to hear Freedom by Beyonce in solidarity with those rising up in MLPS." -Stephanie in Seattle
Released as a single from Kendrick Lamar's third album 'To Pimp a Butterfly' in 2015, it has since become an encouraging anthem used during protests that call to end the senseless violence against black people in America.
The synopsis of this song according to an entry written on Wikipedia: "Born into a poor family in Mississippi, a young black man experiences discrimination in looking for work and eventually seeks to escape to New York City (alluding to the Second Great Migration) in hopes of finding a new life. Through a series of background noises and spoken dialogue, the man reaches New York by bus, but is then promptly framed for a crime, arrested, convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison."
Here we go, here, here we go again
Trayvon'll never get to be an older man
The National Recording Registry at the US Library Of Congress archives recordings that are considered to be culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and this one was added in 2002 because “of its focus on urban social issues”.
The final track on Bob Marley's twelfth album, 'Uprising'
Everybody know what this song's about
They be trying to hide the history
But they know who we are
Do you want to see
Everybody rise to the next degree?
Can be found on Erykah Badu's 2008 album 'New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)'
