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Protest
05:39
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No Justice, No Peace
04:56
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Braver
03:57
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Silence Is Violence
04:45
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What Matters
03:47
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Chorus lyrics:
What matters - the liberation of the people
What matters - for all of us to be free
What matters - that we are all created equal
What matters
I see my brothers and my sisters and i proudly take the knee
Rap:
What matters to you man
What makes you human and
Do you feel empathy when you see injustice in your land
Ye, I'm talking to you
Are you a racist
I can see it in your eyes that you don't want to face this
It's at your front door now
Ye you America
The killing of too many black men, oh it's numerical
What matters is the systematic racism we see the
Police be practicing with deadly force on our population
Are you a bigot now
ye can you dig it wow
Do your opinions on different people
Align with the nazis, pow
For me, there's nothing in this world that's worse than a
Racist piece of shit with your dumb red hat
Makes me wanna spit and start the combat
I got my daggers out
It matters what you're about
Are we In tatters, is there really any doubt
Get your head out of your ass and
Join the protest make it fatter
Raise your voice and scream so proud
Black lives matter
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DO NOT PASS GO
by Robert C. Ford
Some came to vandalize
Some came to loot
Some for fresh air
Some even to protest
Marker on cardboard
To some it’s just words
To others a verbal sword
A commandment from the Lord
Should I let my hair grow long?
Should I shave my head bald?
Extremes are deadly (sin)
Moderation heavenly (virtue)
Everyone has a song to sing
Some even a partner to dance
Are you willing to risk arrest?
Are you willing to risk death?
Mama, I can’t breathe
11th Grade Junior Prom
Too nervous to dial her number
Mama…
New Year’s comes faster each year
Someday Sirius will guide us to bliss
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Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
05:02
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The Wolves Have Thrown Us To The Wolves
by Erik T. Johnson
I.
Yeah, the country, the city’s gone to pot, sucks, man
A citizen’s life no more than a
double-dunked
dental dam
scudding
down the Hudson
O, Dude, shit—I mean shit, but they’ve got us screwed
Tear-gassed, run over, pepper-sprayed and pellet-shot
The wolves have thrown us to the wolves.
And those fangs ain’t no joke
But, here’s the good part:
Now we finally get to howl like we mean it
II.
So hear me my friend
come be my promise-brother, sworn-sister
my family who speaks love through chants a thousand-mouths wide:
If they’re gonna
Kick our
kidneys with steel-toed boots
Lay on the hot cock-tongs
Crunch with truncheons
Fuck with our fingernails
Well, shit, then
Let’s scream like we more than mean it
From a place where purpose is weakness
Let our howls be the weapons
That finally deafens
the bastards
So they never get to hear another confession
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Say Their Names
04:11
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Complicit
04:45
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Words:
Chorus:
We be explicit
are you complicit?
are you a racist
don’t you dismiss it
We be explicit
are you complicit?
this attitude been around forever
its reminiscent
If I comply with what right
ill be remembered on the right side of history
Gene Rap:
White Americans you better listen
Do you stand with justice or you complicit
Social change is coming you don’t wanna miss it
Grab this opportunity or away u piss it
Now let me revisit sit down and wait a minute
do you view humanity as kind of timid
cause if you show some courage and stand for whats right
everyone will benefit, I’m trying to enlight
and take this fight in to the light to feed your justice appetite
I incite you to be upright and reject the centuries of wrong
open your heart to truth and song do not prolong
the hate thats gripping our society
undeniably afflicted by bigotry and anxiety
why are we spiraling into backwards way of thought and spiritual
criminality we need to alter our mentality focus our personality and feel the gravity of this insanity
Chorus:
We be explicit
are you complicit?
are you a racist
don’t you dismiss it
We be explicit
are you complicit?
this attitude been around forever
its reminiscent
If I comply with what right
ill be remembered on the right side of history
Chad Rap:
The pain don’t die but it might subside
Temporarily long enough to not cry
No need to believe in a reason or why
God for black folks seem slow to reply
Who’s down to take 10 steps and only move two
Knowing this is in everything you pursue
You don’t know the strength it takes to live subdued
With a crack in your heart permanently tattooed
We immortal as long as our stories are told
I kneel in front of elders who carry the load
Carry their tradition yea the honor bestowed
Nothing means more to me than walking in their shadow
My hands are tied by Ancestral giants
They read me my rights said never remain silent
Riot in the face of those who stay quiet
Stay relying on the science of David and Goliath
Chorus:
We be explicit
are you complicit?
are you a racist
don’t you dismiss it
We be explicit
are you complicit?
this attitude been around forever
its reminiscent
If I comply with what right
ill be remembered on the right side of history
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Gene Pritsker New York, New York
Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J./producer Gene Pritsker has written over eight hundred compositions, all of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance and Eclectic Music eXtravaganza ... more
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