As requested, sharing my thoughts on Macklemore’s “Hind’s Hall.” I hope y’all hear me.
While we celebrate his effort, let’s honor that people came before him. Let’s honor that he wouldn’t have been able to make that song without hip-hop’s long legacy of this kind of music activism.
Also stop calling Black music a “distraction” when my ancestors sang their way through struggle and got strength to carry on because of music. We can do the same.
I know what this moment in hip-hop did for me, the energy it brought me, and the work continues as I blast “Not Like Us” in the background.
Free the land, free the people ✊🏾🇵🇸
#hiphop#blacktiktok#macklemore#palestine#lupefiasco#noname#vicmensa#chicago
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Just curious, was Macklemore the first artist you heard speak about Palestine in song/performance?
@whitesinhistory:
There is a space to look at all points made in Donnell Writes post.
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