While the song's overall message is one about facing one's challenges, failures, and disappointments in life and holding onto hope that things will be alright, the song addresses Lamar's personal experiences and challenges as a Black man, like police brutality and racism, head-on.

These songs are, of course, just the top of the iceberg, but in the wake of the death of George Floyd, they’re all essential listens. Key Lyric: "You speak about equality, but do you really mean it?Are you marching for freedom, or when it's convenient?". The names get swapped out for new ones — “The Death of Emmett Till” has been replaced with lyrical references to Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, “Birmingham Sunday” and “Mississippi Goddam” swapped out for “Baltimore” — but the deaths and the injustices keep on coming. and served as a tribute to lives lost by police brutality. What A Wonderful World – …

Key lyric: "I am not poison, no I am not poison/Just a boy from the hood that/Got my hands in the air/In despair don't shoot". "I wanna be somebody so bad," Johnson wails repeatedly over the nearly eight-minute track. Following the July 2016 shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, he dedicated a song to the Black Lives Matter movement asking the question Black people have been asking for centuries: How many Black lives need to be lost until society wakes up and make a change? Ty Dolla $ign's impactful 2016 track featured his incarcerated little brother Big T.C. He also testifies, "If you're half-white, light, brown-skinned, or high-yellow, you're still black, so we all got to stick together," marking yet another call to unity for everyone living under the thumb of the lone race at the top—namely, the white people. Rappers, pop stars, and ballad singers alike are churning out tracks that share a powerful message. The opening lyric "They still call it the White House, but that's a temporary condition, too," is actually in reference to African-Americans becoming the majority population in Washington, D.C., after white residents had made an exodus to the quieter, more expensive suburbs. Key lyrics: “We shall not, we shall not be moved/We shall not, we shall not be moved/We’re fighting for our freedom/We shall not be moved”, Key lyrics: “Yeah, it makes me wanna holler/And throw up both my hands/Crime is increasing/Trigger happy policing”, Key lyrics: “A nation at half mast/Figured I’d get the last laugh/Carving up that golden calf/With a blow torch and gas mask/I’m marching on Ferguson/I’m marching tonight”, Key lyrics: “None of us are free, none of us are free, none of us are free, if one of us are chained.”, Key lyrics: “This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man/That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan/But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give/We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.”, Key lyrics: “Police taking shots and I ain’t talkin’ ’bout Ciroc/I’m talking ’bout Emmett Till, I’m talking bout Ezell Ford/I’m talking ’bout Sean Bell, they never go to jail for/Trayvon over Skittles, Mike Brown Cigarillos/History keeps repeating itself, like a Biggie instrumental/America’s a glass house and my revenge is mental/Rather use my brain than throw a cocktail through a window”. Die Songs stehen für Gerechtigkeit und für Werte zu kämpfen wie Akzeptanz, Toleranz und Respekt.

And if you want to show support for the artists using their platform to speak out, take a listen to these 20 songs that confront racial injustice in the U.S. When Brown talked (or sang, or wailed), people listened. Still, it could be interpreted today as a premonition for Barack Obama's inauguration 35 years later. Key lyrics: “Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me you see/Straight up racist that sucker was, simple and plain/Motherfuck him and John Wayne/Cause I’m Black and I’m proud”, Key lyrics: “Open our mind as we cast away oppression/Open the streets and watch our beliefs/And when they carve my name in the concrete I hope it forever reads/Freedom, freedom, I can’t move/Freedom, freedom, cut me loose/Freedom, freedom, where are you/Cause I need freedom too”, Key lyrics: “Eric Garner, say his name/Eric Garner, say his name/Eric Garner, say his name/Eric Garner, won’t you say his name?/Trayvon Martin, say his name/Trayvon Martin, say his name/Trayvon Martin, say his name/Trayvon Martin, won’t you say his name?”, Key lyrics: “Does anybody hear us pray for Michael Brown or Freddie Gray?/Peace is more than the absence of war”, Key lyrics: “You just a black man in this world/You just a barcode, ayy/You just a black man in this world/Drivin’ expensive foreigns, ayy/You just a big dawg, yeah/I kenneled him in the backyard/No, probably ain’t life to a dog/For a big dog.”, Key lyrics: “We pledge allegiance all our lives to the magic colors/Red, blue and white/But we all must be given the liberty that we defend/For with justice not for all men/History will repeat again/It’s time we learned/This world was made for all men”, Key lyrics: “On Birmingham Sunday a noise shook the ground/And people all over the Earth turned around/For no one recalled a more cowardly sound/And the choir kept singing of freedom”, Key lyrics: “Picket lines/School boy cots/They try to say it’s a communist plot/All I want is equality/For my sister my brother my people and me.”, Key lyrics: “I go to the movie, and I go downtown/Somebody keep tellin’ me don’t hang around/It’s been a long, a long time comin’, but I know a change gon’ come.”, Key lyrics: “Southern trees bearing strange fruit/Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots/Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees”, Key lyrics: “Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga/Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga/Still nigga, still nigga”, Key lyrics: “Some people say we got a lot of malice, some say it’s a lotta nerve/But I say we won’t quit movin’ until we get what we deserve”, Key lyrics: “Never mind your fears/Brighter days will soon be here/Take it from me, someday we’ll all be free, yeah”, Key lyrics: “White kids are brought in alive/Black kids get hit with like five/Get scared, you panic, you’re goin’ down/The disadvantages of the brown/How in the hell the parents gon’ bury their own kids, not the other way around?/Reminds me of Emmett Till/Let’s remind ’em why Kap kneels”, Key lyrics: “Cops give a damn about a negro/Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he’s a hero/Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares/One less hungry mouth on the welfare”, Key lyrics: “They declared the war on drugs like a war on terror/But what it really did was let the police terrorize whoever/But mostly black boys, but they would call us “niggas”/And lay us on our belly, while they fingers on they triggers/They boots was on our head, they dogs was on our crotches/And they would beat us up if we had diamonds on our watches/And they would take our drugs and money, as they pick our pockets/I guess that that’s the privilege of policing for some profit”, Key lyrics: “Black rage is founded on two-thirds a person/Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens/Black human packages tied up in strings/Black rage can come from all these kinds of things”, Key lyrics: “When the revolution comes/Transit cops will be crushed by the trains after losing their guns and blood will run through the streets of Harlem drowning anything without substance/When the revolution comes”.

Considering the positive, intelligent, multiracial, and pansexual message that Sly and the Family Stone always evinced and led by example, that makes perfect sense. By 1968, The Godfather of Soul James Brown was as influential a fixture in black American culture as Dr. King or Malcolm X had ever been. Backed by a call-and-response chorus of children, Butane James made sure to fan the flames of self-respect with this slab of funk demanding "a chance to do things for ourself. Poor people gonna rise up and get their share Poor people gonna rise up and take what's theirs" Village Ghetto Land performed by Stevie Wonder In den letzten Jahren haben sich auch immer mehr populäre Künstler gegen Rassismus ausgesprochen und haben ihre Gedanken und Erfahrungen in eigene Songs verpackt.

This song expresses the importance of caring for and depending on yourself: loving yourself first is the most empowering thing you can do. Freedom! The 58-song playlist continues with Kendrick Lamar's GRAMMY-winning 2015 popular protest anthem "Alright" and Childish Gambino's "This Is America." More of an extended ad-lib than a traditional song, "Is it Because I'm Black" still resonates as one long, anguished cry from the heart of an oppressed people.

Matty Healy actually explained the meaning behind his lyrics confronting how Black people are treated in the U.S., Amadou Diallo died at the hands of four N.Y.P.D.

Used as a means to express anguish and outrage, musicians crafted powerful ballads about the real devastation experienced as a byproduct of racism in 20th century America, creating a musical catalog chronicling the ugly truths some prefer not to admit to or to acknowledge in a cultural history interwoven the evils of slavery and racial oppression.

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