Songs of Black Lives Matter: 22 New Protest Anthems

Category: Black Lives Matter

D'Angelo worked on his third album,Black Messiah, for 14 years, butwhen the opus finally came out in late 2014,it feltastoundingly prescient. Released in the mire of Ferguson and ahead of Baltimore, just asthe Black Lives Matter movement was taking hold,Messiahlaid out some of the heavythemes America was faced with: systemic racism, police brutality and the general plight of the black community in the new century.

They Said: "Black Messiah is, I think, the most sociopolitical stuff I've done on record. The Black Lives Matter movement is going on, young black men and women are getting killed for nothing. I've always been a big reader and fan of history, and I love the Black Panthers. I'm not trying to be like a poster child or anything of the movement, but definitely a voice as a black man as a concerned black man and as a father, as well," the singer saidon The Tavis Smiley Show.

Key Lyric: "All we wanted was a chance to talk/'Stead we only got outlined in chalk/Feet have bled a million miles we've walked/Revealing at the end of the day, the charade."

Read the original here:
Songs of Black Lives Matter: 22 New Protest Anthems

Related Posts
June 5th, 2019
No comments yet

Comments are closed.