I somehow missed this drop. Supposedly their last project together.

The national anthem!

This makes me happy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17607188

Released in collaboration with Bold Stories, this track serves a successor to the revered Long Live Palestine trilogy.

Throughout the song, Lowkey reflects on the military siege that Gaza has faced in recent months and shares critical thoughts on his place in music.

https://genius.com/Lowkey-palestine-will-never-die-lyrics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17606738

Alt. link: MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL (AUDIO ONLY) [02:48] https://youtu.be/wmg6vbt04TY

“HIND’S HALL” was released by Macklemore through social media on 6 May 2024.

The track broadly addresses the State of Israel’s attack on Palestinians in Gaza which began in October 2023. The attack, which has caused tens of thousands of casualties, overwhelmingly civilian, has been widely characterised as genocidal, including as plausibly amounting to genocide by the ruling of the International Court of Justice in South Africa v Israel.

More narrowly, the track addresses the 2024 encampment movement which took shape around the world in protest of other states' response, or lack of response, to the Israeli attack. Macklemore, who is based in the United States, particularly criticises US institutions' coercive, brute-force, often militarised response to student protesters using their (nominally) guaranteed rights to free speech.

The song is named in reference to Hind’s Hall, a building at Columbia University in Manhattan, more commonly known as Hamilton Hall, prior to its takeover by student protesters. The building was named in reference to Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl murdered by Israeli occupation forces. Hind’s fate is known because the civilian car she was riding in was disabled by an Israeli tank, killing most of her family and injuring her, whereupon her cousin placed a call to Palestinian emergency services crying and begging for help before also being killed. Hind subsequently spent three hours on call with Palestinian emergency services, allowing an ambulance to be dispatched and reach her. Upon its arrival, that ambulance was destroyed, and its crew and Hind were murdered, by the same or another Israeli tank.

Hind’s call was leaked online and instantly became a focus of widespread notoriety due to the cold, calculated nature of her and her family’s murder — Hind and her cousin’s calls and evidence from the scene consistently indicate Israeli forces were in the immediate vicinity and in visual range at the time of each killing, meaning there is no reasonable chance the Israeli tank crews did not fully realise what they had done. Moreover, the Israeli tank destroyed the ambulance after Israeli forces had provided the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and Gaza Health Ministry with a “guarantee” of safe passage and the ambulance had proceeded along a route laid out for that purpose. In addition, after the killing, Israeli spokespeople chose to lie about it and attempt to cover it up.

The song also features a sample from “Ana La Habibi”, by legendary Lebanese Arab singer Fairuz, to fit the theme of making a song for Palestine. Fairuz has also been vocal in her support for Palestine over the course of career with the album Jerusalem in my Heart, featuring the single “Zahrat al Madaen”, which became a pan-Arab anthem, releasing only two weeks after the 1967 Six-Day War.

https://genius.com/Macklemore-hinds-hall-lyrics

NYC 1997

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17604241

Title edit2: forgot to add video length; forgot 'La' in 'La Santa Grifa' and added more info about "La Santa Grifa"

Letra: https://genius.com/La-santa-grifa-el-diablo-anda-suelto-lyrics

La Santa Grifa es un grupo de rap underground mexicano de Tampico, Tamaulipas. Inspirado por actos como Control Machete y Cartel De Santa, el grupo escribe canciones fuertes y explícitas sobre las drogas, el alcohol y la vida en la calle, a menudo combinando rap rápido con ritmos lentos y siniestros. Su alineación ha cambiado a lo largo de los años, pero entre sus miembros se encuentran Yusak, Reghoz, Toldeck y Waza. Principalmente han aumentado su base de fans a través de su canal de YouTube, y han lanzado varios álbumes bajo Bear Busby Productions, uno de los principales sellos independientes de hip hop latino.

https://genius.com/artists/La-santa-grifa

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17601347

Papa Roach - Last Resort 2020 (Explicit) [03:22 | Rap, Rock, USA, In English, Rap Metal, Mental Health, Metal, Alternative Metal, Nu-Metal]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17538603

“Who Shot Ya?” is Biggie’s warning to his adversaries not to mess with him and if they do, he will return the favor by killing them.

The song was originally recorded for Mary J. Blige’s 1994 album My Life but didn’t make the cut as Biggie’s version was considered too violent. Instead, Keith Murray was asked to record a different version, which is now known as the “K. Murray Interlude.”

On November 30, 1994, 2Pac was shot and robbed at Quad Studios in New York. He accused Puff Daddy, Jimmy Henchman, and Biggie for setting up the attack. “Who Shot Ya?” fueled Pac’s suspicions as he saw it as a diss track toward him, due to its coincidental release in Feburary 1995. He later responded to the song a year later with “Hit ‘Em Up” and “Bomb First (My Second Reply).”

https://genius.com/The-notorious-big-who-shot-ya-lyrics

Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa (/ˌæfrɪkə bæmˈbɑːtə/), is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing.

“World Destruction” by Time Zone, featuring John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa, is a song that holds significant meaning and continues to resonate with listeners even today. Released in 1984, it is often regarded as one of the first collaborations between rock and rap musicians, a genre-blending endeavor ahead of its time.

One of my favourite songs of all time.

For the lead single to their fourth album, Stankonia, OutKast took the space funk of their sophomore album ATLiens along with the heightened consciousness of their third album Aquemini and advanced to another level with this rapid fire, psychedelic bass-pounding monster of a single known as “B.O.B.” Despite the political nature of its title—"B.O.B.“ being an acronym for "Bombs Over Baghdad"—it’s more of a commentary on the condition of the ghetto that incorporates a few political references to get its point across. However, with the occurrence of the September 11th attacks one year after its release, "B.O.B.” became an anthem during the Iraq War, which lasted from 2003 to 2011.

In a 2019 interview with Rick Rubin on his Broken Record podcast, André revealed that the music of Rage Against the Machine—who later remixed “B.O.B.”—gave him inspiration to make the song:

I wouldn’t have done “Bombs Over Baghdad” if it wasn’t for Rage Against the Machine. Because I felt urgency in their music, so I was like, ‘How can I add urgency to what we’re doing?’ It doesn’t sound like Rage Against the Machine…it’s the energy.

“B.O.B.” peaked at #69 on the Billboard US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and the single was certified platinum. The song received critical acclaim, making its way onto a number of “best of” lists, as Rolling Stone ranked “B.O.B.” as the 50th greatest hip-hop song of all time and Pitchfork called it the greatest song of the 2000s.

https://genius.com/Outkast-bob-lyrics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17542196

The Dust Of Better Days (single) by Jesse Jett [03:53 | alternative, spoken word, political, underground-hip-hop, michigan]

Blackalicious was an American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel. They are noted for Gift of Gab's often tongue-twisting, multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel's soulful production. The duo released four full-length albums: Nia in 1999, Blazing Arrow in 2002, The Craft in 2005, and Imani Vol. 1 in 2015. Gift of Gab died in June 2021.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17538798

“Many Men (Wish Death)” is the third single from 50 Cent’s debut studio album Get Rich or Die Tryin'. This track deals with 50’s near death experiences (infamously, 50 was shot 9 times in 2000) and feeling like there’s a price tag on his head.

In February 2003, while on Rap City Tha Bassment, 50 Cent would say “Many Men” is his favorite song from the album:

And he also said it in the MTV All Eyes On 50 Cent special:

About 20 years later, 50 Cent would contradict himself in an interview with news outlet Marca, where he said:

Many Men was my least favorite at that point because, musically we was in the boom-bap phase, we was in that hard-hitting intensity, the energy on the records, and it’s the slowest song on Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. And it’s now the tempo that the artists are rapping to. So the fast tempo, hard-hitting beats, that was that era, that time period. And the whole album had it.

https://genius.com/50-cent-many-men-wish-death-lyrics

Features are hidden, following recent example from other artists who hid feature credits for the first sale week.

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Omatix-books-of-war-lyrics

MF DOOM - Books of War (The Lost Chapters) ft. RZA, Jeru The Damaja, Guru, Talib Kweli, DMX

mixed by Dash

beat produced by Omegah Red / his playlist on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OTwOI7

DOOM IS FOR THE CHILDREN by OMEGAH RED on SoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3yPy7Cn

RIP DOOM / Guru / DMX