#BlackLivesMatter Protest Music - 22 Track Mix Tape For The Movement
Over the last four months as the United States has exploded in protest after the police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and many other unarmed African American men. Hip Hop artists who have been directly involved in the movement as well as some Hip Hop legends and superstars have come out with a steady stream of movement music. This should just be the beginning with a public challenge put out recently to musicians by Questlove of the Roots to make more protest music, "I urge and challenge musicians and artists alike to push themselves to be a voice of the times that we live." Check out our mix tape of the songs that have come out so far from: J. Cole, D'Angelo, Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest), Rebel Diaz and the Reminders, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), John Legend and Common, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, Alia Sharrif, Wu-Tang Clan, Stevie Wonder, Amir Sulaiman, De La Soul and Chuck D, Hasan Salaam and Immortal Technique, the youth in the streets of Ferguson, Tef Poe, Killer Mike, Jasari X, Muja Messiah, Brother Ali, Boots Riley and one of the creators of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and movement Alicia Garza
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