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Join Date: Dec 2016
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Hello all.
I'm into old school folk, not so much into more modern music. I'm putting together a playlist of songs about events, for a radio show. "Titanic" "Run Come See Jerusalem" "Sinking Of The Reuben James" "Ballad Of Ira Hayes" "Joe Hill" "Pretty Boy Floyd" "Battle of Maxton Fields" Those kinds of songs. I've been looking for some songs about more contemporary events and am coming up empty. "Ohio" and "I'm Changing My Name to Chrystler" are a little older than I'm looking for. "United Breaks Guitars" and Toby Keith's "Ballad of Balad" aren't quite what I'm looking for, but are more contemporary than the others. Does anyone know a song, any genre, about the Black Lives Matter issues? Is there a "Ballad Of Michael Brown" or something similar out there? Thanks in advance. |
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Alright by Kendrick Lamar. Boom Boom Piggie by Big Hoodoo Love Lockdown by Kanye West.
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Black America Again by Common
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Thanks for the links. That should help me quite a bit.
The official story is that in 1914, Joe Hill murdered John Morrison and was justly executed. But the song tells the other story, that the copper barons framed a labor organizer to silence him. It also tells the higher truth that Joe Hill never died (he's been spending time in China lately). Without the song, almost nobody would know any of those three things. 100 years from now, what will people know about Leonard Peltier, Michael Brown, Sean Bell, ....? Or will they only ask "what are those names"? I'm not particular about musical genre, but it is important that the unofficial stories get told and remembered. |
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Oh I got you!
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ml#post1705546 Here are a few more: T.I. - War Zone Common - Kingdom Run The Jewels - Early The visuals for the music video more so than the song imo but it fits the theme you are looking for. Tef Poe - Warcry Tink - Tell The Children Lil Herb feat. Common and Chance - Fight or Flight remix Ceebo Tha Rapper has four you can choose from Fuck tha Police, Mr. Officer, I Get Out and They Don't Care About Us. J Cole - Be Free
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Yeah, totally, Micheal was a thug. More like just an ******* kid. Don't know if being an ******* kid, or even a common thug at that, justifies being shot like that.
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Oh ****, I completely forgot that Tech N9ne song/video about Alton Sterling.
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