New Song From Spike Lee's Chi-Raq

[Lo-Co]

Everybody’s talking about Brother Bill Cosby / It looks like our favorite dad was drugging girls.

But please not let us forget about little Amari / An innocent victim of this cruel world.

Only seven years of age and he was shot / But it wasn’t by a racist nor a cop

You see it was by someone the same color as myself / We’re the only race that shoots and kills themselves.

Wait, wait. Here are some additional bars:

Everybody’s talking about Meek Mill and Drake / Everybody’s mad because Cecil the Lion was shot.

But where was the compassion for those murdered in Chicago / When will it end? When will it stop?

And:

We gotta do better / What’s the use of saying Black Lives Matter if we’re gonna kill ourselves?

We gotta do better / What’s the use of saying ‘I can’t breathe’ if we’re choking ourselves?

 

[marleyg]

so youre telling me chi-raq is entertainment..

 

[Lo-Co]

so youre telling me chi-raq is entertainment..

eh i was curious about it. i know its fiction but i thought it was interesting enough to post.

 

[DrX]

"were the only race that shoot and kills themselves"

russia is one of the most violent places in the world, mexican cartels kill each other, in the middle east they blow up buildings full of innocents

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

That string section Still wish Spike would've kept it as abstract as possible, released the 1st trailer and sat back like Seems like the last 2 trailers is his way to rectify the negative response to the 1st.

 

[#1 pick]

Now you know Black folks who be killing other Black folks hate themselves like white folks hate us because of their situation. Let's stop acting like Black folks just killing Black folks for no reason for the most part.

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

"were the only race that shoot and kills themselves"

russia is one of the most violent places in the world, mexican cartels kill each other, in the middle east they blow up buildings full of innocents

What about in the US? You can't nitpick just one line out of an entire song to discredit it. People get up in arms on here when something like Mizzou happens but when preteens get killed, those same posters don't have that piss and vinegar about themselves

 

[marleyg]