The last time Macklemore was really culturally relevant it was for songs like 2013’s “Thrift Shop.” Times have certainly changed. Last week, the rapper dropped “Hind’s Hall,” a blistering protest anthem that takes aim at Israel’s assault on Gaza and comes as student protests have spread around the world. Will “Hind’s Hall” usher in a new era of musical political activism? Vox has more, including why Macklemore’s political shift isn’t as surprising as you might think. https://flip.it/nwByYp #Culture#Entertainment#Music#Gaza#Israel#Macklemore
Not gonna lie, #Macklemore was about the last one on my list of celebrities to weigh in with a clear-eyed message on @palestine and Israel's #GenocideGaza. But this song fucking rules.
#Macklemore has his new #HindsHall#ProtestSong up on his YouTube now. It's age restricted but you can download from a stream ripper & upload it anywhere/everywhere.
Written and Produced by Macklemore
Sample: "Ana Le Habiby" by Fairouz
Video by Macklemore
Subtitles by Charles Boonsu
Select Video Footage by:
Omar - @omaronig
Habibi House - @habibihousepodcast
Lyrics:
The people they won’t leave
What is threatening
about divesting and wanting peace?
The problem isn’t the protests
it’s what they’re protesting
Cause it goes against
what our country is funding
Block the barricade until Palestine is free
Block the barricade until Palestine is free
When I was 7 I learned a lesson
from Cube and Eazy E
What was it again?
oh yea
fuck the police
Actors in badges
protecting property
And a system that was designed
by white supremacy
But the people are in the streets
You can pay off meta
you can’t pay off me
Politicians
who serve by any means
AIPAC and the interests
Of the companies
You see puppeteers
behind the land of the free
But this generation here
is about to cut the strings
You can ban tik Tok
take us out the algothim
But it’s too late
we’ve seen the truth we bare witness
We’ve seen the ruble the buildings
the mothers the children
And all the men that you murdered
and then we see how they spin it
Who gets to the right to defend
and who gets the right of resistance
Has always been about dollars
and the color of your pigment
But
White supremacy is finally on blast
Screaming free Palestine
until they’re home at last
We see the lies in them
Claiming it’s anti-semetic
to be anti-zionist
I’ve seen jewish brothers and sisters out there and riding
In solidarity and screaming
free Palestine with em
Organizing, unlearning
and finally cutting ties with a
State
that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system
To uphold an occupying violent
History been repeating for the last 75
The Nakba never ended,
the colonizer lied
If some kids in tents,
posted on the lawn
occupying the quad
is really against the law
And a reason to call
in the police and their squad
where does genocide land
in your definition huh?
destroying every college in Gaza and every mosque
pushing everyone into rafah and dropping bombs
The blood is on your hands Biden,
we can see it all
And fuck no
I’m not voting for you in the fall
Undecided,
you can’t twist the truth
The people out here
united
never be defeated when Freedom’s on the
horizon
Yet the music industry’s quiet
complicit in their platform of silence
What happened to the artist
what do you got to say?
If I was on a label,
you could drop me today
And be fine with it
cause the heart fed my page
I want a ceasefire
fuck a response from drake
What you willing to risk?
What you willing to give?
What if you were Gaza?
what if those were your kids?
If the west was pretending that you didn’t exist
You’d want the world to stand up
And the students finally did
Let’s get it
Rapper Macklemore has released a song supporting the campus protests, calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East, and saying he won't vote for Joe Biden in the fall. Salon has more details on "Hind's Hall," a name that pays tribute to the Columbia protestors and Hind Rajab, a six-year-old killed by the Israeli military.
Macklemore has released a song, "Hind's Hall", in support of the people of Palestine and the student protests around the world against the genocide in Gaza being conducted by Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Macklemore is putting his money where is mouth is, and donating all earnings from the song to Palestinian relief.
@icedquinn But you're right, that's why people hate stuff like #Macklemore's #GEMINI album and #ChanceTheRapper's #TheBigDay, both were excellent albums, but they were about family life and supported the nuclear family.