“Thrift Store” rapper Macklemore is again with a fiery new track by which he slams each President Joe Biden and Columbia College’s police response towards pro-Palestine scholar protestors.
The Seattle rapper—who’s by no means been shy about expressing his political views and who has beforehand been accused of antisemitism—titled the track “Hind’s Corridor,” after the Columbia constructing that scholar protestors just lately occupied and renamed in honor of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian woman who was killed in Gaza throughout Israel’s warfare towards Hamas.
Protests have just lately erupted at universities all around the nation as college students demand that their faculties divest from companies that revenue from Israel. And whereas a lot of these demonstrations have been interrupted by police crackdowns, Macklemore goals most of his ire at Columbia particularly with the track’s title and accompanying visuals.
Within the track, he raps, “If college students in tents posted on the garden / Occupying the quad is admittedly towards the regulation / And a cause to name within the police and their squad / The place does genocide land in your definition, huh?” He goes on to again the scholars’ name for divestment: “What’s threatening about divesting and wanting peace? / The issue isn’t the protests, it’s what they’re protesting / It goes towards what our nation is funding / Block the barricade till Palestine is free.”
The rapper additionally takes intention at Biden, rapping, “The blood is in your fingers, Biden, we are able to see all of it / And fuck no, I’m not voting for you within the fall / Undecided.”
His disappointment extends to the music trade, which he raps is “complicit of their platform of silence,” in addition to his friends in hip-hop, who’ve seemingly been extra centered on the continued beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. “What occurred to the artists, what do you bought to say? / If I used to be on a label, you could possibly drop me at present / I’d be effective with it ’trigger the center fed my web page / I desire a cease-fire, fuck a response from Drake.”
One in every of his strongest factors, although, comes with this bar, the place he references the Nakba, the Arabic time period for the occasions of 1948, when Palestinians had been displaced to make room for Israel’s new state: “Historical past been repeating for the final 75 / The Nakba by no means ended, the colonizer lied.”
“Hind’s Corridor” is just not but out there on digital streaming platforms. As soon as the track is launched, Macklemore mentioned on X that he plans to donate all of its streaming proceeds to the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees.
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