Montreal-based rapper and producer Jonathan Emile released “Heaven Help Dem” a tribute track for the victims of police brutality featuring Kendrick Lamar in a recent YouTube post.
“This song is dedicated to the murders…” Emile says in the video’s intro. “May god judge you accordingly. Good luck with that one…”
Emile’s track is in response to social inequalities and police brutality that led to the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin.
“You see the beast starts sprayin’,” Emile sings on the hook. “That’s what I’m sayin’, Dem not playin’, Lord, Heaven Help Dem, Heaven Help Dem.”
Kendrick Lamar adds a verse that draws reference to 2Pac.
“It’s Kendrick Lamar from Compton to Montréal,” K Dot raps on the verse. “They all say the average Black man only live till 25, (Jah) ‘Pac died at 25 , How many kids you know dead at 20? Five? Now that’s life I know 10 that’s crumbling in coffins, Dead as a doorknob, fresh out of high-school and couldn’t find no job went strait to the grave, It’s crazy how the grim reaper in love with such tender age.”
The song is accompanied by a video that consists of images associated with the civil rights movement and various protests. Photos of Martin Luther King Jr. and Emmett Till flash on the video as Emile delivers his finale.
“Ferguson aye, to the world. Ahh..Montréal – New York, Ayy,” Emile says. “Dem killin’ di people dem, Lyin’ to the people all he time. Ahh, inna di streets you see a rainbow, We’re marching’ for our rights. Ooh.”
In his Billboard magazine cover story published earlier this month, Kendrick Lamar spoke about society’s travails.
“I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it’s already a situation, mentally, where it’s fucked up,” Kendrick Lamar says in the article. “What happened to [Michael Brown] should’ve never happened. Never. But when we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don’t start with just a rally, don’t start from looting – it starts from within. We’re in the last days, man – I truly in my heart believe that. It’s written. I could go on with Biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.”
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Ave black guy lives 25? Lmao where yhese mfs get these dumb ass tys from im from hood only heard 3-5 ppl die before 25 i go outsode now see 100s of black over 25
Made up stats
You so right my brother. Officer rick rhymes say his watch is jealous of his diamonds are something like that . These crappers put together shit so quick they don’t think before they record shit that don’t make sense.
@lol few typos but i agree with your post 100%.. i swear black rappers just make up shit in their own heads 99% of the time isnt even true.
That’s not the point he was making, I swear you “hood-niggas” think you know everything when Kendrick Lamar has been in the struggle on the streets in Compton as well. Calling him a fake/fuckboy is just you guys being mad over his success cause I bet you won’t say that to his face and his own crew too. Also, the people dying at 25 yrs old could be a stat that he must have came up with in streets of Compton/Hubcity in his time of struggle.
he should have rapped about how the interviews where he said he saw Tupac in a dream telling him “don’t let my music die”. fake fuckboi.
I KNOW KENDRICK IS FAKE WHEN HE GOT THAT TEXT FROM MACKLEMORE OBVIOUSLY PERVING ON HIM AND TRYING TO FUCK HIM AND HE JUST SAT THERE AND FLIRTED BACK INSTEAD OF BLASTING A HOLE THRU HIS FUCKIN CHEST
What I want to know why the FUCK is Kendrick not even acknowledging this song. It’s an amazing song with an important message that everyone can get behind…. but instead he’s riding Iggy Azalea dick. People are trying to take the song down from the artists YouTube while everyone is feelin’ it.