With no arrests having been made in the Trayvon Martin murder case, members of the Hip Hop community continue to address the issue. The latest offering comes from Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), dead.prez and Mikeflo. Brandan Odums of 2-CentTV filmed the trio discussing the motivation behind recording the track.
“In this country, you see a casual, systemic, indifference to black life,” Bey explained. “At a certain point, you have to respond. It’s in your own self-interest. It’s not even like outstanding or courageous. It’s a survival issue—either we’re going to fix this or we’re just going to agree to be slaves. And that don’t honor nothing that we’ve ever been about…”
The track is over an instrumental version of “Made You Look” by Nas and Salaam Remi—hence the name “Made You Die.” M-1 of dead.prez referred to the track as “a weapon.” And while Martin’s murder has sparked various forms of protest, sympathy and outreach, M-1 said he viewed the collective’s efforts as a celebration of Trayvon Martin’s life.
Preview “Made You Die” and view the complete behind the scenes video below:
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I don’t care what anyone says, Mos Def is dope as hell.
Mos Def Iz one Of The Most Underrated mc’s Ever This Shit hard R.I.P Trayvon
Outstanding Grown Black men! I salute them!
Much respect due.
That’s the thing. You can’t fix perception. We have no idea why Zimmerman really felt the need to shoot Martin. The media wanted you to believe it was racially motivated, but once the 9-1-1 tapes came out and you heard the operator ask what race TM was, then all of a sudden it became more about Zimmerman possibly being insecure and confrontational. Mos Def has the right to his opinion, but what I would like to hear is how he feels about the murders that happen everyday across America. Why don’t people protest gang violence?
Well whats stopping you.
you think people don’t protest gang violence? some of these protests happen on a local level and you might not hear about those, but even in mainstream media gang violence i unanimously decried. And Mos Def has rapped about gang violence and all violence in his music. Have you listened to his albums? or the Black Star album? him and talib have always talked down upon violence in general, and other problems in society
Your “opinion” is void. Blacks aren’t the only race that have G-A-N-G-S. Skinheads, white supremacists are considered gangs. Asian gangs, Mexican gangs, Latin Kings, Russian mafia, Italian mafia, Armenian mafia.
But we’ll act like Black gangs are the only serious gang problem just for you. Have a good day.
when you talk about senseless kill in a game glorified by the music… black folk got it on lock
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government”
MLK
Still rings true today
Mos Def is bullshit. Unless he singn to the allmighty YMCMB empire, he’ll be nothing more than bitch tryin to rap
fag
fagg’t
fagg’t!!
fuck u
Sounds to me like he’s calling black folks out on blaming everyone else in the world for their problems instead of themselves. Continue with the path youre on and youre going to continue being a slave like he said. Start looking at yourself and bettering yourself instead of wanting someone else or the government to do it for you.
Did you hear about Howard Morgan, the Chicago cop who was shot 28 times and then charged with attempted murder of 4 Caucasian officers? Here’s a quick summary:
” Morgan was found not guilty on three counts, including discharging his weapon. The same jury that cleared him of opening fire on the officers, however, deadlocked on a charge of attempted murder — and another jury found him guilty in January. Morgan was sentenced Thursday to serve 40 years in prison, essentially a life sentence.”
^ Usually driving the wrong way on any given block gets you a traffic violation, he should stop blaming others. Mos is speaking to brothers like you too, a Chicago policeman got jammed up, so can you.
“you think people don’t protest gang violence?”
Community town hall meetings don’t count. I’m talking about applying the same outrage over Martin’s killing. Is Al Sharpie parading through South Central demanding justice? No way. Unless he’s riding inside a bulletproof SUV. My whole point was it’s hard for people of all colors to make change when we can’t change “perception”. Society is so busy trying to make everything about race when it’s the perception of human life (or lack of it) that I believe is causing most of today’s youth to murder.
people die everyday and never get any recognition
fuck trayvon martin and fuck zimmerman and fuck east germany…i mean america
http://soundcloud.com/this-j-bird-bitch
real shit
Fake shit, just like you. Die motherfucker, die.
Check out the latest on Trayvon Martin: “The Tragedy that Sparked Revolution” http://thefoursportsmen.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/trayvon-martinthe-tragedy-that-sparked-revolution/
someone please kill that wicked privileged cracker zimmerman. thanks in advance.
REAL HIP HOP
I think it’s great that the young is also seeing the importants of getting this man arrested . Not only for the murder he thinks he’s gotten away with but other felonys this monster has done should have been locked up long time ago then maybe Trayvon would have been able to go to the store to get candy without him ON THE STREET.
Trayvon put his gang face on and got his dumb ass shot dead end of story.
Trayvon told his bitch he was puttin his hoody on, being followed………..the bitch should have ran like his goofy girl told him to do.
Trayvon, was a weak bitch who got checked.
Checkmated I mean.
Yeah black man with a hoody on that’ll scare them, LOL image don’t mean shit ink your weak ass up visual effects don’t keep you alive, just get weak bitches killed.
Gimmick. People want Trayvon to be a martyr so bad. Why? He isn’t. It’s a freak bullshit situation. Lesson learned, don’t wear a hoodie at night and try to be all hard and fight someone. They might be more bad ass than you and fuckin’ kill you.