Black Rage by Lauryn Hill (2014)

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Black Rage

Black Rage is a song performed by American hip hop/R&B soul, Black Rage, released in 2014 as tributes to the incident Ferguson, Mo. [1] [2]

Lauryn Hill

Black Empowerment

The song Black Rage is dedicated to those who fight for racial equality in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2012, Hill had previously performed part of the lyrics, recited, as a poem in her Life Is Good/Black Rage tour with Nas. The singer, in a video captured on the Dallas date of the tour, said, “Obviously, this is a song about confrontation, right?”

“I use the performance platform as an opportunity to express the energy of that moment, and the intention behind it,” she said of the song at the time. “I’ve been a long-standing rebel against the stale, over-commoditization. As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.” [3]

Below is the part of the lyrics from Lauryn Hill's Black Rage (Sketch):

Black rage is founded on blocking the truth

Murder and crime, compromise and distortion

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