Music + Visuals
Gun Play
Growing up in poverty and surrounded by violence, we become desensitized to gun violence, seeing it as normal. We have the power to promote violence or peace, we choose peace.
Black Heart
During the civil rights movement, Malcolm X was asked, "Do you feel we are making progress in this country?" He responded, "No. If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound the knife made. America won't even admit the knife is there."
Since then, I think some are closer to seeing the knife. I'm prayerful and hopeful for the future.
Seventeen
A journey through a tough upbringing, marked by drugs and personal losses. Amidst the adversities, faith and resilience shine as beacons of hope, with a call for empathy and unity at its core.
Black Wall Street
The Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma was known as "Black Wall Street" because of how it became a haven of opportunity and economic success for Black people. On May 31, 1921 white mobs stormed into the Greenwood District of Tulsa and burned the entire community to the ground. The Tulsa Race Riots was one of the deadliest race riots in American history.
This song reflects on the pain that the community endured one hundred years ago and also the current hurt that we as Black people still experience.