Two of the greatest to ever do it collab for a refreshing and uplifting record “What it Feels Like”. Featured on the sound track of the hit film “Judas and The Black Messiah” recently dropping Friday the 12th, the industry embraces the late great Nipsey Hussle as he again displays his knowlege, truth and skill one more time.
In a time where our history and culture are tested daily against time and corporate dollars, we often have to embrace the hardships of the past that mold our future. Embracing it by telling the story of these individuals who no longer accepting whats handed but taking what is deserved. The endless cylcle of oppression and our inovation of expression have collided to create another timless sound. Sold on the American Dream and finally understanding life is life, the only diffrence is the income made. Tricked into thinking our worth is determined by what we obtain, not knowing without us those items have no one to value it.
In a world where white supremacy has instilled an invisible yet blatant check list of requirements to be accepted into “society”. If you dont fit you dont progress, stigmas of “not being worthy or enough” are slowly losing its stronghold amongst the black and brown communities. Our innovation as a culutre continues to strive and yet history seems to always repeat.
Jay-Z qouates “Im Selling weed in the open, bringing folks home from the feds,” that alone shows growth in business and understanding. Taking an act that used to put your freedom at risk to now creating freedom with that same act. There is a legal way of selling everything and when you use that money gained for good as Jay says “the payback will be mean”.
Both Jay and Nipsey well veresed in police reform and prison reform missions and a list of other philathropical accomplishments. Creating and giving back to the cultutre all while with one thing in mind, to free the people who deserve it. Freedom from not only our oppressors but from our own neighorhoods, our pain and jungle like enviorments and freedom from old ways of thinking.
“THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE” when you put the betterment of your people first……
The Story
Chairman Fred Hampton was 21 years old when he was assassinated by the FBI, who coerced a petty criminal named William O’Neal to help them silence him and the Black Panther Party. But they could not kill Fred Hampton’s legacy and, 50 years later, his words still echo…louder than ever. I am a revolutionary! In 1968, a young, charismatic activist named Fred Hampton became Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, who were fighting for freedom, the power to determine the destiny of the Black community, and an end to police brutality and the slaughter of Black people. Chairman Fred was inspiring a generation to rise up and not back down to oppression, which put him directly in the line of fire of the government, the FBI and the Chicago Police. But to destroy the revolution, they had to do it from both the outside…and the inside. Facing prison, William O’Neal is offered a deal by the FBI: if he will infiltrate the Black Panthers and provide intel on Hampton, he will walk free. O’Neal takes the deal. Now a comrade in arms in the Black Panther Party, O’Neal lives in fear that his treachery will be discovered even as he rises in the ranks. But as Hampton’s fiery message draws him in, O’Neal cannot escape the deadly trajectory of his ultimate betrayal. Though his life was cut short, Fred Hampton’s impact has continued to reverberate. The government saw the Black Panthers as a militant threat to the status quo and sold that lie to a frightened public in a time of growing civil unrest. But the perception of the Panthers was not reality. In inner cities across America, they were providing free breakfasts for children, legal services, medical clinics and research into sickle cell anemia, and political education. And it was Chairman Fred in Chicago, who, recognizing the power of multicultural unity for a common cause, created the Rainbow Coalition—joining forces with other oppressed peoples in the city to fight for equality and political empowerment. “Judas and the Black Messiah” stars Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out,” “Widows,” “Black Panther”) as Fred Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield (“Atlanta,” “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”) as William O’Neal.
