Watch Q-Tip Lead New York Protest Against Ferguson Decision
Stereogum is posting all the music stuff that we’d regularly post today. But it feels pretty ridiculous to talk about relatively trivial things on the wake of something as enormous and disgusting as the Ferguson grand jury’s decision, last night, not to indict the killer police officer Darren Wilson. When musicians respond to that decision in loud and heartfelt ways, it’s our pleasure to point them out. We already posted Killer Mike’s powerful, impassioned speech before last night’s Run The Jewels show in St. Louis. Meanwhile, rap legend Q-Tip marched in a New York protest last night, leading chants as the crowd walked through Times Square. Watch a couple of Instagram videos below.
(via Pitchfork)
Hopefully, we’ll have more things like this to post today. Because what the fuck, man.
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UPDATE: Macklemore marched in Seattle and tweeted about injustice in Ferguson:
.@macklemore is here. Crowd heading north on Boren from Rainier and Jackson pic.twitter.com/ZaHrhmENzL
— Bettina Hansen (@bettinahansen) November 25, 2014
The system that instills & protects white supremacy wins again. Humanity loses…No justice. I pray for Mike Brown & his family. So sad.
— Macklemore (@macklemore) November 25, 2014
Meanwhile, Solange posted a lengthy reflection on her Instagram: