A declaration of war from the Bay-by-LA spitter
At this point, you’re mad as fuck if you have any kind of sense. Coming from the community we’re a part of here in the Town, it’s hard to scroll through your news feed without getting engulfed in what seems like an endless stream of stories about black and brown kids getting gunned down by somebody in uniform. While pundits churn out the, “Well what was he doing in the first place?” fuckery and armchair liberals break down some supposed good cop/bad cop dichotomy, people keep losing their lives, and actual murderers keep wiggling their way out of consequences and collecting checks from taxpayers (For the record, obviously, lots of people have written, and spoken a lot more eloquently on the subject than I am here, so for starters, here’s this and this).
It’s enough to make you wanna stir some shit up, which seems to be the basic goal of Duckwrth’s latest. Backed by a heavy-hitting barrage from The Kickdrums, Duck goes for scorched-earth intensity, declaring war on the beast via music video. Lyrically, it’s poignant and direct from the jump: “Everytime I turn my TV on, I see another innocent black kid gone.” The visuals though, take those themes into cinematic territory, building a multimedia collage that follows that revolutionary thread back through time. In between riot footage and walls of flames are the freeze-frame faces of Rodney King and Mike Brown, with an interjection from Pac at peak-revolutionary fervor. It’s still hard to know where to find solutions, beyond say, chucking bricks into cop car windows at random. That being said though, it probably couldn’t hurt. However you feel, shouts out to our friend Duckwrth for trying to shake us outta complacency.
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