– Lauryn Hill Dedicates “Black Rage” To Ferguson
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Lauryn Hill Dedicates “Black Rage” To Ferguson
Lauren DeGroot August 27, 2014
In response to everything that has happened in Ferguson, MO, American singer, rapper, songwriter, producer and actress Lauryn Hill—of The Fugees and known for her solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill—unleashed upon the public a performance of her sketch titled “Black Rage,” and dedicated it to Ferguson.
Although “Black Rage” wasn’t written with Ferguson in mind (Hill has been performing it live since 2012), it’s sharply relevant to what has taken place in the wake of Michael Brown’s death.
The sketch samples the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things,” from The Sound of Music. But in place of a few of her favorite things, Hill substitutes the harshness of Black Americans’ reality by singing: “Black human packages tied up in strings/Black rage can come from all these kinds of things.”
Hill tweeted the recording alongside a hope for peace in Missouri.
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