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Urban News Staff Reports
In honor of the Black Lives Matter movement, BlueBeat.com has curated a playlist to show our enduring support. With decades-spanning selections from Billie Holiday, Stevie Wonder, BB King, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, Erykah Badu, Public Enemy, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Barack Obama.
Here is the playlist:
21 Savage –
Nothing New
2Pac –
Keep Ya Head Up
Anthony Hamilton –
Coming From Where I’m From
Aretha Franklin –
I’ll Never Be Free
Barak Obama –
The Issue of Race
B.B. King –
Why I sing the Blues
Beyonce –
Freedom
Formation
Billy Holiday –
Strange Fruit
Black Violin –
Stereotypes
Bob Marley –
Get up, Stand Up
Buffalo Soldier
Redemption Song
Common –
The People
Childish Gambino –
This is America
D’Angelo And The Vanguard –
The Charade
DJ Revolution –
The Revolution
Donnie –
Beautiful Me
Donny Hathaway –
Little Ghetto Boy
Someday We’ll Be Free
Erykkah Badu –
Time’s a Wasting
Gil Scott-Heron –
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Josh White –
Freedom
Negro Sound Afterword
James Brown –
Say It Loud, I’m Black and Proud
Janelle Monae –
Americans
Jill Scott –
My Petition
Jimi Hendrix –
All Along The Watchtower
Jimmy Cliff –
The Harder They Come
Joey Bada$$ –
For My People
John Legend & The Roots –
Wake Up Everybody
John Lennon –
Gimme Some Truth
Kendrick Lamar –
Alright
Killer Mike –
Reagan
Don’t Die
Marvin Gaye –
Inner City Blues
What’s Going On
N.E.R.D. –
Don’t Do It
NAS –
Cops Shot The Kid
Paul McCartney –
Ebony & Ivory
Fear of a Black Planet
Fight the Power
He Got game
Rebel Without a Pause
Rage Against The Machine –
Wake Up
Raphael Saadiq –
100 Yard Dash
Rihanna –
Question Existing
Run The Jewels –
Everybody Stay Calm
Sam Cooke –
A change is Gonna Come
Solange –
Mad
Sounds Of Blackness –
Reconciliation
Stevie Wonder –
Black Man
Love’s in Need of Love Today
Misrepresented People
Living For the City
Tappe Zukie –
Don’t Shoot the Youth
The Temptations –
Ball of Confusion
Beauty is Only Skin Deep
A Tribe Called Quest –
We the People
May Maos –
Black Iz Black
Lupe Fiasco –
American Terrorist
Talib Kweli & Dr. Cornel West –
Bushonomics
Michael Liggins –
Black and Beautiful
Andra day –
Rise Up
The Five Stairsteps –
O-o-h Child
The Chi-Lites –
(for God’s sake) Give More Power to the People
Vince Staples –
Hands Up
War –
Slipping’ Into Darkness