released in 2014 on the mixtape, Lost in the Atlantic.
Featuring Nikki Jean

Haile Selassie, imperatore d'Etiopia, deposto durante l'occupazione italiana e poi tornato al potere, non fu certo un esempio di sovrano illuminato, ma il suo governo - nonostante molte ombre - si distinse anche per un impegno autentico per la pace e i diritti umani. Il discorso riportato in una delle strofe di questa canzone è alla base della famosissima War di Bob Marley.

Release Date
March 12, 2015

On his SoundCloud page, Lupe added the hashtag #HowardZinn, paying tribute to one of the most notable social activists of the 20th century. Zinn’s best known for writing A People’s History of the United States. He passed away in 2010, but his ideas still live strong in the hearts and minds of people he continues to inspire through his work.

As he says in a 2005 interview with The G Living Network, he answered the question of whether we can ever have a “just war”:

[…] The technology of warfare has reached a point where war is always the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people. And wars, at one time, were fought by armies; soldiers killed soldiers. Now, and we heard tonight Dr. Gino Strada […] tell us that the victims that he takes care of in the hospitals [..] are 90% civilians, 30% of them children. In a situation like this, war cannot be accepted... (Continues)

Album: Friend of the People: I Fight Evil (2011)

lyrics from: Genius

This skit begins with an excerpt from a speech by the late, great historian and author Howard Zinn, who died in 2010. We miss you, buddy..

[2006]
feat. Lupe Fiasco
La canzone che apre l'album "Born & Raised" di questa importante cantante berlinese, di madre tedesca e padre sudafricano.

(2011)
Testo da genius

Con campionamenti da “Nightcall” di Kavinsky

Un veterano della guerra in Iraq o in Afghanistan torna in patria con un PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Ignorato da tutti, diventa un terrorista. O forse vuole sole rovesciare il governo che l'ha mandato in guerra?

[2007]
Album "Lupe Fiasco's The Cool"

Featuring Matthew Santos

Seconda traccia del primo dei due cd di cui è composta la compilation antimilitarista Body of War della Sire Records.