![]() ![]() ![]() Paak delivers an astute, enduring Black Lives Matter protest song that simultaneously holds space for us to process, in real time along with him, the impact of this surreal moment in our history while we’re currently living it. "Said, 'It's civil unrest,' but you sleep so sound / Like you don't hear the screams when we catchin' beatdowns? /Stayin' quiet when they killin' n-, but you speak loud / When we riot, got opinions comin' from a place of privilege." With call-it-as-he-sees it bullshit (read: societal irony, hypocrisy). "Someone cut the channel off the news 'fore I lose it" Plus unemployment rate, what, forty million now?" " Sicker than the COVID how they did him on the ground. ![]() Overlapping current events and personal response He unpacks recent happenings with colloquial candor, Paak’s“Lockdown” feels like a conversation you’d have with a close friend, reflexively calling them up in a moment of downtime to download on what’s been a brutal few months. ![]()
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