#RememberMe Toronto
Last year, Toronto endured a the most gun-violence, for a 12-month span. The Canadian city saw over 406 shooting incidents and over 97 homicide, as Mustafa the Poet has put together a new documentary. In Remember Me, Toronto , Mustafa sheds light on the larger beast and systemic structure working against urban communities across not only their backyard, but the entire world. Scored by Noah “40” Shebib, the presentation features Drake Baka Not Nice, Gilla, and others.
Take a look at the documentary below.
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After much blood & tears, it’s finally out, link is in my bio. I created “Remember Me, Toronto” after thinking about how my dead friends want to be remembered, after thinking about how we all want to be remembered. I created this for the artists in this video & everyone in our communities. To the young boy looking for revenge, to the young boy carrying hate, I was there, sometimes I’m still there. This project is for that boy to realize that the greater issue is not between us, there is a larger beast and systemic structure working against us. The city’s “priority neighbourhoods” are tucked away. They tuck away our truth and our humanity. Our memories are often distorted and buried so I wanted to give us an opportunity to rewrite our memories and the memories of those we lost. We’ll always have our voices, to hopefully live above our deaths being announced with dated mugshots & criminal records. We’re bringing this video into our schools to facilitate discussions around remembrance & to offer the kids in our city a new perspective, kids who look up to these artists. The following video will interview the mothers who lost their sons to gun violence, they will speak on how they want their sons to be remembered in their mother tongues. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, I’m going to cry so I’ll stop here. (That’s Smoke Dawg speaking in the background 🖤🥺)
A post shared by Mustafa (@mustafathepoet) on Mar 17, 2019 at 1:58pm PDT
