Vic Mensa – We Could Be Free (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

Artist: Vic Mensa
Song: “We Could Be Free”
Producer: 1500 or Nothin’
Album: The Autobiography
Director:

Vic Mensa is sharing a powerful new video for “We Could Be Free,” the closing track on his debut album, The Autobiography.

In the visual, Vic pleads for peace in a world full of racism, alongside shots of people protesting and a guy running from the police before ending in fatality. “We could be free, if we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other,” he sings on the hook. “One thing I believe, I could learn to see my enemy as my brother.”

Watch above, and read Vic’s story about visiting Palestine below.

Last summer I traveled to Palestine with some a group of artists, activists, writers & dreamers. The scenes I saw there will forever be etched into my memory. The oppression of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation is startling, frightening and suffocating. A lot of people told me not to talk about what I saw there, but sitting in a shanty town outside of Jerusalem I made a promise to a old man with a face of leather to tell the world what I had seen. Whether for fear of retribution or long standing cultural divisions, many decline to speak their mind when it includes the word “Palestine.” Showing me the Libyan slave markets, my father said “Son, do you see what they are doing to our people?” But I believe one injustice does not justify another, and the vitriol and brutality exacted upon the Palestinians was too much for me to hold my tongue about, so I wrote this op-ed piece for @time about my observations. This piece is not to spread hate against any religion, or exonerate anyone else for their crimes. These are just my thoughts, informed by what I’ve seen with my own two eyes. The link is in my bio.

A post shared by ROCKSTAR.VIC (@vicmensa) on Jan 12, 2018 at 2:35pm PST

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