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Ric Wilson - Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Ric Wilson - "Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P," a 2020 single on Free Disco / EMPIRE.

On his latest single, released days before Juneteenth 2020, Chicago rapper Ric Wilson pays tribute to civil rights leader Ida B. Wells and LGBTQ+ activist Marsha P. Johnson. 

He wrote on Twitter [sic]: “when I think about next level courage to ball your fist up & look Patriarchy, racist,sexism, homophobia & transphobia right in the eye & fight against it, I feel like blk folk like Ida B Well and Marsha P Johnson are of the bravest of us all and if ima fight any injustice I wanna have the courage of blk queer & femme freedom fighters like them. I believe the liberation of black womxn and black trans womxn lead to the liberation of all black people."

He adds [sic]: "I encourage people to also study the History of policing and prisons here in the US & the laws made to keep Blk and Queer folk suppressed in this country for over 450 years. If we focus and start understanding the 'why', we will longer waste time arguing on the 'what.'"

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0:30.0

what it was, what it was, what it was,

1:00.0

I got bodily autonomy, and this policy is people of a prop view, treat us like pieces of monopoly, one day you'll be nothing but the rich tea, the fund the police abolished the prison, so I don't speak a word to me, stop bice and let them all free, let the kids be in the sex surgeries, that I'll let a slave just cannot save us, the cop that killed Mike Brown is not a save ill, y'all be treating laws like religion, I ain't come here to play work with musicians, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don

1:30.0

I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners, I don't say we're gonna win for the listeners

2:00.0

we don't buy it like it's six out of five, they say what's up, they buy it like men mess out of off, good man right tee

2:09.5

and the rap and scent all above people was job done on otherwise I wouldn't pick it all by myself

2:19.0

I am the revolution, and the revolution don't stop I am change, soon we will make a change that will change it all

2:32.0

I am courage, courage to move the masses forward to get those that will sit and say and not move

2:39.0

I am moving, moving all to a place where we will just be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin

2:46.0

I am my skin, color of my people, tutorial the land of America and make it great

2:52.0

I am great, great because I dedicate myself to change, I dedicate myself to my people

2:58.0

I dedicate myself to movement, I dedicate myself to the revolution, and the revolution don't stop

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