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Riff: Lauryn Hill – “Black Rage”

Aug 27, 2014

Black rage is founded on two-thirds a person/Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens/Black human packages tied up in strings/Black rage can come from all these kinds of things

from Black Rage lyrics by Lauryn Hill

Borrowing from a Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, the Queen vents her frustration over not only what happened in Missouri, but what has transpired all throughout history. It tears at her and yet amidst all that pain she finds a way to educate and share an oft overlooked chapter of the black experience.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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