Big Sean on Charleston and Police Brutality: ‘The World Is a Mess’

[damnedifIknow]

He’s racked up over 127 million YouTube views rapping about exes and success, but for “One Man Can Change The World,” the third single from his debut album Dark Sky Paradise, Kanye protégé Big Sean finally tapped into something real, right on the heels of Wednesday’s church shooting tragedy in Charleston. "

*In it, an elegiac Big Sean appears alongside lyrical imagery of a young African-American child confronted with violence, gangs, and imposing police forces in riot gear, conjuring a maelstrom of social issues ripped straight from the headlines of Ferguson and Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Baltimore’s Freddie Gray."

The world is a mess right now,” Big Sean told The Daily Beast Friday as the video began trending on Twitter. In one scene eerily evocative of the Charleston tragedy, the 27-year-old Detroit native raps from the pulpit of a church as parishioners mourn a young life taken by violence.

The parallel to Charleston, S.C. is purely coincidental—the video was shot last month in South Central Los Angeles, "

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/19/big-sean-on-charleston-and-police-brutality-the-world-is-a-mess.html

[lovemydog]

1. Thank you. Great song.

Music is often healing.

My mom was a musician. She taught me that music is the universal language.

[damnedifIknow]

2. Very emotional at this time but you're most welcome