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Let It Rain by MC Abdul

[Verse 1] Born under siege, a place where you can’t leave Smoke’s in the air, so it makes it hard to breathe I need my family, protect them from the disease I went to chase my dreams, hoping that they rescue me Made it out the maze, God’s been blessing me First time in LA, got Gaza next to me It’s in my heart, it’s in my veins I’ve been smiling at the pain The bombs lit up the night sky and turn them into day It’s hard to come up with the right rhymes, I don’t know what to say I start to cry when I write mine, it happens every day A lot of death in my lifetime, all I do is pray This is my story from the sideline, this life is not a game I want to call my momma, I hope she charged her phone Hope my brother’s not alone Hope that one day they’ll be grown This is genocide, but this time it is televised Don’t believe all that you see, cause they’re be telling lies I count my blessings, not the problems From the bottom, where the robbers acting violent Killing toddlers, bombing us with helicopters They seeing me on a TV and they calling me the monster? That only makes me stronger   [Chorus] This is me against the world So I’m doing it for the world This is me against the world So I’m doing it for the world   [Verse 2] I was in the studio, chopping up samples Electricity’s off, we sleep with the candles Sleeping in our sandals and leave the doors open Cause the bombs fall there’s no time to grab the handles Writing names on our hands just to identify With somebody’s faces off, it makes them hard to recognize Been through so many wars, I forgot to mention I can calculate the distance of the airplane engine You think you’re from the trenches? Nah, these the trenches Kids close their eyes and block their ears, they block their senses This war is senseless, they treat us like animals I’ll never understand why they built the fences I just wanna see my dream of peace to come true Refugee in my land, nowhere to run to I keep the hope when there was no sunshine They cut the water off, so God let it rain sometime   [Chorus] This is me against the world So I’m doing it for the world This is me against the world So I’m doing it for the world
A person waving the Palestinian flag on the top corner of a building with the text "HINDS HALL" in old-english font overlaying it

Hinds Hall by Macklemore

[Verse 1] The people, they won’t leave What is threatenin’ about divesting and wantin’ peace? The problem isn’t the protests, it’s what they’re protesting It goes against what our country is funding Block the barricade until Palestine is free Block the barricade until Palestine is free When I was seven, I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy-E What was it again? Oh yeah, fuck the police [Verse 2] Actors in badges protecting property And a system that was designed by white supremacy But the people are in the streets You can pay off Meta, you can’t pay off me Politicians who serve by any means AIPAC, CUFI, and all the companies You see, we sell fear around the land of the free But this generation here is about to cut the strings You can ban TikTok, take us out the algorithm But it’s too late, we’ve seen the truth, we bear witness Seen the rubble, the buildings, the mothers and the children And all the men that you murdered, and then we see how you spin it Who gets the right to defend and who gets the right of resistance Has always been about dollars and the color of your pigment, but White supremacy is finally on blast Screamin’ “Free Palestine” ’til they’re home at last [Verse 3] We see the lies in ’em Claimin’ it’s antisemitic to be anti-Zionist I’ve seen Jewish brothers and sisters out there and ridin’ in Solidarity and screamin’ “Free Palestine” with them Organizin’, unlearnin’ and finally cuttin’ ties with A state that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system To uphold an occupyin’ violent History been repeating for the last seventy-five The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied If students in tents posted on the lawn Occupyin’ the quad is really against the law And a reason to call in the police and their squad Where does genocide land in your definition, huh? Destroyin’ every college in Gaza and every mosque Pushin’ everyone into Rafah and droppin’ bombs The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all And fuck no, I’m not votin’ for you in the fall Undecided You can’t twist the truth, the people out here united Never be defeated when freedom’s on the horizon Yet the music industry’s quiet, complicit in their platform of silence [Verse 4] What happened to the artist? What d’you got to say? If I was on a label, you could drop me today I’d be fine with it ’cause the heart fed my page I want a ceasefire, fuck a response from Drake What you willin’ to risk? What you willin’ to give? What if you were in Gaza? What if those were your kids? If the West was pretendin’ that you didn’t exist You’d want the world to stand up and the students finally did, let’s get it

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