![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kendrick Lamar, “Freedom” (2016) Key lyrics: “Open our mind as we cast away oppression/Open the streets and watch our beliefs/And when they carve my name in the concrete I hope it forever reads/Freedom, freedom, I can’t move/Freedom, freedom, cut me loose/Freedom, freedom, where are you/Cause I need freedom too”. He was raised on classic rock, but after Jamaicans moved into his neighborhood, due to then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's revised immigration policies, reggae became a huge part of his life. After signing to Def Jam in 1996, she released her debut album, Ill Na Na, later that year on November 19, 1996. In 1993, a white Canadian rapper known as Snow became America’s most improbable reggae superstar with his record-setting #1 smash, “Informer. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. ![]()
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