Baltimore by Prince ft. Eryn Allen Kane (2015)

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Baltimore is a song from Prince’s thirty-ninth final studio album, named HITnRUN: phase two and be the last to be released within his lifetime. The funk-soul-pop album was released on December 12, 2015 and the single Baltimore is as a tribute to the death of Freddie Gray. [1]

The incident resulting a riots in Baltimore. The official lyrics was released on May 1st 2015 and later called Eryn Allen to add backing vocals On May 26, 2015, the song was released as a digital single. [2]

Black Empowerment

According to USA Today, a rep for Prince, Yvette Noel-Schure, said, “addresses the unrest in Baltimore and the socio/political issues around the country in the wake of a slew of killings of young black men.”

Prince said, during an interview with My Fox Twin Cities, Prince said that Freddie Gray incident urged the need to get the song done quickly. “With everything going on … I had a lot to get out,” he told the station. “Please know that all involved in this project never take for granted the privileges we have in this country,” the SoundCloud description states. “Let’s all continue to fight the good fight and confront inhumanity on every level until the day it is no longer.” [3]

The song Baltimore is a response to Freddie Gray’s death on April 19, 2015. The-25-year-old black man was arrested by police due to illegal possession of a switchblade. [4]

He rode in a police van after the arrest and secured by a seatbelt. He was found unresponsive and died in the next week. According to New York Times, Gray died of severe spinal cord injury while in custody. The six arresting police officers would not face federal charges in his death announced by the Justice Department. [5]

Check this part of lyrics from Baltimore song by Prince :

Does anybody hear us pray for Michael Brown or Freddie Gray?

Peace is more than the absence of war [6]

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