Erase Racism by Kool G Rap, DJ Polo, Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie (1990)
Erase Racism is a song released in 1990 from hip hop duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s second single of the album Wanted: Dead or Alive, featuring Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. The song was released on November 14, 1990. [1]
Black Empowerment
The song vocals against racism and xenophobia in society in what Sputnikmusic called "a partially serious, and partially humorous manner". [2]
Erase Racism is a song inspired by the incident of a black young man who was shot to death on August 23, 1989 by a white mob. Kool G. Rap collaborates with Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie speak out against racism. [3]
Yusef Hawkins was an African-American young man from East New York, Brooklyn. The-16-years-old man was shot to death by a white mob in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Hawkins, and three other people, including his younger brother and two friends, were attacked by a crowd around 10 to 30 white youths, seven of them wielding baseball bats. One who armed a shotgun, killed Hawkins by shooting him twice in the chest. One person, Joseph D’Angelo, confessed that he caused the attack by racially motivated killing. [4]
Erase Racism's part of lyric about the need to unite against racism:
The ink is Black
The page is White
Together we learn how to read and write
Some people are Black
There's people that's White
Lets stop Racism and let's unite [5]