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Watch Macklemore’s video for “Hind’s Hall”, new song criticizing Biden and supporting Palestine
Rapper Macklemore released a new single which supports the college protests against the war in Gaza and says president Joe Biden has “blood on his hands”.
Macklemore has released a new track called “Hind’s Hall”, the name that Columbia University students gave to Hamilton Hall when they occupied it as part of a pro-Palestine protest. The name Hind references a six-year-old child named Hind Rajab, who was killed in Gaza.
In Macklemore’s song, he gives support to the pro-Palestine protesters on college campuses across the United States. He also criticizes U.S. president Joe Biden and the music industry for how they have responded to the Israeli attacks in Gaza.
“The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all, and f*** no, I’m not voting for you in the fall,” he says in the song. Macklemore has previously shown support for Democratic president Barack Obama and opposition for Republican president Donald Trump.
“The music industry’s quiet, complicit in their platform of silence,” he raps. “I want a ceasefire, f*** a response from Drake.” This line is in reference to the ongoing rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, which has been all over the media in the last few weeks. Many people have noted it’s difficult to care about a rap battle when there’s real war going on.
Full lyrics to Macklemore’s “Hind’s Hall”
Yeah, 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 protestin’
It goes against what our country is fundin’
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, f*** the police
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
We see the lies in them, 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 f*** no, I’m not voting 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
What happened to the artist? What do 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, f*** 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