I really hate posting direct links to Twitter, and I’ve never even cared for Macklemore, but this track is legit (and so far this is the only platform where it’s available)

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    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, fuck 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 fuck 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, 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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      Bold prediction: Someday liberals will say they always loved this song, but by then it will either be too late for Palestine, or it will be free no thanks to them