The ongoing protests following the in-custody death of George Floyd have some of the country’s biggest cities rallying around Minneapolis by sparking their own demonstrations against police violence.
Just days after the fourth anniversary of Prince’s death, Floyd appeared to be killed by now-fired Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was recorded on video steadily applying pressure with his knee to the neck of the handcuffed and face-down 46-year-old.
Probably the closest Prince got to addressing such a situation in his music was on the song “Baltimore,” which was named for the city in which Freddie Gray‘s controversial in-custody police death took place in 2015.
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Prince had plenty of other so-called “woke” lyrics over the decades of his prolific musical brilliance, but the above two songs seem to encapsulate the uprisings the nation is witnessing in response to recent police killings not just in Minneapolis but also in Louisville and elsewhere.
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