{"id":808106,"date":"2020-06-05T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1010521"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:07:55","slug":"rare-dead-prez-protest-anthem-together-hits-streaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rare-dead-prez-protest-anthem-together-hits-streaming-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Dead Prez Protest Anthem \u2018Together\u2019 Hits Streaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As protests have swept the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death, tracks with links to the protest tradition have surged<\/a> on streaming services. N.W.A<\/a>\u2019s \u201cFuck the Police\u201d saw a 272% percent increase in on-demand audio streams from May 27th through June 1st compared to the five days before Floyd\u2019s death, according to the analytics company Alpha Data. Streams of James Brown<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSay It Loud \u2014 I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m Proud\u201d jumped 455%.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether,\u201d a collaboration between GetoPros and Dead Prez, the famously socially conscious hip-hop duo, is a candidate for similar treatment. It\u2019s a call for action \u2014 \u201cTogether the motherfuckin\u2019 ants\/Can conquer the motherfuckin\u2019 elephant\u201d \u2014 laid over a head-nod beat; a delicate acoustic guitar line provides pretty ornamentation.<\/p>\n

The track originally came out on a limited vinyl run in 2001, but it was never available on streaming services before today, when co-producers Mike Heron and V.I.C. decided to release it. \u201cA few of us are fully prepared to defend ourselves, go to jail or die to cause a new experience of what it looks like to be a black man in this country \u2014 financially, physically, spiritually, and mentally,\u201d Heron says.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving in this manner requires a certain commitment and a clarity that says, \u2018who I am and what I stand for will cause a shift in my family, in the world and most importantly, in my soul,’\u201d he continues. \u201cThis song is dedicated to the new generation of soldiers committed to the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As protests have swept the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death, tracks with links to the protest tradition have surged on streaming services. N.W.A\u2019s \u201cFuck the Police\u201d saw a 272% percent increase in on-demand audio streams from May 27th through June 1st compared to the five days before Floyd\u2019s death, according to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 04:31:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}