Atlanta 6LACK is a love letter artist. He writes them in his music, for his listeners and his fans. Its “Live From the Ledge” functionality with YouTube, broadcast from a helipad downtown, was a love letter to Atlanta last night.
“No matter where I go, no matter where you travel, no matter what I do, I’m going back to Atlanta, in my hometown. All the exhibits I’ve had here were familiar. That’s a friend of mine. It was love, ” he said on stage.
His performance, which grossed nearly $4.7,7,000 for the Equal Justice initiative, included older hits such as Grammy-nominated “Pretty Little Fears” and songs from his recent EP Hot 6pc. Among his voice and live music, 6LACK has captured listeners from all over the world.
He closed the exhibition with “Know My Rights,” a 6pc Hot hit with a hook that touches “exactly what’s going on right now,” he said, referring to police brutality and opponents. The song also features Lil Baby, who released “The Bigger Picture” this summer.
“I just want to make sure that everything I can do to use my platform, use my position and make sure that I think critically about what’s going on, that I’m doing it.”
Like everyone else, 6LACK said, this is an emotionally complicated time for him. “Being able to continue [assisting other people with my music] and funding safe movements, helping with bail funds, helping others with supplies,” he said, is where gratitude and satisfaction, happiness, and everything else come from. “
The video clip “Know My Rights” includes images of 6LACK and his team disembarking from their jet for a police search. However, in his performance, 6LACK returned attention and the pursuit of police responsibility.
“I know we going through hard times right now, tough times right now. But unity is a key. Sticking together is a key. Talking it out is a key. Fighting is a key. Being consistent is a key,” 6LACK said, prefacing his grand finale onstage.
He then slipped off his jacket, revealing the back of his tank top. In red rhinestones, “REMEMBERING” hovered over a list of names of Black people that have been killed by police or by racial terrorists: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Geroge Floyd and many others who lost their lives far before 2020.
As he played, “REMEMBERING” kept blinking, recalling the gleaming blood on the hands of the hateful and unjust highs. At the end of the song, he raised his fist in front of a wall of flashing names of other black victims of police brutality, adding Jacob Blake.
This is the first functionality of 6LACK since the beginning of the pandemic, and is linked to the meaning of each and every time it levels in the future.
“I just need to be a student and a teacher,” he says. “I’m going to be someone who’s going to try to teach what I know or what I think I know, and I’ll look to be informed of things I don’t know or review to update and improve what I don’t know. “
“Last night I could see everything and take notes, intellectual notes,” 6LACK said. “By doing this, the only thing I’m thinking about right now is how to do more, how to do it better, and how to help other people more.”
See here the “Live From The Ledge” functionality of 6LACK, which is also the debut of a director through Sean Famous of LVRN, the 6LACK record company.
I’m a journalist and poet born and raised in South Chicago. I like to write about music, especially hip hop, rap and R-B, and their intersections with other forms.
I’m a journalist and poet born and raised in the southern component of Chicago. I like to write about music, especially hip hop, rap and R-B, and its intersections with other entertainment bureaucracies, social disorders and broader images. I’m interested in the way things are talked about. As music continues to evolve throughout generation and business, understanding intersections is crucial. My paintings have been published in The Harvard Crimson, Chicago Magazine, Harvard Review of Latin America, PALABRITAS and more.