Free The Truth: Police Awareness Themed Music Video by Kendrick Lamar & Jonathan Emile

Kendrick Lamar & Jonathan Emile submitted their song, “Heaven Help Dem,” which contains an anti-police brutality theme (see below for lyrics), via the CopBlock.org’s submission tab. As I stated to them in an email:

“It’s great to see a larger number of artists express their views of the police state via their music.”

If you haven’t already visited the Music Page here at CopBlock.org, you should do so after listening to this song, by clicking here.

“Heaven Help Dem” Lyrics:

[Intro]

This song is dedicated to the murderers…

May god judge you accordingly. Good luck with that one…

[Hook: Jonathan Emile]

You see the beast starts sprayin’

That’s what I’m sayin’

Dem not playin’

Lord, Heaven Help Dem, Heaven Help Dem

See di man dem ‘pon di corner ‘pon cocked ready to draw

When dem face in-front of Jah

God, Heaven Help Dem, Heaven Help Dem

[Verse 1: Jonathan Emile]

Feast your eyes realize this one

That the police are just people with guns

I mean people with funds and guns given the power of blood

To lick-a-shot in a di street and get your people to run — son

And when a cop dies, we all mortified

But when a cop kills he don’t need no alibi

I’m not sayin’ that they should be flawless

I’m telling you the world is lawless

Because we got young knuckleheads power tripping with they tools

And who they serving and protecting? Brother not you…

Not true? Why you think dem call dem babylon?

Cause them just agents of the system

Twist one up get your fist up in the air

Diallo, Bell, and Villanueva I say a prayer

I wonder do they include all the police murders when they go and calculate the murder rate each year?

[Hook]

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

They all say the average black man only live ’til 25

Pac died at 25

How many kids you know dead at 20? Five?

Now that’s life, I know 10 that’s crumbling in coffins

Dead as a doorknob

Fresh out of high-school and couldn’t find no job

Went straight to the grave

It’s crazy how the grim reaper in love with such tender age

I think about it as I gaze upon my ceiling

He woke up brushed his teeth then jumped in the shower

Stared at the mirror after he dried his face with a towel

And said, “This can be the day I might pass away

From an altercation my homie got into yesterday

Or mistaken identity, him thinking I was his enemy

When I never seen him a day in my life”

This is life for a young black man

With his future and his burner in his hand

While you’re on your grind, keep this mind

We say…

[Bridge: Jonathan Emile & (Kendrick Lamar)]

Heaven help the man who takes another man’s life

Heaven help the man who makes the other man fight

Heaven help the man who fears the other man because he got a tan or he black or he white

(That’s Jonathan Emile by the way)

Heaven help the mamma who just lost her by they guns and the justice that was there for safety

(Mindpeacelove records)

And heaven knows just why they had to take his life

(Take ‘em home)

And people are angry and people want answers

He wasn’t a nuisance he wasn’t a gangster

They want justice in these streets but there seems to be no justice for police and so

Heaven help the man who crush another man will

Heaven help the man who makes another man kill

Help the rioters who’s going crazy

In the streets all they’re really screaming out is save me

[Hook]

[Outro]

Kendrick Lamar, I want to thank you very much for doing this song

It’s Jonathan Emile, 514 stand up

Franco Proietti on the alto saxophone

Jonathan Emile on the beat

This goes out to anybody who has been a victim of abuse of power

Hate, violence. It’s time we stand up

Ferguson aye, to the world. Ahh..

Montréal, New York, ayy

Dem killin’ da people dem

Lyin’ to the people all the time. Ahh..

Inna da streets you see a rainbow

We’re marching for our rights