Malcolm London • "Charlie"

Malcolm London isn't one to keep his mouth shut when faced with the world's ugliness. Often one of the first pair of feet on the pavement to show strength and one of the recognizable faces of several movements in the city, it made sense then that London, who has been focusing energy on his music, would turn to his art to help explain his feelings in the wake of even more killings of black civilians by white police officers and does so fittingly on his latest single, "Charlie".

London once again finds himself alongside longtime friend and close collaborator EB and the evolution the pair have gone through working tireless sessions around the city is easily evident throughout this latest one which dropped late yesterday. I've always admired London for his ability to eschew pain through words and he flexes on his God-given talents here, packaging his poetry as bars that arrive here with controlled fury and unbridled hurt. Rapping, "This my middle finger to the Klu Klux Klan" one can get a sense of how important he takes this progression in music which comes deeply intertwined with his backgrounds in activism and poetry. It all comes together on this one which arrives as all of us are looking within for some answers. Get into it above.

Speaking to FADER, who premiered the single Malcolm said of the song: "We are in a time where people cannot be silent and complicit. We have to be honest about where we are as a country to reimagine how far we can go. Police violence, though victims of it are disproportionately black, is not just a black issue; poverty is not just an issue for the poor; the water crisis is not just an issue in Michigan. We have to all unite, to listen, to step back and leverage our privilege to give power to those who traditionally are without it."