Key Takeaways
- Chance the Rapper expresses strong disapproval of immigration raids across America.
- He emphasizes the importance of fighting against oppressive systems.
- Ice Cube also criticizes the heavy-handed approach of federal authorities during these raids.
- Both artists highlight the emotional toll these actions have on communities.
Chance the Rapper has hit out at the widespread immigration raids that have been taking place across Los Angeles and much of America at the behest of Donald Trump.
Speaking on The Cruz Show, the Chicago rapper did not hide his feelings about the highly controversial raids conducted by ICE.
He said: “It’s disgusting. I think we’re just in a space where people are afraid to, I guess, really fight the system. Like, this is a country that’s actually built on bloody revolutions and radical thought and self-determination, and sometimes I think we make that such a historic thing or such a in-the-past kind of thing that we forget that, like, we’re a country built on fighting the system and fighting the power.”
Chance added: “I think we’re just in a place where people sometimes feel helpless and they don’t know how to fight. My voice and my pen is my gift, you know? And then on the other side there’s my physical body, and one day I’m going to have to give my physical body to the revolution. I hope it’s not soon. I got young kids.”
He continued: “It’s late in the game. We’re at the fall of empire right now. So, you know, I would say being in Chicago and growing up in those after-school programs. We were 14 years old, rocking keffiyehs and saying ‘Free Palestine.’ That’s how we grew up. Like, we are radical children that just happen to be in our 30s now. And so when it comes time for each one of us to put out a body of work, especially at this time, we have to use our heavenly gifts. And when the time comes, everybody’s going to have to use their bodies.”
Ice Cube also recently called out the raids across Los Angeles: “It hurts because it’s all kind of different situations been going around, as far as immigration.”
Cube added: “But to see people disrespected like that, and federal government just being too heavy-handed and disrespectful going to churches and weddings and grabbing people out those schools. It’s like come on man, y’all just overdoing it.”
The rapper and actor also said: “And then the country flip flops. First it’s cool, then it’s not … It’s like, how could somebody even keep up with what’s going on? It’s sad. I can’t wait til this period is over. I don’t know how we going to get to the end but … It’s crazy to see people dragged out of their spots of refuge.”
