Glenn Waco Sees Country’s Strange Fruit Come to Bare on New Single “Willie Lynchings”

Beaverton, OR — Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 —

 

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PORTLAND, OR (November 23, 2020)​ — While the world’s eyes have turned to Portland as a seemingly unlikely epicenter for the movement for Black lives, emcee Glenn Waco is unsurprised. A listen to the north Portland emcee’s latest single ‘Willie Lynchings’ makes it clear why.

Over the course of the sparse drum and crawling guitar riffs of frequent-collaborator Samarei, Waco casually offers a grim prognosis on the state of his city and nation heading into his aptly titled sophomore project “46” a nod to a new federal administration in the top office, marking an end to Trump’s reign, but not the foundational violence core to America’s being.

 

While the rapper’s words act as a seeming report from the frontlines he wrote the track nearly four years ago. Having a compromised immune system has barred him from the same streets which had become like a second home to him since ​leading protests in 2015​. That’s when names like Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and Tamir Rice stained headlines.

“It’s traumatizing seeing nothing but police brutality 24/7 and millionaires with no connection to your community telling you how to think, feel and react to violence being inflicted on you, that in of itself is violence,” says Waco.

But from Emmit Till to Tamir, Waco sees a future beyond the same trauma he says has just been repackaged as “entertainment”, musing further on the track:

“Took streets, now it’s time to take seats / We can integrate still own our own leagues / A few steps and we finally free / But first boot the union, defund the police / Now I took my lashes / Own all my Masters / Pay me what you owe, reparations through taxes / The response is rubber bullets for they gas us / Barely hear us through the static”

Ultimately, he hopes his rhythmic protest offers relief and fuel to a tired nation.

Glenn Waco is a native Portland rapper and human rights advocate. His critically-acclaimed debut album “NorthBound” has been used to teach college courses around the world on race, politics, and protest.

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“When people hear ‘Willie Lynchings’, hopefully it’s therapeutic. It’s traumatizing seeing nothing but police brutality 24/7 and millionaires with no connection to your community telling you how to think, feel and react to violence being inflicted on you, that in of itself is violence. Hopefully for those politically engaged, they pick up that we have work to do,” he says. “After 45 comes 46.”

The most direct way to support is glennwaco.bandcamp.com.

 

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ABOUT

Glenn Waco is a native Portland based Hip-Hop artist/Human Rights activist. Honing his craft in St Johns, he delivered his debut project NorthBound in 2013 and is apart of 2 collectives: The Resistance and FRSHTRB (Forever Representing a Single Heritage of Talent Renaissance & Brilliance). in 2020, Waco’s contributions with the Human Rights Organization “Don’t Shoot Portland” was included with the organization’s induction into the United States Library of Congress. He has since launched his own Network “FreedMinds”.

 

CONTACT

Glenn Waco

Glenn Waco

971-312-4860

Genres: Hip Hop

Source: ArtistPR Music Press Release