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Vocals/Speeches: Martin Luther King Jr. – “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top”, Malcolm X – “Bullet or Ballot”, James Baldwin – “On Malcolm X”, John Fitzgerald Kennedy – “Inaugural Speech”, Jesse Jackson – Clip from the National Archives, Double Trouble – “At the Ampitheatre”
I cannot but emphasize how our society could be a hedge for many people, whom I referred to as “the uninvited”: underprivileged and ethnically exceptional. The heavy orchestra strings, sharp snares, and vocals from well known civil rights leaders were to criticize the current state of our time and to hope for change.
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I wrote the lyrics for this song, but I felt like it would come even deeper if people do not directly relate to the lyrics, but instead create a portrait from their own experience, solely through the instrumental; it could be anything — love, rejection, or anything you want to blame your sorrows on. It’s hard to put this song in the hip-hop category, for some might consider it mainstream music; considering the fact that heartbreak is a universal feeling, I did in fact put great effort to make this an easily acceptable song for various people.
