Snoop Dogg & Massive Attack Rally For Mumia Abu-Jamal
October 24th, 2008 |
Author: Danielle Harling

Rapper Snoop Dogg has teamed up with British Trip Hop group Massive Attack for "Calling Mumia," a song for Mumia Abu-Jamal that will be included in the soundtrack for the documentary In Prison My Whole Life.

Abu-Jamal was sentenced to the death penalty in 1982 after being convicted for shooting police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal maintains his position that the shooting was in self-defense, and he is currently a prisoner at the State Correctional Institution Greene in Pennsylvania. Currently, none of Abu-Jamal's appeals have been settled.

Founded in 1987, Massive Attack are considered Trip Hop pioneers combining Hip Hop, soul, and techno. They have gone on to release close to 10 albums including Blue Lines, Mezzanine, and Collected.

Massive Attack is no stranger to protest/awareness songs. In "False Flags," Massive Attack's 3D raps, "In school I would just bite my tongue/ And now your words they strike me down/ The flags are false and they contradict/ They point and click which wounds to lick."

Aside from Snoop Dogg, Massive Attack has also worked with RJD2, Mos Def, Madonna, and others.

In Prison My Whole Life opens this weekend in the UK.

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In prison my whole life

i read up on him on wikipedia and it sounds like the police fixed him up, if this man was on trial in england, he'd be freed by now,

He is one of many activists from the civil rights era still in prison for serving the community. Troy Davis is to be executed later this year and could do with the attention also, personally don't think they'll execute Mumia but he needs freeing.

Apologies, didn't check my mail, Troy Davis got a stay of execution and won't be executed on monday, good news.