Benny The Butcher has reworked Kendrick Lamar‘s song ‘We Cry Together’ to raise money through the Buffalo Survivors Fund for the 10 victims’ families.The rapper from the New York city released ‘Welcome To The States’ yesterday (June 6), which is a remix of one of Lamar’s ‘Mr.
Morale & The Big Steppers‘ tracks, to highlight the ongoing tragedy of gun violence in the US.In addition, Butcher’s Black Soprano Family brand has also released a T-shirt that can be bought via its website for approximately $40 (£32).
All proceeds will be donated to the Buffalo 5-14 Survivors Fund.In the remix’s accompanying video viewers are informed there have been at least 233 mass shootings in the US through to last Wednesday (June 1), which equates to more than one per day so far in 2022.Butcher is responding to the what the police labelled a racially motivated attack at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo on May 14.
On his reversioning of Lamar’s song he raps: “Ideologies formed on hate / Now the grocery stores ain’t safe.”10 Black people were killed and three others were injured in the mass shooting.
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