Lion Babe have shared a vibrant reworking of Mos Def‘s classic 1999 track ‘Umi Says’ – listen to it below.The song, which originally appeared on Mos Def’s debut album ‘Black On Both Sides’, is a rallying cry that calls for all Black people to be freed in the wake of racial injustice.American R&B duo Lion Babe, made up of singer Jillian Hervey and producer Lucas Goodman, have revamped the track in order to offer hope and inspiration at a time when inequality has been put back in the spotlight following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others.“We’ve spent 2020 writing new music and creating in response to the heightened pain and injustice black lives have been experiencing,” the duo said in a statement. “Music has been our.
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