Trayvon Martin would never get to be an older man is like a statement to the world. Do you understand that you’re killing, young black men who have lives? This is somebody’s life.

This is young man will never get to have a child, go out and see the world; things that any human being deserves and I went straight to that.

Trayvon is a life and I think about people’s families when I’m writing these songs too. He’s not only a symbol, he’s a human being so that’s what made me dig into that.

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This was inspired by Chuck D, Public Enemy, “Here we go, here here we go again” from “Bring The Noise.”

When I write, thoughts just come to my mind, I don’t try to think too hard. I don’t try to figure out when did this come. I just allow it to come through. And that “Here we go again,” came and it was really saying this is the cycle and here we go, here here we go again. This is the cycle that keeps repeating itself.

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I played Stevie the song and when I played it for him, at the end, he said “Play it again.”

And then at the end, he was like humming this melody and I said, “This song is about us rewriting our history. It’s about a new story. Writing a new story. A new narrative.”

And that’s when he just started with the melody he was singing, “We are rewriting the black American story.”

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