Eric Garner

Prayers up for Erica.

Eric Garner's family honors their late brother with this new single.

To pay tribute to the late Eric Garner, his daughter Erica Garner, their relative Steven Flagg, along with the rest of his family dropped a track about the injustice behind his death. On July 17 Eric Garner, the 43-year-old husband and a father of 6 children, was killed by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo after he was placed in a chokehold because he was peddling loose cigarettes. The incident was cap

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A week after dropping the jazzy joint "Fate," Mick Jenkins is back with his latest track, entitled "11." The track's title is representative of the amount of times that Eric Garner said the words "I can't breathE" while being placed in a chokehold by officer Daniel Pantaleo, a chokehold that ultimately killed him...

RZA is one of the more outspoken and intelligent minds that we have in the hip-hop community, so when he talks, we listen. In an interview with Gawker, RZA spoke about the death of Eric Garner, what the implications of his death and non-indictment have, and the strained relationship that currently exists between police officers and the people...

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There is a mutiny in Shaolin. Though the sixth (and likely final) Wu-Tang album, A Better Tomorrow, was released earlier this month, you can't find it on the Twitter feeds of the group's three most visible members. Method Man, Ghostface, and Raekwon have all abstained from the promotional cycle...