Legendary Hip Hop artist, actor and activist Yasiin Bey (fka: Mos Def) and Rapsody will headline the 22nd Annual Black August Hip Hop Benefit Concert.
Hosted by M1 of dead prez, the virtual concert will take place this Sunday August 30, 2020 starting at 4PM est.on Blackausgusthiphop.com via YouTube.
A “celebration of Hip Hop and Our Freedom Fighters” Presented by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Movement For Black Lives, this year the headliners along with Big K.R.I.T., M1 of dead prez, Audio Push, Oswin Benjamin, Nasty C, Sampa The Great, poet Jessica Care Moore, Locksmith, Saroc, Jahi PE 2.0, Ife Jie, Riders Against The Storm and Subvert Labs along with a growing roster of hip-hop’s favorite socially conscious hitmakers.
This year’s Black August concert call to action is for prison reform and the release of social justice political prisoners in the United States, some of whom that have been incarcerated for almost five decades as a result of their activism for the equality and freedom of Black, Brown and disenfranchised poor people in the US.
Donation proceeds will benefit political prisoners in the U.S. and their freedom campaigns.
“I’m supporting Black August because if we don’t care, if we don’t use our voice, if we don’t support these calls to action how can we progress?” says Rapsody. “So many before us, so many political prisoners, sacrificed for us to have the opportunities we are afforded today. I couldn’t create the art I do without some of those sacrifices. It is now my turn to do my part so that those now and after me will have even more freedoms and opportunities.”
