DUBAI: Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA has teamed with Italian electronic music duo Parisi to release a haunting new song about refugees, the proceeds of which will be donated to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
The track debuted on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio on Monday and comes paired with a powerful video which depicts a group of dancers imitating refugees walking through an apocalyptic expanse.
“I don’t understand how you could ban a man from a land that was said to be a beacon of light for men escaping the plight of tyranny,” RZA raps at the opening of the song “No Refuge.”
In the track, he raps: “I’m an innocent immigrant trying to emigrate/ To the land built by immigrants/ Where the face of a former slave/ Became the face of the president.”
In an interview with Mic.com, the Parisi brothers said: “Every year, especially in the summer, refugees from the Middle East and north Africa cross the Mediterranean from north Africa and land in southern Italy — not far from our home town of Salerno.
“As a country and as a family, we do our best to help and welcome everybody, but it becomes more difficult every day to manage the situation properly…The refugees need support from people like us and from institutions.”
For his part, RZA told Mic.com that he wants to see he US thrive under President Donald Trump but added that the country should remember that it was built by immigrants.
“I’m a patriot, bro,” he said. “I defend my country verbally, musically, my family’s here and all that. But it’s like defending your kid when you know when your kid was wrong.”
Wu-Tang Clan has released seven gold and platinum studio albums since its formation in 1992, with worldwide sales of more than 40 million albums.
Wu-Tang Clan rapper releases new song in support of refugees
Wu-Tang Clan rapper releases new song in support of refugees
