Many fans adhere to Prince's call to wear gray "as a symbolic message." http://t.co/qqCjbE9l61 (NPG Records photo) pic.twitter.com/pwuEVxRAfK
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) May 11, 2015
Pop legend Prince Rogers Nelson held a 2-hour marathon concert in Baltimore to honor Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died in police custody on April 19.
Gray’s death sparked 2 weeks of civil unrest and looting in Baltimore and around the country.
Prince performed his latest single, “Baltimore” in tribute to Gray. 16,000 concertgoers heeded Prince’s call to wear Gray in honor of their fallen brother.
“We’re tired of the crying, people dying, let’s take all of the guns away” and “If there win’t no justice then there ain’t no peace,” Prince sang to the capacity crowd. The concert was streamed live on Jay Z’s flop Tidal app.
Jay Z’s attention-starved wife, Beyonce and her entourage of stylists, vegan chefs, and wig keepers, crowded the backstage area. Other invited guests included Beyonce’s mom, Tina Knowles, British singer Estelle, and American singers Alicia Keys and Miguel.
Not one to let a photo op pass her by, Bey posed with Michael Brown’s mother and Eric Garner’s mom. Brown was shot to death by a Ferguson, MO. cop while his hands were in the air in a gesture of surrender, and Garner was strangled to death by a Long Island cop. Both black men were unarmed.
Prince focused national attention of the plight of troubled youth in Baltimore and the larger issue of some in law enforcement who unfairly target those youths.
The system is broken — It’s gonna take the young people to fix it this time. We need new ideas. We need new life. And most of all, we need new peace. And the kind of peace I’m talking about is p-i-e-c-e.”
In related news, Baltimore jail corrections officers turned away over 2,600 jail detainees with serious injuries between June 2012 and July 2015. Jailers refused to accept the detainees until they were seen by doctors first. Jail documents obtained by Fox News shows the detainees were so severely injured in police custody that they required hospitalization. The report stated Baltimore police officers who brought the detainees to jail either were ignorant of the injuries or they didn’t care.
Beyoncé & Jay Z with #FreddieGray's family backstage at Prince's concert last night #Rally4Peace #Baltimore pic.twitter.com/tY842Dck4o
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) May 11, 2015
dont have to be rich #Bmore #Prince https://t.co/mxTxDCCPm1
— Adam McGinnis (@adammcginnis) May 11, 2015
“Baltimore” Lyrics
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Nobody got in nobody’s way
So I guess you could say
It was a good day
At least a little better than the day in Baltimore
Does anybody hear us pray?
For Michael Brown or Freddie Gray
Peace is more than the absence of war
Absence of war
Are we gonna see another bloody day?
We’re tired of cryin’ and people dyin’
Let’s take all the guns away
Absence of war—you and me
Maybe we can finally say
Enough is enough, it’s time for love
It’s time to hear
It’s time to hear
The guitar play!
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I am here for Prince
I heard the prosecutor attended the concert … IMO bad move …. 
Something tells me this young prosecutor is about to fawk up this case 
Not one to let a photo op pass her by, Bey posed with Michael Brown’s mother and Eric Garner’s mom. Brown was shot to death by a Ferguson, MO.
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I have no comment on this
where is more stuff on Prince’s info 
@Jenie,
Girl, say it ain’t seaux
. The last thing we need is another acquittal. 
jeniefrumdabloc says:
I am here for Prince
I heard the prosecutor attended the concert … IMO bad move …. 
Something tells me this young prosecutor is about to fawk up this case 
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I thought the same thing too, even though I personally didn’t see a problem with it.
I read some posts where people were pissed talking about she supposed to impartial/unbiased.
:thinks: That’s not how it works. How you expect her to be impartial to muhhfukkas she literally threw the book at?
Impartiality is for the judge and jury. Not the prosecution. Am I wrong?
I wonder how many more bloodshed will there be before change actually comes?
Unshakable says:
@Jenie,
. The last thing we need is another acquittal.
and the charges …. then another thing that bothers me ….. even though as a black person (the prosecutor) this seems to be personal …. on a level of prosecuting soley based on emotions…. IMO. What is the evidence ? What are the facts 
among st other things I’m seeing with this case
Girl, say it ain’t seaux
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Chile just from me reading up on this young woman …
Prince
My nigga wore a short with HIS face on it 
Fro just a blowing in the wind 
Long Time Lurker says:
jeniefrumdabloc says:
I heard the prosecutor attended the concert … IMO bad move …. 
Something tells me this young prosecutor is about to fawk up this case 
I am here for Prince
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I thought the same thing too, even though I personally didn’t see a problem with it.
I read some posts where people were pissed talking about she supposed to impartial/unbiased.
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Bad move imo
this shyt needs to be by the book to hold weight …. 
as a black woman …. I don’t think shes should be out making appearances and shyt at concerts or things like this…. it does seem bias … even if she is all for right … technically as a prosecutor … that shyt look not so smart on her part IMO 
Unshakable says:
I wonder how many more bloodshed will there be before change actually comes?
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It’s hard to change something that has always happened in America
but that’s not to say it can’t happen.
Beyonce and her entourage of stylists, vegan chefs, and wig keepers, crowded the backstage area
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I was all about the movement until I read this
I got the call yall!! I gotta go in today at 4:00 for the results! So make me laugh yall before then
Prosecutors are to prosecute. How she gone be impartial to the folks she trying to convict.
AND It was Prince.
That Mother Funders show is a disgrace.
jeniefrumdabloc says:
Bad move imo
this shyt needs to be by the book to hold weight …. 
as a black woman …. I don’t think shes should be out making appearances and shyt at concerts or things like this…. it does seem bias … even if she is all for right … technically as a prosecutor … that shyt look not so smart on her part IMO 
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I agree, probably a bad move. But I know if I was her, I wouldn’t have missed an opportunity to be on stage with Prince. We talking, the muhhfukking Purple One.
But yeah, they are going to scrutinize everything she does from here until there’s a trial. If we even get that.
n related news, Baltimore jail corrections officers turned away over 2,600 jail detainees with serious injuries between June 2012 and July 2015. Jailers refused to accept the detainees until they were seen by doctors first. Jail documents obtained by Fox News shows the detainees were so severely injured in police custody that they required hospitalization. The report stated Baltimore police officers who brought the detainees to jail either were ignorant of the injuries or they didn’t care.
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Did ya’ll see how the teachers are secretly enforcing a curriculum designed to cater to kids of majority chile (white privilege)
be active in your kids school….. a sidebar way of segregating … chile I wouldn’t dare bring another child in this world …. too much fawk shyt out here nowadays 
Bey & Prince in one post
Long Time Lurker says:
jeniefrumdabloc says:
this shyt needs to be by the book to hold weight …. 
as a black woman …. I don’t think shes should be out making appearances and shyt at concerts or things like this…. it does seem bias … even if she is all for right … technically as a prosecutor … that shyt look not so smart on her part IMO 
Bad move imo
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I agree, probably a bad move. But I know if I was her, I wouldn’t have missed an opportunity to be on stage with Prince. We talking, the muhhfukking Purple One.
But yeah, they are going to scrutinize everything she does from here until there’s a trial. If we even get that.
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This is where professionalism would have to really come into play …. I would have had someone send me recording of the concert
this case will be picked apart … we don’t have time for any laxing … 
What Alicia got on her head
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Somebody Granma turban. Somebody Granny gone be mad as hell when they have to go to the store right quick and got to put they Church Wig on to run down to Winn-Dixie.
Jenie all i could do this morning was stand still.
any sudden movements wouldve created musk. 
Was so happy to get up in this AC
User says:
any sudden movements wouldve created musk
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Pre- or nah? LOL
So can anyone pernt me in the direction of the Mother’s day Red Lobster’s brawl video? No? Ok.
Pre, post, and anything in between. I had to remain calm. No cussing out dope fiends today
Roth i saw it on jarrettscottpage on IG. Didnt watch it but i saw he posted it
@Jenie,
Add to that the different levels of murst peepa haabe and it’s gone make fah a cruel summer.
And I ain’t talmbout folks that ain’t able or are in dire straits and can’t afford it. We have compassion for those peepa. I’m talkin bout the ones who are content to wallow in funk, smelling like phermones, murst, and regret.
User I ain’t ready for this heat
it’s just May
@Jenie,
You right about it. Everything from the curriculum itself to the standardized testing these kids are subjected to. Even the doe has found correlations between race and the educative experience. But for peeople in power, it is more convenient to have a narrow purview of wthe educational experience and what it should look like.
Unshakable says:
@Jenie,
You right about it. Everything from the curriculum itself to the standardized testing these kids are subjected to. Even the doe has found correlations between race and the educative experience. But for peeople in power, it is more convenient to have a narrow purview of wthe educational experience and what it should look like.
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Sad
Jenie Im so happy to take my coat/jacket/scarf/gloves/hat off
Im not even complaining
just wont be wearing this silk get up again no time soon 
I’m talkin bout the ones who are content to wallow in funk, smelling like phermones, murst, and regret.
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Dayum…this sounds really stinky
Good afternoon folks…
I know Prince rocked it!
Wtf is it so hot in May? we are 20 degrees above normal, which is scary
This lady got the whole office smelling of cat pee.. Argghhhh gross
@SSO,
These be those same folk who wanna hug you and wave hi and bye to everybody. They will knock you out with a left hook of funk and an ippercut of nether region ripeness. Be lookin like
Auntie, can we get a “mursty” emote, just based on gp?
Zimmeman got shot in theface! Breaking news!!
The turban is coming back in style :woohoo:.
During a road rage inciddnt. The other driver “got eem” but they saying its minor
must be cuz his face so dam big
Unshakable says:
@SSO,
These be those same folk who wanna hug you and wave hi
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fr fr…they be at the gym all close and parties. I want to say move around “stanky”. I’m just too polite.
Alicia looks like Lena Horne in that pic
Sucker Free Esq. says:
Alicia looks like Lena Horne in that pic
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Thought the same thing.
However she is aging herself.
Something seems off about this. Almost as if this concert is being used to exploit the dead and push an agenda. It seems like celebrities and the government use any excuse they can to advocate for ‘gun control’.
I always find it hypocritical that Obama, for instance, a man who has round the clock armed security, can tell the American public we need less access to guns. Guns take lives AND save them as well. That’s the same with anything…food, water, etc.
People will mistake this concert for being about peace only, when in reality it’s only about gun control.