Belly Donating Proceeds From New Album To Palestine
Belly has announced that he is donating the proceeds from his new album 96 Miles from Bethlehem to help Palestine.
The XO rapper created the announcement on Instagram, exactly where he wrote: “I got a lot more to say.. 96 Miles From Bethlehem. Tomorrow.. (profits from the album and merch will donated to Gaza, the WestBank and other affected areas around Palestine).”
Belly, who was born in Palestine prior to moving to Canada when he was seven, has been an outspoken advocate for the nation in the course of its ongoing war with Israel.
He previously wrote on Instagram: “Fuck politics… fuck your fake complexities… and fuck the media. If you’ve reached a point in life where you think its ok to kill innocent people, to cut off basic human needs from an entire population that’s 50% children, then you’re a sociopath.
“This is not a political issue… it’s a human issue. I’m heartbroken for my people and ashamed for almost everybody else.”
He also stated: “If you’re killing civilians and decimating entire cities, what makes you any better than the terrorists you say you’re hunting?”
Belly has also referred to as his upcoming project, which drops on Friday (May 31), “the most special album of my life.”
Earlier this week, Kehlani referred to as out fellow artists for not employing their platforms to speak out on the war in Palestine that has killed more than 36,000 folks and displaced about two million given that it started in October.
In a series of Instagram videos, the singer criticized her “peers of highly fucking platformed people, well paid people who have already beat the fucking game” for their silence on the conflict, saying: “You can’t speak?! Disgusting.”
She also stated in the course of the impassioned P.S.A.: “It’s fuck Israel. It’s fuck Zionism. And it’s fuck a lot of y’all too.”
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Kehlani furthermore wrote in the caption: “What’s good yall??? we don’t sell out shows without A CROWD FULL OF PEOPLE. the songs don’t chart without PEOPLE. the trends don’t trend without PEOPLE. you don’t draw a line at beheaded babies or people burnt alive after 7 months the of plenty of other atrocities?”
Her post was supported by Mackelmore who has also been outspoken in his criticism of Israel’s actions in the course of the war.
He commented: “Goosebumps… every word. You been showing up the entire time. For inspiring me.”
