BY MICHAEL BLAIR • MAY 29, 2019

Twenty-five years to the month after unveiling his acclaimed debut album, The Sun Rises In The East, Jeru The Damaja has returned with a critically potent message for the masses in a new track titled “Harriet Tubman.”

Never timid to recount social, political, and worldly malpractice throughout his career, the respected and always sharp-witted East New York, Brooklyn native touches on a bevy of troubling modern-day developments within the powerfully compacted 2:10 record. The track opens with a portion of Dr. Martin Luther King’s renowned 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech, setting a tone of significance from the jump. Paired with striking visuals throughout, ‘Ru sheds light on issues such as presidential and foreign corruption, senseless police brutality, the dangers of technological advancement, pharmaceutical manipulation, social media addiction, prison injustice, domestic terrorism, and the price of fame, among other paramount concerns.

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