Terrace Martin, Denzel Curry, More Join Forces for Harrowing Anti-Police Violence Song Pig

Posted by Larita Shotwell on Saturday, August 3, 2024

One could argue that most hip-hop is actually protest music, but there’s no mistaking the anti-police-violence message of a new song and video called “Pig Feet” by jazz musician Terrace Martin, who is accompanied by rappers Denzel Curry, G Perico and Daylyt and saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who worked with Martin on Kendrick Lamar’s groundbreaking “To Pimp a Butterfuly” album.

The song and video — which is comprised entirely of footage from the protests across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police last week — pull no punches.

“Someone asked, how do I feel? I told them hurt, fearless, angry, aware and fully ready to protect me, my family & my people at all costs,” Martin says in a statement accompanying the song and video. “I got together with Black men that felt the same way and created a work of truth. PIG FEET.”

“Helicopters over my balcony/ If the police can’t harass, they wanna smoke every ounce of me … Go to jail and get murdered/ Murder was the case they gave us … Like Wade, I fade away/ I pray today, ’cause life is crazy/ Jay-Z, a school for hard knocks/ They want us crucified with stones and hard rocks,” Curry raps on the opening verses.“They gon’ pay for takin’ my brother,” G Perico follows. “Nas say we need one mic and they shot the brown one.”

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The song arrived on the eve of Blackout Tuesday (June 2), during which the music industry will basically cease daily operations in a show of solidarity with the black community.

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