Glory was already a powerful song long before the Oscars gave it any attention but something special happened last night at The Oscars when Common ad John Legend performed this amazing record.
It wasn’t easy to stand out last night at all, a night that featured technicolor cowboys, storm troopers, and Neil Patrick Harris singing and dancing. But we weren’t just here for fun and games last night, the most important moment of the night was the Glory performance, It transcended whatever epic status it already achieved to become something else.
After the performance I think it was obvious what needed to happen next, the category for Original Song was introduced and awarded, with the Oscar deservingly going to the G.O.O.D. Music duo. Their incredible performance could only be matched by their thought provoking speech that followed receiving the prestigious award.
It was most definitely one of the best speeches of the night.
Common compared the bridge that Martin Luther King and the great folks of the Civil Rights movement marched on, stating that it transcends race, sexual orientation, gender and religion and serves as the path that unifies us all. Lengend then appended the speech with struggles of today, driving home the point that Selma is happening now and how everything we’ve fought for then is being compromised today. He went deep too, addressing the fact that we are the most incarcerated country in the world, even giving statistics of how many black men are in correctional control right now, compared to slaves in 1850.
It got real on that stage, and the entire room was engulfed in the moment.
All in all it’s been a great of weeks for Hip Hop no? Kendrick took 2 home at the Grammys a few weeks ago and now a Hip Hop icon takes home a Oscar? Not too shabby of a year so far if you ask me.
Big shout out to Common and John Legend for this amazing accomplishment, they took it home for G.O.O.D. Music, for the culture, for Hip Hop.
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