Native American hip-hopper Frank Waln: Oil 4 Blood
Frank Waln or Oyate Teca Obmani (Walks With Young People) is a Sicangu Lakota rapper. He grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began to listen to Hip-hop as a teenager, connecting his experiences as a Native American dealing with the consequences of colonialism and genocide to the oppression suffered by African Americans (source).
The above song is not about the Dakota Access Pipeline, but the Keystone Pipeline, running from Canada to different states in the US. An extention was rejected by Obama in 2015, but Trump took action to revive both this project and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Words of my ancestors up in my head
Food for thought, our kids underfed
Your oil is mud, they want the earth dead
Keystone XL, you smell like an atrocity
To my home and my ancestors I am loyal
Build that pipeline and I’m burning down your oil
You tell ‘em, mister Waln. He’s on Spotify. (PB)
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