Snoop Dogg & MASSIVE Attack Rally For `Mumia Abu-Jamal!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:32 pm

Rapper Snoop Dogg has teamed up with British Trip Hop group Massive
Attack for "Calling Mumia," a song for Mumia Abu-Jamal that will be
included in the soundtrack for the documentary In Prison My Whole Life.

Abu-Jamal was sentenced to the death penalty in 1982 after being
convicted for shooting police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal
maintains his position that the shooting was in self-defense, and he is
currently a prisoner at the State Correctional Institution Greene in
Pennsylvania. Currently, none of Abu-Jamal's appeals have been settled.

Founded in 1987, Massive Attack are considered Trip Hop pioneers
combining Hip Hop, soul, and techno. They have gone on to release close
to 10 albums including Blue Lines, Mezzanine, and Collected.

Massive Attack is no stranger to protest/awareness songs. In "False
Flags," Massive Attack's 3D raps, "In school I would just bite my
tongue/ And now your words they strike me down/ The flags are false and
they contradict/ They point and click which wounds to lick."

Aside from Snoop Dogg, Massive Attack has also worked with RJD2, Mos Def, Madonna, and others.

In Prison My Whole Life opens this weekend in the UK.