Twilite Tone forms a Chicago-rap dream team in an effort to end gun violence

Twilite Tone made “Put the Guns Down” to help promote a project called Music Versus Gun Violence, which he’s launched with Leo Burnett and Chicago Ideas—the  goal is evident from the title of the accompanying song. Many of the rappers that appear on the track have a history of sharing heartfelt, affecting stories about gun violence in song. Unfortunately their incongruous contributions—some of which don’t last long enough—don’t live up to their previous highs. But the message is clear from the song’s credits: to actually achieve an end to gun violence, people have to work together. 

The most moving part of “Put the Guns Down” is its video, which features a group of locals who are still tending to the wounds they’ve suffered from gun violence. The website for Music Versus Gun Violence features video interviews with some of the song’s contributors and also the lesser-known mothers, neighbors, and Chicagoans still struggling to make sense of the shooting deaths of loved ones. If “Put the Guns Down” leads people to seek out the stories featured on the Music Versus Gun Violence site it could, in some small way, make a difference.

 

Article Appeared @http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/10/14/twilite-tone-forms-a-chicago-rap-dream-team-in-an-effort-to-end-gun-violence

 

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