Video: KRS-One on CNN

Long before the world would ever hear about Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice and years before the #BlackLivesMatter movement would make its way into mainstream politics, hip hop legend KRS-One was releasing tracks like the bombastic 1993 track “Sound of Da Police,” slamming police brutality and systematic oppression.

And during an election cycle where criminal justice reform and police brutality have been brought to the forefront, KRS said “the whole thing is a joke” because none of the candidates are truly talking about what he considers to be the “number one issue” impacting the African American community: “This oxymoron called police brutality.”

Peep the video here.