LIVING COLOUR Protest Gun Violence With “Who Shot Ya?’ Video

Living Colour has released a new mixtape entitled Who Shot Ya? and includes three songs from the Shade sessions  plus “Who Shot Ya? remixes. Rolling Stone has premiered the new video for the Notorious B.I.G. cover.

“You see the names you might expect to see like Tamir Rice and Michael Brown, Jr., but you also see the names of Kurt Cobain, Malcolm X, Dimebag Darrell, Martin Luther King, Marvin Gaye and Lee Harvey Oswald,” guitarist Vernon Reid tells Rolling Stone. “The absurdity of it all is staggering. We’re portraying the obvious crisis through the use of graphics and stats, but we are also hoping people see the mass proliferation of guns in new ways. We can’t keep ignoring the profligate amount of firearms so easily accessible to people. We respect people’s rights to bear arms, but you can’t argue the Second Amendment side of the issue without also looking at how the gun manufacturers are profiting from the death of others. The bitter irony of a song like ‘Who Shot Ya?’ is what happened to Biggie and Tupac. There’s what the song was originally about and what the song wound up being about. It’s a meta-tragedy.”

Tracklisting:

“Who Shot Ya?” (Notorious B.I.G. cover)
“Regrets”
“This Place Hotel” (Michael Jackson cover a.k.a. Heartbreak Hotel)
“Who Shot Ya?” (Andre Betts remix featuring Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch, Black Thought, Prodigal Sunn, Kyle Mansa)
“Who Shot Ya?” (EDM remix featuring Niro Barnes and Divine Styler)
“Who Shot Ya?” (Adrian Sherwood and Matt Smyth remix featuring Taz)

Tracks 7-12 are instrumental versions of tracks 1-6.

Who Shot Ya? is only available as digital download and can be purchased from iTunes, Google Play and from the Amazon widget below.