First Lady of Gospel Music, Shirley Caesar, addresses social justice movement with new song ‘Take Your Knee off My Neck’

First Lady of Gospel Music Shirley Caesar has released new music in response to the social justice movement in America.

Shirley Caesar’s new song

Her latest release, “Take Your Knee Off My Neck” addresses the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality with the refrain that “enough is enough”.

Ceasar says the song was not only inspired by the uprising following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, but an incident where she was almost lynched while in high school.

“These were some country white men and it was like six of us. They jumped on some but me, I ran and got away. To God be the glory. And when I think about how we’re still fighting this demonic spirit,” Caesar told theGrio.

“I made up my mind that something’s got to be done. I wanted to be one of the gospel singers who would just lend my voice to this.”

“I’m hoping that Take Your Knee Off My Neck will do the same thing. Let me just tell you about that. Actually, whenever I’m on stage singing, I try to be creative. And before I know it, something, different comes out that I did not put on the recording. And I was singing Hold My Mule. That’s a song that I wrote,” she explains.

Check out Take Your Knee Off my Necksong:

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