New York (CNN)Jay Z dropped an emotional new song about the killings of black men by police officers, "Spiritual," Thursday night.
"Got my hands in the air in despair/don't shoot/I just wanna do good," he raps on the track.
The
song, which was released on Tidal, was accompanied by a long open
letter in which Jay Z said he began writing the song "awhile ago," and
considered releasing it after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown, in
Ferguson, Missouri.
"I'm saddened
and disappointed in this America," he wrote. "We should be further
along. We are not. I trust God and know everything that happens is for
our greatest good, but man ... it's tough right now."
The song's release came not long after Jay Z's wife Beyonce published an open letter on her website Thursday
in the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both
of whom were shot and killed by police officers. "We are sick and tired
of the killings of young men and women in our community," she wrote.
"It's up to us to take a stand and demand that they 'stop killing us.'"
Beyonce
also held a moment of silence during her concert in Glasgow, Scotland
while standing in front of a large screen displaying the names of
individuals killed by police.
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