”Stand Tall Like A Tree”
3:00PM ET November 19th, 2011
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company

Rapper Young Jeezy voiced his support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The rapper said that working class people deserve to be heard and have to take a stand to address wealth disparities in America.

“I would riot,” said Jeezy in an interview with XXLMag. “Because we gotta get the money out of Washington. This is real. When you got middle class people taking a stance—because we always took a stance by the way, we always stood in the middle of our projects, our ghetto, and took our stance and our stance was hustling, robbing, what have you, to survive. So now they don’t have those same options, so they gotta go march.”

“We as a people marched millions of times before, whether it was the Million Black Man March or whether we marched with Martin Luther King, we marched or whether it was Malcom X, we marched,” he added. “And now is their time to march. They gotta go stand up for what they believe in. Stand tall like a tree. If it takes getting jailed and pepper sprayed, if that what it takes to feed your kids then f*ck it, let’s do it.”

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Far East Movement have just announced that they will be a part of the second leg of Lil Wayne’s “I Am Still Music” tour. The Downtown Los Angeles based group will join Rick Ross, Lloyd and Keri Hilson on the highly anticipated summer tour.
FM is currently on the “Free Wired College Tour” and keeping fans in the loop with blogs on their official site.
Free Wired, featuring the triple platinum-plus “Like A G6,” “Rocketeer,” and new single “If I Was You (OMG)” is available on iTunes now via Cherrytree Records.

Far East Movement Tour Dates
August 6 Atlanta, Ga Aaron’s At Lakewood
August 7 Charlotte, Nc Verizon Wireless Amp.
August 9 Minneapolis, Mn. Xcel Center
August 10 Milwaukee, Wi Marcus Amphitheatre
August 12 Pittsburgh, Pa. First Niagara Pavilion
August 13 Tinley, Il Midwest Amp.
August 14 Noblesville, In. Verizon Wireless Amp.
August 16 Ottawa, On. Scotia Bank Place
August 17 Montreal, Qc Bell Centre
August 19 Toronto, Ont. Molson Amp.
August 20 Clarkston, Mi Dte Energy Theater
August 21 Maryland, Heights, Mo Verizon Wireless Amp.
August 23 Kansas City, Mo. Sprint Center
August 25 Phoenix, Az. Ashley Furniture Pavilion
August 26 San Diego, Ca. Cricket Wireless
August 27 San Bernardino, Ca Glen Helen Pavilion
August 30 Denver, Co. Comfort Dental
August 31 Albuquerque, Nm Hard Rock-Pavilion
September 2 Mountain View, Ca. Shoreline Amp.
September 3 Marysville, Ca. Sleep Train Amp.
September 4 Auburn, Wa. White River Amp.
September 7 Omaha, Ne. Qwest Arena
September 9 San Antonio, Tx. Att Center
September 10 Dallas, Tx. Gexa Energy Pavilion
September 11 Woodlands, Tx Woodlands Amp.

At a recent engagement in Midtown, Far East Movement’s Kev Nish told NY1 they don’t feel successful despite the success of ‘Like A G6? and that they aren’t about any particular race. “We grew up in a scene where there are Latino rappers, African-American rappers, Caucasian, and we all grew up as kind of a community,” Kev explained. “So when we saw them rise it wasn’t like they broke because they’re a certain race or we broke because we’re a certain race; we all just mesh together. Whoever breaks it’s about you’re repping your neighborhood, you’re repping the street, you’re repping the scene.” Read more.

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