
Prince Estate Shares Powerful Previously Unreleased "Baltimore" Video
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Prince's estate is marking the late icon's 62nd birthday with the release of the politically-charged video for his 2015 single, "Baltimore."
The clip features footage, photos, and headlines, from the 2015 Baltimore uprising, which was sparked by the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray on April 19th, 2015, while in police custody. Eventually featured at the top of Prince's HITNRUN album, an early version of "Baltimore" was released as a show of solidarity with protestors on May 9th. The completed track arrived on May 26th of that year, just a few weeks after his Rally 4 Peace benefit concert in the city.
Along with the previously unreleased video, the estate shared a timely-beyond-its-years handwritten note from the artist. It reads: "Nothing more ugly in the whole wide world than INTOLERANCE [between] Black, white, red, yellow, boy or girl. INTOLERANCE."
Watch the powerful video for Prince's "Baltimore" above. Scroll on to read the note.