No Lives Matter by Tom MacDonald

May 2024 · 2 minute read

The name of this track is of course a revision of “Black Lives Matter”, a phrase which itself is referenced numerous times in the song. Black Lives Matter is an ideology but more importantly a social movement, one which really came to the American forefront during 2020. And basically, Tom McDonald is criticizing this initiative for being racist. In other words, when White people sympathize with Blacks who have taken up this cause, they have a tendency to be rejected. 

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However, the rapper doesn’t attribute this reality to racism per se as much as he does a mob mentality which has swept over the land. That is to say that concerning the issues of today, if individuals don’t react to them in a prescribed way, they are instantly ostracized. And along that same vein, people being stereotypically categorized has become the norm.

To illustrate this point, McDonald also mentions how people are considered “trash” if they don’t “hate the President”. And the “President” in question is apparently President Trump.

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And ultimately, McDonald recognizes this low tolerance level as being the result of the masses being controlled by “the elites”. Indeed these same powerful individuals don’t really care for the people. And this is why for instance they saturate popular music with destructive messages. And ultimately, that is the idea that Tom is alluding to with the title of this song. While laymen quarrel over petty issues, at the end of the day, their leaders could care less about their lives.

Release Date of “No Lives Matter”

This is a song which Tom McDonald self-released on 6 November 2020. A few days after this track came out, McDonald celebrated, via his Facebook account, it reaching number one on iTunes.

Did McDonald write this song?

In addition to serving as its lyricist, McDonald also wrote and produced “No Lives Matter”.

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