You may have seen the teaser video for “Us Placers.” The first single of rap supergroup, CRS (Child Rebel Soldier), made up of power playas Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams. Set over an instrumental sample of Thom Yorke’s Eraser, it’s a song about some of the issues affecting our world and the rap world today. Like the perils of fame, global warming, and the dumbing down of media. All important issues. Yet, it fails to give any shouts to the Child Rebel Soldiers of the world.

At the party next week, we’ll be raising money for VECSCAOL (The Veteran Child - Soldiers Association of Liberia). It’s an org that operates from Buduburam, Ghana helping to educate child solders and children refugees who have fled the civil war from Liberia. Some of these child soldiers are forced into battle as early as age 9. But they are strong-willed, having faced more hardship and suffering in youth than most of us will experience in a lifetime. So goes the song:

“The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear…”

“US Placers” is only the first song from CRS. We’re hoping they’re planning to focus some of that immense talent to the plight of the Child Rebel Soldiers.