Keep It In The Family

About Keep It In The Family

According to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, this song is about the Yusef Hawkins shooting in Brooklyn. Hawkins was a 16-year-old African American youth who was shot to death on August 23, 1989 in Bensonhurst, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Hawkins and three friends were attacked by a crowd of 10 to 30 white youths, with at least seven of them wielding baseball bats. One, armed with a handgun, shot Hawkins twice in the chest, killing him. .

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About this song

Credited to

Anthrax

Album

Persistence Of Time (30th Anniversary Remaster) · Track 3 of 11

Released

August 21, 1990

Duration

7:08

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104,988 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Persistence Of Time (30th Anniversary Remaster)