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Hear EarthGang’s OLU cover Marvin Gaye classic ‘What’s Going On’

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EarthGang‘s OLU has posted a cover of Marvin Gaye‘s 1971 hit ‘What’s Going On’ – check it out below.The musician explained that he shared his rendition of Gaye’s plea for peace track after repeated viewings of Spike Lee’s Vietnam veteran war film Da 5 Bloods.Dedicating the song to his father, OLU wrote in an op-ed accompanying the rendition for DJ Booth that he hopes “greed and hate die”, in an apparent reference to the divisions Gaye sang about in his anti-war song from the ’70s.“I hope that greed and hate die; they’re diseases,” OLU wrote in part of the op-ed. “They run rampant across the globe, causing untold hardship for the human race and mother nature.

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