Even Deportation couldn’t stop him: 6 Ways Bucky Raw Changed Liberia’s 🇱🇷 Music Forever.

April 2018 was a dark day for Raw. He was arrested and returned to his native Liberia, a country he never knew. Raw was deported due to Trump’s war on immigrants, and unexpectedly when he violated the terms of his parole. There, in Liberia, he would face his biggest fear, “how to use his music as a voice for the voiceless.” And being that the country has been ravaged by fifteen years of pointless civil wars, the music industry was not of its age. Africa’s oldest Republic, Liberia stood still, on everything artistic.

It has been a year and some months, after his Deportation, Bucky Raw endures as one of Liberia’s most influential figures and its most potent enigma. At age nine through his adulthood, his life in America was a tapestry of often conflicting images: the Liberian child that was at the time bothered by the realities of his country. In Southwest Philly (Philadelphia), he couldn’t escape the realities of the streets that created a new voice that will later come to change the Liberian Music Industry forever.