Print It was a story Randy Savvy had heard countless times before: Another Black man had been killed in Compton. Hearts and lives were shattered. A community grieved. In early 2020, Savvy, born Randall Hook, learned that a friend’s boyfriend was fatally wounded by gunfire on his way to a store. Savvy, 31, understood her grief. He’s lost loved ones to gang violence too. He wrote “Colorblind,” his first single, in response. Advertisement “That song came from a really inspired place of thinking about the life that we live in inner cities, how we lose lives and how it just seems to be ...