For Apple Music’s Freedom Songs, an exclusive collection of covers and originals inspired by Juneteenth, Tobe Nwigwe—raised in Houston, in the state where Juneteenth originated—wrote “Passing Through,” a song that reinforces the place Black people hold in his heart and carries a message of continued resilience. “We all here on a temporary mission, everything on this Earth is temporary,” the MC says. “This is not your ‘forever place.’ I want my people to understand that specifically, just because I don’t want them to think that it’s gon’ be like this forever. It ain’t gon’ be like this forever; soon you gon’ be in paradise. Soon you gon’ be way better off than you are now.”