What is the title of Stevie Wonder’s 1973 song about city life and racial inequality?

Stevie Wonder’s 1973 song about city life and racial inequality is “Living for the City.”

The song appears on Innervisions and follows a Black family from Mississippi whose son moves to a city while facing poverty, discrimination, and imprisonment. Wonder wrote and produced the track, played the instruments, and performed the spoken dialogue that intensifies its narrative.

“Living for the City” became one of Wonder’s most acclaimed socially conscious recordings. It won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1974 and has been praised for combining a dramatic story with electronic keyboard textures. It is distinct from “Village Ghetto Land,” another Innervisions track that presents social criticism through a more compact, orchestral arrangement.