Comment on Where are the good political songs?

Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shots fired by Matt is also great. Oh, can’t forget “what you will”.

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• fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is great! :D

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  • kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try Immortal Technique.

    • Dance with the Devil
    • Impeach the President
    • The 4th Branch

    And many more

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of rap is political/social, for more mainstream stuff you’ve got songs like ‘This Is America’ by Childish Gambino, ‘Reagan’ by Killer Mike, or even ‘Fuck the Police’ by N.W.A.

    You’ve got even more leftist groups/rappers like ‘The Coup’, RATM/Public Enemy supergroup ‘Prophets of Rage’, hardcore shit like ‘Immortal Techniques’ or ‘Non Phixon’, ‘Dead Prez’, ‘Nas’, ‘The Fugees’, etc.

    There’s also more tankie shit but I’m not gonna promote that authoritarian garbage.

    It’s almost harder to find non-political rap than it is political rap when you start breaking down the messages of many songs.

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    • fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks! Childish Gambino - is a great example!

      I didn’t know some of these, so I’ll check them out, but they aren’t exactly new - the rest are from the ninties, right?

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      • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I tried mixing it up, it’s probably more early 2000-2010s for the majority. I kinda lost interest in a lot of rap after that whole trap phase started.

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  • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reagan by Killer Mike. Samples shit Reagan said

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On the Hip Hop note I would say Run The Jewels have some amazing lyrical content in their songs about the state of things

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