Request: political rap music
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rec_me_musicCan anyone rec me political rap music?
Some stuff I've liked:
Rage Against the Machine <--- probably my favourite
Ice T / Body Count
Chuck D. / Public Enemy
dan le sac vs. scroobius pip
The Herd (but I find them a little musically fluffy for my tastes)
Listened to but haven't really grabbed me yet (but would welcome recs for particular tracks/albums):
KRS-One
Rakim
I've investigated Zack de la Rocha's side projects and discovered One Day As a Lion, and bought their EP. Here's the video for the single off that, which I really liked:
More along those lines would be amazing!
Some stuff I've liked:
Rage Against the Machine <--- probably my favourite
Ice T / Body Count
Chuck D. / Public Enemy
dan le sac vs. scroobius pip
The Herd (but I find them a little musically fluffy for my tastes)
Listened to but haven't really grabbed me yet (but would welcome recs for particular tracks/albums):
KRS-One
Rakim
I've investigated Zack de la Rocha's side projects and discovered One Day As a Lion, and bought their EP. Here's the video for the single off that, which I really liked:
More along those lines would be amazing!
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Date: 2011-10-02 04:47 am (UTC)Here's a link to "Stand Up" with lyrics.
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Date: 2011-10-02 09:57 pm (UTC)"We Are The Ones": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
"Dig It": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUctLe-
"Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
That should get you started.
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Date: 2011-10-17 01:37 pm (UTC)Ride the Fence
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Date: 2011-10-03 02:12 pm (UTC)She's one of my favorites and entirely political, about both issues in deteriorating industrial cities like Detroit, but also about the Palestine/Isreal conflict.
And K'naan is also amazing. Youtube link: http://youtu.be/QHjgcE4YYsQ
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Date: 2011-10-05 03:19 am (UTC)OKAY, WELL.
Date: 2011-10-04 01:33 pm (UTC)There are a few UK artists who currently come to mind. This isn't necessarily the ones who are the best, or a good overview of the UK scene or anything, just a random assortment of artists who are vaguely political. I'm going to link to one video each (not necessarily their best track - it depends what's on youtube, and for some of them I just have ridiculous fondness for a certain track), but I have more recs for a lot of them if you want to follow up.
I originally had this divided into 'particularly politically conscious' and 'personal-is-political', but actually I don't want to make that decision. Soooo, not everyone who's linked here has a massive back catalogue of politcal stuff, but they've all got a certain amount of consciousness, either globally or within the UK.
Lowkey (basically everything he's doing recently is political, he's a Big Deal in the political hip-hop scene in the UK), Logic, Akala, Cyclonious, Rewd Adams, Rodney P, Cash, Lioness (crappy version, and this is definitely a personal-is-political issue, she doesn't have much political stuff, but women making music in the UK rap scene is a pretty political act to begin with - if you want, I have a couple more recs of UK women), JME (just to have some grime representation, he's another very personal-is-political and his inclusion on this list is VERY tenuous - I can argue for it, a little bit, on the basis of his conscious rejection of some of the more destructive aspects of the grime scene, his pride in his university education, and his focus on the mechanics of music-making), Skinnyman (LEGENDARY), Klashnekoff ('I don't rep postcodes cah I don't own dirt' ♥__♥).
I WILL STOP NOW, before I start linking to Scottish rappers with the justification that it's political because they're Scottish or something, or just chucking down EVERYONE I HAVE EVER LIKED without any political justification at all.
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Date: 2011-10-05 03:33 am (UTC)And I apologise if I've steered you wrong on any of them. :D
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Date: 2011-10-07 07:06 pm (UTC)I'd say that Immortal Technique was my top tip out of those if you like the old school stuff.