Political Rap

[squeegee]

George Bush is an Islamic Fundamentalist (Obviously): The Rub

"...These days on the street you hear all kinds of interesting conspiracy theories cos no-one knows what the fuck's going on, we're all looking for explanations

The most interesting one I heard the other day was that the West was controlled by genuine democracies that actually represent the will of their populations. Only the one about the aliens, the anti-Christ and the Freemasons is more laughable. Ha ha ha ha.

I think my theory is much more plausible, let me tell you about it, it goes like this,

George Bush is an Islamic fundamentalist, obviously.."

 

[EatMoreChips]

The Coup!

Saw them a couple of months ago and they were well smart.

 

[Disjecta Membra]

just adding : looptroop
GFE
nonphixion
orko
euphrates

problem here though is that most underground hip hop is politically orientated somewhat even if they dont mention it specifically so i feel like i could go on for ages.

 

[Plato1983]

I would not listen to rap/hip hop or any of that awful 'urban' music even if I had a gun put to my head.

I have never heard such an awful noise (I in all honesty can not label it music) in my entire life.

 

[Iam]

So why bother posting on a thread which is obviously about it, then, you fucking tit?

 

[Disjecta Membra]

plato listen to some josh martinez, buck 65,old aesop rock , awol one or old haiku d etat stuff (i could go on)and understand that theres a lot more to undergroud hip hop than you may imagine and you really cant say it's noise

 

[ddraig]

I would not listen to rap/hip hop or any of that awful 'urban' music even if I had a gun put to my head.

I have never heard such an awful noise (I in all honesty can not label it music) in my entire life.

oh yes you would

 

[kyser_soze]

"The queen lives in a house like Saddam Hussein's, they're both rich so i guess they're both one and the same"

"They killed lady Di Great Britain, do i have to go into why? Great Britain"

Sorry, I'm supposed to be impressed with this doggerel? I know it can sometimes sound better with the beats but even so...

Maybe I was spoiled being weaned on KRS-1 and PE who wrote REAL ryhmes, but to even have crud like this on the same list is an insult to political hip hop - fucking kiddie ryhmes shit.

 

[Iam]

Stupid bloody software

 

[POTBELLY]

RATM
Asian Dub Foundation
Senser

 

[Divisive Cotton]

There's political US hiphop here that might be of interest.

 

[POTBELLY]

Arrested Development

 

[squeegee]

How about American rapper Paris. Some heavy claims on his last album Sonic Jihad. Woooh, would have some on here out in a cold flush at what he's singing. And he has not the slightest shred of hard evidence to back up his conspiraloon rapping. Just don't say it to his face.

Check the crazee lyrics on Peace Not War website posted earlier.

 

[kyser_soze]

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me
Straight up racist
The sucker was simple and plain
MOTHERFUCK HIM AND JOHN WAYNE

The overseer ride around the plantation
The officer ride around all de nation

I'm black and I'm proud
Irrelevant
I'm black and intelligent.

Now THEM'S political ryhmes.

 

[squeegee]

Anyone mentioned Rage Against The Machine?

"Wake Up

Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements cease
When their heads are flown
'Cause all these punks
Got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, the judges, the feds
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
You know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot"

Angry not just at the Masters of War but at the White Liberal Doctrine of Non-Violence

When's the long-awaited Zack album coming out then?

 

[fishfingerer]

My mate's half-brother's group Advance Patrol, from Malmo.



(His parents had to leg it from Pinochet, hence footage of Chile)

 

[Louloubelle]

Sorry, I'm supposed to be impressed with this doggerel? I know it can sometimes sound better with the beats but even so...

Maybe I was spoiled being weaned on KRS-1 and PE who wrote REAL ryhmes, but to even have crud like this on the same list is an insult to political hip hop - fucking kiddie ryhmes shit.

You might think that

I couldn't possibly comment

 

[Louloubelle]

I would not listen to rap/hip hop or any of that awful 'urban' music even if I had a gun put to my head.

I have never heard such an awful noise (I in all honesty can not label it music) in my entire life.

Mum?

What are you doing here?

 

[Iam]

Mum?

What are you doing here?

 

[linerider]

Extremists are great and a Brixton Crew as well.

Just a quick bump to remind people that The Extremists play at the Jamm in Brixton at a Bolivia benefit on Friday 8th Sept-see Brixton forum for details

 

[northernhord]

Make way for the panther - paris
Anything by Public Enemy

 

[stavros]

There was an interview in the Graniud or the Indie the other day (I forget which) where Ice Cube lambasted the bling culture that he felt was inescapable these days, and how his new thing is more like it.

 

[Iam]

So... he said shit is wack, but not his new shit?

There's a surprise.

 

[Barking_Mad]

As the original poster said, Immortal Technique

4th Branch - Video - http://c2ore.com/archives/?itemid=2041

Superb.

 

[linerider]

Just a quick bump to remind people that The Extremists play at the Jamm in Brixton at a Bolivia benefit on Friday 8th Sept-see Brixton forum for details

The Extremists should be on just before midnight,if the stage manager gets his arse into gear,which I might
And it looks like they have a new album out so it should be good.

 

[Boogie Boy]

'Da American Dream' Dr Fresh

An old track but still worthwhile looking for (and it has been 're-issued' too)

BB

 

[dwattsriot]

Patriotism by Company Flow.....'either purchase my products or your worthless.' Always in my Political Top 10, along with the aforementioned Public Enemy and KRS
Can't be forgetting Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, The Watts Prophets, Jim Ingram's 'Home Brew'. Ya heard.

 

[stavros]

Would I be wrong to suggest Missy Elliot? I know there were female MCs before her but no-one feminised hip-hop and has had the shear degree of power and influence that she holds, both with the mic and behind the mixing desk. She also perhaps allowed the mainstream hip-hop perception of women to move away from the fat-ass-thin-waste stereotype. Oh and she's fucking awesome.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Missy Elliott sucks corporate dick.

 

[Boogie Boy]

Missy Elliott sucks corporate dick.

Or corporate pussy...

BB