Zappa is a musical genius, I try not to engage with his politics or opinions outside of his music though. I think he settled on libertarianism, like a lot of Americans do, because it really feeds into his elitist mindset and seems appealing if you have little historical or political education (just focus on yourself and the people you care about, the rest is too complicated, they'll figure it out on their own and if they don't well that's their fault). That said, being a musician and working with people from all kinds of backgrounds and seeing how musicians are regularly screwed over by the record/radio companies pretty much uniformly makes me believe he would be better politically if he were around today. It's also easy for me to see him being incredibly transphobic under the guide of never censoring himself.

Either way, regardless of what you think of him personally, he helped introduce George Duke to the world - which in turn blessed us with Thundercat today. I'm just gonna link a few of my favorite tracks, but I recommend checking out the new remasters they have been releasing lately, especially the remastered Roxy & Elsewhere record called The Roxy Performances.

Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

Zomby Woof

The Torture Never Stops

Muffin Man

Uncle Remus (written by George Duke)