snackage [he/him] to Main • 4 years agoThere are no living American artists that represent the working classimagemessage-square27 fedilinkarrow-up185file-text
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minus-squareCivility [none/use name]hexbear31·edit-24 years agoI mean Boots Riley and all of the coup stic.man M-1 Noname Immortal Technique (kind of they're a homophobe) and Bambu are all open revolutionary communists and moderately successful artists whose political views are proudly represented in their art. And that's just my hip hop playlist. You have to look for it, for obvious reasons it doesn't get much artificial exposure, but revolutionary art is out there. link
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]hexbear23·edit-24 years agoThey Might be Giants literally have a song called "the Communists Have the Music" and their first live show was at a Sandinista rally in NY. They also did a bunch of songs for Dunkin Donuts and some stuff for CNN, but I guess you gotta make money somehow link
minus-squareFidelCashflow [he/him]hexbear4·4 years ago the Communists Have the Music I feel like I should have known of this song. this is rad link
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]hexbear6·4 years agoFor some reason it isn't included in their list of music videos on Wikipedia. link
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]hexbear18·4 years agoBambu is based as fuck. "You homophobic rappers never change. I'm not threatened by gays. I give them AKs." link
minus-squarerichietozier4 [he/him]hexbear1·4 years ago (kind of they’re a homophobe) what happened? link
I mean
Boots Riley and all of the coup
stic.man
M-1
Noname
Immortal Technique (kind of they're a homophobe)
and Bambu
are all open revolutionary communists and moderately successful artists whose political views are proudly represented in their art.
And that's just my hip hop playlist.
You have to look for it, for obvious reasons it doesn't get much artificial exposure, but revolutionary art is out there.
They Might be Giants literally have a song called "the Communists Have the Music" and their first live show was at a Sandinista rally in NY.
They also did a bunch of songs for Dunkin Donuts and some stuff for CNN, but I guess you gotta make money somehow
I feel like I should have known of this song. this is rad
For some reason it isn't included in their list of music videos on Wikipedia.
Bambu is based as fuck. "You homophobic rappers never change. I'm not threatened by gays. I give them AKs."
what happened?