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Monday, Apr 25
Lotsa MCs like to get on the mic and brag and boast, talk shit about how they they baddest, they the pimpest, they the hardest. I heard it all before, man. To me, rap is a voice for innovation, for resistance to the mainstream, and for protest. That is why I get so excited when I hear MCs get down to the real nitty gritty. Here's a few lines from an underground track from legendary MC Immortal Technique, on a track title'd Bin Laden, Part 2:
I pledge no allegiance
F--- the president's speeches
What the industry did to 'Pac, they did to Jesus ...
Calling abortion 'murder' in a hospital building
But don't give a f--- about bombing Iraqi children
The lines ring true. They are brutal. That is real hip hop.
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