political hiphop...

I know that many of you guys listen to hiphop so I thought you could help me.

I'm writing my MA work on music and politics (mainly hiphop and punk) and I'm looking for some artists/songs that deal with politics, especially G.W.Bush.

So If you know any such tracks I'd appreciate your suggestions

check out "The Coup", latest album is called "Pick a bigger weapon". it fits ur description perfectly, plus its really awesome music (the earlier albums are of course also very political, I just mentioned the last one specifically to make it easier for u to search for that band).
boots rieley (of "the coup") has also just started a band with tom morello called "street sweeper social club", since boots is considered one of the most political rappers I assume their new album also has some interesting content, i haven't listened to it yet though. but "the coup" is the band u definitely want to check out!

actually i think it's pretty hard to find any hip-hop album these days that doesn't have some sort of political slant or at least a few tracks that are politically focused. it has become almost trendy to tackle politics in music (some artists wouldn't even know what they were on about - 50cent etc?) - anyway you'll probably talk about this in your thesis.

The most prominent one for me is definitely: THE ROOTS. they are massively political (not to mention just plain awesome). check there albums: game theory, rising down, and to be released later this month: how i got over - which i'm sure will be discussing the after effects of the bush administration.


also of note:

NAS

Lupe Fiasco

KRS-one

Everlast - his most recent album was released during bush admin and the first track is entitled "kill the emperor"

Aussie Hip-Hop based 'The Herd' - almost 100% political. dealt with john howard in the same ways a lot of artists dealt with bush.

(hed) pe is a good one. You should check those guys out.

hed_2012 wrote:

(hed) pe is a good one. You should check those guys out.

yeah, in fact they're the reason I've chosen this topic.

thanx for all the suggestions, I'll check them out

Immortal Technique is also extremely political.
Revolutionary vol. 2 and The 3rd World are both great CD's.

this is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRvFzPkFUm0

fuck man immortal technique sis dope. cheers ha.

that's cool, thanx

I'm getting to like this topic even more as I discover all these artists

This one is awesome, even the title fits

what language do you write ur ma-thesis in? if its english i'd be very interested in reading it when its done!

(anonymous) wrote:

that's cool, thanx

I'm getting to like this topic even more as I discover all these artists

This one is awesome, even the title fits

Fuck the government is a remix of the song with witch I got to know him: Bin Laden
And I also love how he puts two Eminem samples at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_xXWSXyFI

i.never.run wrote:

what language do you write ur ma-thesis in? if its english i'd be very interested in reading it when its done!

yeah i wouldn't mind having a look also.. nice topic choice.

Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUSgXBbnwO4 (a lot of his stuff is gifhly political, this one quates Bush)

Common, The Roots have lots of political songs.

yeah, I'm writing it in English, after all it's Amerikan studies, we have all subjects in English.

so there's no problem to put it here when it's done

and if you're interested, I've just read a really good book about hiphop origins and politics:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0700616519/nchiphoponlin-20