Rap and the Regime
You stand naked and it’s so cold/ Daily rounds of torturing, hanging, shocking with electricity Abu-Hajar wrote these lyrics on the first few nights of his imprisonment in Tartarus prison, West Syria. Arrested for spreading political pamphlets and singing an anti-regime song on the streets of his
Rapping about the MoMa
In Watch the Throne Jay-Z and Kanye West appropriate high culture and their music becomes more pro-establishment.
