There’s something to be said for a bit of righteous anger in the name of the oppressed and unfortunate. They make up the better part of the world, and by better I mean larger. Poverty is a fucking bitch. Even a taste of it can be a nightmare, but try to imagine living in an inescapable world of it, your national borders a solid wall keeping your people’s suffering from leaking out into the world of possibility. Feelign a little bit of righteous anger yet? Well, some fairly fucking englightened hip-hop artists are.
The 3rd World is a 2008 release from hip-hop activist Immortal Technique and Shady Records’ former beat machine DJ Green Lantern, among others. Okay, so they’ve made an album that speaks to the troubles of the people forced to the bottom of the economic food chain. Big deal, right? Bleeding hearts do this shit all the time!
Wrong. Bullshit. Shut the fuck up.
This isn’t just activist artistry bullshit. This is hip-hop at its finest. This is top-notch production, it’s flows like commercial rap dreams of, it’s oral sex for your ears, and its fucking intelligent. Don’t believe me?
Click the link, motherfucker. If you’re gonna crank some badass fucking hip-hop, you might as well get smart doing it.
http://www.myspace.com/immortaltechnique
Shit, maybe you don’t give a damn about the Third World. You’ve got your own shit to worry about, I know. But unless you’re one of the 0.001% of people pulling the world’s strings (or setting the retarded multiple choice bullshit that changes nothing for us when we vote), you’re part of the powerless majority and your wealth, your happiness, is all disposable to people who have the real power, the real wealth, and the ability to take it all away from you. Power is still shifting from the many to the few, and doing it faster every time you turn your back. Give it a couple more decades, unchecked. I fucking dare you.
