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From beats to ballots: What political rap lyrics tell us | Music

What role did the hip hop played in the activity?

Since the 1980s, hip -hop music has mainly enabled marginalized sounds from moving to the main current.

The Girl (Cocaine), released by your life, explores very short in 1985, the brave reality of a woman in the street culture, examined her daily struggles, difficult decisions, and inevitable arrangements for her chosen lifestyle.

Since the age of thirteen what I saw
Lot of straight base heads coke
Snoring, swelling, this is life
But it ended when you press this tube

“we [the Black community in America] These novels were obtained from the first perspective of the votes that were not in the main current. The unjust sounds were speaking through the rap. “Instead of riots, they now had a platform to express themselves,” said Arnold.

In 1987, the general enemy of the New York Rap Group, known for increasing political issues, manipulating the media, and regular racism in their words, their first album, YO! Boom accelerates the show. The later album of the group, it takes the nation of millions to our contract (1988), its legacy was created in both musical achievement and social advocacy.

In Kompton, California, NWA (Niggaz with Position) edition F ** K The Police, which appeared in her album in 1988 Straight Outta Compton, dealt with the regular issues of brutality and racist recommendations.

And-K Police Police directly from under the ground
The young Niga got it badly. “I am brown
And not the other color until the police think
They have a minority killing authority

The lyrics of the songs have sparked widespread anger among the conservatives, and its climax at the FBI amounted to an official letter from the condemnation to the NWA record in relation to the enforcement of the song enforcement of the song.

Arnold said that the non -political rapper began to integrate political messages into their songs, which indicates the extent to which the deep political discourse was exposed to the hip -hop culture. This influence was so widespread that artists who did not have a clear ideological position found themselves involved with political issues.

“There are only a few artists and collections of political ideologies. Everything else is an accidental political comment,” said Arnold. “With regard to political ideology, you have a general enemy, Paris, the coup, and perhaps Boogie Download, in the late 1980s, in the early 1990s. In the early first decade of the twentieth century, you have Prez dead, moreover, moreover, you have ice cubes to develop political awareness that is evident from its first and second albums, but then abandon the background on the background on Albums then. “

What are the main incidents that inspired the political hip -hop words?

One of them was 1991 for the four -year -old Los Angeles police officers who were filmed in the video, hitting Rodney King, a black man. The referee led to six -day riots in Los Angeles, which led to more than 60 deaths, 12,000 arrests, and about one billion dollars in property damage. The accident inspired the Ice Cube to write the song that we had to tear this Mothaf ** Up, which was released in his album in 1992, The Predator:

Not guilty, the dirty demons tried to kill me
When the news reaches the hood
More hotter than Cayenne pepper, zucchini, bust
Dust kick is a must

His former colleague NWA RAP, Dr. Duri, released in response to Riots La Riots in his 1992 album The Cornic, the day he took NIG ** AZ:

I am not out of peace and my head is not like King
De Gun Goes Click, Mi Gun Goes Bang
RIOT in Compton and Dem Riot in Long Beach
RIOT in lans dem I don’t really want to see
Niggas begins to loot and the police start shooting

The first line clearly rejects the calls of peace and expresses the frustration of black society. King himself took a more reconciliation tone during a press conference on May 1, 1992, during riots. Hoping that the violence will be suppressed, the famous said: “Can we not all coexist?”

Arnold said: “The police brutality is a subject. It is not just one thing, it is not only: Oh, Rodney King was beaten. All of these people were beaten. They are still beaten. It has not ended in 1992.”

Another incident that inspired the deadly shooting of Tayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a watching volunteer in the neighborhood in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012. The following year, Zimmerman was acquitted.

The shooting sparked national anger, raised intensive discussions on racial stereotypes, weapons control legislation, and the controversial “stand” in Florida.

Rabb Hop singer, who co -founded the independent Big Gates records, released Tayvon in 2012, promoting Tayvon Martin, which Tayvon’s parents started with the aim of increasing awareness of armed violence.

I never thought about not wearing Hodi, it could cost you your life
I never thought that you could kill someone and go out on the same night. (On the same night)
Every dog ​​sees this bark, does not mean that it bites
And everything is black not even, everything is pure not white

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In 2014, 17 -year -old Lacan McDonald was wounded by the deadly shot by Chicago Jason van Dyck. Dash-Cam police footage later appeared, and revealed that McDonald was walking away from Van Dyck when the officer fired 16 shots at the teenager. The blocking of these video evidence sparked huge demonstrations and a public screaming.

Two years after the accident, the rapper Vic Minsa released 16 shots:

He never had the opportunity, and we all know that he is black
He shot sixteen times, how is this?
Now, the police manager wants to double the back
Police officers are accelerating the mass like the background

Officer Van Dyck was convicted of a second -degree murder and 16 strict battery charges in 2018, but it was issued in 2022 after spending three years of his punishment.

In 2015, Sandra Blander, an American woman of 28 years old, was withdrawn by law enforcement in Prairi Vio, Texas. What started as a routine traffic situation for his failure to refer to a rapid change of the corridor in a confrontation that led to her arrest on charges of attacking a police officer.

Three days later, officials discovered her marginal body in her cell in Waller County Prison. Although the authorities decided that they had died by suicide through hanging, her death would cause national controversy.

Over the years, many artists have written protest songs about the accident, including American singer Janel Monay, with her name in 2015, a 17 -minute song that recounts the names of black women who lost their lives due to racial violence or in confrontations with law enforcement.

Rapper Joinner Lucas wrote in Satan’s work in 2019:

There is no justice of Sandra Blander, we are like a ceiling fan
O Lord, if you listen, I just look at a hand
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2025-03-30 09:59:00

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