Open your ears to the sounds of revolution

In these times I often find that most of the music that is popular and listened to by our youth, hold little social meaning and coerces the mind into a state of submission, consumption, and acquiescence. Turn on the radio station and you will find this to particularly true in the case of Hip-Hop music, the music is saturated with messages devoid of value to the larger society. Songs are often about the glorification of money, the commodification of women, promiscuity,  violence, and just downright ignorance. I admit, not all of these songs and artists do not reflect the entirety of music, but they are the most popular and has led to an imbalance within the music world.

Long gone are the days where radio was a way spreading revolutionary sounds, and I am speaking particularly to Hip-Hop, instead today we are submerged in music devoid of progressiveness, change, positivity, and revolution. At a time like now, where there are 'occupations' occurring world wide and there is a scent of revolution in the air, our music should reflect that, if it is truthful.

Here I will provide my readers with revolutionary sounds from Hip-Hop, R&B, and any other genre I come across. Criticism of the world we live in will be exhibited here through the musical lens and analysis of such will follow. Our youth are being brainwashed with sounds that stultify the mind and soul.

With that said...I give you The Last Poets.