{"id":17683,"date":"2018-09-12T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:09:41","slug":"capturing-the-political-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/09\/12\/capturing-the-political-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"capturing the political moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now I’m just a white guy with not much interest in hip hop or rap, but I do have one observation to make here… Apparently taking exception to has been Eminem versus whomever MGK<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Rap beefs are, as a rule, bad. The name is corny to write and even cornier to say out loud. Compared to feuds\u00c2\u00a0that shaped the genre \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac\u00c2\u00a0representing their East and West coast factions of rap,\u00c2\u00a0Jay-Z\u00c2\u00a0and Nas\u00c2\u00a0warring\u00c2\u00a0to be the king of New York,\u00c2\u00a0Kanye West\u00c2\u00a0and 50 Cent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0album sales face-off\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c rap beefs landing in the headlines lately are more often petty and inconsequential. […]<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s apparently the state of hip-hop drama in 2018 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c fully-grown men accusing one another of suspect ear piercings.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If someone were forcing me to have to pick sides and have a choice in which battle I’d be forced to pick sides in, I’d go with a tie for first place on JAy-Z and Nas and Kanye West and 50 Cent and Eminem and MGK… before I’d chose a side on the big battle between BIGGIE and 2Pac…<\/p>\n

Consequential as that one is…<\/p>\n

Something about a wanton murder turns me off from “picking sides” on aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, The Nation covers the latest waves and the politics of the new taking over the old<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Rico Nasty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest album,\u00c2\u00a0Nasty, dropped in mid-June, and it is nothing short of a declaration that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for the existing order to be upended. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bitch I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m charged up!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nasty yells in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bitch I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Nasty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/em><\/p>\n

Bitches wanna beef, get you burnt up, I am the best, bar none<\/em>
\nAnd I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m screamin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fuck Trump! Black girls, stand up!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\nBitch I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m nasty, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give a fuck like, what is classy?<\/em>
\nSmokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on cat pee and my voice is raspy<\/em>
\nI know these hoes can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand me […]<\/em><\/p>\n

Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay?\u00c2\u00a0 The article goes on to diss Kanye West, who we knew would be undone by his odd comments favoring Trump.<\/p>\n

But nonetheless.\u00c2\u00a0 Behold.\u00c2\u00a0 The new political voice of the generation.\u00c2\u00a0 And reading\u00c2\u00a0the lyrics it I’m reminded of something…<\/p>\n

you know… if that’s speaking to the current Trump administration… it occurs to me that not enough has been said about how Akinyele’s song “Put it In Your Mouth” succinctly summed up the second term of the Clinton Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now I’m just a white guy with not much interest in hip hop or rap, but I do have one observation to make here… Apparently taking exception to has been Eminem versus whomever MGK… Rap beefs are, as a rule, bad. The name is corny to write and even cornier to say out loud. Compared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}