Chas Walker Chas Walker catches dead prez making the noose to hang capitalism. Too often it mimics the decadence, privilege, and ignorance of upper-class life in a highly stratified society. As an ad on the NY subway lets me know, even the Cleavers, the quintessential whitebread family, is gettin' jiggy with it.
Stage Left Enter dead prez, stage left.
Let's Get Free , as the powers that be at Loud Records slapped a huge sticker over the cover photo of youths in Soweto, guns held high, celebrating a victory over police. Thankfully, the album's lyrical and musical content remain intact. It is not the voice of African or Latino or oppressed youth. It is a puppet voice for the ruling class, that tells us to act like those people who are oppressing us. The schools, the media, capitalism, and colonialism are totally responsible for what hip-hop is and what it has become.