In meaningless wars so you don’t have to botherĪnd can sit and soak the idiot box, trying to fuck their daughters. Shackle up the hassle by the doom and legend marriage.ĭry as sand, parched, damn, get these men some water. Nah brother, it’s the Year of the Jackal. Trying to weave a web but all I believe in is dead. Let’s display the purpose that these stilts serve. (Hip hop artist The Ruby Kid will be speaking about protest songs with author Dorian Lynskey at Workers’ Liberty’s Ideas for Freedom on 30 June). One perhaps couldn’t imagine chanting “let’s display the purpose that these stilts serve” on a picket line, but I think “we hate the fact that eight hours a day / Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn’t us” would sound pretty powerful shouted across a barricade. The “We the American working population” chant (performed acapella on the recorded track) is a stark, no-frills attack on the shackling effect of work on human creative potential, and contrasts brilliantly with the dense, figurative content of the song’s other verses.Įven in the verses, couplets like “Trying to guard the fortress of a king they’ve never seen or met / But all are trained to murder at the first sign of a threat” brilliantly encapsulate the alienating irrationality of working, and indeed killing, to serve the interests of “a king never seen or met”. While perhaps less accessible than some of hip-hop’s more obvious “protest songs” (Public Enemy’s ‘Fight The Power’ or KRS-One’s ‘Sound of da Police’, for example), this brooding, imagery-heavy piece from Aesop Rock’s seminal album ‘Labor Days’ finds the rapper in his most explicitly “political” register. AWL students (meetings, articles, more).On Guard (Sheffield rail workers) (bulletin).Notts Off the Rails (Nottingham rail workers) (bulletin).
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