> I think there's a lot of good left protest music being produced right
> now -- particularly amongst hip-hop artists. When the Legendary K.O.
> put out "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" (
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOu_zIiihPI ) a few days after
> Katrina, I was convinced the best protest song of my generation had
> just been written. I'll play it for my children someday when they ask
> me about what happened in New Orleans. And then you also have Dead
> Prez, whose rhymes can veer towards the overly didactic, but they've
> still been able to flirt with the mainstream (appearing in "Dave
> Chappelle's Block Party," etc.). An exemplary ditty of theirs can be
> heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_19_O6k9g (although the
> video itself is the perfect example of left-nostalgia). There're
> plenty more.
Check out Brad B, the Drunken Immortals, th Insects, and other conscious hip hop coming out of Arizona. Some of the best political hip hop being done today.
Chuck