BONUS: Real Ultraleft Gangsta Rap Kritik Hours w/ David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

D-Rock and J-Bone are back to join us in a reading of the ICC's classic essay about gangsta rap and Eminem: https://en.internationalism.org/wr/242_eminem.htm

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Song: Eminem - President Mathers

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0:00.0	The best hip hop is eloquently intelligent, lyrical, satirical.
0:05.6	Oh, he's kind of rhyming here too.
0:07.6	Even politically critical.
0:09.7	A worthy offspring of blues, jazz, and soul.
0:14.3	This is a real head here.
0:15.6	This is a music head.
0:16.8	This could be in pitchfork, but it's in international.com.
0:19.7	It might have been, like, cross-posted in pitchfork.
0:22.6	But the hip-hop scene has long been dominated by gangster rap.
0:27.1	And gangsta ideology is one of the...
0:30.0	Spelled how.
0:30.6	My friend.
0:31.1	Yeah.
0:32.1	Spelled correctly.
0:33.0	That's how you know it's a connoisseur.
0:36.0	It would be hilarious of they're writing gangster rap.
0:39.0	Gangster rap.
0:41.2	And gangsta ideology is one of the many ways through which capitalism exerts its control over the exploited and the oppressed.
0:49.4	Okay.
0:50.2	Well, let's get in.
0:50.8	This is the next paragraph is about that.
0:52.1	If you want to read that, Sean.
	...

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