Tag: Revenge

This album feels unreal in how brave it is. This motherfucker is really out here talking this hardcore of revolutionary shit I can still hardly believe it even after listening so intently to it all. “They fucked the slums so hard they gave birth to a resistance….” Carrying Dead Prez’ torch on here, telling folks in the hood to redirect their anger (& traumatized destructive expressions of it) at the system that oppresses them rather than their neighbors who might disrespect them. Hip Hop needed this album, bringing back that Panther energy. Please listen, it will blow your mind. ♥Neonn

“KXNG Crooked dropped a new album titled Good Vs. Evil, his third project of 2016. The LP sees Crooked donning the persona of a superhero from an alternate reality. In this universe, lower class citizens use violence to fight back against oppression.

“It all started when I was watching a news segment on the murders of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland and all the other black people killed by Police” Crooked said. “I saw Tamir Rice’s mother on TV and the pain in her eyes made my blood pressure boil. No mother should lose a child like that. Then, I watched cops kill unarmed people on film and go home to their families like black lives didn’t matter. No charges and with paid leave. At the same time, I watched officers capture Dylan Roof alive and buy him a hamburger after he slaughtered nine black churchgoers. I thought to myself, are we under attack as black people to the point where I might have to shoot an officer just to survive a mere traffic stop? I thought, how crazy is it that we even have to think about in America (in 2016)?  Then I thought, how ill would it be to have a black superhero (that other black children can look up to; the same way we do Marvel characters) to tackle and these issues.” [XXL]

Brilliant film, I see why it won Best Picture. It depicts a small town going berzerk over this mother’s attempt to get justice for her dead daughter. It suggests the utility of a biometric genomic database gathered from every single person, rather than just people who already got caught for prior crime. It made me wonder about the recidivism rate, and how maybe it’s so high relative to the crime rate in part because the cops only have the DNA of convicted criminals! So rapists & murderers who haven’t gotten caught can go on comitting their crimes with impunity! Anyways, utopia is the opposite of a police state, but it is also a place where rape & murder don’t happen. This is indeed a paradox, but utopian ideation is supposed to challenge our thinking, to stoke us to imagine how such circumstances might be possible. Sometimes illuminating a dystopian present can give way to a utopian future. ♥ Neonn