Category: el-p

+ before they called you white, brother ali, el-p, keri leigh merritt, killer mike, killers of the dream

Divide and Conquer: Part II

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Last post, I started writing about the ways that the wealthy work to divide and conquer by stoking false fears and false hopes in those below them, separating individuals from one another. Keri Leigh Merritt details how this game plan worked during the Antebellum period, and after Emancipation and the Civil War, she notes that while land access opened to poor whites, most of … Read More Divide and Conquer: Part II

+ " ferguson, "early, baltimore, el-p, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, michael brown, run the jewels

Run the Jewels’s "Early"

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Recently, I came across Run The Jewels’s song “Early.” The song provides a commentary on the current state of affairs regarding incidents such as those that occured in Ferguson and Baltimore. Consisting of legendary independent hip-hop artists Killer Mike and El-P, the group confronts the superstructure that led to events like the ones mentioned above. “Early” shows the discrepancies in regards to how society … Read More Run the Jewels’s "Early"

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