Monday, March 26, 2012

Do rap and hip hop popular performers serve the One Percent?

This morning I was switched on my radio while in my car to a radio station that plays top ten selections.  This time there was a current hip hop song playing.  I listened to the lyrics and they concerned the usual:  abusive references to women, drugs, and money.  Hip hop and rap have long since ceased to be a Post-Modern critical vehicle of the ills of  post-industrial urban life  and the plutocracy, but one that encourages uber-consumerism and the opiates of sex and drugs. Religion is not the opiate of the masses now. It has been substituted by the plutocracy with the basal desires of humans and has elevated them to the status of a religion.  The One Percent never allows anything that would lead to a disintegration of their control.  They own the majority of media and therefore have co-opted performers to serve their needs.  However, as with anything which is presumed to absolute, chaotic elements emerge to upset them.   As the Occupy Movement grows, there will be an opposing group of musicians, writers, actors and artists what will soon come to the forefront to bring the message to the general public, despite all that can be imposed by the One Percent.

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