It's always good to see hip-hop artists return to the genre's roots of political enlightenment. Jasiri X, a local MC from my town (Pittsburgh) put thought to pen, pen to page, and page to mic in scripting this track, an ode to Tim Wise's essay "Imagine if the Tea Party was Black".From the video's YouTube page:
A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black " which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now, a Pittsburgh rapper is accepting his challenge in true Hip Hop form. Jasiri X has released a video called "What if the Tea Party was Black." The Hip Hop artist says that he got the idea when Paradise,a member of the pro-black rap group X-Clan, forwarded him a copy of Wise's article. "I saw the article and I liked the concept," says the rapper. So Jasiri hit the studio with producer Cynik Lethal while Paradise grabbed his video camera and they went on their mission to defeat the Right Wing propaganda machine.
Jasiri X's Myspace page
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