"With a few notable exceptions, rappers have been conspicuously absent in the response to the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island. The Internets want to know why.
Back in 1970, CSNY’s protest anthem “Ohio”
was on the radio within a few weeks of the massacre at Kent State—and
that was in 1970. Those records had to be pressed up on vinyl and
delivered to radio stations by actual human beings.
Theoretically,
a rapper could have issued a response to #Ferguson, say, the same
afternoon Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown dead in the street, or the same
evening a grand jury decided he shouldn’t be charged with a crime. We
have the technology.
Chuck
D, who once called hip-hop the black CNN, in what’s since become one of
the most shopworn cliches in the history of hip-hop journalism, often
touted the Internets’ potential in this regard."
read the rest here (goes through various hip hop artists involved in this issue)
Immortal Technique comments on this as well, which I've posted here
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