My all time favorite is Lowkey, an iraqi rapper living in the UK http://www.myspace.com/lowkeyuk his myspace has a nice message :P written in all caps. my favorite song: Wake up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjE93dijxU (title is self explanatory) But really, every song by him has a deep message and deep feelings. Right after him, as one of the ultimate revolutionary artists is, of course Immortal Technique, I like this the most http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3gB-qY2bQ but like Lowkey every single song is awesome And both together make the ultimate mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1jaT...eature=related And these are the ones I don't really know but I still found awesome songs by them: DAM(palestinian group of 3 people, dam is the arabic word for "blood", or DAM could be "Da Arabic MCs" too) Who's the terrorist?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbDi...eature=related It's in arabic but you can find the lyrics on google, they are really deep
The Coup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQthFDpYCys Dead Prez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_UdWo4Zek Public Enemy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfdorRfThIE Paris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJqzEVKwoU Ice Cube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TeTowu5gCg
molotov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmY9Wlxx0o keny arkana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8txhtB2e5M tote king http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZUEH6a5Qss&translated=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP3YsfwJ1nE i hate rap why did i join htis
because i paid you
I`m probably the only one here old enough to remember them but there was a pretty wicked anarchist group, in the early 90s, called The Goats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv5sR...eature=related One of the MCs is wearing a Stiff Little Fingers T. Too cool.
K'naan are freaking awesome. so are folbots and dead prez has to be one of the best
DAM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIo6lyP9tTE
I like all of the rappers mentioned so far, but I would like to add: Zack de la Rocha, KRS-One, and Last Emperor in CIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhqfijdOIuE
Some good Immortal Technique shit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnD-3MNShYM
Okay, I will admit I grew up listening to rap on mtv, then got into punk/hardcore scene, but I still have always loved Dead Prez & Public Enemy. Recommend me anything and everything I'm looking to get some raw shit to bump.
Downsyde - Lesfortunate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL__p4E_e7A
the coup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsUDGxdeICw&feature=fvw Immortal technique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3gB-qY2bQ KRS1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDVs8ixHnUg
I'm quite a fan of french hiphop, keny arkana was already named, but I'll add some, singe des rues (monkeys of the streets) http://www.myspace.com/singedesrues Microglycerime http://www.microglycerime.be/ Starflam isn't really revolutionary, but they're quite leftwing and really good http://www.starflam.com/FR/INDEX/
Immortal Technique is all horrible and macho, sexist and homophobic. Dead Prez is cool - Police State is his best. Anarchist rapper Comrade Malone's quite good, and his album's a free download! So search for him. Manage is a hip-hop guy from London, friends with Comrade Malone, and good too (though can be sexist) Agree with the original post - Lowkey is very good. And his collaborater - Logic. Foreign Beggars aren't revolutionary, and can be awful (sexist, homophobic, etc.) but listen to Frosted Perspeks - it's amazing and politically radical. A lot of underground UK rappers (Jehst, Dr Syntax, Skinnyman, etc.) have some good political messages and it isn't all about guns, bling and stuff - unlike north american stuff on the whole.
Naj One (AKA Foeknawledge) is good. His music is kinda hard to find though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4OI0...eature=related
Pizko mc: http://www.myspace.com/pizkomc Franco-Chilean militant rap, I'm going to see him in two weeks
I agree with the many posters about: Dead Prez, The Coup, LowKey, K'naan. I'd like to recomend: The Flobots (These guys are my heroes/inspiration. I've seen them live twice. Listen to any song. Srsly) http://www.myspace.com/flobots The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy http://www.myspace.com/thedisposableheroesofhiphoprisy Mongrel (Lowkeys side project)("The Menace" is an awesome song) http://www.myspace.com/wearemongrel Prayers For Atheists (a rap punk collaboration) http://www.myspace.com/prayersforatheists
Lowkey Immortal Technique (putting aside his misogynistic and homophobic lyrics) Diabolic Mos Def KRS-One old Dead Prez Wu Tang
Immortal Technique Talib Kweli Public Enemy Nas (my all-time favorite rapper) Wu-Tang A Tribe Called Quest Mos Def Dead Prez The Roots
forgetting tupac
The Coup, Bambu, Blue Scholars, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique
Talib Mos Def Nas Babylon Warchild The Left Dead Prez The Coup oh, and the Rubberbandits for a laugh.
Aesop Rock Immortal Technique all of the Demigodz Brother Ali Beltaine's Fire Canibus
Talib Kweli The Coup Dead Prez Comrade Malone Street Sweeper Social Club (Though it's rap rock... but it has Tom Morello from RATM and Boots from the Coup!)
immortal technique Rage against the machine Jedi mind tricks diabolic
