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Review Of Heems's (of Das Racist) Mixtape "Nehru Jackets" by B Michael Payne
My favorite quote from this review:
A lot was made of the Occupy movement’s interactions with police — whether through mass arrests or abuse of non-lethal weapons like pepper spray. “NYC Cops”, ostensibly a cover of The Strokes’s song, calmly condenses about twenty instances of the police murdering various people of color with gross impunity and little justice. It’s four minutes of unceasing invective against the institutional racism that runs rampant over millions of the city’s residents. And it’s a virtually unheard counterpoint to the city’s Occupy movement, where white people have the privilege of choosing to get arrested so they can write about it in the New Yorker.
But politics aside (though it would be missing the point to try and depoliticize Das Racist) this mixtape is dope. Read the review. Get the tape.
(Source: bmichael)
