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Smaller than hip hop?

This is a reply, of sorts, to an article posted by Ted North of Communist Students in the latest Communist Student paper. Given that that paper is dedicated to more explicitly political interventions in serious areas of controversy in the student Left (and its limitations in terms of space and frequency), I have decided ...

It’s bigger than hip hop

First published in Communist Student no.3 Hip hop and radical politics make unlikely bedfellows these days. Ted North looks at one exception to the rule, the band Dead Prez Mainstream hip hop is dominated by hyper-commercialised sell-outs, whose subject matter revolves around topics as important as who has the biggest diamonds, who has had the most girls ...