Heres a couple of epically untalented rappers from Africa embarrassing themselves with an incoherent ode to authoritarian nudnik Vladimir Putin. They originally came to Moscow to study medicine in 2001 so they should know from personal experience that street violence against people of color and other minorities is par for the course in Putins Russia. And more often than not state sanctioned. Putin clearly regards rap as an expression of western decadence tainted by association with allegedly inferior races much like his 1930s prototype Adolph Hitler who dismissed jazz on similar grounds. Degenerate art was the official label back then. You have to assume the A.M.G. guys realize just how precarious their position really is and merely attempt to cash in on the current wave of amorphously inchoate Russian nationalism. For the moment theyre being tolerated as useful court jesters with a certain propaganda value but their longterm prospects cant be good under the Putin crackdown on diversity and modernity. They kind of remind me of the Nashville-based Right Brothers hilariously incompetent 2006 anthem Bush Was Right which expressed support for the invasion of Iraq to a background of generic garage band rock. Apart from their reactionary politics the Right Brothers had nothing whatsoever going on so not all the manufactured enthusiasm on Fox News of finally having a foothold in pop culture was able to keep them in business. According to their Wiki page as of 2011 the Right Brothers were no longer producing music. Imagine that!
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 07:36:43 +0000
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