I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!

I’m out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I’ve linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)

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    Uncle Sam Goddamn - Brother Ali
    Ju$t - Run the Jewels (and a lot of their or Killer Mike’s songs)
    Gang Shit - Marlon Craft
    The Guillotine - The Coup
    I Wish I Was a Riot Grrrl - Destructo Disk
    Nobody’s Biz - Four Fists

    Some of these being older than 10 years is a real bummer lol