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- Nairn
Don't know if this an old meme or not, but I've recently been infected by the wonder of Speak, the Hungarian rapper.
Stop the war.
- monNom0
come on, yeah
- Nairn0
Brilliant - from Wikipedia:
His first single, "Stop the War", was explicitly political. In it, Speak weaves a complex tapestry of political philosophy. Lines such as "Stop your plan Bin Laden, thank Allah" have caused great controversy among the public. His own assessment, that "this is an anti-war song, at that time, after September 11, this was just timely", may underestimate the song's subtleties. This ignores the internal evolution present in "Stop the War": Speak takes us on a philosophical journey through extremist Wahhabism, Marxism, and finally optimistic Post-9/11 philosophy.
Speak's addition of the word 'bisness' (business) after the word war draws connections and connotations towards the military-industrial complex, highlighted by Dwight D. Eisenhower. He carefully alludes to a multifaceted paradigm in which war is carried out as business and, more thought provokingly, that war is now a tool for multinational profit. Parallels can be drawn from Speak's controversial statement to the ongoing privatization of the American Armed Forces and the the hypothesized secret cabal of big-business insiders running the current Bush Administration. With this short message Speak is silently asking for a lifting of the moral zeitgeist to stop the entrenchment of war itself in the nation state.
In spite of his modesty, political bloggers have praised the stirring, unorthodox singer, anointing him as "the face of the anti-war movement".
His time has come.
Spurned by the failure of the American anti-war movement, Speak turns inward in his latest single, "Hold On.". "Hold On" speaks to our alienation and search for meaning in an uncertain world. As the angel reaches out to Speak, we see the dissolution of a destructive pessimism that pervades the international discourse. A note of uncertainty remains, however, in Speak's questioning: 'was it dream or real? I can't decide; I can't', his uncertainty fueled by the fact that 'it was so real.' In any case, however, it is hoped that Speak's potentially revolutionary messages underpinning his ideological critiques will not be absorbed into the hegemonic security discourses through the processes of 'transformismo' (See Gramsci).
Speak's deeply moving lyrics have struck a chord with the disaffected youth of an empty generation yearning for answers.
- aidshobo0
He has the looks and skills of the Fucking Guy, but his message is somewhat better.