Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Any songs that go with this theme?

"Black Cop" by KRS-One comes to mind but is pretty tough to digest racially. A main point of that poem was how people of a certain color view their own as different when behind bars (or upholding the values of those of another color). KRS-One brings this into the forefront by showing how a community (often systemically suppressed) will look negatively towards peers that interfere with the life many have grown to live with. The conflict between a black police officer and a drug hustler trying to make money to feed his family is juxtaposed against a similar backdrop in this song.

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