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High For Hours
"High for Hours" is a song by American rapper J. Cole. The song was released as a single on January 18, 2017. It was produced by Elite (producer), Elite, with co-production from Cam O'bi. The song was considered for Cole's fourth studio album, ''4 Your Eyez Only'', but was not included. It was uploaded to Cole's SoundCloud page on Martin Luther King Day, January 16, 2017, and has over 11 million plays on SoundCloud as of October 2018. It treats themes including oppression, revolution, and a meeting with Barack Obama. Background Producer Elite (producer), Elite spoke about the song in an interview with ''DJBooth'' saying: Critical reception Writing for Odyssey (publication), Odyssey, Paul Watson Jr. called the track an "emotional journey" saying, "From a personal perspective, this four-and-a-half minute, three-verse song took me on a roller coaster of different emotional synapses, which isn’t by any means uncharacteristic of Cole. What was interesting, however, was the cerebral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Hip Hop
Political hip hop is a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning hip hop into a call for political and/or social action and a form of social and/or political activism. Inspired by 1970s political artists such as The Last Poets and musician Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy was the first predominantly political hip-hop group. The genre has helped to create a new form of social expression for subordinate groups to speak about their exclusions, injustices and lack of power. Political hip-hop is the use of hip hop music to send political messages to inspire action or social change or to convince the listener of a particular worldview. There is no all-encompassing political hip-hop ideology; rather, there are multiple perspectives that range anywhere from anarchism to Marxism to the values of the Five-Percent Nation. Hip hop and politics have long been intertwined, with many hip hop artists using their music as a means to speak out about political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
