This is the hip hop you should be listening to. The american mainstream is obsessed with the creative genius of hip hop but ultimately remains indifferent to the social misery that serves as the very context of that genius. And so the most popular hip hop is that which elects not to aggravate the conscience of the bourgeoisie or the middle class, while the really brilliant hip hop will authentically take as its explicit subject its own ground of social misery in order to couple an empathetic awakening with the infectious brilliance of its art. Immortal Technique is among the best examples of this. And it’s got Cornel West. You love him. So listen.

From Verse 2:

““Nostradamus was a white man’s prophet
Who predicated European supremacist logic
Because the pilgrims and Conquistador columns
Killed more innocent people than Hitler and Stalin
I guess the fortune-tellers skipped an antichrist or two”