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Alright, rubbing shoulders with wutang is cool and all, but slipping away to plot with killer mike is what got me pumped. Anyone else remember how much work he put in promoting Bernie? Killer Mike puts in actual work at the political level way more than most rappers. I hope we get to see some of that again here!
Killer Mike uses music, influence and money to further his cause.
For the uninitiated, here's an entire music video about prejudice, also hinting at the growth of the prison industry
He also started a bank with the goal of lending money to minority-owned businesses and minorities in general
This song uses 'blame your crew quicker than Trump fucks his youngest' as an insult. Music video itself somewhat symbolizes the 2016 election year, which is even mentioned by Killer Mike (who of course thought Clinton would win regardless of whether it's an election or fist fight)
But of course one would also expect Wu-Tang Clan to be important in a mayoral race in NYC in particular.
Killer Mike is a pretty hardcore capitalist though. Not sure how he's going to vibe with a socialist.
the worst thing about zohran is we cant clone him 49 times
If more celebs would do this they could wage a good cultural campaign against the Trump administration. A lot of celebs came from working class and/or are closer to working class than Trump is, especially now that he is grifting and looting using the power of the federal government.
It's unfortunate but working class icons are often very susceptible to money and less educated opinions.
I hate this comment. Rich people are all incentivised to maintain their wealth. Someone being working class doesn't make them dumber or more susceptible to money.
I didn't say they were more susceptible, I said they weren't immune to it.
Also, education costing more money than a person makes in a year doing full time employment does act as a bit of a barrier for entry.
E.G. Hulk Hogan, Kanye West, Chuck Norris, Sexyy Red, etc.
Why specify working class as opposed to just wealthy people then? And then why double down on the sentiment in this comment?
Dan made the assertion that celebrities would be more opposed to Trump due to their working class roots. That's simply a false statement, assholes exist across the entire spectrum. Check out this Pew Research chart:
more than a third of all the poorest Americans who were polled support Trump, middle income levels supported Trump more than those who didnt, and the upper income brackets actually leaned against Trump more than middle, upper middle, and lower-middle. Furthermore:
Trump's hold over rural areas, often areas with the most poor and least educated, has only grown over time.
Being "working class" doesn't magically make you oppose Trump or vice versa.
I'm not calling you out for starting that rich people who were working class are trump supporters. I'm calling you out for you insisting that being working class makes you less educated and especially susceptible to wealth.
You've just repeated a claim I already dismissed, putting words in my mouth that are not even close to what I said. I will not correct you again, have a nice day, illiterate.
Here's what you said
"working class icons are often very susceptible to money and less educated opinions."
Being working class doesn't make you more susceptible to money, that's just not true. I'd say that ,regardless of your intention, by saying this you are implying working class people are greedy by nature.
Having an education also has nothing to do with your class, anybody is capable of undertaking an education. You mentioned rich people can afford to pay for expensive degrees but that implies that an education just is an expensive degree, it's not. A mechanic is well educated, farmers are well educated, labourers are well educated. You just aren't recognising their competencies as an education. You're de-legitimising the intelligence and knowledge base of working class people by saying this.
You've made surface level denials of this but you haven't really engaged with what you said or the argument I'm making, you're just assuming you know better. I'm directly quoting you, not exactly what I'd call "putting words in (your) mouth."
And to top it all off you closed off by calling me illiterate as an insult, which in of itself has its own elitest undertones.
Oh look a wall
.world moment
Put your faith in the Wu-Tang.
Wu-Tang for president!
Honestly, our timeline is clown-town enough at this point that this would 100% be a marked improvement and possibly plausible. Like yeah they'd make mistakes but I bet they'd be actually trying, if suddenly thrust into leadership of a once-powerful nation lol.
mamdani is for the children
And diversified stock portfolios apparently. Timeless advice from GZA we should all take to heart in these troubled times
CREAM as the background music is just perfect
Wait, isn't Wu-Tang the group that made an entire album and chose to sell it to one single rich asshole, so no one else could enjoy it? Doesn't sound like any friend of the working class to me.
Cry harder
Fuck off narc
Good one