The RZA Delivers Some Of The Most Astute Political Commentary Of The Season
Unsurprisingly, the number of concerts and musically enhanced protest rallies surrounding the DNC in Denver this week has brought forth a more-than-equal number of blog posts covering them. You’d expect a site called Pop + Politics to be inside the events, and they’ve recently posted two good write-ups of Wyclef Jean’s performance and his call for Latino communities to get behind Obama. But the showstopper is this video interview with the RZA, in which the Wu-Tang Clan CEO explains how “Obama went platinum” (and citing numbers), talking about how his priors prevent him from voting, and then urging 18-year-old black men to vote because they’ve “got eight years to make [their] move”: “A black man, by the time he’s 25, he’s either locked up or dead.” (It’s also worth mentioning that Pop + Politics is doing excellent DNC coverage outside of music.) [Pop + Politics]
