Tag: George Floyd
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RC 348: Pride and Prejudice (Mashup Show)
This one took a while to edit (a week and a half?) and is a Pride themed podcast with LGBTQ mashup artists and themes running throughout. Happy Pride! Also we say goodbye to a mashup artist, go very Crumplstrange in preparation for Crumplstock 9 later this month, and tracks from the three albums I reviewed…
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RC 347: Hoodies All Summer
Patterns fit like pixels in my blueprintAnd I found hope in the brushstroke of a masterpieceHanging in plain view This lonely tightrope is hard enoughDon’t pull me downJust like they sayEvery moth needs a flame Lanterns on the Lake – Realist We’ve gone out of time as this is either a delayed spring or early…
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A Change Needs To Come
Not going to preface this with a warning, since these unfortunate people from Emmett Till to George Floyd didn’t get warnings. This has been happening for hundreds of years and now is not the time to look away. Sam Cook’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ means a lot to me, and I always read it…
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…
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Why Do Black People Riot?
OK I’ll admit the slightly clickbaity headline, but it’s a question that has popped up in my social media mostly from white people, quite often middle class. It’s not as bluntly put, but expressed via criticisms and tutting over the looting, rioting and protests over the death of George Floyd. The implicit criticism is ‘why…
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RTJ4 Drops Early
Good news in dark times, Run The Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) have released their fourth Run The Jewels album early as a download. It’s free, but I strongly suggest you click ‘Add to Cart’ and then donate to the Mass Defence Program given all the mass arrests and horrifying police brutality in the US…