Hip-Hop revolutionary Chuck D and Queens rapper Consequence staff up on on the highly effective new observe “What Has America Performed,” a socially charged collaboration. The track is featured on Consequence’s album Good Doing Enterprise With You.
The highly effective track consists of vocals from Tony Williams and takes a tough take a look at systemic points in America. Cons digs, addressing racial inequality, police brutality, and societal neglect.
Within the track, the A Tribe Known as Quest affiliate pulls no punches, delivering strains like:
“So what has America executed for me?
Push the objective line additional?
Accuse me of homicide?
Fed me French fries and burgers?”
The accompanying music video is extremely produced, reinforcing the observe’s themes with vivid imagery of racial discrimination, homelessness, and police violence. It arrives as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s re-election has reignited curiosity in dystopian themes like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Story, George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
“What Has America Performed” channels the anxieties of those turbulent instances, and offers Cons one in all his greatest songs.