Are the youths of Sweden so contented with their lives that only money or sex can provide inspiration for music/rap lyrics?
What's happened to words that truly reflected your lifestyle and your fight against injustices?
Perhaps I shouldn't point the finger at Sweden alone as lyrically music seems to have suffered since Public Enemy split up.
Timbuktu leads the way for current social comments of Swedish youth but there should be an underground energy of fresh music and poetry from areas such as Rosengård, Tensta or Gottsunda. Let me provide some inspiration from the one of Britain's best Dub Poets Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Most of Johnson's poetry is political, dealing mainly with the experiences of being an African-Caribbean in Britain, "Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon...", he told an interviewer in 2008. Written in the 70's this is still extremely powerful, and although I despise violence, I cannot condemn the spirit.
we gonna smash their brains in cause they ain't got nofink in 'em we gonna smash their brains in cause they ain't got nofink in 'em
some a dem say dem a niggah haytah an' some a dem say dem a black beatah some a dem say dem a black stabbah an' some a dem say dem a paki bashah
fashist an di attack noh baddah worry 'bout dat fashist an di attack wi wi' fite dem back fashist an di attack den wi countah-attack fashist an di attack den wi drive dem back
we gonna smash their brains in cause they ain't got nofink in 'em we gonna smash their brains in cause they ain't got nofink in 'em
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