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👍︎︎ 13 👤︎︎ u/patriotact 📅︎︎ Mar 11 2019 🗫︎ replies

Threats. Glorification of terrorism. Insults to the crown. This show sucks. Do a special with Tan France.

👍︎︎ 24 👤︎︎ u/SKUNGO_1993 📅︎︎ Mar 10 2019 🗫︎ replies

Threats. Glorification of terrorism. Insults to the crown. There it is, producers

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/chefstephcurry 📅︎︎ Mar 10 2019 🗫︎ replies

Hasan dissects how the rise of music streaming on platforms like YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud has influenced the sound, reach, and impact of modern day hip hop. While streaming technology has led to the commercial viability of SoundCloud rappers, it is simultaneously enabling rap as a viable form of protest against oppressive regimes around the world.

👍︎︎ 4 👤︎︎ u/bobsil1 📅︎︎ Mar 10 2019 🗫︎ replies

Looking forward to the EDM protest songs of the 2030s

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/NewWAV 📅︎︎ Mar 10 2019 🗫︎ replies

I like this theme of covering censorship around the world in unique ways.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/goalstopper28 📅︎︎ Mar 11 2019 🗫︎ replies

Jesus christ what is this abominable timing. Just when I need to start studying.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/adityamaanas 📅︎︎ Mar 11 2019 🗫︎ replies

Did anyone else think they were going to talk about UK drill?

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/YungCamus 📅︎︎ Mar 12 2019 🗫︎ replies

The Kendrick Lamar joke had me in stitches

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/joetheschmoe4000 📅︎︎ Mar 21 2019 🗫︎ replies
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You guys, listen, tonight, I want to talk about my one true love... Hip-hop. Now if you know anything about me, then you know hip-hop is probably 65% of my personality. I'm not very interesting. Now, here's how the other 35% breaks down: 17% is hair product, 12% is mid-90s basketball references, and 6% is intense eye contact. Add this all up and it's pretty much  every immigrant kid you have ever met. It is our thing. Now, you know why we love it. Hip-hop is about the struggle, but it's also about the come-up. It's aspirational. We've all put on  headphones and thought to ourselves, "I don't care what anyone says. I'm not going to med school in the Caribbean, and I am trying contact lenses." Everyone can tap into that. And today, hip-hop is bigger than ever. Nielsen, according to Forbes last year, finally says that rap has overtaken rock  as the most consumed music genre  in the country. I spoke with several experts in the music industry. They say they're really not surprised. It's just fresher, hipper  and more exciting than rock. Of Nielsen's top ten albums for 2018, eight of them were hip-hop. This small thing that started in the Bronx has touched every corner of the world. Mexico, Brazil, England, Israel, Spain, France, Nigeria, Japan. It even reached the Upper East Side. Isn't that mind-blowing? Hip-hop had to go all the way around the world and get repackaged as a history lesson  by a theater nerd... just so it could be accepted. That's what it took for old white people to embrace rap. They needed a concert where people  would sit in complete silence. Streaming has helped make hip-hop  a global phenomenon. But when most people talk about  music streaming, they're focusing on one thing. The music industry has seen a resurgence  in the last few years thanks to the proliferation of streaming music. It looks as though music streaming is starting to be a cash cow for these music companies. Yeah, Spotify and Apple Music have revived an industry that many had left for dead, even just a year or two ago. By focusing on the economics  of streaming, they're actually missing the bigger picture. Streaming has changed the sound, the reach and the impact of hip-hop. Now, when it comes to the sound, these days, I don't know  what the fuck I'm listening to. Have you guys heard "Gucci Gang"? Okay, if you haven't, I just gave away 90% of the song. -[hip-hop music playing] -♪ Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang ♪ ♪ Gucci gang, Gucci gang ♪ -♪ Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang ♪ -[man] ♪ Gucci gang! ♪ ♪ Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang ♪ -[man] ♪ Gucci gang! ♪ -♪ Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang ♪ ♪ Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang... ♪ Okay, that guy, who looks like Lenny Kravitz fucked a Christmas tree, is Lil Pump, okay? He is the current face of SoundCloud rap. SoundCloud is a free streaming service, where you can see hip-hop changing and mutating almost in real time. Last year, only three recording artists around the world had songs that got  over one billion streams, and two of them got their start on SoundCloud. And what's kind of amazing is that SoundCloud, a German company  that's basically making no money, has become a huge launching pad  for new rappers. The success of "Gucci Gang" got Lil Pump a reported $8 million record deal. Yeah, he embodies  the SoundCloud Rapper Starter Kit. Face tats, colorful dreads  and rainbow grills. Look at Post Malone, he looks like the guy  who's dating your drug dealer's mom. Or Lil Xan, Lil Xan looks like the guy who dating your drug dealer's daughter. This is hip-hop today. I'm only 33, but I feel so old. Look, this is the XXL Freshman cover. I don't know if these are rap names or Wi-Fi networks. Like, I'm walking into a Coffee Bean, I'm like, "Hey, what's the password for "Smokepurpp"? It's with two P's. How about Juice Wrld with no "O"? This is the new era of rap, and this is what we're dealing with now. -♪ Versace, Versace, Versace ♪ -[man] ♪ Versace, Versace! ♪ -♪ Versace, Versace ♪ -[man] ♪ Versace! ♪ -♪ Versace, Versace, Versace ♪ -[man] ♪ Versace! ♪ -Whoo! -♪ Versace, Versace ♪ -[man] ♪ Versace! Versace! ♪ -♪ Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace ♪ When do they start rapping? It's like they were running out of time  on a test, and they just put "Versace" all the way down the Scantron. "Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace." Pencils down, Migos.  They're like, "Oh, one more Versace!" And this new flow is upsetting experts. That's what's wrong right now,  everybody's trying to rap the same style. I don't know who created it,  if it was Future or Migos, but all them niggas sound the same. [imitating hip-hop rhythm] [man] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [imitating hip-hop] [laughing] It's addictive. This shit, it get you. You hear that shit everywhere, man. Martha Stewart's best friend is right. But the biggest change in the songs, it's not the repetitiveness. It's the length. "Gucci Gang" is just two minutes and four seconds long. That's it, 124 seconds. 124 seconds into a Kendrick song, he's still reading a haiku  about the water crisis in Flint. This is the shortest song to enter  the Billboard Top 10 in over 40 years. Now, one reason songs have gotten shorter is because of the new incentive structure of streaming. Streaming platforms, like Spotify, pay by the stream. So shorter tracks mean more streams and more money. It's why we're seeing a lot of albums with a lot of tracks and short songs. Lil Yachty's second album had 17 tracks, nearly half of them  are under three minutes. The sound of hip-hop may be different, but the most significant thing streaming has changed is its reach, and the streaming platform that reaches the most people isn't SoundCloud,  Spotify or Apple Music. It's Tidal. Just kidding. [laughs] You guys were like, "What, it is?" The way you were like... [stammers] No, come on. Tidal is something Jay-Z's  cousins pretend to use on Thanksgiving. [woman] YouTube wasn't created  as a streaming music service, but it is the world's most used website  to listen to music legally. Around 1.3 billion people use the site  just for music. Wait, I don't use YouTube to stream music. I use YouTube to convince myself  that the Earth is flat. YouTube has 1.9 billion users. In 2018, one survey found that YouTube accounted for 47% of music streaming worldwide, and hip-hop has been a huge beneficiary of this. Now, look, everyone knows that YouTube is huge, but the spread of hip-hop on YouTube is impacting geopolitics in unexpected ways. Dictators are getting in on the rap game. I'm serious, last year the autocratic leader of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow used his country's YouTube channel to spit hot fire. [rock music playing] [singing in foreign language] ♪ Wonderful Abaza is a beautiful place ♪ ♪ Caspian waves have an exciting melody ♪ ♪ Going towards a brighter future ♪ ♪ Go ahead, go ahead Beloved Turkmenistan ♪ ♪ Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan ♪ I don't know exactly what that is, but I'm pretty sure it's what  the Black Eyed Peas are aiming for. Somewhere will.i.am is like, "Dude, I need to sign this dude in the red jumpsuit. He's the next Fergie." Now my question is, why is he rapping? Dictators already live like rappers. He doesn't need to get into the booth. He races cars. He flexes with gold. He's got guns. He even hoops. [man speaking foreign language] Wait! No, no, no. Play that back. That shit was gonna hit the backboard.  Look, that's how you know  you're a dictator, when you're like, "No, no, no, just fix it in post." Hey, look, I'm not trying to clown him, all right? I know how that feels. [man] Hasan Minhaj is gonna pull it back and fire a three. Tell you what. I'd have taken my chances with Nicki Minaj on that one. -[man] MVP! -That's what I'm talking about. You know what, Mark Jones, it was the Ruffles Celebrity All-Star game at Bojangles Coliseum. What do you expect? You know what, man? I'm not above pulling a Gurbanguly. [Mark Jones] Hasan Minhaj is gonna pull it back and fire a three. It's a two-point game, with 10.6 to go. That's what I'm talking about. After the game , people were coming up to me. They were like, "Hasan,  who taught you to shoot?" And I was like, "The president of Turkmenistan." Unfortunately, not every strongman  is as down with hip-hop as Gurbanguly. All around the world, rap is becoming a dominant form of dissent against repressive regimes. And those regimes have responded  by arresting rappers. In Turkey, Tanzania, Angola, Iran,  Malaysia, Morocco and even Spain. Yes, you heard me. Spain. [man] Rights groups, like Amnesty  International say freedom of expression is under attack in Spain. Even tweets and jokes posted online could get you arrested. It seems any form of dissent  can be treated as a criminal activity. In Spain, joking about terrorism  can land you in prison. Just ask some of the country's musicians, artists and journalists who have been sentenced under Article 578. What are you doing, Spain? You can't be arresting musicians. You're a study abroad destination. Half of your population is NYU sophomores. Your GDP is measured in transfer credits. You can't be fucking around  with the money. Now, Amnesty International says that since 2016 Spain has convicted 74 people under this vague law, Article 578. In 2017, Spain arrested 12 rappers  for their lyrics. [man] The rapper Joseph Miguel Arenas, better known as Valtònyc, has taken refuge in Belgium. In Spain, he's been sentenced  to three and a half years in prison for threats, glorification of terrorism  and insults to the crown. Threats, glorification of terrorism  and insults to the crown? That sounds like every review  this show gets on Reddit. Look, the Spanish rappers say that the issue isn't terrorism, it's free speech. [rapping in Spanish] As artists, our only weapon is our words. Eminem, the most famous rapper in the world, has a song called "We As Americans," where he says  that he wants to see the president dead.  Snoop Dogg has a music video  where he shoots at Trump. Ice-T has a song called cop killer. In Spain today, they would be convicted  for these songs. For much less, we are going to jail. Did you see that? They're pulling up American rap on YouTube. They're getting inspiration from Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Ice-T. The Spanish government is arresting rappers to send a message. The objective of repression in any field is to take a scapegoat  and make others be afraid. So they stop mobilizing, stop going to demonstrations, stop striking, stop singing. That's the real objective. More than attack against me, it's an attack against  the whole population. But the crackdown only made rap bigger. After the first 12 rappers were arrested, other rappers uploaded a new protest song on YouTube in solidarity, and it went viral. In it's first 24 hours,  it got a million views. Trying to suppress rap is obviously oppression 1.0. Co-opting rap is oppression 2.0. [man] At a meeting of cultural advisers, he said, "Rap music should be controlled instead of banned." If it is impossible to stop, then we must lead it  and direct it properly. It's insane to me that Putin,  a man who gets off on poisoning dissidents and invading Ukraine,  heard rap and was like,"Fuck, I cannot destroy this. It's not an American election." No, Putin sees the power of rap, and he plans to use it to his advantage. [woman] That's Putin attempting  to wave his hand around at a rap and hip-hop contest. Putin's approval ratings have dropped recently, so he's been making a lot of appearances. -[man] Wow! Reaching out. -There you go. That ought to get him re-elect-- Wait he doesn't run for office anymore. [laughs] So what does he need  a popularity contest for? I guess he wants to reach out to his people. That's right, his peeps. -His peeps-- -That's the Russian word for it. [laughs] I'm just saying that. [laughs] "Yay! We have fun here on Eyewitness News, don't we? Word play, cool. Slang, tan suits. The peeps in the streets would say, "We're lit. Let's go to weather." While Russia is trying to figure out how  to co-opt rap, China is one step ahead of them. [man rapping in Chinese] ♪ Take a look  At the deepening reform group ♪ ♪ In the year 2015 ♪ ♪ Building the economy, creating wealth Optimizing services... ♪ [woman] This isn't just any Chinese rap song, it's from the Communist Party's propaganda machine. It has lyrics that tackle air pollution, remind people to trust the government  and has voice clips from Xi Jinping, saying punish every corrupt official. [man] ♪ Punish every corrupt official  And fight every corrupt phenomenon ♪ Yeah, we all know those  iconic pro-government rap anthems. Right? Remember when DMX rapped about  reporting for jury duty? He's like, "Hey! Yo, dawg. Show up at nine." [barks] That doesn't happen. Just a week ago, at the prominent "two sessions" conference, the regime went CCP 2 Chainz and dropped a new track. Now, brace yourselves, this shit gets intense. ♪ I got elation from inspiration  Writing a compliment song for the nation ♪ ♪ While I'm talking about "two sessions" ♪ ♪ Development ♪ ♪ Science! The air bears the weight of desire ♪ ♪ You see we've attained landing On the dark side of the moon ♪ ♪ Fastest supercomputer in the world ♪ ♪ I guess nobody might deny ♪ [rapping in Chinese] ♪ Cloned macaques Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua ♪ ♪ New life is demonstrating It's cute and congruous ♪ [in English] ♪ Monkey King to the west Legendary dragon to the sky ♪ ♪ Y'all know it's time For a Chinese miracle ♪ Now, I know some of you are watching this like, "Co-opting hip-hop for power? I thought that was Ariana Grande's move." It is. Now look, I get why  totalitarian governments are trying to harness the power of hip-hop. Hip-hop is direct. It's got battles,  punch lines, diss records. It was made for confrontation. When the Sex Pistols  went after Queen Elizabeth, she didn't start a punk band, okay? You know what's weird? She kind of looks like  what Ozzy Osbourne does now. Rap just gets the job done. Remember "Hit 'Em Up" by Tupac? Tupac's last verse was, "Fuck Mobb Deep, fuck Biggie, fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label and as a motherfucking crew." Tupac gets right to the thesis statement. Right? He does not like Mobb Deep. He doesn't appreciate Bad Boy, and it's safe to say he does not care for Biggie. One of the best examples of rap directly going at an autocratic regime  is happening in Thailand, where a military junta has been in power since 2014. [man] It's hugely popular on YouTube, and the Thai military government doesn't want anyone to see it. [man rapping in foreign language] [man] The video condemning the nation's leadership, made by a group called Rap Against Dictatorship, has had more than 20 million views in just two weeks. [rapping] This video by Rap Against Dictatorship was a huge deal. In just a few weeks, Thailand is going to have  their first democratic election since the coup in 2014. The government doesn't want millennials seeing this right before the vote. A lot of younger people now  will be voting for the first time, they'll be eligible.  Close to 10% of the electorate, and this is the new voices that I think that I've been activated, socialized through  the new media technology. Now, I'll be honest, you guys, I had no idea Thailand was having an election. The Thai election isn't getting  that much coverage. If they want to get coverage, you know what they gotta do? They gotta form a soccer team, get stranded in a Thai cave, and then get Elon Musk to send a submarine to save the election. It's the only way to save democracy. Since taking power, the military has enforced some very strict censorship laws and made speaking out against the government very dangerous. [man] The military leaders have imposed  strict laws over political gatherings  and muzzled dissent. [woman] Beatings, arbitrary detentions, all accusations that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have made against the government. Even when people protest in some pretty tame ways, the government cracks down. Thai citizens have been locked up  for using the three-finger  Hunger Games salute, reading the book 1984 in public  and eating sandwiches. That last one is true. The Thai military started locking up  people for staging pro-democracy picnics. Picnics. Do the juntas show up and they're like, "Hands up, step away from the PB and J sandwich, otherwise I'm taking you and that seven-layer dip downtown." That's why I dropping this rap video  was such a ballsy move. Rap Against Dictatorship held nothing back. This song absolutely blasted the government with lyrics that are Pusha T level savage. The lyrics go, "This is a country whose  minister's watch belongs to a corpse, whose parliament is the playground of its soldiers, in which a gun is pointed at your throat in which you are told that you are free, even though you're deprived  of your right to vote." Remember, Thailand is a country that banned picnics. We haven't even gotten  to my favorite line. "This is a country whose prime minister  is kinda annoying." Kinda annoying! You dropped the whole song. We checked two different translations, and they both say, "Kinda annoying." That last part is so petty. The entire song is like, "Yo, fuck you, you're war criminals, you're corrupt thugs. You ruined our country  and one more thing, you'll never get a date to prom." This video is so powerful because  of its symbolism. This video is shot in one take,  and it recreates an infamous 1976 photo. We're not showing the photo  because it's really graphic, but in it, a pro-government mob attacks the body  of a student protester hanging from a tree. It was part  of the Thammasat military massacre, where government forces killed  at least 46 students. It was basically Thailand's  Tiananmen Square. The government doesn't want you to remember it, and they've even erased it  from schoolbooks. And if you're seeing all of this, and you're thinking, "Okay,  a rap video critical the country, shot in one take, that uses a lot of symbolic imagery from massacres. Where have I seen that?" -[hip-hop music playing] -♪ This is America ♪ ♪ Don't catch you slippin' up ♪ ♪ Don't catch you slippin' up ♪ ♪ Look what I'm whippin' up ♪ ♪ This is America ♪ That's "This is America" by Childish Gambino, which came out in spring of 2018 and according to members  of Rap Against Dictatorship, their video, which now has almost  60 million views on YouTube, was heavily inspired by "This is America." This video got so big, so fast, the government just gave up trying  to censor it. And much like Russia and China,  the Thai government is now co-opting rap. Not the kind of thing  we've ever reported on before. The government  and some of its critics online  are now slugging it out in, have I got this right, a rap battle? Has he never heard of a rap battle? He's like, "A dual of rhymes  between lyrical poets. Is that right? Rap battle?" That guy's name is Richard Gizbert,  which sounds like the active ingredient  in "lean." So how did the Thai government respond  to the video? Initially, there was some tough talk from police and Thailand's computer crime unit,  but then the unit changed tack and released its own rap, "Thailand 4.0." ♪ One, two, three, let's go ♪ [rapping in foreign language] [woman] The online blowback has not been kind. About a thousand likes to 20,000 dislikes. Here's one comment. "So lame, the beats are so out-of-date.  Don't make more songs like this." You know what? I really respect  that YouTube comment. They left the racism at home and just came straight  with the constructive criticism. They're like, "Stop rapping." It's impossible to know if this will change the election, but the fact that the government has to address this movement shows the power  of hip-hop and streaming. We think that anyone can use the phrase  "what my country's got," the title of the song to speak out  about whatever's on their mind, what they think is the matter with our country. We hope that people will start being  more critical when it comes to politics. It's sort of a voice for teenagers, for young adults  who can think but can't act. That's insane to me. A genre invented at house parties  in the Bronx is affecting political sentiment internationally. Because of streaming, hip-hop is helping  to galvanize movements around the world. The same music that gave me the confidence to get contact lenses and gave birth to Lil Pump  is now helping people  call brutal dictators "kinda annoying." And if you're a brutal dictator, that must be kinda annoying.
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Length: 22min 12sec (1332 seconds)
Published: Sun Mar 10 2019
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