Here’s a “patriotic” hip hop song. This song narrates the emcee growing up in a dysfunctional household, missing his deceased mother and resenting his abusive father. However, the deeper interpretation is that the description of a household is a metaphor for a country. I suspect the mother is nature (i.e. Mother Earth), and the father is clearly the United States. It calls out the U.S.’s long and enduring history of violence by making reference to the nation’s origins based in genocide and slavery, its tradition of imperialism, and its addiction to enabling continued acts of violence at home and abroad, which he claims will lead to its downfall. Happy 4th of July!
Note: Found it in HD!
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