#Jan25, The Rap Song
In what may very well be the first rap song to take its name from a Twitter hashtag, a new single from a hip-hop conflagration featuring Freeway, Amir Sulaiman, Ayah, The Narcicyst and Omar Offendum called “#Jan25,” takes its name the day the protests in Egypt started — now incidentally a trending topic. Hear the result below.
Consciousness-raising and politics is nothing new to rap, of course, but lines such as Omar Offendum’s “I heard them say the revolution won’t be televised/ and this era proved ’em wrong/ Twitter has ’em paralyzed” sound kind of silly and wooden (and ironically, especially inoffensive).
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