Via Hope, we get some more commentary on the French riots and their relationship to the hip-hop scene.
Three weeks of riots, arson and attacks on police ripped the cover off problems that French hip-hop artists like Disiz have been rapping and raging about for years.
Racism, despair, anger, drugs, crime, hostility against police — issues now thrust to the top of the national agenda by France’s worst civil unrest in four decades — have been grist for these urban social commentators for years.
Amazing how quickly the whole “This is the Paris Intifadah” meme fell off the talking points list once people who actually knew a little something about France and the culture of les Cités starting calling the idiots out.
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