Run The Jewels Return!
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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How to Make a Protest Song That Breaks Through
If you're, if you're aiming to make a protest song, it usually fails. The best protest songs were people singing about their internal struggle. You want to hear that shit from somebody who did drugs all their life and now they can barely fucking talk. And the right, and most of those mountain burgers, they won't tell you shit, because they know it's more complicated than that. We're painting pictures, we're flawed. These are anti-heroes. These are not princes of righteousness and goodness. We're fucked up. It landed at a time that resonated with people.
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