Hip-Hop revolutionary Chuck D and Queens rapper Consequence teamed up on on the highly effective new monitor, “What Has America Finished,” a socially-charged collaboration. The music is featured on Consequence’s album Good Doing Enterprise With You.
The highly effective music consists of vocals from Tony Williams and takes a tough take a look at systemic points in America. Cons digs deep, addressing racial inequality, police brutality and societal neglect.
Within the music, the A Tribe Referred to as Quest affiliate pulls no punches, delivering traces like: “So what has America carried out for me?/Push the purpose line additional?/Accuse me of homicide?/Fed me French fries and burgers?”
The accompanying music video is extremely produced, reinforcing the monitor’s themes with vivid imagery of racial discrimination, homelessness, and police violence. It arrives as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s re-election has reignited curiosity in dystopian themes like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Story, George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
“What Has America Finished” channels the anxieties of those turbulent occasions, and provides Cons certainly one of his finest songs.
