Take a speech by Donald Trump and remix it. Warning: Rhymes “World War 3″ with “Pussy.”
I might have posted this before, but I’m still digging it.
Mavis Staples is mad.
She has a good reason to be.
I missed the boat on this one. It came up in a discussion of the game Cuphead, which draws heavy aesthetic inspiration from old Fleischer cartoons–which are frequently horribly racist, to an extent that some people are unable to enjoy the game without the expectation that racist caricatures are just around the corner. The association of the style with racism is, for them, too strong.
And then this video came up, because the white people who made Cuphead tried to sidestep the racist associations of the style by removing the racist content (or at least trying to). “The Story of O.J.” has similar aesthetic inspiration, but engages engages with the racism head-on.
It feels kind of uncomfortable to watch, for a different reason than Cuphead–it’s like I’m a voyeur. I don’t think that I’m a part of the conversation that Jay-Z is having, and my reactions to the art and the message is necessarily coming from a very different place. But it’s an interesting comparison.
Ssing Ssing is a group that blends rock and traditional Korean folk music. Here they are doing three songs for a Tiny Desk concert. See the notes on the video for more info.
“Indomitable” - DJ Shub feat. Northern Cree Singers
