• @yesman@lemmy.world
    1•3 months ago

    It’s so disappointing to hear Killer Mike spit revolutionary lyrics like in ‘close your eyes’ only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

      Does it mean something other than what is here, or did I miss something offensive in skimming through the entry?

      This isn’t one of those lame “now they are the machine” posts is it?

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
      1•3 months ago

      Yeah. The music still slaps though.

      RATM’s bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall

      Nobody’s perfect 🤷‍♂️

      • merde alors
        2•3 months ago

        or they changed. 30 years is a long time.

        their debut was released

        • 3 years after the fall of Berlin wall
        • a year after the dissolution of USSR
        • 9 years before the September 11 attacks
        • 15 years before iPhone
        • 24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman as POTUS
        • China wasn’t a superpower back then
        • EU didn’t exist in its current form
        • Apartheid was still an actuality
        • internet wasn’t omnipresent