A Trilogy of Hip Hop Trilogies

Fantastic list, that, all fire 🔥

Now, if you wanna know my favorite hip hop records of all time:

RVLTN

• Chapter 1: The Divided States of AmeriKKKa
• Chapter 2: The Art of Resistance
• Chapter 3: The Price of Freedom

Bobby Sessions joins the giants of hip hop with this one.

Sad, Fat Luck

• Sad, Fat Luck
• Sans Soleil
• Bring Us the Head of Francisco False
  • Part 1: The Day You Realize That You Mean Nothing is Everything
  • Part 2: One Day They'll Never Know That This Existed

In Ceschi I find a kindred spirit, an intimately familiar angst.

I know it's already a bit of a stretch to call this one a trilogy, so you'll have to forgive me when I add that if you want the full experience you should add This Guitar Was Stolen Along With Years of Our Lives between Sans Soleil and Bring Us the Head of Francisco False.

A Pragmatist's Guide to Revolution

• YOU BETTER WEAPONIZE
• War Balloons
• All Dressed Up, No Funeral

To the best of my knowledge, Guante has never called this a trilogy; but these records fit together like they were made to go together, so it's a trilogy to me.

Honorable Mentions

It's very difficult for me to limit myself 😅

38th & Chicago Ave

• 38th
• Chicago Ave

'Nuff said.

Worlds Not Yet Gone

Sole's concept album, a sci-fi tale of our near future told by the Poet of the Void, is one of those stories that will stick with me until the day I die, you know? Masterful storytelling. Haunting. I always need the instrumentals at the end to reflect.

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Let's Fucking Go!

Let's fucking go

Do you believe in Unity
Do you believe in You and Me
Or do you believe the lies they sow
To keep us at each other's throats

Reach past the scalpel for the machete
Or better yet that can of gas
We'll burn it down
This wretched town
Incinerate it
Straight to the ground

We can thrash
We can swing
Come with us while we sing

We can slam
We can rage
Break down the barricades

Change the state of mind
That divides the human kind

Change the state of mind
Get your shit together!
Lets do this!

Dying in darkness
Before our eyes
Like a frog in a pot
Right before he dies

Dying in darkness
There is no truth
Rewriting history
So you never lose

Despite how it looks
There is hope
We're in this together
Even on a tightrope
No dying in darkness
We will see
Fuck the bougiesie!

We can thrash
We can swing
Come with us while we sing

We can slam
We can rage
Break down the barricades

Change the state of mind
That divides the human kind

Change the state of mind
Don't just stand there
Lets go!

This is about community!
It's about your neighbor
Your friend
Your coworker
The stranger who you have more in common with than any billionaire dickhead

It's about our relations, creating relatives with our fellow human beings
If you can't see the value of community
Try harder!
We'll all be better for it!

Compassion
Love
Empathy
Support and lifting each other up!

Community protects!
Community builds innovation and strength!
Community builds value for each of us individually!

LETS FUCKING GO!!

We can thrash
We can swing
Come with us while we sing

We can slam
We can rage
Break down the barricades

Change the state of mind
That divides the human kind

Change the state of mind

No excuses!
Get off your ass!
We're in this together!
Lets Fucking Go!

— Dead Pioneers, "LFG"

If you're looking for excellence in punk and haven't already heard, I highly recommend Dead Pioneer's most recent release, Wagon Burner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"LFG" is a fantastic song that I'm sharing here in honor of my sister, who shared it with me. I'm more cynical than she is, and my breadcrumb to this record would have been "The Worst Among Us," with Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods; but, truly, the entire album is, IMO, peak punk 👌🔥

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Revisionist History Blues

Two, three, four—

The world ain't how it used to be
When I was watching it on a TV screen
When I went to school they taught to me
A revisionist version of history
Where MLK was never shot by the FBI
And every war we've ever been in was justified
Where the judges and the juries are colorblind
And our worst days are long left behind

But that is not the world I see
When I look at what's right in front of me
The cops keep killing, and we all watch
They get two weeks of paid time off
We all still watch the genocide
And look away when we get tired
We still salute the war machine
Until the soldiers come back and need somewhere to sleep

Oh yeah…
This ain't the world you promised me
It's nothing like you said it'd be
We live to work
Until we work to death
For a CEO we've never met

They said everyone trusts the government
'Cause criminals can't be president
And politicians only represent
The people who elected them
But that is not the world I see
When I look at what's right in front of me
The poor stay poor and then drop dead
The rich get richer off their blood and sweat
Everyone gets an atom bomb
The people cheer and clap along
As the show begins, the fever starts
It's our own nuclear holocaust

I sell my life for pennies flat
For someone else, I break my tired back
If I'm leaving—you're coming too
Before I go down… I'm getting you

Everybody!
When we go down
When we go down—that's right!
We go down together
When we go down—yeah!
When we go down—that's right!
We go down together

Together—alright!
We go down—hey, hey!
We go down together

Oh yeah!

— Moon Walker, "Revisionist History Blues"

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