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Palestine has an active hip hop movement, and in
fact hip hop has been part and parcel of Palestinian resistance for a while. My
eldest offspring keeps me posted on this shit, and though this Lowkey song is known
on the internet, apparently the version featuring DAM and other Palestinian
artists was bigger for the people, because despite blockades and lack of
movement for people to and from Palestine, there was a performance of this song
where the people physically in Palestine performed on a stage there, with those
outside as part of the worldwide diaspora. As fucked up as the internet is, as
a whole, it still has those little glimmers of connecting us. In fact, I’d say
that’s why the internet got fucked up, because it did connect people, outside
of the mainstream, so the mainstream worked to re-corral everything. Whereas
everybody had their own fucked up little websites back in the day, everything
is filtered through search engine and social media algorithms now, and you and
I as regular people don’t have the same access to how the algorithm works as
those with the money to gain access. Internet is still a mycelium though, not a
machine, and though the algorithms are worked, that shit breaks eventually. The
underground tendrils will always remain once the superficial layer up top is
scraped away.
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