Clutter for Boxing: Part 1
If you haven’t already, try The Ruby Kid. He’s fascinating; combining intelligent lyrics with a radical attitude both to reality and rap. Out goes the macho obsession of much mainstream hip-hop, and in come repeated references to the Coleridge, gender and the relationship between the proletariat and the means of production in Marxist theory. With quite some style:
For all those claiming hip-hop’s pussy is where their cock is,
You’ve got a misogynistic Oedipal complex,
You’re raping your mother,
Just stop it.
I like this, I do…
I’ve actually had that exact lyrical snippet stuck in my head all week…