Yet in a time where activism is at a sustained height, what’s seen as the genre’s mainstream feels increasingly estranged from the struggles that necessitated its creation.Īs calls for police reform reached a fever pitch, Nicki Minaj and Tekashi 6ix9ine’s 'TROLLZ' was breaking YouTube’s record for most views of a hip-hop video in a single day. At the height of their powers, Public Enemy’s Chuck D enlightened NME on the pivotal purpose that hip-hop serves in broadening otherwise shuttered minds: “It’s a college course in black life,” he remarked in 1988, “as a matter of fact, it’s a whole damn degree you can earn.” Speaking just months before full-scale rioting engulfed Miami after police shot and killed 23-year-old Clement Lloyd, the commonality between the unrest of 31 years prior and today epitomizes why hip-hop’s sermons on injustice are still integral to the curriculum.

*Sees why swae lee is trending* for every exercise in elation, you had a stark but danceable piece of political commentary, such as Grandmaster Flash’s iconic journey through urban squalor on 'The Message.' And in times where systemic discrimination reared its head most acutely, hip-hop responded in kind, providing a prescient and educational soundtrack. Saw #swaelee dick ….it’s not even 9am /vycxJ0iPku God Swae Lee when handing out dick reductions on his date of birth /9gn4iLetMt Nonetheless, Twitter couldn’t hold back from dragging Swae from here to kingdom come. Wtf!!! Swae Lee is pulling out an Emtee stunt on us!!! ? /sWOZIgsmXI Swae quickly hopped on Twitter to assure his fans it was a mistake.

On Wednesday (December 19), Swae posted an Instagram Story to give his fans a look at his latest tattoo, but he wound up (accidentally?) exposing his penis. Instead, the Rae Sremmurd rapper wound up becoming a laughing stock on Twitter.

All Swae Lee wanted to do was show off his new ink.

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