WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FDCA, Il Cantiere #19: Hate - Reverend (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

So, let's say it right away: it is a complex story, which comes from
afar. ---- For dinosaurs like myself, who chewed rap, frequented
occupied places, preached and practiced insubordination, the vision of
the banlieues in revolt, in this spring of '23, invariably brought the
thought back to Vinz (the Jew ), Hubert (the African) and Said (the
Muslim), the three protagonists of the prophetic film La haine by
Mathieu Kassovitz, France 1995. And that film opened with the selection
and scratches of a formidable DJ, who operated directly from his room,
with the windows open and scattering pure hip hop and consciousness in
the popular area. (His name is Cut Killer, a well-known French DJ of
Moroccan origin)
28 very long years have passed and the only thing that seems to have
changed is the soundtrack of this revolt. Not the protagonists who are
the endless French suburbs, true enclaves, colonies within the nation,
not the rebels who are also the victims, i.e. North Africans,
Maghrebians... Not the bad guys i.e. the National Police, who continues
to claim victims in those streets (in 2022 alone there are thirteen).
The music, however, is quite different. Kassovitz's film exuded hip hop
and g-funk, but today what and who do the outcasts of the banlieues
listen to? Here they are: collectives like PLO, single artists like ISK,
crews like "La rue La vraie", or JUL who comes from Marseille (one of
the centers of the revolt) and with his hundreds of millions of streams
is the most listened to French artist in Always.
Funk has disappeared, a lot of autotune is wasted (and here we must
admit that the North African and Middle Eastern phoneme goes together
with autotune), all the women have disappeared from the videos and in
their lyrics the unequivocal malaise of those who know they are he was
screwed at the start, who no longer has hope and realizes that not even
money can save him. Because money never saves: it didn't save your
father, maybe it won't save your children, it definitely won't save your
friends.
They are all "Wagnerized", that is, they wear balaclavas and mephisti
pulled up to their eyes, and the background is the tower blocks and
streets of the suburbs against which dystopian luxury cars and
motorcycles stand out. There is zero politics and more gangs, less
awareness and more jacquerie, less sharing and more individualism, fewer
women and more men-only societies, basically gangs. Identical videos are
those produced by our local trappers, artists like Paki, Shiva,
identical the mephists, the girls who aren't there, the luxury cars and
motorbikes and which often host apologies for drug dealing and always
the idolatry of money. Being scandalized by this means not having the
slightest idea of what the European peripheries are; ring, rings,
inhabited by thousands of discriminated against.
And that discrimination produced not solidarity but, on the contrary,
social selfishness.
It seemed to see them again Vinz, Hubert and Said, when they go down to
Paris, sneaking into a vernissage among bourgeois and "left-wing"
people, so different from each other, kept away from the thousand
barriers that the rich, the privileged have been able to impose to the
whole society. Thirty years ago they already had no future, and today
when no one believes in the magnificent and progressive destiny of the
world anymore, here they are even more desolate.
And then you understand that there is no more time for breakdancing, for
hip hop as edutainment, for graffiti, for scratching... the only ones
left are the rhymes, but these are rhymes without desire.
Today we need more; more apocalypse and less riots, more funk and less
autotune, more women and less mephists. We need to take care of each
other, through rhyme, poetry, politics, places.
When that violence, that dissatisfaction turns into awareness, then
there won't even be a need for rap anymore. Perhaps.
Meanwhile: "So far so good, so far so good, what matters is not the
fall, but the landing."
Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA Il Cantiere #19 settembre 2023
ilcantiere@autistici.org http://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
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