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Top 10 Political Tracks, 2014-2018

Here are some picks for the best politically charged tracks of the past five years. Honorable mention: Kate Tempest, "Europe is Lost" Adopting the viewpoint of an exhausted, despairing social worker, London-based rapper and poet Kate Tempest pleas for Western culture's most privileged to actually care about more than maintaining its own social conveniences. Recommended for fans of Kendrick Lamar, Public Enemy, Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), A Tribe Called Quest, Run The Jewels, Black Star, Bill Hicks, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and/or The Last Poets. Honorable mention: Natalia Lafourcade, “Derecho de nacimiento” This is a re-recorded version of a song originally published in 2012, composed by Mexico City-based topical songwriter Natalia Lafourcade in solidarity with students protesting the election of her native country's president, Enrique Peña Nieto. Recommended for fans of Victor Jara and/or Quilapayun. Honorable mention: Everything Everything, “No Reptiles” Wit
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