“Native American Rap Is the Most Authentic Rap We Have Today”
“As it did for black Americans in the 1970s, hip-hop offers marginalized Native rappers a new voice in the mainstream culture. That’s why other Native rappers like Frank Waln see hip-hop as a kind of PSA about state of Native American life in this country. “There are people who aren’t even aware that we exist in real life,” he said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. “They go to museums and see exhibits about Native Americans and think we’re a people of the past. But we’re a people with a past, not of the past.””
Strongly, strongly recommend watching all the music videos in this article. thiisss lyric — “you a mascot, you a ghost now/just a thing that I wear upon my clothes now”
There are so many pieces of media that are just trying to say to their audience “hi, we exist!”, and these songs are just so poignant because they have to say ‘Despite centuries of genocide, we are still here, even though it is inconvenient for the narrative of what America is”
Related: “We must give the land back: America’s brutality toward Native Americans continues today”
