Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here with KCRW. Thank you so much for listening to my show.

This episode, I want to tell you about something that I've been pondering for a long time.

For several years now, actually.

Here it is.

I feel like we have been living through protests for the past several years.

The Black Lives Matter protests, climate justice protests, political protests, you know, the No Keynes Day,

preceded by the resistance with those pink hats.

It just feels like to me that if you look hard enough,

there's been some kind of protest movement brewing or fizzling

or just getting started for years now.

But have you also noticed?

You never really hear any direct, explicit protest music these days.

There is one.

Kendrick Lamar's All Right became a Black Lives Matter anthem a few years ago.

And we hate po-poor when they kill us dead in the street for sure.

I meant the preachers though.

My knees getting weak and my gun might blow, but we're going to be all right.

But that's kind of in post post Kendrick didn't write that song

Originally for that

So I look at this moment and I compare it to others

Like the 60s

Which felt full of protest music

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