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    The False Prophets of Protest Music

    Members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill team up for political rock that seems immediately obsolete.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Sep 15, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Owen Sweeney / AP

    Protest music is thriving, if you want to hear it. A top-of-my-head assortment: Kendrick Lamar’s post-election self-interrogations, Sheer Mag’s resistance-minded retrofitting of Thin Lizzy, Vince Staples’s dizzying F.U. to the White House, and Lana Del Rey’s knowingly naïve pleas for world. Even the slick, chart-courting likes of Fifth Harmony . Yet if your genre tastes or tribal affiliations or overpowering nostalgia for disqualify the above from being taken seriously—well, today you have the thudding debut by Prophets of Rage.

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