“FDT,” YG featuring Nipsey Hussle
Just in case, you thought that the only revolutionaries in Hip-Hop had to carry the PE mantle on their backs, you would be mistaken. Most of the profound political talking that you hear from rappers comes from those whose every day speech is about kicking it with the homies. What makes them special is the raw passion and the common sensical approach to really complex ideas that many thought-leaders take long sessions to validate. The songs were plain talk about all the reasons why America should not have voted for the former real-estate mogul.
The song starts off with the Bay area rapper saying, “Just when I thought it wouldn’t get no sicker … Woke up one morning and heard this weird ass motherfucker … Talkin’ out the side of his neck … Me and all my peoples, we always thought he was straight … Influential motherfucker when it came to the business … But now, since we know how you really feel … This how we feel”
The chorus speaks, in its simplicity, volumes and is prophetically elevated in the third verse performed by Nipsey Hussle, “N*gga am I trippin’? Let me know … I thought all that Donald Trump bullshit was a joke … Know what they say when rich niggas go broke … Look, Reagan sold coke, Obama sold hope … Donald Trump spent his trust fund money on the vote … I’m from a place where you prolly can’t go … Speaking for some people that you prolly ain’t know … It’s pressure built up and it’s prolly gon’ blow … And if we say go then they’re prolly gon’ go.”
By uttering publicly, “It’s pressure built up and it’s prolly gon’ blow,” the deceased multi-hyphenate street preacher forecasted the 2020 Summer of Unrest and the #J6Insurrection in 2016.
With all his divisive language and its xenophobic policy (all reflected in the 4th and 5th verse), the two times-impeached and now booted from the White House, YG and Nip told us back then that homie was a dangerous lame.
