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Your Revolution

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Taking an idea (and if information be correct, assistance) from Gil Scott-Heron and his The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Ms. Jones, on the track titled Your Revolution, turns the spotlight on ubiquitous images and mindsets within hip-hop culture; bringing to task the male dominated art form that appears to have not only gone the way of hyper-consumption, but has also delved deeper within the halls of misogyny. The controversial spoken word piece by an obviously gifted artist does no less than two things: makes you think, then makes you think real hard.

Ms. Jones artfully weaves lyrics of many "popular" songs that glorify treadmill materialism and disrespect for women into a manifesto assaulting emergent thinking. Putting these problematic aspects of hip-hop on notice, she successfully brings to mind not only the songs to which she alludes, but also images that accompany them in their videos. Additionally, to show that not all is lost, Ms. Jones goes on to highlight some of the more positive artists and lyrics within the genre, thereby showing that not all of what is heard on the re-one-o-peats of the country is representative of hip-hop's continuum.

All in all, Sarah Jones does a masterful job of taking an art form that many contend has begun to fall into potential disrepair (at least from what is heard on the airwaves) and, along with many other great minds, illustrated once more that life and living are not "all about the Benjamins" or "Bling-Bling" thus allowing hip-hop to rise like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes on its path to a rebirth of cool. In this vein, Sarah Jones' work should be applauded not criticized.

Oh! I know you didn't think I would let the haters off the hook! To them I simply say, think real hard before you speak; then pause and think yet again.