Dead Prez

yeah

right like okay, so there's the southern rapper dudes and, you know, there's Gucci Mane and there's this and that and then there's, like, the political thoughtful people and Dead Prez and, like, it felt like he could thread the needle through all of it if he wanted, but he's lazy, so...

Yeah.

Yeah, we don't talk about what Jello Trunk is doing now.

He was vibing.

You had Dead Prez, a hip-hop duo, who I turned to Adam at one stage and I went, they're pretty good.

And you said...

Shite.

You know what I mean? And it was fun because at the time, like I mentioned, I had this strong affinity for hip hop.

So we listened to the Dead Prez song, The Animal and Man, just to kind of tee them up for what the overarching story was.

So we analyzed that hip hop text first.

So we got into that.

That's kind of where it is.

The lineup also included some Palestinian performers, including Lina Makul and M1 of Dead Prez, a Palestinian-American producer and DJ, which I'm assuming will be joining Macklemore across the remainder of the date.

And obviously, when the whole issue with Ed Sheeran kicked off, Two of the Irish artists who were on tour with Ed Sheeran, Bioga and Aaron Rowe both quit the tour.

So very much unsurprising to see them also pop up last night as part of the show.

They were the first band to get assigned to A24's music label.

And I think they're still the only group on that label.

Ew, I

didn't know that.

Yeah.

So obviously joining him on stage in a musical sense.

So he had M1, who was a rapper from the group Dead Prez.

And then he had a Palestinian-American DJ and producer, DJ Habib Eats.

You know, that's one of those things where when you hear it, you know, and it moves you.

as the song lyrics go by Dead Presidents one thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain you know and if it does hit you and resonate in with you you know all these and these things that we put in place to put people in certain categories and to discriminate and to isolate and they go away because you like it.

And that's the good thing about being a human.

You cannot unlike that which you like, which is why even when you see people on the far right march, if they like chicken tikka masala, They'll stop and get their chicken tikka masala, then continue.