occupy with aloha

let me get this out of the way, aesthetically & melodically: Makana owes a lot of this to Bob Dylan.

but, lyrically: he is on some Amiri Baraka level right here. whoa. this is as good as anything Dylan or Guthrie wrote on a piece of paper. dude sings: “we’ll occupy the streets/we’ll occupy the courts/we’ll occupy the offices of you ‘til you do/the bidding of the many not the few,” dude goes on to sing: “our nation was built upon the right/of every peasant to improve their plight/the laws of this republic they rewrite/& now a few own everything in sight/they own it free of liability.”

peeter seeger shit.

so glad an artist from the ‘808 State’ is making noise in these times. it is gross here in america, things might not be ‘that bad,’ but why do things have to get ‘that bad,’ before the people deserve to be heard? ok enough, i sound trite. but here are some other ill lines:

“you enforce your monopolies with guns”

“the growing number join us in protest”

“our allegiance you can’t buy”

best line:

“our government is not for sale/the banks do not deserve a bail”